What exactly prevents trainers from carrying more than 6 Pokémon?

>>27801651
Nothing, you just can't compete in an official battle with more than six

>>27801651
The police, your black ass will be shot if you have more than 6 at a time

>>27801666
how would anyone know if i do?

Also, you can't even carry more than 6 even without the intention to use them in battle.

It's the law or something

>>27801651
The anime is not the most canon of sources but they say only 6 pokemon are allowed in the official Pokemon league. For battles for money like you do against trainers you probably can only use 6, otherwise it's not official.

>>27801708
I kind of wish this was the case.

You could carry around more pokemon but only fight with 6 of them.

Not for like quick change battle things but to be friendly with them more often

>>27801708
They would count how many Pokemon you've used you retard

>>27801651
Nothing really, but the general rule is that you can't have more then six pokemon in an official battle. So in the real world, you could have even 12 mons with you, but only six can be used in battle. But I think you would then get to crowded, so maybe they carry 6 mons for convinience as well ?

>>27801746
Just put them in your bag

You have hundreds of empty ones there

quality over quantity
put all your time, attention and resources into making 6 of the best instead giving tiny amounts of effort to a large gang of pokemon and having an army of shitmon

6 as a team size is most likely half tradition and half just a pretty good number to have a varied team

>>27801744

if you carry more than 6 you still have an advantage just by the selection of your pokemon.

>Carry Alakazam, Charmander, Squirtle, Goldeen, Jigglypuff, Haunter and Pikachu with you.
>use Pikachu instead of Haunter as your 6th Pokemon. Nobody ever knows you had a Haunter in your 6th space.

I dunno. There's nothing stopping you mugging random strangers and mowing down everything in your path.

Realistically, it's a limitation for video game purposes, and a limitation of the time. RBY probably couldn't process you holding dozens of Pokemon in your team, and it wouldn't be fair to have too many fighters in reserve to steamroll whatever stood in your way. Imagine how trivial gyms, the E4 and Champion would be if you could hold a team of fifty.

In terms of a world where people would act this way, it's probably a kind of honour code. You only carry a certain number of Pokemon, you do turn based combat, and you only battle to the point of fainting. Like, jousting and fencing and sparring and boxing all have their rules, even though you're taking weapons/fists to another person with the capability to kill, you respect your opponent and have a good clean match. I don't know the ins and outs of cockfighting or dog rings, but they probably don't fight to the death or dogpile a bunch of animals multiple-on-one either.

There's nothing actually stopping someone from possessing a greater amount of pokemon (whatever evil team thieving a bag full of other trainer's pokeballs, pokemon centers and professor oak and the charicific valley and daycares and ranches and all other kinds of facilities that hold large amounts of pokemon) and there's nothing stopping anyone from using a larger number of Pokemon in battle (doubles, hordes, that one dickhead at the start of the first movie going 3-on-1, every time ash & company get accosted by an enemy and use every pokemon they have to fight back, etc).

>>27801852
whats stopping criminals, like team rocket, from carrying more than 6?

wouldn't it be a cool twist if they carried more?

>>27801651
The Game.

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Here's the explanation from the Pokemon manga.

>>27801884
Technically Greevil and Ghetsis did it

Mind you, there's very little separating keeping an army in your PC as opposed to on your person. The only difference is they can't get exp in the PC. And that is only a recent feature, where otherwise, there WAS no difference.

>>27801884
>defeat evil team boss
>music picks up
>a second pokeball bar slides in with 6 more pokemon

>>27801651
When you register to become a pokemon trainer you are fingerprinted and a digital box is given to you connected to your identity. When you buy pokeballs the shopkeep will get you to touch a fingerprint scanner and then attach your details to the amount of pokeballs you bought. The poke world is has universal wifi and pokeballs are constantly connected to your pokemon database. Once you capture more than the allocated pokemon that you have registered from your poke bank then it automatically locks up the poke ball or digitally sends them onto the net.
Dunno I'm drinking and this is the first think that kind of makes sense to me

>>27801902
Have you ever cared for 6 creatures before? The costs alone are astronomical.

>>27801902
>Having 7+ pokemon makes it so you can't shower them with love and care
Really I find it the opposite. The fact I have to swap out pokemon in the PC at all times hinders my ability to love them

>>27801834
In an official tournament, they'd probably make you declare your pokemon choices.

>>27801884
The fact that the majority don't really need much pokemon.
Only admins, team leaders and maybe guards would use more than 6.

I mean a succesful grunt only needs 2 to 4 pokemon for the job, assuming there's no player character to fuck his shit up and even then a mere grunt is more expendable than the pokemon he carries.

>>27801915
When Ash catches his Krabby, it automatically gets sent to Oak. Sort of makes sense.

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>>27801913
>>defeat evil team boss again
>music picks up again
>a third pokeball bar slides in with 6 more pokemon

>>27802124
>6 level 2 caterpies.

Hahahaha ur ass

>>27801651
THE LAW!

>>27801913
>"oh no I have been defeated by a 10 year old"
>"hahaha just kidding I don't play by your rules"
>oh shit happening

>>27801834
For tournament reasons, they would probably make you enter the Pokemon before the tournament began and have them inspected. They would probably tag them too, to make sure you weren't using duplicates. Bringing other Pokemon that weren't part of the 6 inspected would probably mean disqualification as well.
If the event was hosted for the 3rd or 4th time, there would be a TON of regulations to prevent cheating.

>>27802197
>>I don't play by your rules
>Boss has a Gallade with Mean Look, Hypnosis, and False Swipe
>Boss can catch your Pokemon.

>>27802286
>Not Snorlax with Rest, Lock-On, Guillotine & Sleep Talk.
>Holding a Leftovers.

>>27802286
Doesn't the trainer just swat away the ball

>>27802328
>It catches the trainer.
>Play the rest of the game as the boss, going around kidnapping pokemon.

>>27802327
How does that help catch Pokemon?

>>27802328
There has not been a case of the player character swatting the ball away.

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>>27802339
>It catches the trainer
>Game is now a porn game where you're forced to serve the Leader.

>>27802347
It doesn't. It's just a cruel and infuriating build designed to make the player cry.

>>27801651
Active pokeballs produce dangerious amounts ELF waves which are dangerous to trainers and can cause health problems, so they limit it to 6 for public safety

Read the manga kek

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>>27802360
>"Forced" to serve Plumeria

>>27802380
I'd honestly prefer Guzuma probably. Liking girls isn't impossible but it's a fairly uncommon exception.

Might do it for female grunt though.

>>27801651
So how does this work with Gyms? Brock and Misty have all of their pokemon living at the gyms, any new ones they catch don't automatically get sent to Oak or anything.

Rules, for criminals and stuff its implied that training a pokemon takes a ton of time and effort so most people would only have 2-3 regardless

Also explains why every trainer doesn't have 6

>>27801935
>hinders my ability to love them
They aren't real.

>>27802459
you aren't real

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>>27802472

>>27802364
then use funbro for endless battle

>>27802645
I just wish i could have all my pokemon out of pokeballs.

Sort of like HGSS

>>27802252
>>27802002
this implies a tournament exists in the games

the only time a tournament exists is PWT

>>27803244
the fucking pokemon league??? the thing you and half the other trainers in the game are aiming for?

>>27803327
>he thinks those are tournament

a tournament implies you're fighting other trainers until you're the last one standing, the league is just a beeline where you fight "bosses"

holy fucking shit

>there are people out there who actually think the game's league format is a tournament

My theory is that the belt which holds the balls is actually the powersource for the pokeballs and has only energy for a maximum of six.

The reason why most people have even less pokemon is because they carry cheap-ass belts, not like the Protagonist with his fancy-ass starter pokemon and high tech pokedex shit

>>27801651
Technically, it's, "illegal," in the same way having more than five pets is illegal. As long as you show that you can take care of them, despite the increased number, no one says a thing.

One of the main characters of the Gold and Silver arc has a literal high school backpack full of pokéballs' worth of pokémon as pets.

>>27804229
>Technically, it's, "illegal," in the same way having more than five pets is illegal. As long as you show that you can take care of them, despite the increased number, no one says a thing.
That's not illegal.

If you have a lot of pets and abuse them through abandonment/malnourishment/etc than sure, but it's not like there's a soft cap on pets.

I've had 6 pets for most of my life.

>>27805132

>Pokemon trainer detected

Why can't we just access the PC system remotely from a smartphone-like device?

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>>27802286
>I don't play by your rules
>Boss has a Slowbro with Leppa Berry, Recycle, Heal Pulse, Block, and Slack Off.