So, just how sentient ARE pokemon? Most of them certainly aren't

Pokemon that have been exposed to humans understand human speech and intention.

They're intelligence is more human-like than animal. Let me see if I can find a source for this.

>>29407382
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_language

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Talking_Pok%C3%A9mon

> While it appears that all Pokémon can understand human speech, very few can communicate with humans, except via body language.

>>29407330
It's kinda hard to pinpoint. You have pokedex entries saying shit like how alakazam has a IQ of 6000 or some bullshit like that.

>>29407330
It's not midless, it's revenge.
>A young man, callow and foolish in
>innocence, came to own a sword.
>With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave
>sustenance, with carefree abandon.
>Those not taken as food, he
>discarded, with no afterthought.
>The following year, no Pokémon
>appeared. Larders grew bare.
>The young man, seeking the missing
>Pokémon, journeyed afar.
>Long did he search. And far and wide,
>too, until one he did find.
>Asked he, "Why do you hide?"
>To which the Pokémon replied...
>"If you bear your sword to bring
>harm upon us, with claws and
>fangs, we will exact a toll.
>"From your kind we will take our
>toll, for it must be done.
>"Done it must be to guard ourselves
>and for it, I apologize."
>To the skies, the young man shouted
>his dismay.
>"In having found the sword, I have
>lost so much.
>"Gorged with power, I grew blind
>to Pokémon being alive.
>"I will never fall savage again.
>This sword I denounce and forsake.
>"I plead for forgiveness,
>for I was but a fool."
>So saying, the young man hurled the
>sword to the ground, snapping it.
>Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared
>to a place beyond seeing...

>>29407330
I think most pokemon are at least as intellegent as a human. They can understand human speech, follow orders, and think freely.

>>29407330
They're nonsapient animals, yet Sinnohfags are degenerate enough to fuck them, which is hilarious.

>>29407409

I always justify Alakazams IQ as him spending a ton of brain power on his powers.

Otherwise it makes no fucking sense. He's basically god.