Pokemon General [SFW, No NSFW]

I just found onion-head, the legendary.

Asked this a while back, but thought I might throw it out there again - how sapient do you see Pokemon?

@Latecomer  
Meaning?

@Latecomer  
In the games, not sapient.

@Background Pony #D7C7  
Are they just a kind of animal? As intelligent as humans? Do they have their own “societies” as we understand them? Of course, the answer likely differs between different sorts of Pokemon - but humans seem to treat them mostly the same.

@Latecomer  
I dunno, why don’t you ask Game Freak?

@Background Pony #D7C7  
They would go with the answer that gives them the most money.

Lincoln, my Inteleon, finally hit level 100 tonight!

@Latecomer
 
I mean, even Pikachu seems to be just as intelligent as the humans in the anime, so completely in the anime, and I’d say they still seem pretty damn smart in the games, but maybe not to the same level as in the anime.

Now I’m just grinding to get all of my available Ash-Hat Pikachu as high a level as I can.

@Background Pony #D7C7  
How bout no.

They’re all in their 50s now.

@Littlecabbit  
Animals can be smart, just not sapient. Also, didn’t Pikachu speak in a movie?

Holy crap, one of the houses in Freezington has a freaking COSMOG?!

@Meanlucario  
Define speak? Mewtwo can litterally speak to people with his mind.(Anime)
 
 
Dectective Pikachu doesn’t really count because there is also a game of the same name.

@igotnopicks  
I think I heard that in the reboot movie, Pikachu literally talks to Ash.

Finally got the Slowking, now to do it again with Sheild.

Speaking of Mewtwo:
 
 
 
 
 

Goh, please do not catch Ash’s kids.

@Shepherd  
It’s them who takes care of Ash.

@Meanlucario  
Maybe it was just a Butterfree.
 
Ash in tears.

@Meanlucario
 
Yes, Pikachu talks to Ash, but that might’ve just been Ash hearing things since he was half dead at that point
 
I’m also pretty sure Zoroark speaks to you in black and white, in the Lostlorn Forest there’s a Zoroark that pretends to be a human woman living in a trailer, she warns you away or something.

@Littlecabbit  
Thing is, it could easily be mimicry since it is a pokemon that focuses on disguises and impersonating others.

@Meanlucario  
True. Do you have a reason for this preference, or is it just obvious to you?

Remember how at the end of the 5 ditto sidequest they imply that there is a 6th talking ditto?