>constantly fail to get any pokemon>somehow always have enough money to buy giant fucking magnets/robots/air balloonshow and why? You'd think their fundings would be cut with all the failures they have.
>>59138100You know the autists that are good at anything but what they really want? That's them, in SM they were making bank with their Malasada business but their autism will always take them back to Ash and Pikachu
They are very frequently and consistently shown doing side hustles to fund what they need in just about every stage of the anime.
>>59138125yea and they lose it when ash shows up.
>>59138125Fuck do they need pikachu for then? They should just do the side hustles and pocket the massive amount of money it would cost to buy the giant robots and shit
>>59138130Because then there would be no reason to keep them in the show
>>59138100Johto Journey already explained that , they take huge amount of loan from the Team Rocket headquater to build those robot. Why do you think this Delibird keep showing up to take payment from TRio? They had to do a lot of odd job to pay back the loan on installment which is why they are always poor.Also James is actually a genius despite being the butt of the joke since he and Meowth can build robots from scarps. He might be smarter than Orio in that area.
>>59138100James isn't gay and Jessie is like a sister at best btw https://youtu.be/N5dT4gTej2s
>>59138130That's the joke, retard. Team Rocket is actually extremely capable, Meowth alone could make a ton of money just being a talking Pokemon or working as a Pokemon translator (Hunter J in the Sinnoh anime planned to sell him off for this), James is from an extremely rich family and Jessie is a genuinely talented coordinator. They objectively have zero use for Pikachu and would be much better off if they just left Team Rocket, but they're too stupid to realize this.
They are actually extremely competent outside of when dealing with Ash.
>>59138183she looks like his fiancee so that's probably a turnoff
They did manage to steal Togepi once. That's on Giovanni for looking at a super rare Pokemon that professors lose their shit over and going "But what can it do in battle?"
>>59138130didnt giovanni want pikachu for or am i going schizo
>>59138130At first it was because Giovanni was genuinely intrigued in what seemed to be a top level specimen, but then he stopped caring and set his eyes on the Mewtwo project.Once that was a bust, but in seeing that they were trailing Ash into the Orange Islands, he realized these bumbling idiots have consistently avoided long term imprisonment, which makes them incredibly useful for international recon.Thus he kept them on the goose chase so he could use them to survey other regions in order to expand Team Rocket even further, which is why Team Rocket as an organization is such a massive threat by the time of Unova.
>>59138100There's a reason Giovanni keeps them around
