A pokemon trainer trains their pokemon to fight, that is their job. So doesn't that mean a trainer must learn how to fight themselves , attain survival training and learn about how pokemon moves even works before they become pokiemon trainer? Sounds like too much for 10 or 11 years old like Ash & Red.
humans can't breathe fire
10 years old seem too young, it makes more sense for older protagonist like Calem and Serena since they had a lot more time to prepare themselves.
>>59715239I believe it's something between training a dog to learn tricks, and being a fighter's coach (who aren't as good at fighting, but are good teachers)
>So doesn't that mean a trainer must learn how to fight themselves , attain survival trainingWell, what holds a wild pokemon back from directly attacking a human / trainer?
>>59715239OP pic is so sovlfvl.
>>59715239there don't seem to be any actual requirements to become a trainer past just being a certain age and even that only applied in the anime because the games have preschoolers with pokemon toothe pokemon world is a utopia where its safe enough to send kids out on their own to do whatever, and pokemon are just inherently smart enough to obey humans as soon as theyre caught>>59716759nothing actually
>>59715239this is because pokemon has fuckall for worldbuilding and the whole thing falls apart if you do any critical thinkingyes anyone can become a trainerno, no one has any sort of survival trainingyes wild pokemon have been reported to kill and eat people, certain pokemon will even kill their own trainers even after theyre caught like bewear, same with megasthe world is just like this but youre never going to actually see or experience any of that because it only exists in pokedex entries and as hypotheticals
>>59715239Yeah, that's the point of the first seasons of the anime too, Ash is just a kid struggling in a journey without adult figures to rely onBut that makes shonenfags irrationally angry, so they had to change to plot to "motto motto tsuyoku!!!" powerlevel garbage
>>59718186>>59716759>Well, what holds a wild pokemon back from directly attacking a human / trainer?You are overthinking it and realizing how the insane guidelines of gamefreak result in absurdities.>>59718004>this is because pokemon has fuckall for worldbuilding and the whole thing falls apart if you do any critical thinkingBasically this.
>>59715239They (will make you) beg to differ
>>59715239>>59715286It's not as strange as you might think. Spartan boys and girls began military training at age 7. Samurai began their training as early as 5. It was common in many places for children this young to leave their families to enter apprenticeships. Throughout most of history, 7 was considered the "age of reason" when children are no longer helpless, and 12-14 was the point when they were expected to be entirely self-sufficient. From this perspective, if Pokemon training is considered a trade where you earn a living by cockfighting, then Ash leaving home at age 10 is completely normal, even late by some standards. It's jarring to us because we live in a time where children experience unusually long childhoods extending into their 20s.
>>59715239>>59716759Just stay out of the tall grass lol
>>59718004it's the reason why you never see any animals beyond gen 2; they exist, but they never show them since the Monsters are the star of the series.
>>59716759The first episode literally started with Ash being chased by a folk of Spearow and nearly eaten by a Gyarados.>>59718246My guess is that kids in Pallet town has to pass a special course to be a trainer and only four kids passed in the first season. Ash probably passed despite his lack of knowledge on pokemon because he aced physical fitness, survival and self defense.>>59718004Ash in the first season knew that basic of camping and he also seems like know the basic of boxing which he was teaching it to Pikachu on the OP image.
Pretty sure Brock has survival training and he's only 15. The dude always had some first aid on him and knew how to use, knew how to cook and camp too.
>>59718004I think pokemon just followed the old RPG philosophy of worldbuilding. Where things are just implied and waved at, found in flavor text or some mechanics, more than they are outright stated. Megaten kinda had this issue tooObviously that stuff became outdated and gf and tpc just became lazy too
>>59719297That's incidental though, Brock knows how to cook and first aid because he was retconned into being the sole caretaker of his siblings because of his deadbeat parents before later becoming a Pokemon doctor. Having camping/survival knowledge isn't standard for any Pokemon character and the anime always skips over any steps involved in camping and just show everyone sleeping or eating.
