Sorry if you’ve been asked this before— if so just ignore me! But why is 6 the standard number of Pokémon to carry at any given time? Seems arbitrary to me. Obviously TRUE trainers would battle all the Pokémon they had in a days long poke-war to see who is best. Or at least enough slots to carry every evolution of eevee.

Believe me, I perfectly understand—not only because I have to live by that limitation myself but also because it was an utter pain to program the storage system to trigger on such a strange number. Why not five or ten? Or even eight? Honestly!

Is this because you had to throw out that entire system based on base-8? —LH

So many hours, just up and wasted! —Bill

Of course, I understand why the Association chose six. Studies have shown that six is the maximum number of pokémon the average trainer can take care of, given how vastly different each species’ needs can be. Any more, and you’d require considerable amounts of space, time, and money.

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But still…!

It’s okay, Bill. It’s okay. —LH