I find your use of he and she odd. It makes it seem like you’re referring to specific Pokemon rather than a species in general, as if there is only one of each Pokemon. It also raises some questions about questionable gender categorizations and why you would say one Pokemon is male over female.

*shrug* I just do it.

I never feel comfortable referring to Pokémon as “it,” with a few exceptions (mainly the non-legendary genderless Pokémon like Staryu or Metagross), and I have an instinctive revulsion towards using “they” to mean “he-or-she”.  Although my native language is English, I study Greek and Latin, so I’m used to the idea that words can be inherently masculine, feminine or neuter regardless of biology or even common sense (that one scene in Aristophanes’ Clouds where Socrates is telling Strepsiades he should say things like ἀλεκτρύαινα and καρδόπη… well, it’s hilarious if you know what they’re talking about; take my word for it).  Don’t ask my why I consider Ho-oh feminine or Lugia masculine, because I’m afraid the answer is quite beyond me.

Anyhow, gender in Pokémon.  Weird subject, first of all because Pokémon uses “gender” as a synonym for “sex” and it’s not; “male” and “female” are sexes, not genders; masculine and feminine are genders, and that’s something quite different.  Actually their use of the incorrect term implies a whole lot of interesting and bizarre things about Pokémon reproductive biology, but I won’t get into that because it would take far too long and the real reason is probably that the translators were just squeamish about using the word “sex.”  Also, the fact that the characters in the TV show almost universally refer to their Pokémon as “it,” as though their sexes are unknown and irrelevant, is bizarre.  I mean, even before Gold and Silver introduced the concept to the games explicitly, the writers must have assumed that Pokémon could be male or female.  Until Attract starts to become a factor, though, it just never comes up.  Ash must know that Pikachu is a dude.  I mean, sure, maybe he’s never lifted him up to check between his legs, as it were, but he must have asked!  Yet Pikachu is almost always “it” (occasionally “he,” but I think these are actually errors by the dub team), as are all the protagonists’ other Pokémon.  Why do they all so often lack such basic knowledge about their own Pokémon?

I’m going to stop now before I accidentally write an entire entry on this.