Reading the latest question and also your past entries made me wonder. What would pokemon view tournaments or gyms as such? Pokemon do enjoy battling at least most of them do, I suppose at least some would relish a tougher competition. But in essence how would they see gyms or tournaments or such since they are cater more for human enjoyment. Thanks.

That’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it?  Some Pokémon, presumably, are as hungry for glory as their human masters and relish the opportunity to show off their powers in front of a cheering crowd… but not all of them will be like that.  My ideas about trainers and Pokémon suggest that many (perhaps most) Pokémon are in it to gain broader experience and a range of skills that they would never develop in the wild, ultimately with the goal of returning to a wild community as powerful leaders.  Tournament-style battles are a very artificial set-up, though, with limited relevance to developing that wider knowledge base, and are mostly about prestige and entertainment.  I think for a lot of Pokémon this is just ‘their end of the deal’ so to speak – they certainly don’t dislike the attention, and  any who have good relationships with their trainers will probably benefit from the prize in some way, so why not?  Unless they’re particularly committed to the whole trainer-and-Pokemon lifestyle, it’s probably just business as usual for most of them.