Okay. So with all this about capturing and consent. Or has me thinking; What if the original pokeballs were created by pokemon? And later refined by humans for mass production? We know That pokeballs started as apricot balls first but, Idk… Help?

You know, I actually have a pet idea about this that I’ve been nursing for a while.

The first Pokéballs were made from Apricorns, yeah?  This is apparently a traditional art that goes back several generations, maybe centuries.  Certainly mass-produced Pokéballs are relatively recent – they’ve come about only in Drayden’s lifetime – and reliant on advanced technology (which is unlikely ever to be explained).  So what makes the first Pokéballs work?  ’Mysterious energy’ seems like it would be the default cop-out answer.  The thing is… an Apricorn is a berry.  And we already know a way to draw out the ‘mysterious energy’ of a berry: the Natural Gift attack.    There’s no data in the game for what happens when you use Natural Gift with an Apricorn, but it stands to reason that it would do something – given what we know about Apricorns, could that something be dematerialising a Pokémon temporarily?  Of course, berries aren’t particularly robust – imagine trying to hold a Pokémon in swirly-energy-thingy form inside a great big acorn.  Unless they’ve been specially prepared and reinforced by a craftsman like Kurt, they probably wear out very quickly and have to be replaced every few weeks.  So yeah, not by Pokémon necessarily, but I think the first Pokéballs were almost certainly created by a co-operative effort.