'Course not! You were only askin' if they fought for us. They battle, but it's not a real fight. I would never put Pikachu in real danger.

People look at battles differently [ he'll admit that. there are come who do Pokemon battles to see who is the strongest by just having the "strongest" Pokemon avaliable ] but to me it's not to see just which Pokemon is stronger. It's how close the Pokemon and trainer are that matters. How much they understand one another. If you don't understand your Pokemon then you and your Pokemon can't be as strong as you could be.

[ He may just be babbling, but he's the last trainer who would say that battles are just a test to see whose Pokemon is stronger. ]