Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150712053515/@comment-25555436-20150730162813

If they want to be caught why do they resist when I throw them a pokeball, even after taking their HP down to 1 and freezing them or whatever? "Testing people" only works to a limited extent, and only applies to a limited number of species, and only a limited number of individuals within those species.

And if all they want is a companion, there are many ways to get one other than attacking passerbys. And many of those ways don't even require being caught.

It may make sense to a point in the anime, but in the games, it doesn't work with all of them. It just sounds like a wild guess from you.