Pokémon fans want to know what goes on inside the Pokéballs, and it’s a very good question that we don’t really have an answer for.
I’ve been wondering the same thing for years ever since my first Pokémon game, as it’s not something you really think about as you’re running around catching magical critters and making them fight for your amusement.
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I always imagined the Pokéballs were bigger on the inside, housing the creatures you catch in a pocket dimension where they can sleep, eat and play, though perhaps that was from watching too much Doctor Who…
Anyway fans have wondered the same thing and asked as much online, and apparently according to this Reddit thread I wasn’t too far off.
The Pokéballs apparently do house Pokémon like any other enclosure, they are awake and conscious that they’re inside the ball which is probably why Pikachu refuses to let Ash put him in one.
Apparently though each ball creates a “comfortable environment created for them” which many believe to replicate whatever its natural habitat might be.
This raises more questions though, like how do the balls know what kind of environment to create when brand-new species of Pokémon are found are caught regularly?
And what about legendaries? If you caught Arceus in a Master Ball what kind of environment would it create for the literal God of all Pokémon?
Can humans be caught in the Pokéballs, and if so would it just look like an everyday house? So many questions, so little answers…
I doubt we’ll get any soon either as it’s not exactly necessary information when you’re playing the games, though with the last few giving you the chance to interact with your Pokémon more perhaps the next game should let us look inside the Pokéballs, maybe even customise them to give our team the best habitat possible?