Pokemon is good because everybody who plays is given the exact same storyline and choices, but every person has a completely unique experience.
There are currently over 750 trillion different team combinations, even each individual pokemon has only a 1 in 50 billion chance of being identical to another of the same species. And that’s not even including pokemon having different moves… That means that every Pokemon is a valuable once in a lifetime companion, and your adventure with your pokemon is and will always be completely unique to you, and that’s really special.
one of the funniest things about Pokemon and knowing it was made by an autistic man is that in the Pokemon universe, making eye contact with someone is literally canonically saying “you wanna fight”
this is just one of many examples of trainers saying similar things like this