2 unrelated thoughts: Ash could be a cheater and what meltan is based on

i've been thinking about the games' logic and how unfair it'd be if we never put our pokemon in thier pokeballs like ash, just set up dragon dances(you could even forget them since you can learn moves mid battle) or use X items. so before a tournament since no one calls him out on it he could just raise every stat 6 stages.

meltan is based on melted solder, despite my experience with it still took be a while and a bit of staring to realize.