Say, even if you're only familiar with Gen 1, what Pokémon do you think the Animorphs would want to acquire if they could?
Marco: Would get a Magikarp, train it up well past level 20, and refuse to let it evolve. Would pull out this Magikarp every battle, and contentedly lose every battle, for the sheer joy of fucking with his opponents.
Cassie: Would become way too attached to her starter Bulbasaur, keeping her Venusaur on even well after its effectiveness had peaked. Would be offended at the mere suggestion of ever storing Zack (the Venusaur's name is Zack) in the PC, because they've been together so long.
Tobias: Would meticulously fill his entire Pokédex, indeed catching them all, including a month spent just acquiring an Abra. Would carefully evolve all of his Pokémon to their final forms, rotating evenly between them so none would feel left out. Would only ever win gym battles when required to do so in order to find more areas to get more Pokémon.
Rachel: Would build her Tauros-Jynx-Jolteon-Dodrio dream team, and would go around annihilating gym leaders. Has a slight problem with min-maxing, and gets defeated every time she forgets defensive attacks exist, but the battles are their own reward.
Ax: Would have no idea the game exists, but instead be an obsessive card collector. Somehow, from the four castoff cards Tobias gave him (a Ninetails and three Cubones), Ax has traded his way into a small fortune of Charizards, Alakazams, and Gyradoses. And so many Chanseys. Over 30 holographic Chanseys, and counting. He especially likes the sparkly cards, which is why all of his cards have sparkly backgrounds. Ax insists these were all legal trades, agreed to by all parties. Marco's pretty sure he should give up yeerk-fighting and go trade on Wall Street.
Jake: Would make a big show of not caring about pocket monster games — hello, there's a war on! Would have exactly one pack of 10 cards he keeps in the back of his desk. There's nothing special in there, unless you count Togepi. It's just that it was a gift from Tom.
For morphing into pokemon first we need to decide if levels count as something that stays with a morph, or if aquiring a say lvl 50 charizard means that when they morph they always morph into a lvl 1 charizard. If it was rhe second this does mean Tobias ends up being the only person with a usable pokemon form. Because he'd just be a pokemon (my pick is Talonflame. If you look at all the current bird mons it has the most bird of prey vibe).
Also Ursaring is the Most Rachel pokemon.
If Rachel will use Ursaring for her battle morph, then I'll vote Ho-oh as Tobias morph. For the sake of this picture.
