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Yeah I don't really see it changing that much either really. While he can be useful, unless he rates names as mentioned I don't think much will change. I do like the idea of re-nicknaming someone else's Pokemon, because sometimes people do that with animals and that would definitely be a welcome change (although somewhat unlikely given that the games are going to push things like closer bonds with your Pokemon and connections, too...)

Also opposed to changing the ID numbers. They exist for a reason, idk, it's like changing a bird's ID number. It'd stay the same because it's the originally registered number, so changing it randomly would be weird. There's also the thing of that being important in the lottery in previous games, so if that were to return then it would just throw things around and would be illogical...? I dunno I don't really see the benefit to it, tbh.