...okay, so it wasn't random. It was, uhhhhh...spontaneous. Yeah!
You chat with them for a long time, and then...you still don't know them. Chat for another long time, and you might get somewhere. After two years, you're good. Five bucks says I'm right.
A number of Pokemon from gen 1, some from gen 2, many from gen 3, and some from gen 4. The number of bad designs increased again from the middle of gen 4.