Short term, blackmail or death threats, essentially. Blackmail is easier to make effective, if only because he's surprisingly not a pushover (unless you're Ferris), but unless you have sources (like, say, Sion's), good luck finding anything to blackmail him with. Long term... well, first he has to go through Episode 24 or something equivalently world-shattering like that to kick him in the pants and give him sufficient motivation to even start breaking his lazy habits...
Only one... oh gosh that's hard. I love all his 'mons, he likes all his 'mons, his 'mons all love him (well except Arius but he's special)... If it was that he had to give up his entire team for whatever reason and could choose any one Pokémon in the world to partner up with but only that one ever, he'd keep Rose the Clefairy at this point, because frankly, she's the one he's the most attached to.
If he was starting fresh without remembering any of them (or they all died or something) though... Probably Zekrom, if legendaries count. Because there's just this massively huge parallel between Reshiram/Zekrom and certain spoilery things that Ryner is involved in that I saw the second time I ever fought N in White okay. Besides, black electric dragon. Right coloration, right typing, what's not to match?
(If legendaries didn't count, though, he'd probably end up with another Clefairy, because they can learn all sorts of elemental moves that are kind of like magic, plus their pre-evolution is a star shape which reflects his eyes, and, well, I'm just kind of having trouble seeing him in Johto without Rose at this point, okay.)
Also because now I'm curious, same question for Carmen? (The one about the Pokémon, not the one under the strike. Carmen is not lazy.)
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Short term, blackmail or death threats, essentially. Blackmail is easier to make effective, if only because he's surprisingly not a pushover (unless you're Ferris), but unless you have sources (like, say, Sion's), good luck finding anything to blackmail him with. Long term... well, first he has to go through Episode 24 or something equivalently world-shattering like that to kick him in the pants and give him sufficient motivation to even start breaking his lazy habits...Only one... oh gosh that's hard. I love all his 'mons, he likes all his 'mons, his 'mons all love him (well except Arius but he's special)... If it was that he had to give up his entire team for whatever reason and could choose any one Pokémon in the world to partner up with but only that one ever, he'd keep Rose the Clefairy at this point, because frankly, she's the one he's the most attached to.
If he was starting fresh without remembering any of them (or they all died or something) though... Probably Zekrom, if legendaries count. Because there's just this massively huge parallel between Reshiram/Zekrom and certain spoilery things that Ryner is involved in that I saw the second time I ever fought N in White okay. Besides, black electric dragon. Right coloration, right typing, what's not to match?
(If legendaries didn't count, though, he'd probably end up with another Clefairy, because they can learn all sorts of elemental moves that are kind of like magic, plus their pre-evolution is a star shape which reflects his eyes, and, well, I'm just kind of having trouble seeing him in Johto without Rose at this point, okay.)
Also because now I'm curious, same question for Carmen? (The one about the Pokémon, not the one under the strike. Carmen is not lazy.)