"Or teleport!"

"The Pokémon one would be training aren't the same ones one would fly on?"

"They're the same! You fly on a Pokemon you've taught to fly, and traveled with a bit so they know the region. It's just, you know, you choose to walk if you're seeking fights to make your Pokemon stronger and you choose to fly if you wanna skip all that and get there quick."

"That's how it is here; in some places there are also professional flying Pokemon taxi companies."

"...huh." He'd ask why there aren't any here but it seems like a rude question. "That does sound nice, having a flying Pokémon to ride."

"There's more car infrastructure here in Unova, so the taxi companies use those instead. And yeah, flying on a Pokemon is great."

"Does this one fly or do you have another?"

"I have another!"

Frank pulls up a picture on his phone.

"It's big enough to sit on? Or are you carried in its feet somehow?"

"He's big enough to sit on. Hence me showing the pic instead of sending him out."

"Oh, that makes sense."

"Yeah, Kellim's about at the limit of Pokemon that can politely emerge from their ball in a building."

Kyeo assesses Kellim's size and nods. "How many Pokémon do people tend to have?"

"I think the average is about three? Six is the maximum you can carry around with you at a time, and any number between one and six is common enough. Having none is rare; so is having more than six. Some especially strong Trainers do exceed six, though, especially full-time League staff. They keep their extras in virtual reality and rotate which ones travel with them."

"Why is six the maximum?"

"It's a hardcoded limit of Pokeballs, enforced by international treaty. The official reasoning is that it's the most even a skilled Trainer can reasonably command at a time and healthily care for without employing virtual reality, but it can't hurt that it prevents the accumulation of private armies."

"I see."