"Oh cool, I'd offer to come with and help but I really want a pokedex and I need some more balls too, if I want to ever watch anything." So far he didn't and he hadn't but he didn't think pokeballs were a bad idea. If he had an injured pokemon and needed to get it somewhere fast, it seemed like a cool way of pulling that off without having to carry one of his guys. Or if this egg turned out to be scary as all hell, it'd be handy to have a place to put the little monster.

"The rumour is one of the guys working at STAR labs has made like a new pokeball. Sounds amazing." Of course the rumours also included that the pokeball kept exploding but hey, nothing was perfect.