Ok, I give up. Here is my contribution to this thread. My other part, who is younger than me by quite a bit, was obsessively playing this game for a couple hours over the weekend and I got a little irritated with the waste of time. I said, "let's play this game for real". I pointed at a bin and said "there is your pokeball". your challenge is to get the "pokemon" out of the "ball", clean the "ball", then recapture the pokemon and put it back in the ball all without the pokemon biting you. This particular pokemon's name is Snow White (named by my daughter) and she is really the wicked queen.

I am proud to say that my version of pokemon was "exciting" and she managed to pull the task off without any blood being shed. Reality can be so much more entertaining and productive.