Why wont my pokemon Listen?

If I level them up anymore they wont listen even more but if I don’t they wil tottally be smoked by gardenia! What should I do? there all level twelve.

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Any Pokemon that you caught yourself on your own gamewill always obey you, no matter what level they are.

However any traded Pokemon will only obey if you have the right gym badge. With each alternate badge, higher level Pokemon will obey, e.g. up to level 30, up to level 50 and so on. This is explained pretty clearly in the game. Once they are higher than your badge level, they will randomly disobey, ignore your commands, use different moves and so on.

A traded Pokemon is any one that comes from a different game, even if you own it yourself and trained the Pokemon on the other game. Think about it - how is your game supposed to know that you own the other game?!

Go catch and train your “OWN” pokemon

when you trade a pokemon at a certain level it may not listen to you because you do not have enough badges. when you beat a gym leader they will tell you that a pokemon up to level 20,30,50,etc. will now obey you in trades. game freak made it this way to encourage not just trading a high level to beat the game with ease

Well……I agree with everyone else and say that you should use your own pokemon. But the reason they aren’t obeying you is because you got them in trade. If and when you beat Gardenia will they listen.

Hope this helps =D