"I mean, I think the idea is that anyone he can pull in is coming," Steven says. "Like with the fossils. And-- I mean, he mentioned an Aurora League guy is monitoring the pod of Lapras we're going after and the general direction we're heading to is in the same direction as where Armin actually lives. And Armin made it to the Aurora League. And I know he's got a project he's working on involving Lapras. I figured if I ever got lucky enough to catch one, I'd send it to him, like I did with Success Whale and his Wailord pod."

He takes a deep breath. "And. Okay. My exact wording when we were talking about what would complement Dirk's Greninja in the giant robot's head was, more or less, something like, 'Another way would be to target what you're likely to have to fight with its elemental weaknesses. Armin's primarily a water trainer, right? Do you have anything grass?' And he didn't blink. Didn't contradict me. Just went on to explain why his grass pokemon wouldn't work."