[quote=@CaptainManbeard]
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Actually, that sounds really cool. I hadn't even thought of using Pokemon as familiars. Shit, I might do something similar with my character now LOL. 
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Do it.

I love the concept, and I love when unique things are done with the Pokémon lore. I just feel like the absence of actual Pokémon is a little weird.