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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
(Pokemon) Is a Pokeball a weapon?

Could you consider it a weapon?
gpt
Not really, the League-approved ones can't realistically cause harm other than blunt trauma. Pokeballs use the low-end of the matter-energy spectrum so there's not much raw energy to work with. You could try to jury-rig the ME ray to cause damage, but most likely you'd run out of battery before killing anything. And really, when you have creatures hotter than the Sun at your command why bother?

Capturing people really isn't an option either. All pokémon traffic is handled by the Bill Cloud, which can't be fooled. If you really stretch it, you might be able to redirect the data into your own system, but that requires too much infrastructure to be practical.