"Well, your normal human nose probably just sucks," he mused, "but smells are pretty important t'us. Every plant smells a bit different. We recognize each other by scent instead've names, and we use it to communicate. Your body's gonna put out different smells depending on what it wants t'do.

"Think of it like hormones," Vinnie explained, "except every Grass Pokemon downwind can tell when you're in love."

This made being around Erika's Pokemon more than a little awkward sometimes.

"The tingly's more important. It's a bigger tingle than when you were a Bulbasaur, right?"