[Oh no no no, he'd never dream of trying to one up the guy. Never. Not at all. Maybealittle-]

The item shop normally gets in all sorts of things so you might be able to find them there, yeah. [Its where he's found a few of his things in the past, so why not pokeballs?] And Spots are huge dark looking monsters, but some of them are pretty small too, they come in all sorts of sizes. There might be a Spot out there that's as big as an Onix, or bigger! [...] But you wouldn't want to try catching one, defeating them is better.