We train them for battling - it's how we prove ourselves as trainers! Some of the gyms can be tricky--gyms are where you go to take on skilled leaders to get their badges to prove your worth [ just fyi ] but the real skill is in the matches themselves than getting around the gyms!

[ A pause. ] But maybe you mean like pokémon contests? There's events where people who raise their pokémon to be cute or cool and stuff. I don't know anything about them, but they're like shows!