[Commence a friendly nudge battle, then!]

Well, Turtwig there was originally an egg given to me. As for Heracross, he was literally dumped on me as soon as I got here. They give everyone a Pokemon to start off with.

[Casually leaves out the part where he accidentally let it out the Pokeball, freaked out, and ran away from it. Yeah. Gar doesn't need to know that.]