Why do Held Items fit in the Poké Ball?

[Beth Pavell]

Something I was thinking about today - why is it that held items get drawn into the Poké Ball with the pokémon, but other objects don't? Of course, we already know the answer - it's an inconvenient question, like why humans can't be captured. But if we were going to come up with a fanon explanation, how could you explain it away? Personally I'm stumped

 

[Team Gaara]

In the manga, they depict the Held Item materializing/shrinking with the Pokemon as it holds it. This has also been inferred in the Anime. Basically, because it is touching the Pokemon when it returns to the ball, it goes through the same process to go into the ball as the Pokemon.

That's just my take on it~

 

[Figgles]

I'm assuming that they just shrink at the same rate as the Pokémon do. We've seen items in Pokéballs all by themselves, haven't we?

 

[Muur]

Who needs logic.

Guess as they said, it shrinks with. Shame it wouldn't work if they're holding onto a trainer.

 

[Karpi]

It would be interesting to read a fic where there was no limit to the size of objects that could fit in pokeballs. A traveling trainer could bring a tent and all kinds of stuff with them! Or maybe even an entire house...

 

[pokefan548]

Because they already had to create over 310 sprites and several tilesets on a small team when starting off.

 

[Pokémon Spectrum]

It would be interesting to read a fic where there was no limit to the size of objects that could fit in pokeballs. A traveling trainer could bring a tent and all kinds of stuff with them! Or maybe even an entire house...

That gave me an idea about how you're able to carry so much stuff around in your bag: The bag shrinks the items down/converts them into energy in the same way a Poké Ball does with a Pokémon and stores them in special compartments in the bag's pockets. Then, when you get into the bag to retrieve an item, it materializes the item you're looking for and lets you pull it out.