Do Pokémon all have social needs?
To this, Ash's answer was—
It depends!
As everyone knows, Pokémon are divided into social and solitary types by nature, with further distinctions arising from the influence of personality.
Scream Tail and Miraidon both lacked friends and craved them, coincidentally with one related to personality and the other to nature.
Only, what puzzled Ash was that with so many Pokémon on Platinum Silver Mountain, neither of the two had forged any friendships. Did they need to go into Area Zero to find friends?
His question was answered by the Porygon Phone on the way back to the surface.
In fact, the harmonious Platinum Silver Mountain was strictly hierarchical, with him as the Trainer towering safely at the very top of the status pyramid; the next layer down was the lord of the mountains, Aggron; and further down belonged to main-force Pokémon like Mawile and Hydreigon, alongside certain Legendary Pokémon like Calyrex and the Legendary Giants.
The reason he said certain was because the Three Loyal Ones ranked slightly lower in status compared to the main-force Pokémon, and their boss Pecharunt could win Ash's favor by acting cute, playing coy, and shamelessly cozying up to him, something they truly failed to accomplish.
However, the Three Loyal Ones were ultimately Pokémon caught by Ash, so their status was about the same as Alolan Meowth and Scream Tail, neither of which were main forces.
You see, even inside Ash's household several tiers could be distinguished, let alone the entire Platinum Silver Mountain.
As the very bottom of the household's "food chain," Scream Tail was neither like Alolan Meowth, who could gain the sincere recognition of Platinum Silver Mountain's feline Pokémon, nor like the Three Loyal Ones, who naturally had partners they could entrust things to.
Therefore, it