Fighting Pokémon was a discipline in its own right, and humanity's understanding of Pokémon had been a long journey. At first, people had thought Pokémon were magical beasts, monsters, murderers who killed humans. But some people had also begun worshipping Pokémon, revering them as gods. Heath thought this was perfectly normal. After all, in that age of ignorance, when people struggled even to start a fire, an ordinary Pokémon passing by could breathe fire outright and solve their problems. If that wasn't a god, what was?
That was to say nothing of those enormous Pokémon, or those that could summon rain. In an agrarian society, in an age when people depended entirely on the weather for food, what sort of existence was a Pokémon that could summon rain? Frankly, in ancient China, the imperial family would absolutely have kept such a Pokémon firmly under its control, enshrining it in a temple as a new incarnation of the Dragon King.
And those were only ordinary Pokémon. What about the powerful Legendary Pokémon? There were differences between Pokémon, too, and Legendary Pokémon were the simplest example. Those overwhelmingly powerful Legendary Pokémon were formidable indeed: Ho-Oh, Lugia, Groudon, Kyogre, and even Dialga and Palkia, who seemed to have no particular abilities, were actually extraordinarily powerful beings. Ordinary people really had no way of battling such powerful Legendary Pokémon.
Even in a modern society like the one in his previous life, nuclear weapons, humanity's greatest military threat, might not have been effective against Legendary Pokémon. At the very least, Dialga and Palkia could easily neutralize the threat of nuclear weapons.
Even in today's society, weren't Pokémon like Ho-Oh, who could restore disabled people to full health and even grant the dead new life, gods? In any case, Heath felt that if a member of