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What type of battle is this referring to?

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The following text is from the Scholastic Classic Collector's Handbook, issued in 2017:
"There are two basic reasons for a Pokemon to battle. One is for sport. You can battle another Trainer in a friendly competition. Your Pokemon do the fighting, but you decide which Pokemon and which attacks to use.
The second reason is to catch wild Pokemon. Wild Pokemon have no training and no owners. They can be found pretty much anywhere. Battle is one of the main ways to catch a Pokemon. But other Trainers’ Pokemon are off-limits. You can’t capture their Pokemon, even if you win a competition."
Even if the "sport" part is most likely referring to Contest Battles, which regularly rely on 1v1 human status I still can't get around it, since the vast majority of Scholastic books are clearly anime-centric when it comes to battle mechanics.
 
The battling for sport is referring to the general trainer vs. trainer battles in games and in the anime. Be it regular trainers, gym leaders, the elite four, or the champion in battle. The best example of battling being a sport is in Sword and Shield since the pokemon league in that really is just a pokemon world sporting tournament compared to other regions in teh world.
 
The battling for sport is referring to the general trainer vs. trainer battles in games and in the anime. Be it regular trainers, gym leaders, the elite four, or the champion in battle. The best example of battling being a sport is in Sword and Shield since the pokemon league in that really is just a pokemon world sporting tournament compared to other regions in teh world.
But again, it clearly mentions the words "sport" and "competition", and trying putting that into an anime context since the majority of Scholastic licensed books are anime-based.
 
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