Not to mention the rest of the band ! Steve Cropper , Donald Duck Dunn , Blue Lou Marini , Matt Murphy . et Al . Those guys were the shit . <| sep |> There is one big thing I didn ' t like about pokerides . They are just HANDED to you . You don ' t need to earn them , there is no effort involved . You usually had to fight to get your HM so it was rewarding when you did . Secondly you taught HMs to your own pokemon , so it was like using your buddies to help you get through the world , pokerides aren ' t your buddies . This all could have been fixed very easily . The trials or a nonoptional miniquest should have presented you with a situation where the pokeride pokemon is in danger and you need to save it , and becomes yours afterward . Example Lapras could have been attacked by giant wishiwashi , Charizard trapped under a landslide . This would have give the pokerides more character and would have really felt like a part of your team , instead they are disposable as an HM slave .