Have fun with that. If they're anything like this in battle, they're more likely to hit you than their opponent.

[.... to be fair it's pretty easy for Janey to get Athena to change her mind on a lot of things, but those pokemon....! and people thought the big red flopping fish were useless...]

From what I've been able to tell, you need to travel quite a bit to find decent creatures. We might have to pack up soon.