Are there any other uses for a Pokeball besides capturing and storing Pokemon?


Can a Pokeball be used for things other than storing pokemon?

Like a "[Hoi-Poi Capsules](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Capsule)" from
Dragon Ball or even to imprison humans?




They were made for storing pokémon, only. It can be seen, that some trainers
play with them (at least in the games, there are jugglers and some psychics
who make the balls float in the air). It can happen, that there are different
things than a Pokémon in it, like when Ash found a riceball (?) in his
Pokéball after the tries to catch a Mankey, which throws the riceball at the
Pokéball, but besides from that, Pokéballs aren't used for anything else than
catching and storing Pokémon.

In the anime, it was also shown that a Pokéball can't catch trainers, the beam
that would transform the Pokémon to energy (to store it in the ball) just
doesn't have any effect.

In the games, however, items which can be found in the world are shown as a
red Pokéball. Whether it's for the sake of simplicity or whether they are
really stored in Pokéballs is unclear (but you don't get a Pokéball with every
item you find).




They were made for storing pokémon, only. It can be seen, that some trainers
play with them (at least in the games, there are jugglers and some psychics
who make the balls float in the air). It can happen, that there are different
things than a Pokémon in it, like when Ash found a riceball (?) in his
Pokéball after the tries to catch a Mankey, which throws the riceball at the
Pokéball, but besides from that, Pokéballs aren't used for anything else than
catching and storing Pokémon.

In the anime, it was also shown that a Pokéball can't catch trainers, the beam
that would transform the Pokémon to energy (to store it in the ball) just
doesn't have any effect.

In the games, however, items which can be found in the world are shown as a
red Pokéball. Whether it's for the sake of simplicity or whether they are
really stored in Pokéballs is unclear (but you don't get a Pokéball with every
item you find).

