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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?


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


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).


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In the game _Pokémon Legends: Arceus_ , Professor Laventon says at the
beginning that the development of the Poké Ball revolves around the idea that
every Pokémon is capable of making itself small (which may be referring to the
move Minimize), and so the Poké Ball takes advantage of this to shrink the
Pokémon and store it inside.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4FYHQ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4FYHQ.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/saExc.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/saExc.jpg)

In an early page of the _Adventure_ manga, it can clearly be seen that
Nidorino is shrunk inside the Poké Ball, following the logic of the first
games that the authors understood.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSTWO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSTWO.png)

Following that game material, canonically the Poké Ball is used only for the
sake of minimizing and capturing Pokémon. (It's important to note that due to
the Arceus game clarifying that use of the Poké Ball, many have been saying
that the anime didn't follow that at all, mainly due to the rice-ball catching
Poké Ball in the anime.)


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