Shooting around he was shocked that a tickling event not caused by him was currently in motion. He was brought out of his musing when he heard a screech followed by a laugh behind him. Sometimes he just wondered if he got an infamy from his past exploits since he did tickle in strange and unusual ways high profile targets such as Gym leaders. A few battles here and there were unavoidable and his team was not ready for those events but they were few and far between. His team was under leveled since he mostly just tickled female trainers and gym leaders into submission. His team was based around how good they would be at tickling rather their type capabilities. He had no idea where he developed this fascination or how it got this strong but it grew over the years until it finally burst out on his Pokemon journey. Pokemon master, Pokemon battles? He didn't give a crap about that.
He usually had trouble in actual battles do to him bullshitting his way through. The Pokemon center nurse handed Gold his Pokemon back after another rough day. 'Thank you so much, here are your Pokemon.