I'm going to briefly discuss Poke Balls, because I don't think they matter much at all. For one thing, Opo was the most vehement supporter of them mattering.
On a more fundamental level, the trainer probably has some different balls available to them, including the Master Ball. But a Net Ball, for example, can still catch non-Bug and non-Water Pokemon in the games. It doesn't have to have caught a Bug or Water-type, it simply works better on Pokemon of that type.
A different argument could be made that the ball just always matches the type of the Pokemon caught in it (in this mafia game specifically). But that doesn't make sense for the Repeat Ball or the Master Ball, so I think we have to throw that argument out.
There's a third argument to be made that the type of ball is completely irrelevant, and it's only meaningless flavour. And the thing is, it doesn't really matter how the balls work, as long as it's not something like the second argument. I personally believe it's the first argument, because I'm cultproof and a Master Ball to go through that makes sense. But if the balls themselves aren't indicative of the type of Pokemon caught in them, then it's meaningless at this time.
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