[It's frustrating, again. He feels like he ought to know more than this, be better than this. It's not even personal knowledge, it's just what such-and-such Pokemon is - how is that so hard?]

...I'm not sure.

[His experience with the pearls is just too limited. Would using them hurt the same way that wracking his own brains can sometimes?]

Is there a way we can try them with just the two of us? I would hate to disrupt everyone else with it! [not to mention he doesn't love the idea of an audience]