My Pokemon won't listen to me?

Question

I'm playing through FireRed, and my friend traded me his Squirtle. It is lv13 and it won't listen to me! I have the Boulder and Cascade badges, but 50% of the time he won't listen

Comments

Its level 15 and I checked, its legit

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Although your game must be real in order to trade. Your Squirtle may be legit, but has anybody hacked your game?

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no, its not hacked.

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try to ask your friend for another pokemon and see if that one listens to you

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What are you playing on? Like a GBA or DS?

Answer 1

There could be an error in th game as firered is very old. I reccomed earnning more gym bages.