>>58210968
The visibly do not.

Pokeballs from a pokemart do not fire off a crackle of fireworks out the top upon a successful catch for instance.

A hisuian apricorn ball is literally just weird rocks, a hollowed out apricorn, and a hinge/clasp mechanism. You can make them in the wild using just fieldwork hand tools. There's no advanced matter to energy conversion. The game literally tells you that just just shrink as an instinctual response and that's how this new fangled invention the pokeball works.

Meanwhile, whenever something goes into a modern pokeball, we literally see them decompose into a swirl of red light that is then held inside the ball, presumably using the weird reflector dish thing they have inside. and then when they come OUT of a ball, they burst forth as energy, then glow white as they rematerialize.

It is inarguable to say anything other than that both are correct, depending on the kind of ball. You might as well just be saying "nuh uh."