Spidops are renowned throughout Paldea, and occasionally in other regions, as experts in making net traps – albeit ones with a strange sense of fairness. A Spidops will not eat its prey – or in less violent contexts, consider its trap 'successful' – suntil challenging it to, and defeating it in, a game of cat's cradle.

One might fairly note that any person or pokemon good enough at manipulating threads to defeat a Spidops is almost certainly not good enough to get caught in one's trap to begin with. Or at least, good enough to not get caught unintentionally, for the desire for competition is almost certainly what lies behind the rare incidents of Leavanny or other Spidops getting caught in their webs. Perhaps the prospect of an exception disturbs these pokemon, or perhaps their desire to compete and show off drastically outweighs their hunger.

Spidops can produce silk of many different levels of stickiness – playing cat's cradle, or at least supplying strings for others to play it, would be impossible otherwise – and their trainers have put their skills to use in a very different form of competition. It is common for athletes in tennis, volleyball, and other net sports, even if they are not otherwise pokemon trainers, to catch and raise up a Tarantoula. A trained Spidops can create a proper net and mark out a court within minutes, which makes for easy pickup games wherever on the road a flat surface can be found; at the professional level, these pokemon are on-site to serve as groundskeepers, swiftly repairing any damage to the court during stoppages in play.