>>56900706When it comes to shinies, it's at least immediately understandable that dangling a literally shiny set of keys in front of a playerbase who's already into a franchise about collecting cool things is an obvious boon to marketing, and so shiny Pokemon have been increasingly harnessed to that end. But the collective mindset of the people regarding competition in Pokemon and the subsequent perversion of the Role-Playing aspects is clearly something most don't actively think about or acknowledge.
