>>30784430Pokemon can't be an e-sport.
The skill ceiling is so low that it can be reached in a lazy afternoon on google, it requires almost no practice on the player's part, and the only time consuming part of it is irrelevant, since anyone actually serious about it will skip it altogether.
And even once you've passed that very low requirement to be a "professional", the actual game is based on guesswork that's less like an actual battle of wits, and more like a flashy bout of rock-paper-scissors, with the only difference that it takes 60 hours because many have deluded themselves into thinking stall teams are the best thing.
