>>36382390Totally agree, but without a proper “challenge” every game would feel monotonous. Sure you can have things like Frontier and Battle Tree, but even those have a limited range of options (the teams that the trainers have are set, no random factor onvolved) so it gets repetitive in the long run. The only thing that can get a random factor and a human factor are online battles, where you can have wathever the fuck you want, but that creates another problem: balance and rules. Without them everybody would use the most broken mons and legendaries. If someone wants to try a new team with weaker Pokémon he would get annihilated instantly.
With that said you can still play the normal online battles that have no Smogon rules. They are just balanced to the minimum so nobody can break or win so easily.
