>>42746016>The two are mutually exclusiveShowdown is a tool for playtesting teams on a competitive level. It's not a replacement for meeting up with people in-person for a multitude of reasons.
>>42746046>Trading has always been secondary>>A game designed around collecting and trading monsters, based off of bug collecting, that encourages you to trade with friends while advertising with the catchphrase "gotta catch 'em all" is not about trading and interactivity.>Why do you think so many disliked gen 7, specifically Lillie?Pokemon Sun's sitting at a 7.8 userscore on Metacritic. For comparison's sake X is at 7.5 and Black is sitting at 7.7. /vp/ is not the real world, and you're welcome to stop pulling stuff out of your ass.
Also bad example since I liked SM (ironically more for the adventure than the previous generations, with ORAS similarly even though /vp/ shits on it). As far as memory serves the biggest problem people had with Gen VII was that US/UM shit.
>They want to embark on an adventure, catch cool monsters and battle with them..."I play these games as wish fulfillment."
I'm not your therapist, so I don't really care about your life story. It sounds, though, like you're trying to use the games for something they're fundamentally not, then trying to criticize them for it. You have more issues than simply not liking the direction SwSh took.
