>>44410241>Comp is the only good thing about pokemonIt's one of the least skill intensive competitive video games out there and relies an actual absurd degree on luck. If you want a GOOD competitive video games play any fighting game ever, or even just fucking checkers or some shit, those blow pokemon out of the water competitive wise.
Comp fags are actually the cancer of the franchise, pokemon was meant to be a single player RPG with social interactivity built in to help aid the fun. It was perfect that way until after gen 4 they realized they could rely on online things for content an they slowly started ignoring the actual fucking main game in favor of competitive shit.
>>44410292I don't shiny hunt or anything autistic like that, I just play through the whole main story and then in the post game i just kinda chill, catch whatever pokemon I feel like using at that moment, train it up, customize it's moveset, use it on NPC rematches, then use it on a battle tower team as a final test. Idc about beating the battle tower or anything, I just like to see how I can best use my bros in battle. Slowly training a pokemon from freshly caught to level 100 with a perfect EV spread and moveset is literally the core appeal of pokemon for me, as a kid I caught a trained and battled with literally every new wild pokemon I found cause i wanted to try them all. I also don't autisticly breed for good IVs or even nature, I just work with the stats they have when I catch them and decide from there what kinda EV spread will work best. I also partake in contests and pokeathelon and the like as obligatory bonding time with the bros as I raise them. I'm aware they're 1s and 0s but if I can't immerse myself into the fantasy of "being a pokemon trainer" then why play the games to begin with? Those 1s and 0s represent the fun i had training those pokemon anyway, and that's kinda special in a more realistic, tangible sense.
