>>37260939Step one of one:
>Completely ignore competitiveThe metagame can and always will, for all games, fall where it will. There is no true balance to be had no matter how hard they try. It's only when games stop caring heavily about this that they become good and vice versa - become bad when they focus on it.
Pokémon is a casual game and always has been, it shouldn't focus on the highly competitive at all. Stats should be based around where they're found in-game, at what level they evolve, lore, and overall game design intention. Nothing more. (pic extremely related)
The Ultra Beasts and the Tapu are what you get when you make competitive a focus in a game that isn't even competitive to begin with. It's your fault this shit exists. They thought they already were based on the shitty feedback of a minority.
And I say this as a compfag myself. The metagame will happen no matter what. They need to stop this garbage and just focus on making the game itself fun. You're also part of the reason we're not getting any postgame - they waste time taking competitive into consideration and then feel the need to force it as the only postgame.
I like having it as an option but it doesn't EVER make a game anything but worse to focus on PvP from multiple standpoints.
