>>33378414>>33378809>>33378874>>33378879>>33378924>>33378935>>33378952Competitive plain and simply has too many hoops to jump through. Not matter how much GF simplifies it, injecting shit is simply way too convenient, there's no reason to do it over the "legit" way short of breeding relaxing you or something like that.
That Gamefreak treats IVs and all that other stuff that's required knowledge for competitive as state secrets does not help at all either. How are casuals even supposed to get a start-up when the game doesn't even tell them how? The official format is VGC, it's doubles, and yet you can count in one hand how many double battles a game has. Shit like this prevents growth.
And this is without getting on how completely broken and unbalanced mess competitive is as a whole. It's a pile of shit on a pile of shit on top of an already big pile of shit. What kind of people would willingly jump onto it when they can just go play LoL click click click for 30 minutes and feel like they accomplished something even if they are horrible at game and they got carried through the whole game and in case they lose they can blame someone else on their team instead of themselves?
Comp is also BORING as fuck to watch. You can go watch other competitive game and at least enjoy the pretty colors, even if you don't know anything about the game, you can more or less get the gist of what's going on, you cannot do this with Pokemon unless you are already up your ass with competitive knowledge. One recent example, do you think your average casual with zero knowledge about worlds would be able to understand why the Worlds Finals from a few days ago was so hype? Why everyone shat their pants at the Mandibuzz switch-in into the Whimsicott Twinkle Tackle? Or the double-target on Xurkitree at the end of the match?
Competitive Pokemon is a broken game, simple as that. It's not friendly for either casuals or even the people who actually play competitive.
