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Absolutely, Pokemon VGC AND Smogon are easily some of the most gigacancer competitive scenes in gaming.
And as we can see from Legends, and previously, the Gamecube games, a focus on singleplayer and allowing the game to be an actual JRPG again for the first time since gen 2 leads to good games. Multiplayer skinnerboxes like XY, SM, and SWSHit do not.
Leave the compfags to their miserable little stadium containment box and get on with actual good Pokemon games not constrained by things like the exact same template ad nauseam and making sure every mechanic can't be fun because it'd be abused in multiplayer or whatever. Legends can have multiplayer, like co-op, or the pseudo souls bag retrieval, anything they come up with, but the series is gonna go down the shitter instantly if they try to merge Legends and the competitive mechanics from mainline.
And pick up a decent competitive game for fucks sake. Literal plug and play premade strategies shit can kiss my ass.