>>38397443In short, contests don't fuel their own progression. You need to advance the battling plot to get more Pokemon and access to more berries and berry plots, and make your contest stars level up to get more moves. Which all encourages you to do them later after you have everything in place. But then the first three ranks have be super easy to accommodate the number of options a player trying to play through Contests right as they come has access to, making Master Rank the only fun part because all of the above discourages you from actually doing that. You can tell Game Freak actually put some thought into how to fix this with each Hoenn release having different conditions for when you can do what, but I feel like we need a way around tying the whole thing to moves before anything else.
