>>57044255The original gen 1 games were designed as a passion project about collecting monsters as an homage to bug catching, a hobby popular among Japanese boys. It's very common in Japan, at least it was in the post-war period up through the Lost Decade, for boys to go catch beetles and have them fight each other for sport. That's the impetus behind Pokemon. Everything else was a constraint of either resources or time. Game Freak didn't make everything fucking bad on purpose, they did it because they were a bunch of nobodies with little experience in the industry working on a passion project.
Competitive was always an idea in their mind. They hosted the first ever Pokemon tournament in 1997. Sorry you had to find out the hard way that your anti-comp faggotry was NEVER part of Game Freak's plan for the series.
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