>>53559217>>53559231If Effort Values/experience don't exist, then why do we see trainers *training* their pokemon in the anime if there's no way of making them stronger? Plus Macho braces exists in the anime, ergo EVs do too :^)
>In games, you don't need to eat, you don't need to sleep, no laundries, no jobs, no rest between towns and routesAnd that's exactly my point, in-game you can beat the entire gym challenge, save the world and become the regional champion in like three hours, starting with nothing but a Mudkip. If you're like Ash and just living care-free with no responsibility except pokemon training, a year sounds like a pretty reasonable timeframe to raise up 5-6 pokemon, even including rest and leisure.
Even with the obscure passage of time in the anime, i'm pretty sure each season isn't happening over the course of several years, and Ash can go from just pikachu to having another team of 4-5 pokemon fairly well trained to take on the league by the end of a season, showing that it's clearly feasable to get that strong within ~half a year with a bit of protagonist luck.
