>>54311061>D-dude just d-don't shiny hunt!Yea man, because the player should be forced into playing absolutely barebones because the gameplay is far too grindy to allow the opportunity to actually enjoy what Pokemon you're using. You're right, it's *not* necessary, but it shouldn't be so absurdly impossible that you don't have that choice if you ever hope to play seriously, let alone when it would make a world of a difference to add Rusty Bottle Caps to accommodate all playstyles, even for non-shiny hunters.
>Now you spend more time doing things though like PLA hunting Lando and Cresselia?Except he points out that you can't see IVs in PLA until after you've already saved your game. Your only real option for Cresselia and Heatran would be via BDSP, which is still holding your time hostage based purely on whether you were lucky enough to hit a frame with 0 IVs in the appropriate stat. It is also another 60 dollars necessary to play in an entirely different game.. which is also 60 dollars. Shiny or not, you'd have to be working from an insane asylum to willingly throw yourself at a wall over and over for something we already have control over in a convenient way in Bottle Caps.
That being said, if you're going to need another game to hunt for something specific, it makes no difference whether it's BDSP or BW2. Blisy points out the only reason he even went with W2 is because it's what he had readily available without being forced to play through an entire game, which is generous when the point is to pretend you're a new player who is building from the ground up. BW2 is also far easier to RNG manipulate, which is the realistic option in either case if you care about your time at all.
It takes far less energy to add more ways to streamline competitive than it does for you to deal with shitty gameplay loops that are designed to waste your time, if nothing else than at least tera raid grinding. TPC can DQ people all they want, but they need to be productive at least.
