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I'll be honest, OP. through Gen 4 I got like that. I didn't care about the mon, just it's stats. When there was stuff coming out about Unova, I didn't care what everything looked like. I didn't care about Dex info. It was the stats that got me interested.
Then, when I started playing White, and getting into the desert for the first time, I ran into a scraggy.
I could have one shot it with my Unfeazant that I had already level grinded up to full evolution.
But then I saw his idle animation of picking his pants up, and I fell in love with pokemon again, right then and there. I whittled down the thing's HP and caught the little guy, and I boxed the super ultra competetive mons I had scummed up to get at that point, and I started using that Scraggy.
To this day I'm still using my bud Rudie, and, despite having a bad nature, he still kicks ass.
And he's my bro.
Ever since then I've pretty much gone full-on karenfag and I haven't looked back once.
I moved from Smogon to VCG and I play with my buddies instead of on showdown.
It's fun again, and my Ace Nig Rudie is who made it fun again.