>>41507182Nobody's addressed this yet for some reason, but it doesn't even have to be about catching them all. If you end up usually using like 100 Pokemon, you'll find most of them missing from SnS. I really love what Comfey does for my team in Doubles, and it's fucking gone. Nothing else can do what it does with priority healing, decent mixed defenses and priority Draining Kiss to shit on dragons, not to mention tons of utility like Aromatherapy and Ally Switch. Nothing quite pulls off what Mega Garchomp does as a mixed attacker, and then you have things like the Ultra Beasts which have highly specialized and unique roles, not even to mention some godlike designs.
The fact of the matter is that your options are drastically reduced, and they didn't need to be. Fun is drastically reduced. I don't get to come up with as many new strategies, and don't even give that healthy OU meta shit because I play formats where nobody needs to give a shit about the norms.
I think you can have fun with SnS. I think I would have some if I played it too. But the fact stands that there was no technical reason behind gutting content, and as a result drastically reducing the lasting value of these games and their metagame. The Battle Tower no longer being multiplayer is fucking unforgivable as well, me and my siblings usually play tons of battle frontier shit when we get there. I wanted people to send a message that Gamefreak's culling policy would be unprofitable; the game was never going to bomb, but it could have underperformed. And now we've gone past the event horizon. No cut content before even came close to how dreadful it is that we will NEVER AGAIN HAVE A FULL DEX, and you buyfags are directly to blame. You brainless sheep helped kill the series we all love, and it's only going to get worse. Nothing is safe anymore now that the unthinkable has happened. Will Double Battles vanish next? Maybe items? How about an even smaller dex next time? How are you fucks not yet regretful?
