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Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:40:11 No.15158573 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>15158634 >>15158739 >>15158748

General question, /vp/:

When you seek out hidden abilities and bother with IV breeding, EV training, and breeding egg moves... what's your main goal from doing all that?

Are you just trying to breed a good team for the sake of having one, is it for Battle Tower/Subway/Mansion progress, or are you hoping to progress in ranked matches or just casual match-ups?

What's the end goal?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:44:15 No.15158634 Report

Quoted By: >>15158708 >>15158755

>>15158573

My main end goal is that I want to have a strong competitive team and it's a very good feeling to spend hours and hours putting it together and then watching it fight and win.

But really, it's just a lot of fun to work at something and be rewarded. It's a great feeling to get that perfect IV pokemon, finish it's EV training, level it up and give it all it's moves...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:49:24 No.15158708 Report

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>>15158634
This.

It sounds really autistic, but I'd equate it to building a birdhouse or something. It's a lot of work for something you didn't really need to spend all that time on, but it feels good to finish. Even if it's going to go sit in your garage for the next three years now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:50:56 No.15158739 Report

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>>15158573
Plenty of friends in my life that like to compete with me in every video game that has a multiplayer.

Using the Pokemon I train to beat them against everyone else is just a bonus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:51:19 No.15158748 Report

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>>15158573
I'm a perfectionist, I do it mostly for the satisfaction of having created the perfect Pokemon. I also use them in battle, but sometimes I breed perfect IV Pokemon that I have no intention of ever using in battle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 10:51:46 No.15158755 Report

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>>15158634

This makes sense.

I've actually been playing Pokemon since 1999, but have never bothered with optimizing my team or doing the metagame. To be honest, I didn't even understand the difference between special attack and attack until Pearl. In Platinum I learned what EV training was, and in B&W I did a lot of EV training and reading up on competitive builds, but just so I could cruise through the Subway.

This game is so fucking inviting I decided I'd get into IV breeding, egg movies, and ability breeding, but I was just kind of thinking... I wonder why people do this. If it's all about winning competitively or if it's just for personal satisfaction, that kind of thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2013 11:04:54 No.15158960 Report

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I just love winning with something I made. That and sibling rivalry.

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