>>21837137It was less of a reward and more to keep track. You wanna talk about making this more easy? You no longer have to win every rank with a Pokemon to progress them to the next ranks. You just beat Master Rank beauty with your Pikachu? Awesome. Wanna get Master Rank beauty with your Milotic? Fuck going through the first ranks, just throw it straight up into Master Rank since you unlocked it already :)
Don't talk shit about making it easy. If anything, they made it EASIER to get ribbons since they gave you the FINAL ribbon without having to grind the lesser ribbons anymore. They actually made the lesser tiers worthless because of this, since they no longer give prizes and are no longer required for Master Rank anymore; so just raise that contest stat to max and throw that Pokemon straight into Master for the ribbon since the others are a fucking waste of time.