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I can picture EXACTLY what the arguments being flinged around all thread are, down to the order. Same thread every time.
Fuck that. But Pokemon being an RPG destroyed the chances of Pokemon becoming an E-sport. WoW Arena is sort of an e-sport because Blizzard forces it hard, but even then every player gets the same character (per class) with the same gear set and stats, meaning there is no aspect of the competition that relies on a huge artificial barrier of entry unrelated to the actual match, and in essence the RPG part of the game is removed when it comes to official PvP (in-game casual PvP still has gear affect your stats, but with every expansion they make it less and less of a factor even then)
In Pokemon, by contrast, you are expected to generate and reject your characters until you get the one with the good stats, and then to grind that character up with the right moves and methods, to then have the "privilege" of NOT having a statistical disadvantage right out of the gate.
Pokemon will never be an e-sport, and the more people force it to be the more blatant this hacking issue will become, and the larger the elephant in the room of how NOT suited for a competitive environment the entire game is will become.
Only by removing the RPG part entirely can a semblance of competitiveness be born, see Showdown.
Game Freak either introduces an official system of rental mons for competitions (both events and laddering), or all of these issues will just increase and the hacking question will become more and more ugly until people finally realize that it's unsustainable to treat Pokemon as a competitive game.
