>>33173495>>33174808Contests should've been actual contests. Much like in pokeathalon, there are various contests to choose from that require more than just pressing a move and waiting for its animation to run. One thing that they could've done with contests is introduce battling where the appeal of certain moves affects the outcome of how much damage it does. The entire goal is to get your pokemon's appeal up while lowering the opponent's HP at the same time, the higher the appeal the more powerful a pokemon's move gets. The goal is to knockout your opponent's pokemon while keeping your appeal as high as possible. Pokemon levels are evened out to keep it fair and using certain type move combinations deal more damage, certain moves lower appeal, certain moves raise your appeal. Moves like Swords Dance would increase your pokemon's appeal as opposed to attack. Certain moves could have effects that involve lowering your pokemon's appeal to deal more damage, or dealing more damage against an opponent's pokemon but raising their appeal. Gamefreak could even balance this more by introducing an appeal stat, or making it that certain abilities now affect a pokemon's appeal. It would be a clever way of spicing up the game, they could make it so even shitmons like Beautifly and Aurorus become top-tier in contests, or cucked mons like Flygon find their use.