>>33600305>If you don't want to spend time raising powerful Pokémon legitimatelyOn one hand I do believe you should legally obtain the team through the tools the game provides. On the other hand, the tools are kinda bad, it requires an unreasonable amount of time just to be able to compete and the game is not clear enough about how you can do it, you have to rely on outside sources to know that kind of stuff. That's pretty bad for attracting new people.
Breeding is pretty managable, so long as you have already spent a lot of time chaining dittos (after finding out somehow that's a thing), getting the destiny knot (that costs a lot of BP), and got a decent stock of good IV'd pokemon.
For non-breedeable pokemon are still forced to either soft-reset or level up to 100, and that takes a lot of time. Sure, they get 3IVs, but you still need the other 2 as well as the nature; and there is no good way to both level up fast to 100 and no reliable way to get the bottle caps (the lottery 'glitch' doesn't count since it's easily missable and maybe not intended). And what's more, once you catch it, you can't get anymore most of the time, so if you change your mind about the nature well you better find someone willing to trade or get a new game, because for some reason there's no way to change it.
So, you spent like an hour breeding, and a lot of hours to get your perfect Tapu/UB. Now you gotta EV train it, but wait, you gotta earn a lot of BP to get the power items to do it, since you already spent your BP on the destiny knot to breed in the first place. Not to mention you need to spend a lot to get some competitive items too.
Good job, now you have your team, and you can go to a tournament. It only took a week or so. Guess what, your team sucks. Of course you had no way of knowing that because there's no way of testing it out before actually spending your time making the team.
If there was no serebii, showdown and other resources, it would be impossible to compete.
