>>35036760Yes. Allow me to explain why
In the single player game, in principle, when played in spirit of the game, most team combinations can overcome the obstacles the single player game presents us. This painted the illusion in that your favorite pokemon, the ones you cared for and nurtured, were strong.
Then you get into the competitive scene and you find that the same team of beloved pokemon? Shit, but not just shit, lets break down just how shit they are: That starter you had as your first pokemon? It's nature is utterly counter to it's species stats. The really neat pokemon you caught on route 8? Check it's IVs. It's all shit. Never mind to say that rest of your team's EVs are competently fucked. But lets say you breed a new starter with the best nature, get your team of favorite pokemon with perfect IVs and EV trained them proper with the best 4 move set you can construct. Sorry, they just don't cut it. Most of them are low tier to shit tier.
So your faced with two choices: Give up on competitive and know that the believe in your pokemon was a bunch of comforting bullshit, or abandon them, leave them to rot in the box while you pick the mathematically closest power team you can build but have no emotional attachment to.
Either way the magic is ruined. I mean, why would you ever play with that route 1 rodent yet again as anything other then a HM slave? It's not mathematically optimal. You know the truth.
