Quoted By:
because it's retarded shit, you account for 1/4 of the battlefield presence, if everyone decides to shit on you simultaneously (which will happen with computer players, because literally no one has played contests with other people) there's fucking nothing you can do. It's a random chaotic mess of shit, and the judge heat mechanic is especially frustrating.
Don't even get me started on Super Contests. The dress-up is ridiculous, it's a matter of memorization and stuffing the correct choices on robotically. In practice the themes are so vague that a viable strategy is to just toss on all your rarest and gaudiest accesories. The dance part has nothing to do with any mechanics, it's completely disconnected. The only good part is that unlike contests/contest spectacular the enemies can't directly sabotage your appeal hearts which reduces the feel of lack of control.
In general all of the existing battle mechanics are thrown into the trash and attempted to be replaced by shallow contest equivalents. For example, the contest stat is a completely pointless mechanic, since more is better and there is no reason not to have the maximum amount. Oh oops you didn't feed your pokemon perfect 4 player autistic japenese lightning reflexes mirage island berries, your pokemon is ruined forever because it didn't get maximum stats. Sheen was hot trash.
It's not like natures and EV's, you don't have a choice, and for each type of contest there is an associated stat that is unconditionally the best, in fact, the only one that matters. Contest type is arbitrary too, you could sweep Smart contests with fucking Rhyhorn. They were too lazy to even give each species a set of starting statistics.
Then you have the lame and boring contest moves which boil down to being lucky enough to get some bullshit combo/max judge heat off, which again has very little to do with your own plays and more with what the other players do. It's a retarded abortion of a format much like Battle Royale.
