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I honestly believe the reason for the pokemon cut was to help out the incredibly stagnant competitive scene. Before we had a cancerous amount of legendaries, not saying most were viable, and incredibly high strength pokemon due to power creep. In Sword and Shield there are a total of 8 pokemon with a higher base stat total of 600. Most of the competitively over-powered pokemon, seen in every tournament are gone. Now would i have wished a more Smogon-like bracket was implemented, yeah, but even that was somewhat stagnant with not much shuffling between generations. The advertising of a tournament shortly after release, ability to change nature's, it seems that this game was really focused on improving the competitive scene. Fuck lando
