The 5 stages of having bought Sword or Shield
Denial: You have a completely hollow existence. You either have no other interests in the world and live solely off Pokemon or you’re a normalfag that has no real friends and you must consume all the hot trends. You avoided all the leaks and spoilers because you hoped GameFreak was going to surprise you and all the haters were wrong. You tell yourself that it takes an absurd amount of time to get to the first gym and then claim who ever arrives there in less than 20 hours is rushing. You just give the excuse that you are catching tons of Pokemon (despite arguing that no one cares about catching) and exploring. You know that you just kept the game on while you did something else and ran laps around the same areas. You claim the Metagame is balanced because Landorus-T and Megas are gone. You don’t want Dynamaxing to be banned because GameFreak would never make an incredibly broken mechanic. All you use is Gyarados, Ditto, Hawlucha, and Excadrill on your team since you lost too many times without them, and you refuse to play ND OU since you don’t want to know how much better it is.