>>42145431>there's no moment in the game where you'll need berriesno, but you've changed the period of the game from during the game to post game. your example is comparing methods in raising competitively-viable pokemon
>>42145306>If when raising a competitive-able monster you had to go thru that autistic shit while everyone else can be EV-trained and evolved in less than 1 minute that would be a genuine chore.there is no point in the story that you need or should even want to do that. back to the point, you continue to dismiss that getting berries is a chore in of itself because of how the locations of berries are spread out:
https://gamewith.net/pokemon-swordshield/article/show/13885You have your three trees that give you some kinds of berries but not all, and it's all randomized. you can't obtain some berries anywhere else, and the berry seller only sells three kinds of very common berries. To get good curry, the requirements ask for rare berries.
https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-sword-shield-guide/2019/11/20/20972429/how-to-make-the-best-curry-copperajah-charizardthis means you need to go to certain trees, and the guide asks for seven of them to ensure a good result.
meanwhile, using SuMo as an example, you have plenty of ways to raise friendship that to the 220 point threshold.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/FriendshipYou don't need the last thirty point of grinding to evolve through friendship. Not to mention, pokemon that evolve through friendship by availability in SwoShi are rare, being only the baby pokemon (which don't apply unless you breed which is almost exclusively a post-game activity), eevee, woobat, budew, type:null, riolu, and snom. players may not even have a pokemon in their party in their playthroughs that require friendship to evolve.
