>>43163377>Top 16 over stronger people like Plumeria and Kahili? Neither of those trainers are particularly strong in the anime.
>and not more focused means its not structured in a way that is based around individual skill. If the trainer lost in the Battle Royale, they weren't going to win the tournament. Unless you are implying Alain, Harrison, Tobias, Paul, etc would all lose the round.
>You can gang up and eliminate stronger people.If all they had was strength, then they weren't worth the tournament. Intelligent, skilled and powerful are the traits that make up a champion.
>its not really going to be a good measure of who would have qualified on their own merits.So if Guzma didn't destroy Ilima, would you be okay with Ilima abusing Mega Evolution to win in every battle of the Top 16?
>>43163390>What unfair advantage?Mega Stones are the result of luck, money or nepotism. Legendaries are the same.
>They're still Pokemon.Pokemon that 99.9% of trainers would never have access to. Congratulations on winning with overpowered garbage.
>How are they weak?Consider Shota a prime example. He would have lost to Tierno's excellent strategies if he hadn't mega-evolved his Sceptile and simply brute-forced him. Shota is a weakling loser that abused his connections with Steven Stone, a Champion, to gain unfair advantages and tools to win against a competent, obscure, trainer that worked incredibly hard for his position.
>Theres nothing cheap about them though.I'm sorry, so there is nothing cheap with having access to 0.01 percent power-ups and pokemon that enable you to just brute force trainers that actually worked hard to develop their skills and the strength of their team? At least everyone in Alola could earn Z-Crystals by challenging Kahunas, Mega Stones and Legendaries are just luck and wealth.
