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I have to admit that, as much as I love Pokemon, I just don't think its battle system lends itself well to a competitive game. It really comes down to the huge amount of RNG, such that I don't really think that even doing best-of-three's really compensates for it, and the fact that the players have no idea what their opponent is doing, so there's an unavoidable level of guesswork.
There's a lot of depth to the system and a huge number of potential combinations for teams, so I can see why people would be attracted to it, but there just seem to be way too many factors at play beyond player skill.
