>>44802236>secret bases, record mixingaside from getting other people's bases from record mixing the bases are entirely a single-payer experience.
> the rehauling of IVs/naturesIVs are the most uncompetitive aspect in all of Pokémon and has been mentioned time and time again to be in the game so each pokemon gets an individual flair.
Look, its not that one sided. The original focus of the games was to collect pokemon, and doing so through both singleplayer and multiplayer means. Trade was simply just one other way to obtain and evolve Pokemon.
As for competitive I would argue it didn't become a focus until gen VI when they introduced rating battles.
>>44802259The point is that people don't play the games that intensively, and a person that dropped the game before beating it has probably not experienced much of the multiplayer if at all, but they have experience the single player.
