>>44957644Yes, speedruns where they fight with 5% of the trainers in game and use two mons get use out of the X items, the other 99% of players sell it as soon as possible.
>>44957637As opposed to
>Super effective move>Switch>Super effective moveYou'd have a point if the games required you to buff that hard, doing that every battle would take way longer than just playing the game normally
>>44957649Why did they have them unchanged in the game if only speedrunners used them? Just because you could use 12 of them to beat 1 (one) trainer with a single mon? I'll tell you why, because these items are so shit they didn't pay attention to them for 20 years until gen 7
By the way, what was the last time you swept a trainer using that oh so broken X items strategy?
