>>46615441It's the result of the game mechanics being hidden and completely antithetical to the love-and-friendship message the franchise pushes across all media. Even those game mechanics will never contradict it for most players, because all they do is beat the Champion by spamming Full Restores. It's an emotional shock.
Like all emotional arguments, they cling to the one (non-)example of successful Karenfagging they can find, Pachirisu, based on a surface-level understanding of his victory and ignoring the mountains of names and shitmons that have not achieved anything and never will.
