>>46815675I'm bored, not afraid. Battling other people is pointless because it doesn't progress the game in any way or give you any rewards. Battles for the actual sake of battles themselves is a waste of time, they need to have incentives to participate in and win like money, experience points, progress in the story, unlocking new areas of the game world, accumulating Battle Points or getting ribbons for special victories. Battles are a means to an end, they exist to service and enable many other elements of the game. By themselves they are pointless, boring and tedious.
In SwSh there is a ribbon you get for winning a ranked battle in the Master Ball tier, so I've gotten to Master Ball rank several times in order to get that ribbon for some of my Pokémon. But in previous games I wouldn't touch online battles with a ten foot pole because there's zero reason to.
