>>47585276A lot of it has to do with the fact that it's the only battle in the series where it feels like you're fighting someone on equal terms.
Batte facilities actually do this. The teams have actual team synergy, competive builds, set-style and no healspam.
>This isn't just some NPC (I mean, yes he is, but you know what I mean), this is the previous player character But its an OC team not yours
who's just as silent as ever and has a team that's appropriately more badass than anything else in the game.
Ace trainers have starters. Snorlax is something you couldve caught before battling him. Pikachu is a meme
>On top of that, you know what he's accomplished from playing the Gen 1 games, and even if you didn't, characters in GSC talk about him like he's some sort of legend.Beating a league and a mobster boss with surfspam? He didnt even catch Mewtwo.
