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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:48:48 No.50499163 View View Reply Original Report

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Why do competitively unviable Pokémon exist? Why do they keep adding more Pokémon when there’s already so many that people don’t use?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:50:02 No.50499166 Report

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merch sales and route padding

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:50:50 No.50499168 Report

Quoted By: >>50499221 >>50499256

>>50499163
There are not really a lot of usless, final evo mons to be honest. They even fixed Unown in Pla

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:51:19 No.50499173 Report

Quoted By: >>50499608

>smoggies

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:53:38 No.50499191 Report

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>>50499163
Pokemon don't exist for your fanfic meta

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:53:38 No.50499192 Report

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>>50499163
because this is a progression-based RPG, not a competitive multiplayer game

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 12:57:50 No.50499221 Report

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>>50499168
>They even fixed Unown in Pla
i looked into it and i can't find anything. what did they give unown?

for OP: many animals in the real world are useless in battle - but that's not a flaw of nature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 13:02:03 No.50499236 Report

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People who play competitive are a small minority and most people just want to play the game, work with their bros, and have a good time.

I've played pokemon for 20 years and have not once played online or played against someone I didn't personally know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 13:05:21 No.50499248 Report

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>>50499163
If every Pokemon were competitively viable, then no one would be

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 13:08:05 No.50499256 Report

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>>50499168
This, almost every Pokemon has a competitive purpose but some are so niche you have to build an entire team around their purpose which isn't worth it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 13:39:43 No.50499359 Report

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>>50499163
Are you people really this stupid? The neglected competitive aspect of pokemon is entirely secondary to the single player trainer experience, not the other way around. If I want to play something competitive I can do a lot better than the festering offshoot of a 90s collectible game. I want to beat the elite four with my Sudowoodo and Flareon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 13:41:16 No.50499367 Report

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>>50499163
Unironically to make CHARIZARD look better I’m comparison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 14:30:26 No.50499608 Report

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>>50499173
>Smoggies
?
Smogon tiering system make more mons viable than VGC. You got your formats mixed up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 14:32:33 No.50499621 Report

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>>50499608
nobody cares about your fanfic meta

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 14:52:44 No.50499728 Report

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>>50499221
iirc they made Hidden Power always hit super-effectively, idk if that is enough for Unknown but it is a buff

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 14:57:54 No.50499769 Report

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>>50499163
Do you really need it spelled out for you nigger?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:00:22 No.50499787 Report

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>>50499728
it absolutely is not, Unown still has garbage stats and only the one move

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:01:25 No.50499793 Report

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>>50499787
It still far from useless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:01:51 No.50499797 Report

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>>50499769
Whats the first rule of acquisition?

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:02:08 No.50499798 Report

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>>50499769
>Merchandizing,
Then why is almost all the merch just Kanto and CHARIZARD, and wouldn’t making a Pokémon good allow for more merch opportunities

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:02:30 No.50499801 Report

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>>50499163
It's a trivially easy kids game, all pokemon are "viable".
>but muh esport-
Get a life you fat faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:03:06 No.50499805 Report

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>>50499163
Because you severely overestimate the amount of people who give a shit about competitive Pokémon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:05:02 No.50499814 Report

Quoted By: >>50499832

>>50499805
Not op, but the single most common reason Pokemon are hated is due to being “shitmons”.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:08:16 No.50499830 Report

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>>50499163

Because discovering new pokemon is fun. A lot of people aren't interested in playing competitively. Even if they do play competitively, there's a lot of players who enjoy the challenge of coming up with a unique team rather than just deep dicking Zacian and whatever the other five top picks are.

New pokemon make playing a new generation exciting. You get that sense of adventure all over again. What will you catch? How, when and what will it evolve into? All good fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:08:51 No.50499832 Report

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>>50499814
Some Pokémon will always be better than others, but that doesn't change the fact that there's not a single Pokémon that you can't complete the game with

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:17:01 No.50499880 Report

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>>50499798
>Then why is almost all the merch just Kanto and CHARIZARD
Because it will always sell the most due to nostalgia.
>wouldn’t making a Pokémon good allow for more merch opportunities
Not every fan of pokemon plays the games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:27:55 No.50499942 Report

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>>50499787
it absolutely is a buff fucking smogfaggot (because Unown is the only Pokémon that gets Hidden Power in PLA)
having coverage on every Pokémon is still fucking insane even if it is coming from 72 base SpA
so Unown is viable for a playthrough no matter how you look at it

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 15:49:13 No.50500089 Report

Quoted By: >>50500230

I don't give a shit about competitive but pokemon that aren't even usable in game shouldn't exist in that state.
Try playing gen 2 and actually using yanma or delibird, it doesn't work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 16:13:48 No.50500230 Report

Quoted By: >>50500272 >>50500445

>>50500089

Gen 2 was over twenty years ago. Why would anyone play such an outdated game? We have new games now with better graphics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 16:15:47 No.50500246 Report

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>>50499163
Just a bunch of changes in the metagame can make previously unviable Pokemon viable again and vice versa, retard. The more diversity the better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 16:18:32 No.50500272 Report

Quoted By: >>50500310

>>50500230
>Better graphics means better games
The newer games have mostly shit graphics, and the gameplay is shit and dumbed down for braindead monkeys. Why play the newer games when you can play the older, better, games

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 16:23:47 No.50500310 Report

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>>50500272

Errrr, Anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 16:42:31 No.50500445 Report

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>>50500230
As far as I can tell, shit like delibird and luvdisc aren't any more usable now/

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