>>54245157I don't know what's so difficult to understand about this.
All you're doing is viewing the tournament and the battles within it as the only things that matter.
The whole point is that you've caught/trained/breed/whatever your pokemon and have gotten them to the point where you're competing in a tournament and using them to win.
It doesn't matter if the base concept is 'perfect vs perfect', because that doesn't change any more than 'fire is super effective against grass'. There's (supposed) to be more to it than JUST calculations.
Is that a part of it? Yes.
Is that impressive to watch? Yes, but it's even more impressive if you got there from the ground up.
Do you remember that anime arc where Ash was given a full perfect team that he used to compete in the league?
Yeah me neither, because that's not the point.
