>>54683892In what world do you ever have to grind in a Pokemon game? Exp. Share or no, all you've ever had to do was let one Pokemon absorb all the experience and that's it. I played through XY with Fennekin only, and Platinum with Torterra only. It's not hard. The only time you're ever struggling is if you're a child, actively skipping every trainer you can, and/or are using a total shitmon like Pichu only.
Exp. Share only serves to ruin the only enjoyable part of the game: bonding with your bros, by making it so you don't even have to acknowledge their existence until a particularly hard type match up comes your way, which isn't even necessary half the time so long as you click neutral moves where you can. Rather than forcing you to actually interact with them and exercise resource management. It was never necessary but without the option to turn it off, it's impossible to do this. One way or another, you're going to be over levelled and have zero incentive to interact with any Pokemon besides your starter unless you go specifically out of your way to do so, which is ultimately pointless because it's getting exp no matter what you do or how you play. It's strong-arming you into playing a specific way, balanced or not. People bash on XY but at least you had the fucking choice to play however you saw fit.
I know this thread is bait but it's so tragic that this fanbase is stupid enough that there's a world where a take like this is genuine.
