No, because ypu don't WANT a "pokémon competitor" you want Pokémon to make itself for adults. And any pokémon adjacent game for adults tanks as it tries to be not pokémon, while copying the fuck out of Pokémon.
Blackpill is there will be no kid's game launches that has the lightning in a bottle factors that spawned pokémon. There's no cheap, near ubiquitous handheld games console to put it on, everyone goes mobile and no cunt BUYS a game on mobile, all freemium shite. There's no publisher will take a risk on a new IP from a team of talented amateurs (as formal industry thinking is the antithesis of how Game Freak and Tajiri operated while building it, with his clear vision in mind to just make a game that kids could play and pretend to be exploring greenspace in the city) and no-one willing to let it breathe and stand on its own merits to find its audience, to wait until fans start clamouring for the toys, showing interest in a TCG, no anime commision to support the second iteration of the game, due to its organic growth. A "pokémon competitor" needs to launch with the toys, anime, tcg, plushies, stickers, pen charms, dildoes, hormones because it's not just competing with Pokémon the Game but Pokémon the Franchise and unless some cunt's willing to TRY and grow its own Pokémon naturally, they're not gonna be able to force one.
