>>57184877I mean, back in the old days it made sense, like card trading.
Oh, wow, my buddy got a cool mon! And you are telling me it can have an exp bonus with some moves I never saw? And his ID may help me win some prizes in the super store's roulette? Let's do it! Let's trade!
Now that everything is online, the "mystic" of traded pokémon is gone. Like, yeah, you surely got a cool pokémon. But the pokémon is either inyected, a "troll" trade like the woman in Snowpoint, or a shiny that you can catch/breed with ease because the pokémon you had was infected with the Masuda Method and you are carrying the Shiny Charm already.