I am done with competitive Pokemon

[gredora]

"Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not.



I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them.



One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

There's still a competitive pokemon group? I was not aware they even existed still.

[Thermal Lance]

Competitive Pokémon is boring as ♥♥♥♥. You literally are grinding your life away to get the same thing than most of your community otherwise you’re not competitive.

Casual Pokémon battles with other casuals players are 10 times more interesting and the intended way to play.

But gamefreak did throw a few bones to the more hardcore crowd but again it revolves around grinding the same thing as any other player.

[Kamiyama]

I really loved gen 1 and I enjoyed Pokemon Red, Pokemon Yellow, and Let's Go Pikachu on the Switch.

I have Pokemon Sword and it's kind of meh. I just don't feel anything for a lot of the new pokemon. Some of them just seem absurd.

Also the game is not well balanced at all. The whole single player experience with the gym trainers and the legendary pokemon battle at the end are all a cakewalk. Then you get to the battle tower and I was crushed in the first battle.

Whatever mechanics they expect you to know to beat the battle tower, are beyond me. I thought I knew what I was doing and was doing great judging by my performance up to that point.

I think they need to introduce new and unique strategies in the gyms and focus less on leveling and crushing opponents with stat towers. Because that's what I was doing. Picking the hardest hitting abilities and pumping up my attack stat as high as possible. Apparently that doesn't make you a great battler.

[Thermal Lance]

Kamiyama の投稿を引用：

I really loved gen 1 and I enjoyed Pokemon Red, Pokemon Yellow, and Let's Go Pikachu on the Switch.

I have Pokemon Sword and it's kind of meh. I just don't feel anything for a lot of the new pokemon. Some of them just seem absurd.

Also the game is not well balanced at all. The whole single player experience with the gym trainers and the legendary pokemon battle at the end are all a cakewalk. Then you get to the battle tower and I was crushed in the first battle.

Whatever mechanics they expect you to know to beat the battle tower, are beyond me. I thought I knew what I was doing and was doing great judging by my performance up to that point.

I think they need to introduce new and unique strategies in the gyms and focus less on leveling and crushing opponents with stat towers. Because that's what I was doing. Picking the hardest hitting abilities and pumping up my attack stat as high as possible. Apparently that doesn't make you a great battler.

Play some romhacks.

FireRed for example have Pokemon Unbound for example which can be played on much higher difficulties which forces you to approach fights quite differently and even use actual strategies at time. While boasting an interesting new story of its own.

Just don’t crank it up to the point it pushes you into the same boring routine as competitive play.

[𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓒𝓪𝓽]

I'll destroy you with minimize and thunder wave shenanigans. Then I'll wipe your team with no skill one hit KO moves that only have a 30% chance of landing. Come at me bro.

[nullpo]

Lustrous Spirit の投稿を引用：

There's still a competitive pokemon group? I was not aware they even existed still.

They exist. My brother is one of them. Basically they min max their pokemon trait, kill specific enemies over and over to increase ev or smth, and min max moveset which I think is kinda tedious. I play pokemon to collect, not to recatch the same pokemon and kill certain ones over and over to fight other guy who do the same.

[Rio]

You could always play temtem, I hear its less about rng.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

There are ways to prevent rng based teams, but it'd require running teams that aren't cookie-cutter pseudo legends.

[nightnight]

Unsure if this is serious but I’ll <BITE>

Pokemon isn’t about blind luck but I’m curious to understand why you believe so.

Unlike games of the die like Monopoly, Mario Party, Pokemon is a turn based game of the coin (flip) in trading cards and less so in video game. Chance is involved but can be stacked for or against your favor. Like a lot of tabletop RPGs I’d imagine. The better your deck/crew, the more experience, the right moves and the right emergency items the better your chances are of winning. In fact you can nearly guarantee wins and it can be just as fun if not moreso when you lose as you take the time in between battles to study why you lost and how you can improve. It’s like chess with a bit of random sewn in to make it less predictable and…profitable for The Pokemon Company.

[Fire Angel]

Mega Kangaskhan, Garchomp, Cloyster, Galvantula, Greninja, and Sableye were my competitive team.

Because I can no longer have them all in the new games I don't battle or buy pokemon games anymore.

[Xero_Daxter]

When the enemy kills your entire team with stealth rock and spike setups. Bruuuuh.

[HALO_run]

Kamiyama の投稿を引用：

I really loved gen 1 and I enjoyed Pokemon Red, Pokemon Yellow, and Let's Go Pikachu on the Switch.

I have Pokemon Sword and it's kind of meh. I just don't feel anything for a lot of the new pokemon. Some of them just seem absurd.

Also the game is not well balanced at all. The whole single player experience with the gym trainers and the legendary pokemon battle at the end are all a cakewalk. Then you get to the battle tower and I was crushed in the first battle.

Whatever mechanics they expect you to know to beat the battle tower, are beyond me. I thought I knew what I was doing and was doing great judging by my performance up to that point.

I think they need to introduce new and unique strategies in the gyms and focus less on leveling and crushing opponents with stat towers. Because that's what I was doing. Picking the hardest hitting abilities and pumping up my attack stat as high as possible. Apparently that doesn't make you a great battler.

i really hated Let's Go Pikachu on the Switch they took away wild poke battles

[Fire Angel]

Xero_Daxter の投稿を引用：

When the enemy kills your entire team with stealth rock and spike setups. Bruuuuh.

I would use sticky webs with Galvantula. Then my Garchomp would be faster than every pokemon. Also my Cloyster would be as well after a Shell Smash.

[Spirit]

i always hated the toxic spikes/other traps. maybe a super tanky muk could work against them but it's always counterable

competitive doesn't work well in pokemon because by design you don't know the other players team and that decides the match