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[Competitive] Are you interested in playing Pokémon competitively?

Sweet Serenity

Sweet Serenity

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    Are you interested in playing Pokémon competitively? If not, why not? What would it take to get you interested in playing Pokémon competitively? I am asking because I simply just want to take notes of why people like or don't like playing competitively.
     
    No, I am not. I don't feel like raising my Pokemon for competitive in mind. It takes too long to get a "perfect Pokemon" I play Pokemon to enjoy it, not do it for sport/competition.
     
    I had a stint with competitive pokemon. No regrets. It showed me a different side of the franchise and gave me a better understanding of certain mechanics.

    These days I'm just too lazy for team building and only play random battles.
     
    Social with friends? Absolutely, raise your team to the best of their abilities and go at it.
    Randos online? Absolutely not because you will probably get beaned by 6 legends/mythicals
    Official tournaments? Never i dont have the commitment to make a completely optimized team
     
    I've allways been interested. But, as another user mentioned earlier, I just don't like the process of creating competitive Pokémon and don't have the patience for it either. So the "entrance fee" for competitive battling is too high for me.

    I also don't like being forced to think about tiers and which Pokémon I can or cannot use. I like to be able to pick Pokémon I like, even if they aren't top-tiers.

    So for now I'm happy that rom hacks like Unbound and Radical Red exist, for me they pretty much nail the perfect blend between competitive battling and a traditional Pokémon adventure, so I can enjoy the best of both worlds.
     
    Well the shiny galarian birbs they tied in it with it sure weren't enough to motivate me =P

    I lost any and all interest in anything competitive in games a couple decades ago, and I won't even consider getting back into it. That chapter is closed, permanently.
     
    I was very into it a few years ago. I played a lot on Pokémon Showdown, and occasionally in-game. I'm not the best at breeding for IVs and stuff, so Showdown was much easier for me. I haven't played in probably 2 years because one day ALL my teams on Showdown got mysteriously deleted and I didn't have them backed up anywhere. That kinda killed my interest because I was uninspired to recreate them/make new teams. I have been bingeing my favorite Poketuber and all their Showdown content recently and I kinda want to get back into it now.

    For me, I always liked playing with silly gimmicks, mostly ones I came up with myself and others stolen from other Youtubers. My teams were rarely viable, and I didn't care. I much preferred playing with my stupid little gimmicks over using the same copy-paste Smogon stuff. One of my favorite teams was an all Empoleon team and each one had a different set. One was choice specs, one was defensive, and so on.
     
    Nope. It's just not fun. I'm the same way when it comes to other games where you have to overthink all of your moves/team members to either win or compete against other players. I just like playing the way I want to. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
     
    i think the nuances of competitive battling is more of a time investment than i'm willing to put. for example, adjusting evs for certain use cases (like, for x pokemon to survive an attack from y pokemon, or to ensure a KO on z pokemon that they wouldn't have had otherwise). this doesn't mean i don't at least understand the fundamentals, because i do, but anything past that... eh. like, i understand tiers and all that, but don't really have the personal investment to learn more - like how to optimally teambuild, etc.
     
    Breeding competitive mons is a hobby for me for perfectionism's sake... but I absolutely cannot do actual competitive Wi-Fi battles with them. I'm not good at putting a team of 6 together and figuring out how to work them together, it's too much for my brain lol. That and competitive battles get really exhausting with all the switching. I'll just breed good mons and collect them, good enough for me 👍
     
    It seems that many people here dislike competitive Pokémon because it takes a long time to raise a "perfect" competitive Pokémon. However, what if the developers made it easier to raise competitive Pokémon? Would anybody be willing to try it out then?
     
    No, I'm far more interested in the "travel everywhere and collect them all" aspect. An exception is I did find the battle frontier back in emerald and platinum really fun with the different facilities that were available.
     
    RadEmpoleon said:
    I was very into it a few years ago. I played a lot on Pokémon Showdown, and occasionally in-game. I'm not the best at breeding for IVs and stuff, so Showdown was much easier for me. I haven't played in probably 2 years because one day ALL my teams on Showdown got mysteriously deleted and I didn't have them backed up anywhere. That kinda killed my interest because I was uninspired to recreate them/make new teams. I have been bingeing my favorite Poketuber and all their Showdown content recently and I kinda want to get back into it now.

    For me, I always liked playing with silly gimmicks, mostly ones I came up with myself and others stolen from other Youtubers. My teams were rarely viable, and I didn't care. I much preferred playing with my stupid little gimmicks over using the same copy-paste Smogon stuff. One of my favorite teams was an all Empoleon team and each one had a different set. One was choice specs, one was defensive, and so on.
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    Interesting. Did you ever find yourself getting back into it?
     
    For a long time I was a casual battling with peers in the playground, never taking the game too seriously. Around the time of Black 2 dropped I really wanted to try competitive. In X it was really easy to have the competitive spirit thanks to EV training and online battles made simple to start with the push of a button. Although, the problem with competitive is that it slowly killed my joy for pokemon. I learned rather quickly that certain sets are not fun to fight against at all, and unless you invest countless hours in developing strategies and raising pokemon it is just too much. I was entering junior year of high school at this time so I spent far less time playing as I got busier. Pokemon Showdown was also too toxic for my liking, and that didn't help revitalize my interest in competitive. Now that I'm older I do have a bit of competitive spirit, but only for PVE rather than PVP. I'll just stick with my rom hacks.
     
    RadEmpoleon said:
    I'd love to get back into it, but I'm a bit behind on the meta (basically gen 8 and onward) because I haven't played those games yet.
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    It's nice to hear that other people on this forum are nonetheless interested in it. The thing about gen 9's meta is that it isn't hard to understand, especially considering that only 39% of all Pokémon are in this game.
     
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