nintendo

Yes, abilities don’t matter if you never evolve the thing to acquire them or encounter them in battles

I pick the cool pokemon that look cool

this guy is like

I pick the coolest sounding moves

and just slam the coolest pokemon into the other pokemon

I pick the move that has the highest power value without looking like it is shit for accuracy or effects

Morpeko was used in a boss fight, both legendary dogs you either catch or fight with their special abilities

yeah i also only pick pokemon i like the design of

and he wins b/c the game is easy

bopit playing optimal is boring as shit

Duraludon is also a boss fight

dialga's opinions are equally bad

Playing optimal is fun without items and if you have battle style on set

playing optimal is fine if it's not an easy as fuck kids game

nuzlocks or other handicaps can make playing optimal fun

not that im any good at it

Calyrex, urahifu, the new regis, sandaconda

I like collecting the wacky animals and then seeing my total number of wacky animals go up

I will play optimally in the easy as fuck kids game and then compplain that it is too easy

fight me

Nuzlockes are meh without prior knowledge

nuzlock always felt like a shit difficulty to me

Yes, I play this new game with new things but limit myself to the first encounter every route

If pokemon wanted to be a good game gameplay wise, all battles would be double battles

thats the first step

Oh look, I got a fucking pidgey which is in every game

which is why the best pokemon game was only double battles

Pika has a very weird sense of elitism

I think double battles have so many more options for difficulty and strategy!

spam earthquake and surf

so much strategy

It’s got merit

Shut up bopit

Not even true

pokemon inheritly has a problem with everything being too squishy imo

Surf and earthquake fuck up your teammate too

You think that?

being able to consistantly ohko almost everything with a decent attacker

feels like a flaw

Singles is notorious for having unbreakable stall teams

that wouldn't happen if you played less optimally bopit

you are doing exactly what you said you'd do

I'm not talking about competative

competative pkmn is actually good

AI is harder to play around in doubles

AI does some wild shit if you give it more options

I'm talking about the main game content

All they have to do is give npcs better AI

Fuckin pixelmon already did it

I'm sure that would help