This confirms that you have no idea how competitive Pokemon works. Generating pokemon makes it EASIER to try new strategies because you can make changes to your team in minutes instead of hours. This means teams are MORE creative.

If there was any level of skill or strategy to raising a Pokemon, then these bans would make sense. It is instead, a case where you simply pit your available time against rolling a series of random number generators to make them “fairly” vs skip all that shit to play the GAME part of the game, the “thinking up a good…

I think you’re thinking of Dead Island

This right here is the answer. Upload a team for a competition, allow the player to make any stat modifications that they want that will temporarily last the duration of the competition, and then lock the team in once the player has made their decisions. You simply need to have the Pokemon, Nature/Tera Type/etc.,…

This is “Volume 1".

The new games make it much, much easier to do. Sandwiches make it way faster to get eggs and hatch eggs. You can learn egg moves without having to actually be an egg, no items are gated behind BP, You can change your nature, get to level 100 in seconds, re-learn moves at no cost, and the game’s been throwing us six…

It’s more like disqualifying someone for buying strawberries at the store instead of growing them from seed, even though the competition is about baking and not gardening.

If the rules are that people need to grind in order to play competitively, those are really stupid rules.

I’m with a few of the others here. It’s against the rules, but as long as you aren’t surpassing the actual possible limits of what a Pokémon should be I find it hard to call it “cheating” specifically.

I’m sorry, but calling genning cheating is absurd and hilarious.

Is trivially simple to generate Pokémon that pass these and Nintendo’s checks. I have no idea why people insist on doing it so badly they don’t pass muster. 

Maybe they're the worst and that's why they are getting caught.

No way they re-release MGS4, there’s no fucking way.

IMHO the difference between Ragnarok and Love and Thunder is restraint. After Ragnarok, Taika was given carte blanche to do anything and everything. Clearly the Producers had a firm hand on him and people countering his impulses.

Case in point: Star Wars was crap until his wife edited the hell out of what Lucas gave…

I mean I sympathize with your friend and all, but “I’ve been SHADOWBANNED because the girls the app is showing me aren’t HOT ENOUGH” is like... very gross

So you talked to 5 men who whined that they weren’t seeing hot ladies often enough on their apps. Who made these children so entitled?

I’m with you.  If being a Senator comes with “authority” and “rights” but he prefers to be called coach, then we should honor his evident wishes and make him coach again.

In any compromise between good & evil, only evil benefits.

Kyrsten Sinema should shut the fuck up.

Any “tool” that allows one person to be an obstructionist asshole with precisely no meaningful way to end it or repercussions, is a tool that should be removed from the toolkit.