They seem most angry at the idea that taking away cheating means they’d have to invest time to build a winning team. And it’s like...yeah...no shit.

Yeah, sorry I was more agreeing with what you’re saying. If the rules of the contest are X you get banned for X.

Okay, there you go. The rules are you grow your own Pokemon. Seems pretty straightforward.

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…

This comments section is a laugh.

Cheating would be manipulating the RNG seed so your Fissure always hits.

That may be what you think high level competition is about but clearly The Pokemon Company disagrees with you. For better or worse, they decide what it being tested by the competition and for them, “being able to raise your own Pokemon” is apparently an integral part of it.

this is only eliminating grind that has nothing to do with the competition.

You may not see it as cheating, but its against the rules the players agreed to so its absolutely cheating. If they don’t like playing by the rules, they can find another game to play.

The rules say people arent allowed to do this, so when they do this they are cheating.

I get that it’s a side story, but it still feels like too soon to bring Kiryu back. Let Ichiban have a little longer in the spotlight before bringing the dragon of dojima out of retirement.

It does not take thousands of hours to get EVs. You can literally just buy items in Levincia that let you boost your mon’s EVs in any way you choose. Nobody is grinding EVs anymore.

I’m really not a fan of influencer culture.

Almost. Kirlia’s a Gen 3 Pokemon from Ruby/Sapphire.

kirlia is gen 3

Can’t believe how bad this company is run honestly. I was addicted to PoGo for years. Finally gave up when they decided they are completely anti-consumer and began rolling back all the changes, and doubled down on screwing players by increasing the costs of everything in the game. Its sad given how much time and…

It is actually pretty wild. I have to imagine that the money they’re making selling location data just isn’t hitting when everyone was remote raiding. I think they’re trying to bundle location data from multiple users who raid together, so that they can get more money from that, but it’s probably not doing the dang…

I still play regularly and I have to say 2020-21 was a peak time to be a player from all the changes they made. I progressed so much during that period but now it’s slowed down since they got rid of the fixes. I actually paid for the Go Fest stuff during those years and had a great time. Now 2 years later I haven’t…

I need someone to rip this thing apart and see what’s driving it. Bet it would run DOOM like a champ in blocky black and white.

Everyone here talking about Photoshop, I’m just petty angry about the beard. Shave your damn face, you’re Superman!