Explain to me why the fuck this franchise is popular. Sure, I

>>386631147

Play competitive multiplayer. It's like a mix of chess and rock-paper-scissors.

>>386631230
Nah, I ain't playing this franchise ever again unless fucking chink who created this game returns me my 25 hours of life, but eh, I could see how this could work.

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>>386631230
Don't drag the name of chess through the dirt just to make a comparison
It's a mix of grinding, collecting, and pic related at best, all in a neat colorful package.

>>386631461

I compared it to chess because predicting your opponent's actions is an integral part of the game.

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It appeals to my sense of adventure.
Art
Music
Nostalgia
The multiplayer if so fucking deep but most people write it off as rock paper scissors when scissors can beat rock and lose to paper.

>>386631147
Nostalgia

>>386631230
>play competitive

hell no, unless you wanna spend days beredning a genetic master race mon, than train it up and learn all the moves it needs, its not Worth it.

>>386631230
More like "pick the top tier teams and builds or you lose"

>>386631147
Nostalgia, and a lack of other good monster-raising RPGs to compete with.
For whatever reason, the series does produce good girls. Nobody is quite sure how.

>>386631461
That image implies balance, anon.

Playing Pokémon games from start to credits is the worst part of the games.Catching them all, PvP and Battle Frontier stuff are the real deal.

>>386632096

ADHD detected. Building a team takes a couple hours.

>>386632125

Scrub detected. The "top tier teams" consist of a mix of 30+ Pokemon.

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>>386632437
>30+pokemons out of 800+ are viable
Great game

>>386632437
They'll never be as good as a Eugenics produced perfect Pokemon though.

>>386632574

Not all of them are meant to be viable. It's a monster collecting game. Some monsters are intended to be better than others.

>>386632603

Like I said. It only takes a couple hours to get a team of 5 IV Pokemon with a full run of EVs. The only hard part is getting egg moves from across generations but that's usually easily accomplished in any trade group.

Fun games
Gen 5 was god tier

>>386632574
>30+pokemons out of 800+ are viable
Only if you're a scrub who can't into making his own strategy
Or a tryhard esports fag

>>386632914
No, those 30 or so literally outcompete everything else in every category. You can try to use your own, totally original memes, but ultimately these are purely autistic, since they are objectively worse than the 30 or so topping the meta. Good players don't use autistic shit.
The only reason any variety comes about is when an imbalance occurs due to tourney banlists.
>Inb4 muh pachirisu
It served a niche that developed as a result of, you guessed it, the banlist of that tournament. In any other format, it would not have been used.

>>386632603
>>386632096
Just inject, lol

>>386631147
Pikachu a cute.