I have been playing those games since I was 6, but I didn't know anything about IVs, EVs, Breeding, Stats. So I beat the Sword Storyline and now I got no clue as to what to do to get some more replay value?
How the fuck do you play this?
yeah most battles end so quickly how are you supposed to theorycraft an effective team?
yeah, why bother when I'm type effective + stab and have a team member for every opposing type, and can take down anything (except gyms, but they're not much worse) in 1-2 hits
It also takes like 20 hours of grinding to breed a competitive pokemon between egg moves, IV breeding, EV training, and actually leveling the thing.
Which you can end up doing for a change that'd be as simple as swapping some cards around in a CCG, the closest alternative game format.
Do the nuzlocke challenge, it's the best way to play. It forces you to have non-op pokemon in your team and brings risk and tension. Obviously you need to be honest. IV, EV and breeding is boring nerd grind shit, unless you want to compete in MP.
"The Nuzlocke Challenge has only two rules that the player must follow. These are referred to as the "core" rules, and are as follows:
Any Pokémon that faints is considered dead, and must be released or put in the Pokémon Storage System permanently (or may be migrated or transferred with Poké Transfer, as long as the Pokémon is never able to be used again during this run). The player may only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area, and none else. If the first Pokémon encountered faints or flees, there are no second chances. If the first encounter in the area is a double battle, the player is free to choose which of the two Pokémon they would like to catch but may only catch one of them. This restriction does not apply to Pokémon able to be captured during static encounters, nor to Shiny Pokémon."It's good if you're being challenged, but that's become an impossible feat in the past couple of releases
Honestly: If you're not doing PvP, don't worry about Individual Values/Effort Values. It's pure wank for the sake of wank.
At least they have the EV training missions in Sw/Sh so you can just go to bed and wake up with a few mons fully trained in a stat when you wake up
Step 1: Walk around
Step 2: Press A twice, wait, press A two more times
win
