Verrik said:
Well, that one Poketuber, Verlisify, doesn't seem too happy about this new feature. He seems to think it's the worst thing ever. Which, considering I don't play Pokemon competitively, could be right for all I know.
Anyone here play competitive Pokemon think this is a bad thing? I mean, it sounds good to me, I imagine more people will be able to join in on the competitive fun this way.
Eh... His arguments have a lot of holes.
Let's see a few of the points he made:
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"hacking a Pokemon is easier than Hyper training. So everyone will hack"..
I have no idea what his point is there. Hacking a Pokemon is also easier than breeding.
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"They've given the finger to legitimate players who spent hundreds of hours breeding"..
He's basically angry that it's easier. The competitive scene was pretty constrained because people would have to build up a crap ton of bank boxes with Pokemon simply to breed perfects. But now? You literally just need some dittos of various natures, and Ralts of various natures with Synchronize.
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"Also, those who spent all that time doing soft resets"
The process to acquiring legendary Pokemon was previously even harder than getting perfect egg Pokemon. For a perfect IV legendary, you'd literally have to:
1. have a Pokemon with Synchronize and the correct nature in your party
2. find the Pokemon
3. go online and check the Pokemon's perfect stats at the level it's encountered
4. catch it
5. check the stats
6. if they're not perfect? You reset your game and repeat steps 3-5 again
Now, all you need to do is have a Pokemon with Synchronize, catch the Pokemon, and then use a bottlecap. No soft resets required.
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"Only 7th generation Pokemon are legal"..
He's angry that 6th gen Pokemon aren't legal in 7th gen competitive scene. A bit of a moot point, considering that 5th gen Pokemon weren't legal in 6th gen. Honestly, this has nothing to do with Hyper Training, but he whined about that too.
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"In the time it takes to level a Pokemon to 100, you could fully IV breed a Pokemon, so it's making everything take longer"
Now he's contradicting himself and saying that the new system takes longer. Even if it's true, it'll still possible to IV breed Pokemon. They haven't announced any changes to breeding.
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"It makes cheaters harder to catch"
His argument here is that since IV training is drastically easier, that it makes it harder to detect cheaters who hack themselves perfect Pokemon. He technically has a point here, but if regular training takes hardly any time, then who cares if someone took time to hack a legal, perfect Pokemon. All 31 IV Pokemon stats are the same, so it's still easy to detect hacked Pokemon if they don't have the correct stats.
TL;DR: Getting perfect Pokemon is easy now. He's using the logic that "It was difficult in the past, so therefor, it should ALWAYS be difficult".
He also sees it as "wasting the hundreds of hours invested by competitive players", which is false. Those hundreds of hours were required for all competitive Pokemon up until now.