Caliostro said:
Dreiko said:
So chess or any card game in general is something nobody can be serious about?
Gotta inform all those people who actually are serious about those things, quick, run!
In chess both players have 16 pieces, and a 64 square board, with very specific movement constraints for each piece.
In card games, the ones taken seriously that I can remember at least, the players hands aren't showing.
Pokemon is like a chess match with 2 lanes and 1 queen each, or a poker game where everyone's hands are showing. It's not "strategy", it's memorizing a spread sheet.
Here's what you're failing to realize, in Pokemon the strategy happens as you choose the team you'll be using. Battles are a segment of the pokemon game, not it's entirety.
There's 600+ pokemon and each can learn around 40 moves, which pokemon, with which moves, with which other pokemon, which which other moves etc. etc. is the best combination for your team is a purely strategical aspect of the game and how your team is equipped to deal with every threat is purely a matter of strategy as there are many ways of dealing with something.
If you think everyone just picks any 6 buggers cause they like them and then try to shallowly guess their way into victory you're sorely mistaken I'm afraid.