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Re: Soapbox: For A Jaded Pokémon Fan, Scarlet And Violet Is Exactly What I Need

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As someone who values the compatetive experiece, I've been able to look past bad stories and samey designs. The story is usually about 20-30 hours, but I can easily put over 10 times that into battling.

My "Jaded fan" traits come out in the form of fatigue from the absurd level of cheating that has been plaguing the franchise since Gen 6 or possibly earlier, SwSh tried their best to do ban waves and make training good teams easier, but it alwas felt like a waste when TPCi hired a well known scumbag for events. Then BDSP removed most of the quality of life, and PLA became the shortest game in the franchise abandoning peeps like me.

What Scarlet and Violet need most of all (in the context of competition) is to actually have integrity. Don't allow cheating in events (every player who won Worlds outside of Japan has been caught cheating), and add either add a report function for suspicious teams (6 perfect IV shinies with next to no playtime is always a giveaway, or all the names are discord links.) or actually make it so the same cheating engine from 2013 doesn't work i the new games.

This is especially a concern for Scarlet and Violet if the Tera types are anywhere near as scarce as Hidden Power types were.

Also can we remove IVs, or add a slider to the UI so we aren't expected to wastes dozens to hundreds of hours to get what we need. The cheaters are winning because of the massive advantage it provides.

Sorry for the rant, it was a very thought provoking article.

Re: Feature: Is Pokémon Unite Ready For Its Moment At The Pokémon World Championships?

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I would love for this to happen, but if they really want to maintain the audience they need to start listening a little better. Patches take far to long to happen and Slowbro has been completely unplayable since launch. They also need to separate solo/duo from 5 stack. The overall balance is usually fine bar the addition of temporarily OP characters lol.

It would also be nice if the team out out more communication.

Re: Best Mario Kart Games Of All Time

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@dartmonkey

Specifically the fact that since launch Pokémon Unite has added in the campaign that gives you 3 max level item enhancers. IMHO if a game gives you at least 1 character at a competitive level that shouldn’t be classified as P2W, but pay to expand.