Wow ur cool. cloning is for lazy cheating punks. who cant take the challenge of a game most of us have been playing since we were 7 or 8 years old
Let's see.... umm, the main goal of the game is..... oh yeah, completing the pokedex. Now, pop-quiz!
The pokedex is completed:
A. By catching many different pokemon!
or
B. By having the same pokemon lots of different times!
Time's up, it's A. And, erm... I have no intention of using clones in the gym/indigo/whatever challenge. There are plenty of cloners is the trade shops on this very site, go flame them, not us.
In fact... none of us even said why we want to clone, or for that matter, if we did. Maybe we just have an interest in finding glitches? Point is, you don't know.
Trading is meant to sacrifice a Pokémon to gain a Pokémon lol... You're not supposed to gain twice. It defeats the purpose.
I've never cloned; if I get a 31/31/31/31/31/31 Pokémon (or something similarily awesome), and I decide to trade it, it's gone. For good. That's how it works.
Cloning can also be useful if you're in a circle of friends, and one's going up to, say, Montana during a pokemon event. Obviously he can't nab multiple event pokemon for his friends who couldn't make it without their game cartridges.... so he could bring those or clone the pokemon.
And then there's the thing about rare pokemon. In a game like that, I would much rather clone a mareep instead of going out and searching for hours because it's rare.* There's taking the game out of the game, there is the people who'd ruin the game by automatically achieving a team comprised of the same level 100's and ruin the fun, but cloning for something like that is just easier. And it doesn't really take the fun out of it, just the boring, mindless searching, I mean, it's not like you're going to miss fun battles, you're merely missing moving the D-Pad a bunch of times and learning how to hit "Run" before you even see it. Or if you have a pokemon you could easily just go out and catch, cloning's faster if you're about to trade the pokemon. It just makes so many thing simpler, and isn't necessarily as bad as people say.
*Mareep as a rare pokemon was merely an example, not meant to suggest Mereep is/isn't rare.