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What's an aspect of the games that you've always found to be difficult or challenging?
Having the patience to "catch 'em all" I suppose. Except for in the beginning I haven't found Pokemon challenging at all, but I'm not a very patient person by nature, and once I've finished the story of a game I tend to move immediately on to the next one unless the postgame is compelling enough to keep me playing. Pokemon's postgame has never been that compelling, so sticking with it to finish the dex has always been a challenge...one I've not always risen to.
You're right >_< It takes a lot of time and patience. The hardest time I've always had with completing the Dex is getting all the event Pokemon--if you miss out on one your only option is to either trade for it, or wait for the next event, and who knows when that will be -_-
Honestly, not much in Pokemon seems challenging anymore, so I'll go with something that is more of a psychological barrier for me rather than actually difficult. I guess the thing that is probably the most "challenging" (and frustrating) for me is settling on a starter with the stats (and nature, from gen III onward) that I'm happy with. While I didn't originally worry about this, it now eats up far more of my time than it should, to the point where I dread the very start of the game. I also hate doing that for legendaries or events.
In games that have them, the battle facilities can be challenging (and frustrating, when it seems like luck just won't go your way and you have to start all over again).
I've never paid a whole lot of attention to stats outside of competitive play, but it is a little tough that IVs and natures are pretty much random, so it's tough getting the ones you want. There's always breeding though, right? c: (which unfortunately is still a little random)
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yes, I can't count how many times I've gone through one of the battle facilities and got a good streak going, only for it to be broken by one unlucky turn of events :( It takes so much time to progress through them, so it stinks when you have to start from scratch.
What's an aspect of the games that you've always found to be difficult or challenging?
To me, Battle facilities are rather challenging, you can't just all-out offense and you have to balance out with perfect EV/IV and egg moves if you want to win win and partners are not always reliable option and depended on. Completing pokedex have it's pros and cons such case get version exclusives mons from another version may required in order to complete the pokedex and it is fun to get different forme and shiny.
Yea, you've got to play a little smarter in the battle facilities--the all-out offensive strategy only seems to work during the main playthrough xD
For me, I'd say the toughest things about the games are completing the Pokedex, and breeding. Both take a lot of time and patience. I spend a lot of time breeding for a competitive team, and it takes a lot of attempts to get the perfect IV'd Pokemon. I'm attempting to complete the Pokedex currently in Omega Ruby, and it's a pretty slow process once you've caught all the Pokemon there are to catch. Now I just need to evolve a bunch of them, trade for the version exclusives, and get ahold of some of the events that I missed out on -_-
