Wait what? Competitive battlers have been battling since the days of R/B/Y and having fun with it. I used to battle competitively since I played Blue, and didn't fully get into it until G/S/C. Sure, those I battled against didn't use EV training, but we still had fun doing it.
So yeah, people have fun playing video games in their own way.
As for anything I would get rid of in Pokemon: trade evolutions. While Nintendo apparently likes to think that Pokemon players are social, some of us were stuck without anyone to trade with for years. I could never complete my Pokedex without cheating in Blue because of the lack of people to trade with. And that annoyed me more than the version exclusives, because that was understandable.
What?
I was saying competitive battling and EV were two separate things.......
The person disagreeing with me said those who EV train liked doing it, then brought up how competitive battlers battle because they have fun battling.
I just thought that competitive battling had nothing to do with EVs, like you said, you can have fun competitive battling without EVs.
when you surf you pokemon turns into a blob of blue,i mean come on you can have them follow but not be surfed on?
i agree, but then, imagine you had a magikarp or a crabby, imagin how small they would be
I'd get rid of master balls. It just ruins the fun out of catching pokemon. like the legendary pokemon for example. Normally it would take a lot of effort trying to capture one with a normal pokeball. But with a master ball you can just catch it without having to do anything. A bunch of lazies added the master ball feature, i think we should take the time to catch the pokemon on our own! Maybe we should get rid of the legendary pokemon to? :] I hate the legendary pokemon as i never use them, they are weak, and you cant use them in the battle frontier. there only good for the story line in my opinion.
I can tell you in a heartbeat.
EVs, IVs, stat values--they were definitely cool when nobody knew about them, but now that everybody knows about them, competitive battles aren't fun anymore. What's the point of EV training? Wasn't it more fun blindly training on any pokemon you encounter? I personally find that EVs and IVs suck all the fun out of competitive battles, because, well, I think I already said that I don't find it fun to grind on a single type of pokemon. That's abusing EVs--another thing I don't like about it that most pokemon have absurd stat values because of them. I would do anything for Gamefreak to decide to drop EVs, or better, somehow find a way to hide the fact EVs are still in the game, so nobody would notice--I don't know how though.