>Little Timmy saw a video of Mega Greninja and begs his mom to buy him an online subscription>Little Timmy faces off against try hard manchildren and doesn't meet the requirements before the season is over>Little Timmy starts crying and his mum doesn't think Pokémon is a good series for him anymoreI cannot imagine this not backfiring immensely. Sure the required rankings will probably be quite low since this is a children's franchise after all, but the biggest losers will be the actual target audience. This is completely different than Raids, which are co-op and being paired with decent players is a plus, this is PvP and the youngest players are just fucked.
>>58241477>Sure the required rankings will probably be quite low since this is a children's franchiseWell exactly, they're not gonna let 10 year olds go in with their Mega Lucario against a 28 year old with his transferred max IV team from Scarlet are they...It'll be "Well done you just beat this random girl's Flabébé here have a stone".
>>58241477>”Surely this will backfire”>Pokefags buy it anyways>GameFreak learns their lesson and makes even greedier decisions>”Surely this will backfire”>Pokefags buy it anyways>GameFreak learns their lesson and makes even greedier decisions>”Surely this will backfire”>Pokefags buy it anyways>GameFreak learns their lesson and makes even greedier decisionsAnd so on.
>flygonite>only obtainable by finishing top 100 in the season's rankingsGod imagine the asshurt this would cause
>>58241477They'll give it away for free as soon as the next season starts and the next starter becomes the 'only available to cool kids' mon
>>58241498Fagon is never getting a mega anyways.
>>58241477It is a sucky decision, but it probably will just be like the Shiny Legendaries, a Participation Trophy, do 3-5 Battles to get placed on the chart, win-or lose and you get it at the end of the format regardless of placement, and you'll be ranked with NoBall other shitters and not as bad as you think.The actual issue is that it means this shit won't be available on replays of the game and when the service shits down. So Cheat Chads win again.
>literally just regular Greninja but flying upside down and with an even worse color scheme than the originalThis is the worst mega by far
>>58241477The battle pass will have crap like logging in and beating event piss easy npcsYou must be crazy to assume GF has any plans to make something that requires a challenge
>>58241477>Little timmy Little timmy is too busy watching TikTok and Brainrot meme on his phone to care about PokemonPic related is Pokemon's actual audience
>>58241659This, they're just testing the waters for now. Gen 10 is when we see things get locked behind an actual Premium Battle Pass and expect you to do things like rack up win streaks in PVP for the points necessary to unlock things.
>>58241477They'll just have you battling bots for the first few ranks, that'll solve it :^)
>>58241477Between this and what they're doing with pokemon home transferrals for Z-A, and the constant autistic patent spam I can't help but wonder if some senile and irate japanese man is intentionally killing Pokémon.
>>58241477This mega is so shit, bringing back Megas was a mistake
>>58241477>Sure the required rankings will probably be quite low since this is a children's franchise after all,You sure? Some of the raids in the last few games to get exclusive stuff were fairly intense post game content.
>>58241715Not like it happened with USUM and the Battle thingy vs. NPCs where you had to recruit other players but a middle point would "fine"
