I know that IV breeding / chain egg moves were an unreasonable timesink just in order to gain entry to the competitive side of the game, but there's got to be a middle ground between hatching hundreds of eggs, and just having to capture any Pokemon with the correct name and being able to trick them out however you want. I hardly feel like I am "raising" my own unique Pokemon any more, I'm just catching 1 to unlock all possible versions of it for battling
>>59206856Yeah they sold it as getting to use the pokemans you actually caught and raised but you might as well just play pokemon showdown with how it ended up being
>>59206856RNG manipulation, my dude. You research your target, track it down, and then catch it.