>>59548133
shiny charm so you can hunt for differently colored ones.

Train them, play with bros using different sets.
We even do local tournaments with different rulesets every week.

>>59548133
in older games they were distributed in a way that allows you to touch base with just about every mechanic in the game, making it a manageable goal that lets you experience everything the game has to offer. in the newer games you can just get like 90% of them in the first few hours except for the ones with a WACKKKKY evolution method so in that case i dont know

So you're able to post on /vp/ without getting banned

>>59548133
>What do you plan on doing with 1000+ different pokemon once you actually have them?
One, I already have them, and if you're posting here I genuinely hope you have them all too. Two, once you have them you're supposed to autistically arrange them in your boxes.

>>59548133
mastering their strategies so that I can win against any opponent with any team

fuck em all

>>59548314
pokemon battling is 75% RNG, there is no mastering anything.

>>59548133
if you buy into the narrative, it’s to explore and catalog things.


There’s only ever 100-200 pokemon max that anyone will actually give a crap about on a practical level. I don’t expect anyone is supposed to genuinely keep and care for every single pokemon they caught to fill the dex, and most pokemon only exist for that anyway, dex filler (regional variations on dex filler for worldbuilding purposes, and maybe autism bait so people with niche interests have a pokemon they alone obsess over).