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Pokemon the video game is NOT a pay to win game or gambling game. Everyone is on fair grounds.

The strategy is surprisingly deep. See one discussion thread from Smogon: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ss-ou-metagame-discuss...

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The strategy only gets deep towards the endgame - for the first 30 hours you can literally just keep pressing A at every single encounter and win majority of the time. There's zero reason to use any status effects against AI because it's so shallow and if you never switch Pokémon you will end up massively overleveled for everything the game throws at you before the elite four.

Yes I am aware that the latest games in the franchise attempt to address this somewhat - but pick any Pokémon game from the last 20 years and it will be true 99% of the time.

Again, we're talking about pokemon battles against other players (e.g. pokemon showdown), not the story mode of the games.

I thought this discussion was about games you play against other people ? Pokemon battles against anyone who know basic strategies are hard as hell

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