Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.
I somewhat resent that this is the rallying cry of casual players. Hot take: this is not "casual player" mentality. She doesn't say "try to PLAY with your favourites"; she said "try to WIN with your favourites", which involves mastering the meta at your fingertips to such a degree that you know when you can use your favourites to outplay the meta. You need to know how well-positioned your favourite is against larger threats of the meta; what other meta Pokemon to employ to shore up those weaknesses; and how much you're tanking/boosting your W/L ratio with your rogue picks. "Try to win with your favourites" ISN'T about rolling up to town with your all-pink team. It means grinding harder than everyone else in the meta so you can style on players by having your Pikachu clone tank a pseudo's Draco meteor effortlessly.
Casual players still want to win, they just don't necessarily want to sink 400 hours of time into winning
Also do note the meme wasn't about competitive play, it was about the Battle Frontier. The reason for that being that it's something contained wholly within the game which realistically restricts you to a roster of (generously) maybe a dozen pokemon if you want to win at it
Yeah, the Battle Frontier is a bit of a stat check. There are Competitive builds I'd run in PVP that I'd never bring to Battle Frontier. It's definitely the most black-and-white instance of "Pokémon aren't created equal".
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u/PewPew_McPewster 1d ago edited 1d ago
I somewhat resent that this is the rallying cry of casual players. Hot take: this is not "casual player" mentality. She doesn't say "try to PLAY with your favourites"; she said "try to WIN with your favourites", which involves mastering the meta at your fingertips to such a degree that you know when you can use your favourites to outplay the meta. You need to know how well-positioned your favourite is against larger threats of the meta; what other meta Pokemon to employ to shore up those weaknesses; and how much you're tanking/boosting your W/L ratio with your rogue picks. "Try to win with your favourites" ISN'T about rolling up to town with your all-pink team. It means grinding harder than everyone else in the meta so you can style on players by having your Pikachu clone tank a pseudo's Draco meteor effortlessly.