Casual or Serious?

[Archaic]

Quick poll here. Would you consider yourself someone who would battle online on a casual basis, or someone who'd be a serious competitive battler?

 

[Pie]

I fall in the middle, maybe with a casual lean. I start battles for purely casual reasons, and when I'm actually battling I take it seriously - though I still try to have fun with it.

 

[Coffee]

Casual, I don't like worrying that my Salamence is -1 Def stat that is needed and therefore useless.

 

[paperfairy]

As of now I'm casual because I'm not good at ADV, but I fully plan to become a serious battler when D/P gets into my hands.

 

[Lil Brother]

I'm casual for even trying to learn how to be a serious battler would make me head a-splode. I'm also planning on having Chatot be on my team, so yeah, casual.

Battling is fun, though, so I'll probably be fighting on Battle Revolution with random people (you can do that, right?) and anyone that wants to.

 

[paperfairy]

Yes, there is a random battle mode where it just randomly finds another player that is using the feature.

Serious battling isn't all that complicated. Just takes some dedication. I learned the basics in like... a day. Everything else (your skill) comes naturally.

 

[Habunake]

Banana.

I only have the basic understanding of Potassium, and I don't EV plant my crop either. However, I also suck at fertiziling the crop as well, which leads to it tasting pretty sour.

Oh, and I'm like the most Casual Player ever. XD

 

[paperfairy]

....What, so Pokémon are Bananas now?

 

[Kasumi]

Banana.

 

[Joey]

Very casual. The game stops being fun for me if I have to start bothering with stats and training stronger pokemon that I may not actually like. So I stick to training what I like even if it involves a level 100 bagon.

 

[Doctor Oak]

Casual, because the competetive nature of Pokemon brings out the most dick-headliness factions within our community and I really don't ever intend to be a part of that.

 

[DawnFanBoy]

Casual for now, Just because its going to take months to become Serious.

 

[paperfairy]

Casual, because the competetive nature of Pokemon brings out the most dick-headliness factions within our community and I really don't ever intend to be a part of that.

Ugh, that annoys the shit out of me.

 

[Jukain]

Casual. I care nothing of stats, but I am very selective about which attack I use. Not to the point that the competive people are. I just cover my weaknesses if I can, put in a few extra attacks in order to cover as many types as I can, and if I have a poke that can learn a sleep-inducing move, I will have one of those, too.

 

[paperfairy]

A question for the casual players;

Why does everyone claim that serious play is never fun? (ignoring the dickhead battlers) Yeah, it's a bit of extra work, but it's still fun. People claim that seriously battles play to win, which for some of us like me, it isn't. I play to have fun; winning just makes it that much more fun. ^_^

 

[Jukain]

Strategy is lost on me. I don't have the mind for it. I don't see any great need to be that picky about my pokemon and the moves they can learn. If it makes them happy, then good for them, but I just can't agree with their methods, no matter how effective they are.

 

[Jeff]

Casual, I've never battled online so there's no way I'll go into it being serious and expecting to win. Nice to see there are plenty of other casual battlers here.

 

[Nando]

Serious to a degree.

 

[paperfairy]

*high fives Butler*

 

[Nando]

To elaborate, I agree with Oak that the factions are annoying---but my Wifi dream is to help create something where everyone can make accomplishments to be proud of. That's why I started the Go-Rock Frontier.