Are you a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

[terminallyCapricious]

Re: Are your a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

I quit competitive after what Platinum did to the meta-game. Hopefully HG and SS can fix that with move tutors.

But I'll always enjoy Pokemon games, so both : )

 

[KMT]

Re: Are your a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

Highly casual, honestly

 

[kaijin2k3]

Re: Are your a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

Mostly casual =3 I only really EV train, and I tend to go with the pokemon I like based on their pokedex description, and of course, my favorites =)

 

[Falconwing]

Re: Are your a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

I just play. I think I can count the number of times I've faced a living person on one hand.

 

[Quetsol Melt]

Re: Are your a Casual or Competitive Pokemon Player?

I'm very much a casual player. Though I will say I like my Pokémon to have natures they can benefit from.

 

[Boreal]

I played competitive for a few months when I had friends who did, but without them I won't do anything more than use a simulator because the reward isn't worth the effort. Other games I dabble in such as MOBAs have more speed and action as they aren't turn-based, and games like chess are more social, have more history, and are a better brain workout.

 

[PikeQueenLucy]

I am a very, very casual player. I've had online battles with friends in the past, but only with my in-game teams for fun. I don't know a thing about EV training, unfortunately.

I do enjoy playing Pokemon for the adventure aspect. Not ashamed to say it.

 

[Shiny Kamui]

i'm casual all the way! and people better not tell me that makes me less of a gamer because i like playing the game for the story, adventure and my favorite pokemon that pick..based on cuteness..since i'm just playing in game casually, i don't need to make a big fuss over picking pokemon based on strength...i'm just fine getting along with pokemon that i find cute..
right now i'm replaying heart gold with an all eeveelution team! (menus the ice one)
why?
because i can!!! >:3

 

[Typhlosionisafirebadger]

To be perfectly honest, I don't really know

I got back into the games recently (borrowed Platinum, played both gen v games) and begun learning about natures and all that stuff

I like battling online and everything even if i got smashed a few times (Typhlosion/Ninetales/ENtei Eruption is INSANE) but I wouldn't say i'm super competitive since the tier rankings escape me and i battle with pokemon that range from UU/RU to OU

 

[Master Matoya]

Since I lack the patience at times, I much prefer to be casual.

 

[Titania]

I've always been a casual player until now. :3

I do pay attention to type and move's effectiveness, but I don't really strict about EV, IV or natures.
I just pick my favorite Pokemon and play with them >w<

 

[Zeb]

I was a casual player until I found out about the competitive side a few years back, then I was more of a competitive player for a year or two and now I'm back to being casual again. I still take an interest in the competitive side of things from time to time, but I don't really care about it anymore. I guess interests can change. Right now I'm just happy playing casually and probably won't ever go back to participating in the competitive side.

 

[Dragonfyre]

If by "competitive player", you mean someone who participates in official Nintendo events and regularly has actual DS battles, then no, I'm not a competitive player. As someone who only has one Pokémon-playing friend, the only way I could get in touch with enough Pokémon players for the environment to be truly stimulating is through a Pokémon League or other Play! Pokémon event, and I can never seem to find the time to get to one of those.

However, I do EV train, and I do care about Natures and IVs (actually, I'm currently figuring out RNG manipulation). My current roster doesn't have much to it, admittedly, but only because I don't want to start building my team until I find its performance on the simulators satisfactory. I do play quite a lot on simulators, and once I feel that I am ready, I do plan to eventually participate in Leagues.

That seems a long way off, though, since I'm still absolutely terrible.

So I guess I'm...not much of a competitive player yet, but definitely not casual either. Whatever that is.

 

[UnovaCastaway]

I'm very casual. I'm still learning the ropes about EV training. One of my problems is that I don't have time to significantly train.

Eventually, I'd like to try more hardcore battling, but it will take me a while.

 

[Mielikki]

I like being casual, because I would get bored while breeding perfect nature, IVs and taking care if EVs are distributed correctly.
Although I tend not to have team full of Poké with poor stats and like to have in my team also something more powerful, because I don't want my game to be extra challenging. On the other side, I also don't use legendaries anymore and usually not even pseudolegendaries.

And also I find hard to answer if I use my favourites or not, because if I used only favourites, my whole team would be burned/frozen very quickly. And then there are those, who I started to like after I added them to my team (because I wanted certain type or something)

 

[Winterdaze]

I went from being a casual player to competitive a couple of years ago. I'd play on simulators and I still have a lot of bred/EV'd Pokemon from those days where I'd play on Wifi.

For the last year or so I've been pretty much completely casual again. I go on PO/Showdown from time to time and occasionally catch up on what's happening in the meta, but I can never really stay interested in the competitive side of things anymore. I kind of wish that competitive battling was more accessible to the handhelds, it's a lot of time and effort for not a whole lot of reward the way things are now.

 

[Voltaire Magneton]

I'm pretty much casual, but I do mind EVs everytime I battle.

 

[boabiol]

I guess I am considered competitive since I still EV train, IV breed, or IV reset for all my pokemon, however I am not as competitve as I used to be. I still play on Pokemon Showdown and follow the metagame, but I am not as into it as I used to be. Lately, I have been getting into Nuzlocke challenges and speed runs in Pokemon games.

 

[Almonds]

I never thought about competitive playing until I got kicked at the PWT Champions for the fiftieth time - without even one win -.-

But excluding those non-main stuff to do, I don't care much about EVs and IVs

 

[Isaac Gravity]

I wouldn't call myself a Competitive Player per-say since I'm not too interested in entering player battles to meet the same 10-20 Pokemon and builds all the time. But when I play in-game I do build story/special facility parties under a competitive mindset (IVs, EVs, Natures, Move-sets + overall synergy, keeping note of base stats etc).

Meh, the game gives me the option to make the guys I like as strong as I can w/ challenges that test that so I take advantage of that is all.

So...that's like half-and-half right?