No, the feature could just be turned on for a single Pokemon in the party, it won't have anything to do with the slot of the party as long as the Pokemon is occupying at least one of the slots. They would need to turn it on manually for it to happen anyways.
I never said anything about it being a particular party slot. What I'm saying is that if the Pokemon chosen as a follower is the partner Pokemon that gets stolen, people would just stick a Pokemon they didn't like in that slot to spare their others.
But willing to fight to consistently lose money, or have job where you have to lose a battle give away a badge.
Money and Pokemon are pretty different things. There's a reason why people will pay money for goods and services but won't trade their pets for them.
It's not like it was their own personal badge? We know for a fact that gym leaders have several copies.
Oh yeah, I should mention. My personal reasoning to why I believe people would take to this would be the same reason why people take nuzlocke challenges for real. You know the challenge that people treat fainted pokemon like they died. But they enjoy the challenge.
Yes, but like I said before-just because some people enjoy it doesn't mean it should be applied everywhere. Team Reverse could just open up a battle facility if it was just about wanting to enjoy a challenge.
I don't think people would like to reset their game each time they lost (which, according to the leak, would make it happen pretty frequently).
Of course not everyone will enjoy but some still would. I highly doubt an evil team would be allowed to start a battle facility as well.
Don't you think that some would be a pretty small fraction of the player base? Also, the battle facility doesn't have to be legal. It could be a Fight Club kind of thing.
But the claim isn't that only some people did it-it's that everyone did it, and Team Reverse is trying to make everyone do it again.
They weren't always an evil team-why not create the facility before trying out the evil team plan?
Even a minority can have a following. And that following can potentially grow if other agree with their ideals.
And that brings us back to the earlier issue-how are they getting anybody on board with the idea? The claim is that it was believed that if you lost, you were unworthy of your partner. How can there be a large group of people that believe that if you fail once then you're unworthy of trying again? And how do they expect to convince everyone else of the same?
