Genkai said
In Pokemon X, I never used the GTS or the training thing until very recently. I beat the game months ago but haven't picked it up in a long time (thanks Animal Crossing and Etrain Odyssey). So a few days ago, I decided to finally connect to the internet and give it a go. I did a few trades, did some battles and had a lot of fun. I have my pokemon near their max but I prefer to battle with everyone set to 50. *shrugs* I've done about 20 battles and won most of them. But what annoys me is when people use all legendary pokemon to steamroll me. I have no issues with losing. It comes down to luck and who has a good strategy, that's that. But I don't like using legendary pokemon, even if I catch them, they pretty much sit in my Box, unused. It's been this way since Gen 1, not sure why. Most people I've battled don't use them either, or if they do, it's one or two. That's cool with me. But what I think is a very dick move, is to challenge people with a team that is pretty powerful and aggressively so. Where is the fun in K.O'ing within five minutes of beginning? I don't mind losing, granted the fight is a fair one. What I do mind is when people are jerks and to me, building a team of super powered cheap thrills and then act like they're awesome. I dunno, it rubs me the wrong way. As a note, whether I win or lose in a battle, I do try to give the person a nice o-power for hatching or money-related, but when I battle dicks who just want an easy victory, I tend to keep any "prizes" I'd give away, to myself. So yeah, just something that's annoying and a bit pointless to me.
Man, the Pokemon wi-fi community is a joke.
...I need to utilize it in order to fill my dex, but it's still a joke. And in a number of ways, the choices made by some of the programmers at Gamefreak really don't help any.
I don't battle as much as I trade, but man is trading ridiculous. Firstly, the GTS. Everyone puts up trash and asks for some rare legendary or a level 100 or something. Want a laugh? Search for Magikarp and see what people want for theirs. Granted with something like Magikarp I'd like to believe that some of the people there are just partaking in innocent trolling and aren't serious, but with other, semi-decent Pokemon, it sure seems like people don't even realize they're dealing with actual humans and just think the GTS is filled with NPC's that are more than willing to trade their Mew for your Chimchar. Makes it near-impossible to get your hands on all the Pokemon that are kind of rare and valuable and hard to find on your own... but aren't worth those gem legends.
Speaking of legends, the GTS is absolutely ridiculous with how it deals with some of them - particularly the event legends (you know, the really rare ones like Mew, Jirachi, Arceus, etc). See, you can't trade event legends at all through the GTS. Nope. Not in any way. You can't offer one up or trade one for that nice-looking Magikarp someone put on display. Why does this bother me?
It still lets you ask for them. Nearly all the players doing the thing I mentioned above are asking for Pokemon that are not only ridiculous requests given what they have to offer, but you couldn't accept their offers even if you wanted to. They are completely meaningless trades that do nothing but take up space on the GTS and taunt you with wares you can't have.
Oh, and the one-on-one trades you can set up with the PSS aren't much of a step up. You have no restrictions on what species you can trade, at least, but the way it's programmed just makes it
impossible to communicate or negotiate trades efficiently. On the surface it looks mostly like the "GTS negotiations" from Gen V, and for the most part it is...
without the negotiations part. Without so much as the simple smiley and frowney faces from Gen V, there's no way to effectively communicate whether or not you like what your trade partner is offering. And
worst of all, there's this thing (hard to say whether or not it's intentional, but I sure hope it isn't), where, once you choose to "offer" a Pokemon, you're stuck. You can't take back your offer until your partner chooses to trade something for it. Which means, for example, say you've chosen to "offer" a Pokemon you have in exchange for something your partner showed that you liked, but then, they changed their mind and stopped showing off their Pokemon, deciding they didn't like yours. Now, they're rummaging through their boxes, showing off various Pokemon, or perhaps one of the same species as yours to imply that they already have one and thus don't want yours, all while you WISH you could take yours back and just keep trading without seeming like the asshole who can't stop pushing an offer that the other person clearly doesn't want, and while you're completely incapable of yelling "I'M STUCK", even though you wouldn't be in that problem without such shoddy programming, and you wouldn't even be in
that problem if you were simply able to easily tell your partner what you do and don't want from their collection.
But instead, the closest I can get to effective communication is attempting to spell out words and Pokemon names with my Unoun collection. ...And most people don't pick up on what I'm attempting to do, there, and instead just think I'm showing off my Unouns.
Filling the dex is a real struggle.
(Side note: you wouldn't happen to have a Keldeo, would you?)
