No, because then I'd just beat the game, maybe complete my Pokedex, and be done.
You know, in the DP generation of the anime, Paul is theoretically supposed to be representative of those trainers who take winning way too seriously.I know what the OP is saying, and I've felt a similar feeling, but think of it this way (as I've said to my buddy many a time while smoking many an oddish) "If we were on the TV show of pokemon, we'd be potrayed as immoral and cruel. We'd replicate a pokemon 67 times until it has the right nature/IV/HP/ability and then we'd pump it full of tedious battles with various heavy items on to raise it's EV's. Then we'd inject it with 1000000 experience points in the form of Rare Candy solution. Ash his company would battle it out with us, and while our Weaviles and Hitmonlees would make quick work of anything they threw at us, Pikachu would have to over power us in the end because it was raised with "Love"." Yes, there was supposed to be a heavy undertone of sarcasm throughout.
Er... Do you know the ivs on this mewtwo? Ivs are set and stone as soon as you catch the pokemon or as soon as you get that egg from the daycare guy.I do not regret i've learned about Evs/ivs. Maybe i regret a little.
Evs are just wonderfull points which just adds a little bit more strategy to the game. A little bit? I meant MUCH.
When i was playing Firered, i've encountered a modest mewtwo. I didn't knew about ivs, evs and natures. I was training it to lvl 100. and in ym suprise it had 403 sp atk, which was the highest stat i've ever had on a pokemon. It became my favourite pokemon. I didnt knew about the high SP Atk base stat of mewtwo.
Later when i had Diamond, i've migrated the Mewtwo, because i was so proud at it i just had to have him on Diamond. I've began using it on spp-wifi for like 1 hour. Everyone who battled me was flaming you use ubers and all those shit. I was like ehhh.... After that i've found out about tiers, clauses, evs, natures,ivs. That changed my whole sight on Mewtwo. Modesy was the perfect nature for mewtwo, i just blamed myself i didn't EV trained it.
I still got this Mewtwo, as a token how i was before i knew the Evs and all those things. It still will be my favourite pokemon, not that i like mewtwo in general, just this specific mewtwo.
when i'm playing the game, just like now in platinum which i got via R4, it makes me feel when i got mewtwo. It makes me go back at the time i didn't knew about those ivs and evs, it just let me enjoy the game as im supposed to do. EV's and ivs are just special to upgrade your pokemon and to start playing competitive.
"lol Staraptor used Return!"I think we'd see a lot less of the "Competitive players don't love their Pokemon" and "You can't be having fun if you're trying to win" bullcrap if Nintendo either stopped pretending that attachment to a Pokemon had anything to do with its ability in battle, or changed the game mechanics so that it actually did.