You do get BP for completing it, more if you do better/have Mega Blaziken or Mega Kangaskhan trash the place silly, and can actually be quite helpful in tandem with an IV calculator due to bringing everything to level 50 for the battles. And you do earn Medals for it, though I doubt this is terribly exciting of an incentive to do this.
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Honestly people should be allowed to nickname Pokemon whatever they want. It's a free country (not quite a free world lol). Just have a list of names like fuck, fuckwit, fucker, fuckface, fuckduck etc. that if a Pokemon matches you are not allowed to bring them online. Banning every name that contains part of a bad word is asinine and leaves less options for proper nicknames.
Whoops, I stand corrected. I suppose it does have some use then (although personally I prefer the Battle Maison).
What about the fact that they don't let you skip cutscenes or tutorials? Sure, the tutorial might be helpful to a newcomer but to a long-term player, it is pretty much a time-wasting exercise. The cutscene thing might be so that you don't miss the story or not knowing where to go to next but even that is stretching it considering the linear gameplay and non-engaging storylines.
They let you breed baby Pokemon
Which in of themselves could be argued as unneeded...
- The Everstone. Just press B if you want it not to evolve so it can learn a certain move (or for a different Eeveelution)! Only really has three near-pointless purposes: so you don't have to spend 5 seconds every time a Pokémon you don't want to evolve levels up, to annoy people you're trading with or to sell for $100.
- Having to delay evolution to get some moves. Which then means you can't get moves that the evolution only gets at a level below the one you're evolving it at.
- The Focus Band. Seriously, what does it actually do? A small chance of a Pokémon not fainting! A very expensive item which is basically just 1/10th of a Focus Sash. And it costs exactly the same.
You seem to be forgetting that the everstone has been one of the most important tools for breeding since about gen 3
That's the point. It forces you to either make decisions or use a Heart Scale, to to avoid having some Pokemon overpowered in-game. It's a perfectly legitimate design choice.
Which is probably why they ended up giving the Everstone an alternate purpose for breeding.
Focus Band can work even if the Pokemon is holding it isn't at full health, so there's that (and multiple times a row, at that).
Agonist already covered the other two points, but this isn't much of a problem either, since you can just take a heart scale to the move relearner and learn any earlier-level moves on the evolved Pokemon's level-up movelist.
but you can't learn a move the pre-evo learns which the evolution doesn't (such as Spore, which was only learn-able by Shroomish but not Breloom)
Pressing B will not prevent a player-induced evolution. So the Everstone is helpful if I want someone to trade me a Haunter or something. Though why I'd want that is beyond my comprehension. (The Everstone also fails to prevent a Kadabra -> Alakazam evolution in Gen 4 and 5, oddly enough. That one just physically is impossible to stop.)
Could be useful for trading NU teams to another file, I guess.
Is it really necessary to save your game and verify you do in fact wish to make a Wonder Trade every time you do so? I'd like to clear out some boxes of spitbacks, dangit.
Didn't XY introduce an option to turn that off?
Still only lets you one Wonder Trade at a time. Unless you somehow could do more than one, which would be awesome.
Please, ORAS... please.
Team Preview. The whole lead game made filtering competitive players from noncompetitive ones way easier, as a good player would think about a good strategy based around a good lead that beats most leads and a main sweeper. TP simply sucks my balls.
I actually enjoy that. I was once WTing, then took a bath (I take like 20 min lol) and my 3DS ran out of power. I was worried about my game, then I realized I had saved already thanks to WT
To tell the truth, I sort of like Team Preview. It allows you to plan ahead more instead of having your strategy ruined by a single Pokémon.