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Old Aug 10th, 2012, 10:51:57 PM   #167
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Gengan, the idea of "random battles but you pick your pokemon" is actually a pretty good idea. PS has always tried to support both casual users and hardcore users.

However, it would require some teambuilder customization and other work. I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to work on something like this.

I'm also unsure about just how much interest there would be in it. I suspect that PS's current userbase are largely hardcore players, given that its current popularity comes largely from Smogon. I don't think the casual users this format would be targeting would currently be using PS, so such an endeavor would require some sort of awareness/PR push.

In short, it's something that would take quite a bit of work, so while this is something very interesting to think about, in the short term, other features will take priority.
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