I don't find Pokemon addicting and haven't really had a phase of obsessively playing it since I first discovered that you could have any lvl 100 uber with any move on NetBattle lol. I don't think I played pokemon, or at least took a break from Smogon from 06-07 ish and got into DP quite a bit later than everyone and I haven't played pokemon regularly for about 4 months. I'm not in the pokemon groove right now but in the past, I enjoyed pokemon for the competitive nature of it. I'm a good battler but I'd never really proved it so laddering was an incentive for me and I liked testing things that I'd never used and constantly trying to make a team better or think of new ideas or strategies. I keep coming here though, because I like the community in general and I have an investment in a couple of projects here like Little Cup and CAP that I'd like to see succeed.