[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I'm on Iron's side on this matter, why does every Pokemon one owns soft-have-to-be offensively useful? Male Combee are, sorry to say that, useless apart from gathering honey for the queen, but I feel like that gathering of honey makes them worthy to some degree again. RPing with a Pokemon outside of battle is fun too.

Because otherwise , bar them having a super useful non-combative niche, if a Pokémon can't decently fight, its taking up PC and Party Slot space that could be afforded to Pokémon that COULD be useful in battles/combative/laborious task (Like Mountain Climbing). Since the game has a heavy focus on Battles, Explorations, and Problems solving with Pokémon aid, its just plain better to have more capable and versitle Pokémon on your team at all times, bar, again, special circumstances. RPing with Pokémon is fun, but I like also knowing that my given Pokémon is capable of long term continued growth and improvement as well. We can agree to disagree on this, of course!

Point made, Windos. It's probably my non-competitive thinking that makes us see things a litte different, and that's fine! I certainly like my team of Pokemon the way it is - maybe not overly strong, it's clear that Shiva's someone who's more fond of Pokemon that have a meaning to her/she befriended than the potential to do well in battle, but I feel this somewhat has balanced itself a little by now?