That Time Friendship Mattered in Competitive Pokemon

[bigmoneyyy]

I love the idea of everyone becoming best friends with their pokemon just to start bullying them when the meta changes

[Esmerthethjojo]

Its all fun until one guy breaks the code and brings a msx frustration ditto

[alitcandle]

They went from "we use the power of friendship!" to raising pokemon the Ghetsis style

[pogluu]

Reminds me of that one dude that won worlds with a mostly female team because some other dude used a rivalry haxorus

[LassyReal]

Everybody gangsta until the opponent’s Pokémon toughed it out

[CinnaSwirls]

Beating your Pokémon with a ruler to own the Ditto and Smeargle users

[ArthurKH.]

The main theme of the games and anime: your Pokémon are your friends so cherish them and they’ll love you (hence friendship evolutions)
Gen 8 and above: let’s remove the move that gets stronger the higher your friendship is with your Pokémon

[kaotic]

friendship mattered in competitive, so they made their pokemon hate them 🤣

[linkyboyVGC]

So THAT'S why Naoto Mizobuchi used Frustration on his Kang back in 2015 😮

[ShiningSilvally]

Mega Altaria: What am I, chopped liver?

[carloseduardoazevedodossan]

this has only come up for me once, it was amazing seeing the ditto do 2% to my mega lopunny

[calebferrell]

It matters in sv too, if you have maxed friendship you have a much higher chance to hit crits and shrug off status afflictions like sleep/paralysis and so many other things. It helps

[nullpoint]

I feel bad about competitive Mega Pinsir.

[Egalitariat]

To anyone who used Frustration on their mons:

You are a bad person and your kids don't love you

[Sparkle-UwU]

You sound like a real pokemon professor

[bigj]

Insane lol I didn’t know players switched to frustration because transform lol thanks for dropping knowledge Ray 👊

[Pam]

Smeargle has never used transform ever 😭

[darkmond]

Affection was busted gen 6 and 7
Allowing you to survive crits and ranges for multiple turns
Example greninja hanged in so you wouldnt feel sad at 1hp remaining

[banditrests]

I miss return. What do we have now? Body slam and double edge. Smh.

[ZtupidmonkeyZ]

so nobody noticed the sonic frontiers audio start playing during the bidoof clip