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Datamines have revealed stat-improving items may be coming toPokemon Go.
However, theres a world in which tournament play occurs entirely in Champions.
Firstly, training monsters for PvP in Pokemon Go is a little different.
In the main series, you generally want to maximise IVs.
Otherwise, you want 31 across the board.
Thats not the case in Pokemon Go.
The same applies to Ultra League, but not Master League.
Since competitive play always uses Great League constraints, well focus on that.
So what are Bottle Caps useful for in Pokemon Go?
You want your Raiding party to be as strong as possible.
This is a gameaboutgrinding.
Grinding to get better stats.
Grinding to get more shinies.
Grinding, grinding, grinding.
You wont lose a Raid based on that discrepancy.
However, 100 percent IV Pokemon have achieved mythical status in the Pokemon Go community simply because theyre perfect.
Were all chasing the hundobecauseits the best, not because weneedthe best.
And whats more scarce than a shiny Pokemon?
A shiny Pokemon with 100 percent IVs.
Known colloquially as shundos in the community, these are the most sought-after Pokemon in the game.
At least youve got a shundo, I responded in jest.
The rest is history.
This is one of my fondest memories of the game.
Frankly, its one of my fondest memories of playing any game, ever.
Not because of the Kyogre itself, but because of the reaction of everyone I was playing with.
These moments are better shared.
Bottle Caps could ruin these moments.
I had a look through my monsters and found three shiny Pokemon with 98 percent IVs.
I could use one Bottle Cap on each to take my roster of shundos from one to four.
The Tyranitar would be cool (despite being a rubbish shiny), but Sawk and Huntail?
I dont even remember where I caught them.
They would just be shundos for shundos sake.
My shiny Rayquaza is just three IVs away from being perfect.
I remember catching it vividly, on the day the shiny was released.
I did around nine Raids with a group of around 50 people, catching four shinies in the process.
But it wont feel the same.
Not cheating in a pay-to-win sense.
Cheating myself out of the memories I could have created.
Feel free to engage with the mechanic as much or as little as you want.
Like I say, that Rayquaza will always call to me.
But an artificial shundo just wont feel the same.
It wont have those memories attached to it.
And without the memories, whats the point in Pokemon Go?
Will Scopely bring its aggressive monetisation to Pokemon Go?
