| There's lots of reasons people 'cheat' in games. In this case it might be: • You enjoy playing Pokemon but you don't want to or cannot find the time to grind out the few hours of leveling up you need to progress, or to find your specific favourite handful of Pokemon, so you use a device like this to save yourself some time. • You want to succeed in the competitive space (yes, competitive Pokemon is a thing[0] and is ongoing right now in fact[1]) and you don't want to grind for Pokemon with specific Effort Values, which are the randomly generated numbers that effect how strong your Pokemon attacks are. So you use a device like this, though probably altering a save file would be just as easy and not detectable by Game Freak/The Pokemon Company. • You don't really care about Pokemon, but you know you can sell Pokemon on eBay[2], so you automate it with a device like this. [0] - https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokem... [1] - https://worlds.pokemon.com/en-us/ [2] - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/225598189077 |
I just want to point out, if you're like me and sometimes enjoy competitive Pokemon without grinding, cheating, playing the story or even owning a device, you can play online a simulator, from which every possible, grindable setting is just a click away. [0]
It's pretty popular, with it's own Elo, tournaments, online community etc. It's pretty fun, I can recommend it.
[0] https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/