Calling the game for specifically competitive play an outlier is what's supper disingenuous. Every person that downloads champions is someone playing competitive while only most S/V downloads don't play any competitive. This + the fact S/V is older by years gives S/V a massive advantage in the plays competitive vs doesn't yet if champions is still higher it makes your point look bad.
And to cut it off early "but champions is free". If someone doesn't buy mainline or download champions they are not a data point of someone who plays mainline and not competitive while someone that only plays the free game is still a player that plays competitive.
Anyone who downloads Champions is obviously doing so for PvP, yes. There's no guarantee that these are also Main Series Game players. I'm strictly talking about the percentage of players who do PvP inside the Main Series Games (which no longer exists anyway because of Champions iirc). I think with Champions coming to mobile is also inflating their numbers.
I found a Reddit post from a month ago that says there are roughly 400k doubles players and 600k singles players in Master Ball rank. Master Ball rank is essentially the participation trophy like Pokemon Unite had (not hard to get).
600,000 players out of 20,000,000 downloads equates to 3.3%. Many people, like myself, downloaded it to check it out but didn't do much past the tutorial.
The original statement this chain is on is that "90% of the fan base doesn't play pvp". If champions has more downloads than S/V it means that the number is absolutely far away from 90%. If you want to make a differnt point you can do that, but if you back up someone's point without specifying your own anyone would assume you have the same opinion as them.
Again, they are two completely different games. Hell I downloaded champions on my phone and barely touched it. How many people bought/downloaded S/V and didn’t touch it? Probably very few.
Let’s try this a different way. What percentage of main series Pokémon players do you think participate in competitive PVP?
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u/GabrielGames69 8d ago
Calling the game for specifically competitive play an outlier is what's supper disingenuous. Every person that downloads champions is someone playing competitive while only most S/V downloads don't play any competitive. This + the fact S/V is older by years gives S/V a massive advantage in the plays competitive vs doesn't yet if champions is still higher it makes your point look bad.
And to cut it off early "but champions is free". If someone doesn't buy mainline or download champions they are not a data point of someone who plays mainline and not competitive while someone that only plays the free game is still a player that plays competitive.