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The Blaziken Master wrote:
> But most of the trainers I battled on NetBattle and in the games has a
> Linoone, I don't get why they aren't interested....
They're like raticate. Sure, the "common" trainer will have them.
Actual human players, unlike the characters in the games, will rarely
settly for weak common stuff. To pull numbers out of thin air, would
you settle for a base Attack of 85 if you could have a base Attack of
120, without sacrificing anything else? Neither would anyone else.
The computer-controlled characters are different. They don't actually
have ambitions; they're there for you to fight. And, hopefully, defeat.
Which means the people who program them give them
less-than-the-strongest pokemon.
Remember that all the pokemon in the game are available to any human
player. (Within limits; e.g., Mew is hard to come by.) Why should
human players settle for the weak when they can have the strong?
(People may disagree in many cases about whether a given pokemon is
weak or strong. Even magikarp, that weakest of all pokemon, can be of
interest since it evolvest into the somewhat strong gyarados. But
linoone, almost everyone agrees is weak, with no way to make it strong
or interesting.)