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Pokemon Sword catch rates are psychotic

They have a team of math nerds at GameFreak that sat around during the creation of these games and decided to create a digital torture device instead of a fun game.  The time they must have spent on these calculations they could have spent doing cool things like letting the player character smoke cigarettes, or including the full Pokedex, which was unavailable in Sword and Shield for the first time in a Pokemon game. 1   One of the reasons the producer of the game gave for why they kept Pokemon out, was that it would have "much higher fidelity with higher quality animations," which is really funny because they didn't do that either! It looks like shit!  Okay, I am an upper-echelon hater, but the old school models have so much more charm and substance, and when they just kinda moved a tiny bit you didn't mind because the sprites were dope and the games were sick for their time.  I love when I use "Scratch" with my Pokemon and they couldn't bother to do an...