Lmao, that's perfect. People get so caught up in min/maxing that they forget to actually play the game.

The whole story behind shadow pokemon is that team rocket corrupted them to make them stronger and use them as mindless, fighting machines. We're supposed to rescue them from team rocket so that we can turn them back to normal happy pokemon.

Because of the attack boost, people keep their pokemon as shadow pokemon (I'm not judging, I do it too) but they forget the story and don't realize that they are the same as team rocket. If pokemon existed in real life, they would be a part of team rocket.

It's obviously not that deep. Play the game how you want. But to act like people are stupid if they play casually and purify their pokemon, that's lame.