Online Pokemon communities discuss strategies and analyze which Pokemon are overpowered, risking the game becoming centered around a small set. However, the communities work to find solutions that allow for more variety in viable Pokemon, demonstrating how discourse emerges even in competitive games and brings players together around a common goal.

1. Discourse in a Game of Prediction, Strategy, and... Pokemon? Zachary Goodless

2. The “Pokemon” you might remember

3. Even if the game itself stays the same...

4. The way we play it can change! Online communities are created just to talk about Pokemon

5. Formulating strategies for a more competitive metagame

6. Discussions and discourse with other players on what overcentralizes the game (examples of intercommunication!)

7. 493 (soon to be 649) different species, each with endless combinations of moves

8. But some Pokemon are simply better than others... The game could quickly become centered around using and countering a very small set of Pokemon. Doesn't that defeat the point of all the different species?