People write the Pokemon games off as Kid's stuff, but its actually a fairly deep franchise with a lot of strategy involved, if you get to the high levels. Plenty of times my friends and I have made bets on pokemon matches and then I throw out a double-team/rest/earthquake/rock slide Snorlax or an Amnesia/Rest/Psychic/Surf Slowbro and people just can't handle it In short, even when it comes to Pokemon, play to win