Again with the inane comparisons. Your examples are instances of actual cheating, where a person does get an advantage and/or harms others unfairly, whereas genning doesn't give anyone any advantages during battling itself (or any, really, other than time saved). Ultimately, your argument seems to just boil down to "the rules say it's technically cheating so you're a horrible person if you do it" (a very bureaucratic attitude), yet you still haven't been able to explain, argue or demonstrate how it actually matters on any meaningful or moral level. how does genning affect you, or anyone, in any way?
What advantage? How? You haven't actually been able to substantiate your claims in any meaningful way.
Straw man, straw man, straw man.
Between your intellectual dishonesty, your insults, and your self-righteous, sanctimonious and holier-than-thou attitude, I honestly think it's best if I just put you on Ignore. It's clear that you're incapable of engaging in open, reasoned discourse.
1. The game is not only online battling. Stop pretending like it is. Stop pretending that you were supposed to play competitively online on equal footing without spending the time playing the game offline and making your monsters the way you are supposed to make them. Stop acting entitled to having a team that would take at the very worst 20 hours to put together in seconds and then over and over again to adapt any new strategy, any new moveset, any new setup. You're not.
Time invested may not be the absolute benchmark to measure skill, but in Pokemon it is very clearly intended to be at least part of that.
2. Accepting that cheating is cheating is not bureaucratic, its literal first grade reading comprehension.
3. If the rules say its forbidden and you break the rules, you're a cheater. Yes.
4. I'm not saying you're a horrible person if you cheat. I'm only saying you're a cheater if you cheat. And you shouldn't have any place in online play OR in official tournaments if you cheat. Because that's what the rules say. You don't have to like it. You don't even have to accept it because, clearly, its impossible to inforce the rule, but that does not invalidate either the rule, or anything that follows from breaking the rule. But you have to accept that you are a cheater and there is no argument in the world that stops that from being true.
The same way people who pirate games are in no danger of ever facing any consequences from it, but don't have the right to act as if what they're doing is not forbidden and at least to some degree, hurting the industry.
5. Clearly, if you ignore half of what I say makes no sense, is not meaningful and doesn't matter. But that's not truly an argument to make.
Even if no one faced any disadvantage due to cheating, it remains what it is, cheating. And it disqualifies you from anything that specifically forbids cheating. No matter how much you feel like it doesn't matter. If having blue eyes disqualified you from VGC, even if it was bs, it doesn't change that you're not allowed to participate, even if you wore contact lenses to make your eyes look brown.
Rules are rules. If they wanted you to have instant teams, they would give you a team builder and be done with that.
6. Advantages of cheating: How many times do I need to explain that, among other things, the time saved and the insane adaptability to new strategies alone is already a huge advantage? You save all the time to make your Pokemon and can use that to learn more strategies, prepare more, battle more, yes. Someone finds a flaw in your team? You can adapt in a minute. A strong Pokemon with an OP but not banned move that perfectly complements its typing, abilities and throws it from BL to OU gets released in South Korea in limited quantities? ITS LEGIT TO HAVE IT NOW so you will. Even though you, me and everyone else knows you wouldn't really be able to get it, at least not within the next few months. Not even through online trading.
In an average online environment that is mainly inhabited by non-cheaters (which it is, don't be fooled by the fact that a huge part of the competitive crowd cheats too, you're battling people online indiscriminately, because you could just stick to showdown otherwise), you do put yourself in a much better spot when it comes to superficialities like win/lose ratio.
As people have already admitted, they'll be online with their perfect Pokemon on day one. Not to play their old teams on the new game against others that do the same, but to jack off to the thought of beating little kids with their Popplio and Litten using their legendaries.
Which is one way in that cheating has actually hurt the entire online aspect of these games. It's keeping new people out because its cheat, hours of time, or bust.
And most people that still stay, do lean towards cheating too, because of course, they notice by the time they have their team built through legal means (especially the first few pokemon, as it gets quicker only after a while) its already outdated to the point they can really only reliably beat people who aren't exactly trying or who simply happen to run something that just works in your favor.
it also helped to fill up online battles with all those 6 shiny legendaries types that are, on average easy to beat, but quickly butthurt, disconnecting or ending up waiting until the last second to make any move, then using protect every other turn till you give up.
Imagine a world without pokehex. A world where everyone needed to put in about the same time to get their pokemon and where not everyone has the same perfect legendaries. Where everyone probably had a dozen or two pokemon ready by the time a vgc came around. Surely, a bunch of staples in every other team, but probably a few more surprised to be found too. Someone might have played twice as much as the average, having twice as many pokemon and thus a bigger potential of strategies to employ. He would have an advantage over the others and rightfully so, however, there would still be imperfections among his legendaries, he certainly wouldn't have every single one in every single viable variation at his disposal.
If someone took the time to get some special move tutor move back in Ruby and managed to bring that all the way over to Sun and Moon, more power to them, they played these games for decades, they earned that advantage. But lets not pretend it makes sense for everyone to have that special move.
Finally, this strawman thing, its actually an expression I never heard, but I suppose it applies to making up assumptions, even if they seem very reasonable.
Tell me then, what are the reasons people feel the need to cheat online in the actual games, when they do have showdown to do virtually the same thing, recently even with pretty graphics, but without disturbing the natural online play that was, clearly, intended by gamefreak/nintendo, even if it can't be enforced?
Why go to a place where you will clearly run into people who don't play competitively and play against them competitively anyway?
Why go to a place where you will run into people who play competitively, but without cheating?
Why not stay, at least, in a community of your peers using message boards and friendcodes to battle those that either don't care that you cheated, or do have all the same advantages as you have?
What other reason than enjoying the advantage that comes with instant teams could there possibly be?
Wait what? Aside from that you made me look up what "bara" even means on urban dictionary - how is a dragonite screaming "this is outrage" a star amongst fans of a gay magazine? And I've never ever seen a dragonite fursuit either (wouldn't want to see it either) so I don't get what you mean with that either.
Having brought up furries yourself, I'd at least have expected you knew a little bit about those communities. Bara is generally a term applied to things that fetishize big, burly (either fattish or muscular) guys, you find it in anime and manga, real life and of course, among furries. it doesn't specifically imply gay stuff though. there's enough straight stuff that includes bara characters.
Dragonite who's both a fatty, a dragon (they're called scalies instead furries when its about dragons and lizards) and arguably a physically strong pokemon does fit in that category and is, thus, a good enough indicator to classify yourself in the same general community. congrats.
and just to get that one out of the way, of course i have access to cfw and can cheat. and like everyone else with wifi, i had access to the gts and its hacks.
and I did use cheats too, in pokemon non the less. but not for online play, at least not since the early platinum days.
so its not like i'm holier than thou or jealous of all the great cheaters out there.
but i know when I cheat. and i don't act like i didn't or pretend it was fine to do so. it was and is cheating.
the same way I'm pirating games on occasion and not pretending i'm actually doing a good thing due to free advertisment or someshit like that. even mentioning I can't in good conscience pay for all the games i want to play or throwing nintendo a few eshop bucks every other month doesn't change that. the same way putting limits on your cheating and calling it genning just because haxing sounded too much like doing something that's clearly against the rules does not change it being cheating either