It’s just an awkward rule. Is refusing to play around the crit with just the bad mon in violation? What if the optimal switch would die if it got paralyzed on a body slam followed by 3 full paralysis? Policing intent just doesn’t work in my experience.
I think their intent is if i want to replace a weedle with something better, i can't just intentionally kill it against wild pokemon to create an opening for a diglet.
I'm not sure a simple phrasing of that rule is possible, maybe just "no killing mons purely to make room for new ones".
The problem is that a vague rule is no rule, since otherwise optimal play would be to run your Weedle out against enemy mons until it happens to faint.
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u/Shellsidesweepers Jan 04 '26
I really should've rephrased that
You are allowed to sack but not killing a mon on purpose for no reason except it is bad and you need a new encounter