Collecting all the badges grants you access to the Elite Four, and defeating the Elite Four grants you membership in the extremely small, "elite" collection of players called the Aurora League.
And if you need to ask why that matters, which you probably will despite objectively not "needing" any of this yourself... but sure, let me present an entire deposition on the topic. Why not.
Some months ago, there was an event. Several events, actually, featuring a number of 'wormholes' that manifested along with more Pokemon called 'Ultra Beasts,' supposedly from another dimension or some crap.
At the climax, a single, extremely powerful demon of an Ultra Beast came through a wormhole that was opened in a sealed-off cave, supposedly to do something terrible to reality. The cavern in question was accessible only to members of the Aurora League. That part was supposed to be a secret known only to them, but I found out about it.... ugh, through means I'm not sharing on a public connection because I'm not fucking retarded.
Anyway, I attempted to crash that party, but it didn't work. They put it back through the portal to its home whatever, and that was... the end.
So far, anyway.
I've done my due fucking diligence and forced the League to acknowledge my mastery of the basic game mechanics and let me into their little club, but I'd find it extremely helpful if John gave even a single solitary shit about doing absolutely anything at all besides sitting on his sadsack ass or jockeying a cash register.
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Collecting all the badges grants you access to the Elite Four, and defeating the Elite Four grants you membership in the extremely small, "elite" collection of players called the Aurora League.
And if you need to ask why that matters, which you probably will despite objectively not "needing" any of this yourself... but sure, let me present an entire deposition on the topic. Why not.
Some months ago, there was an event. Several events, actually, featuring a number of 'wormholes' that manifested along with more Pokemon called 'Ultra Beasts,' supposedly from another dimension or some crap.
At the climax, a single, extremely powerful demon of an Ultra Beast came through a wormhole that was opened in a sealed-off cave, supposedly to do something terrible to reality. The cavern in question was accessible only to members of the Aurora League. That part was supposed to be a secret known only to them, but I found out about it.... ugh, through means I'm not sharing on a public connection because I'm not fucking retarded.
Anyway, I attempted to crash that party, but it didn't work. They put it back through the portal to its home whatever, and that was... the end.
So far, anyway.
I've done my due fucking diligence and forced the League to acknowledge my mastery of the basic game mechanics and let me into their little club, but I'd find it extremely helpful if John gave even a single solitary shit about doing absolutely anything at all besides sitting on his sadsack ass or jockeying a cash register.