It's a game. Most matches are complete stomps and the item system creates a significant difference between new and old players. Early leads snowball into a killfest basically immediately, since making up for exp the enemy gets on your death is almost impossible. I also have a sneaking suspicion that there is a hard meta determined by each Pokémon's "difficulty" level: expert is strictly better than easy. Overall, a 2-bit League clone with even less content.