People are Losing Their Minds About Quick Balls

Some Pokemon players aren't content with simply catching 'em all normally.  Thankfully, Game Freak created shiny Pokemon a long time ago to give players a new quest; they can now catch super rare versions of each Pokemon with an alternate color scheme.  With the graphical advances to all video games, including Pokemon, these shinies are better and more popular than ever. So popular, in fact, that a slew of shiny hunters have sworn against the easiest way of catching these 'mons: the Quick Ball.

(Behold, the ire of half of the Pokemon fanbase.)

A Quick Ball is simple: It has a higher catch rate, but only on the first turn of a wild encounter.  For many Pokemon, especially those that could flee or know dangerous self-destructive moves like Explosion or Final Gambit, it would seem like a good thing to be able to catch a Pokemon more easily at the start of a battle.  But if you've been on Twitter lately, you might know where I'm going with this.  Quick Balls have gained controversy for shiny hunting for one simple reason: aesthetics.  This controversy has been huge on timelines across the fanbase.  The TCG's official page even riffed on it.

To an extent, it makes sense: You'd only feasibly shiny hunt a Pokemon if you like that shiny. By that logic, using a ball that doesn't compliment that design seems like an odd choice. But on the other hand, as mentioned earlier, Quick Balls are the easiest way to catch any Pokemon short of a Master Ball.  By the time you encounter any shiny, you've likely fought tooth and nail in a trial by grinding.  It also tracks that you'd want a better chance at actually catching the object of your hunt.

Regardless of your opinion on the use of Quick Balls, Pokemon is a game first and foremost.  If the way people are telling you to play isn't what you find fun, don't play that way! If you don't want to hunt shinies, don't! If you want to lob a Quick Ball at any shiny you find, that's your prerogative.  All the same, if you find the idea abhorrent, you can just as easily throw an Ultra Ball or any other capsule you want.