I've only been playing this game for about five-six hours now and this system is driving me up a wall. Making shinies have automatically better stats than normal monsters makes me just... not want to bother with catching normal monsters. Because why bother? They'll never be as good as a potent or perfect. At least potents are common enough that I've managed to grab a few for my team, but it sucks that I can't just catch whatever guys I want because I know that if I happen to stumble upon a potent monster later on, they're getting replaced.

Like out of all the systems from Pokemon to add to your game, why the IV system? And why tie it into your shinies?

Anyway other than that, pretty good game. One of the better monster catching games I've played from what I've played so far. If I could just flip a switch to remove the entire potential system from the game, though, I would do so in a heartbeat.