The whole concept is trapping wild animals in tiny balls and making them fight, but it's cute so it's fine.
Fun fact: Took six years to develop and nearly bankrupted Game Freak multiple times.
Going back and forth in a lane sounds dull but they've managed to make about forty Olympic events from it.
Fun fact: "Native American swimmers demonstrated the front crawl in London in 1844, but the British dismissed it as ungentlemanly."