Ever since learning that a Pokemon's nature actually has an effect on their stats, I've spent hours trying to catch Pokemon with a certain nature. I'm currently fishing for a Sassy, Relaxed or Quiet natured Shellder, and it's driving me insane (only 3% chance of one even appearing where I'm fishing). 
 
Anyone else putting themselves through this?

No, because the only reason to really care about your pokemon's nature on more than a surface level is if you are playing competitively. If you are playing POKEMON, of all games, competitively then you are probably a bad person.

Certainly.

No. I never really got the appeal of it or the reason for doing so.  Pokemon has become serious business.

" No, because the only reason to really care about your pokemon's nature on more than a surface level is if you are playing competitively. If you are playing POKEMON, of all games, competitively then you are probably a bad person. "

I definitely think natures are important.  For example, if you get an Alakazam with an Adamant nature, its attack will be raised and its special attack will be lowered.  This is completely wrong for an Alakazam because that type of Pokemon relies almost exclusively on its special attack and speed.  The real goal is to min-max your Pokemon correctly, but it can sometimes be a real bitch doing so.

Back when I used to play pokemon on the gameboy, I never cared.

Sometimes I grind for those secret stats, but not for nature.  That's too random for my taste.

Not really.  The enjoyment I get out of the Pokemon games is just filling in the Pokedex.  I really don't like battle with other people that much.

" I definitely think natures are important.  For example, if you get an Alakazam with an Adamant nature, its attack will be raised and its special attack will be lowered.  This is completely wrong for an Alakazam because that type of Pokemon relies almost exclusively on its special attack and speed.  The real goal is to min-max your Pokemon correctly, but it can sometimes be a real bitch doing so. "

Not at all. I always use the first Pokemon I catch from every species. I know it's just a game, but I'd feel terrible if I went and caught another because the first one wasn't good enough.

I love  pokemon, but pokemon is never serious buisness 

Yes and I also grind to max the right hidden stats. The pokemon games are all about min-maxing.

You shouldn't unless you're competitive.

Depends. If the pokemon is as common as a Zubat, then yeah, I'll spend 5 minutes capturing 10 Zubats and use one that has +10% to Attack. It's a free 10%, which is more influential then EVs, and dosen't take forever to grind.
 
On the other hand, I ain't resetting and recapturing a legendary over and over again till I get the right nature. No thanks.

I don't care how cowardly you are Lapras, use your ice beam or its back to the cage with you.

Not really, but like the ones that most accurately match my personality traits.

If you don't breed a thousand Pokémon to finally get the right natured Eevee, then you're not playing the game right.

" If you don't breed a thousand Pokémon to finally get the right natured Eevee, then you're not playing the game right. "

" @Spiral_Stars said:

" If you don't breed a thousand Pokémon to finally get the right natured Eevee, then you're not playing the game right. "

I lol'd.  To be honest, I didn't even know the nature mattered... "

I usually do this stuff after beating the game and what-not, when I want to battle other people with 6 Level 100's, or do some hardcore Battle Frontiering. 
 
Progressing even through the main story is pretty easy, with some really dumb AI at times (Gym Trainers/Leaders should act a lot smarter in my opinion), so Natures don't matter all that much in the single player game.  A lot of times you can just set-up on their first Pokémon, like do Dragon/Sword Dance 4 times, and then just wipe their whole team with 1 Pokémon. 
 
It's actually not that hard to get a Nature you want when you start breeding hardcore.  You can transfer Natures more easily with Everstones, either via a Female or a Ditto.  The best thing to do is catch every good Nature of Ditto possible and whenever you want a certain Nature on a baby Pokémon, then just pop that matching Ditto in the Day Care with an Everstone and whatever you want to breed.  Evertsones give a 50% chance to pass-down a Nature.  Some good Natures include Adament, Jolly, Timid, Impish, Bold, and Calm (of course you may need others for Pokémon I never use).  I usually don't breed anything else than that, so that's all the Dittos I would need. 
 
Another method can be to breed the 6 Natured Pokémon above, which have the Ability called Synchronize, level them all up, and then go hunting for like Natured Pokémon.  Unfortunately, what kinda sucks, is that the only Pokémon in the game that can use both Synchronize and False Swipe is Mew, which can't breed. 
 
So yeah, in closing, Natures don't matter all that much unless you're battling other people or at the Battle Frontier. 

Sometimes.

Natures can be important. I would say it's not a bad idea to look for a good nature on your pokemon. If you aren't planning on doing battle frontier or wi-fi though, its' not a big deal.

I don't even know what natures, EVs, or IVs are. That tells you how much I care.

Yes, because I care about the metagame.

While playing the story no, unless the nature is a negative to the important stat. 
 
Afterwards I play online so yes I do. I also EV Train and if I actually took time to find an AR code to max the IV's of the important stats I'd do that too. unfortunatly I don't have as much time to play as I'd like too so probably not...

Nope. I'm still unsure what they actually do, so I don't really worry about it.

" To be honest, I didn't even know the nature mattered... "

For those who don't know. 
 

" For those who don't know. [pic]"  

so what i want to know is if im trying to get an eevee to evolve into espion does that nature matter? 
 
or is it just happiness?

" @Spiral_Stars said:

" If you don't breed a thousand Pokémon to finally get the right natured Eevee, then you're not playing the game right. "

I lol'd.  To be honest, I didn't even know the nature mattered... "

I didn't know the nature of the pokemon affected its stats. I won't bother wasting time catching the right nature though; sound like more of a chore.

Holy Crap definitely did not know it affected stuff.

Naw. I just play Pokemon to have fun and raise whatever Pokemon I think are cool. I do battle local friends and whatnot, but they play the same way I do.

You can tell what stats the nature you pokemon has effects from the stat screen. Its really hard to see but if you tilt your ds so that the top screen's colors appear darker you will notice that for non-neutral personalities, one of your stat's names is slightly red and one is slightly blue. The red one is raised, the blue one is lowered. Im not sure why they made it so hard to see.

" I love  pokemon, but pokemon is never serious buisness  "

" I definitely think natures are important.  For example, if you get an Alakazam with an Adamant nature, its attack will be raised and its special attack will be lowered.  This is completely wrong for an Alakazam because that type of Pokemon relies almost exclusively on its special attack and speed.  The real goal is to min-max your Pokemon correctly, but it can sometimes be a real bitch doing so. "

" No, because the only reason to really care about your pokemon's nature on more than a surface level is if you are playing competitively. If you are playing POKEMON, of all games, competitively then you are probably a bad person. "