Japanese 6v6 singles meta is much more fun than Smogon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhAPcF5djMY
it looks exactly the same except with retardedly broken shit allowed. I don't get how that's more fun.
>>24759578
What in there are you calling retardedly broken shit? The espeon isn't even being used for baton pass (just being passed to), Lucario gets reckt after doing nothing and Salamence's biggest accomplishment was hitting a Steel type with a fire type attack once. Klefki didn't even get to do anything in that match.
>>24759578
Japan are actually good at the game and can adapt, news at 11
From what I can gather, the rules are:
Item Clause
Sleep Clause
Species Clause
Mythical pokemon banned
Uber/Mascot legends banned
Everything else is OK.
>>24759617
Basically.
>>24759608
>What in there are you calling retardedly broken shit?
Salamence and Lucario.
> Lucario gets reckt after doing nothing
OP thing killed other OP thing with super effective damage? Wow, no fucking shit.
>Salamence's biggest accomplishment was hitting a Steel type with a fire type attack once
Yeah because the battle ended before it even got brought back in.
>>24759617
>>24759660
Adapting has nothing to do with it. Fuck off with the "muh Japs are automatically better at everything because reasons" weeb mentality.
>>24759660
these all look like bog-standard OU teams with some smashpass garbage thrown in and megamence fucking everywhere
why is everyone creaming themselves over this
>>24759709
>Adapting has nothing to do with it. Fuck off with the "muh Japs are automatically better at everything because reasons" weeb mentality
Smogonshill please, if you've played any official format you'd know from experience how much better they are on average and how well they adapt to anything in the meta. That's what happens when a playerbase don't play fan rules that encourage you to be lazy with teambuilding instead of being forced to adapt.
Smogon's ruleset was better when it was just "official rules + we also allow a few extra legendaries that really don't deserve to be banned".
Then after the Gen 4 Garchomp ban (which was warranted, desu), they've got a hard-on for banning literally anything difficult to deal with. Like its got to the point where they ban Aegislash because "you don't know if he'll attack or Shield" and it's just so fucking retarded.
They've banned so much shit now that their gametype isn't really Pokemon any more, it's this custom thing that plays exactly the way they want it to play which really isn't in the spirit of it at all. If they keep on going this way they'll hit irrelevance soon enough.
>>24759866
smogon can "adapt" fine. The problem is "adapting" leads to everyone using the same overcentralizing shit and it's not fun. Don't try to act like M-Salamence is perfectly reasonable to have in OU when it's one of the best Pokemon in Ubers for fuck's sake.
>>24759569
>battle takes 26 minutes
>literally could watch a full episode of community while doing 6 battles in that time on showdown
cartridge battles a shit
>>24759933
I think you could pretty much simplify the whole banning process by writing one simple rule:
Are you more likely than not to see a given Pokemon on the enemy team? If so, ban it.
So anything over-centralizing enough to be on more than 50% of teams gets booted. Anything else is fair game.
All these complex and subjective "we think x is problematic so we're getting rid of it" just serves to impose a relatively small group of peoples' opinions onto a much larger playerbase (because lets face it, if you want 6v6 there's nowhere to go but Smogon) and it's all become a bit perverted at this point.
>>24759941
Just ask GF to add more nukes
