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By hacks do you mean when a Level 1 Probopas takes out a Level 100 Blaziken? And by Glitch do you mean when a Pokemon with Sturdy is K.O'd in 1 hit? I assure you it's all strategy. Tiers don't matter much, since it's been proven that Pokemon in low tiers have the ability to defeat those in OU or Ubers. Didn't expect to see Pachirisu win VGC? Well I can see what you mean by Sceptile being utterly destroyed by Blaziken but Swampert can easily take out a Blaziken. Just because it's Ubers and seems to be unstoppable doesn't mean you can't win.
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Pokemon is a horrible competitive game. Nintendo tries hard to balance it, but fails because they lack knowledge on how to balance ****, and about the metagame in general. Go play Chess instead.
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Lol this guy ^
But with no discontent towards singles or anything else that could be considered passively insulted by my saying so; OP have you tried doubles? :/ it's a lot less.... What you might be specifically calling unbalanced |
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I'm saying you're entertaining amongst other things-
But yes, I disagree. They haven't left it very balanced in some areas; but if you took almost any team today and used it in the 4th gen meta, it would be a pretty 'broken' system, wouldn't it? |
ofc it'd be broken the powercreep was insane??? What kind of argument is that?
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Here goes something I just encountered that has been BROKEN since Gen 3, and was never fixed. A special attack that makes contact (petal dance). Not sure what doofus at game freak made that mistake, but can someone explain how throwing petals at my opponent causes me to make direct contact with my opponent?
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But I chalk that up to just being one of those nonsensical things Game Freak does on a routine basis. Fusion Bolt isn't a contact move, but it looks like the Pokemon makes contact in the animations, for example. |
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M.I. - it's not an argument, just a statement of my opinion, I disagree with your opinion, but I recognize it could absolutely be more correct than my stance ultimately. What I said was also merely critical of the failure of the 'competitive scene' to develop along with the games since fourth gen. My statement was alluding to trying to conform what the meta is nowadays, to standards which people still try and hold to from almost a decade or more ago.
Petal Dance making contact isn't "broken", too :P By most people's definition anyways. If you'd like to know more special moves that make contact though, Grass Knot does- as well as Draining Kiss. There's a reason for all of those however; and frankly I'm glad there's some special moves that make contact. It adds a layer of knowledge to more experienced players repertoire to maintain advantages over novices. *puffs pipe and adjusts monocle* |
I think Smogon does its best in making the game more balanced and fair by ranking Pokemon by their usage stats rather than raw power. I've been watching and playing the competitive scene for a while now, and while I'm not that good of a player, I can understand the importance of having to put your best foot forward in competitions. There's no point in using something if you know there's something else that does what you want better, so for the players that wanna win, they use the same Pokemon again and again. The tiers were created because some Pokemon just do their roles better than the rest, and they get used more often than others. Partitioning Pokemon in tiers like this at least puts everyone in a relatively equal playing field by removing those that do really really well.
People have been lauding Se Jun Park and his use of Pachirisu in the World Championships, saying that that's how you win using Pokemon you like. But you have to think, it's not that he centered his team around it, it's just the final obscure puzzle piece that fit so well with everything. What he proved there was that every Pokemon has its niche in competitive (except maybe Magikarp and Sunkern), and nothing's stopping you from finding it. The hard part is finding that certain niche though; it takes one heck of a mind to think of that in the context of high-stakes play. It's competitive, you HAVE to work at your best. If you wanna play Pokemon for fun, go ahead. Pokemon's such a fun game, everyone should play it the way they want. |
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