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Originally Posted by Twilight Sky
I have to ask you this:
What keeps you going in competitive battling? I ask this because...well, given the current status of things, it seems that (and I could be wrong) B/W / BW2's competitive kind of tanked, and I thought you would lose motivation because of that. Is there anything in particular that you're hoping for out of Gen VI's competitive metagame (aka any tier changes in current Pokemon (I bet most of what's currently OU is going to be UU but that's my guess))? To expand on the first question (or clarify), do you feel competitive battling is getting worse, or better?
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I feel at this point it's half nostalgia and half actual interest. I mean, when I came here in 2008, after downloading Shiny Gold, I entered S&M and integrated myself into the community. I have a lot of fond memories over the past 5 years from Shoddy/PO/PS, and it's not something I'm willing to walk away from yet. In terms of actual interest, I just found that when something starts to get stale (a metagame, battling as a whole), I just change my focus. It's simple just switching to a new tier, but if my actual interest totally wanes I tend to just take it far less seriously that I was (even though I'm not taking it too seriously to begin with), and just enjoy it instead of putting any sort of goals or pressure on myself.
For what I want to change with Gen VI, I'm really hoping for OU to get some sense of balance for it. I mean, Gen V is a craphole, and even though it's definitely playable, it's not something that I enjoy. Something to bring the power creep that Gen V brought back down so we have some balance would be lovely. I mean, with new Pokémon introduced, stuff that's OU now will probably get shifted to UU, but there's nothing specific that I really want to see there.
As far as is competitive getting better or worse as a whole, I can't really answer that. It's a pretty subjective question. I see it more as shifting focus and adapting to what we have to work with. Am I really fond of it? No, but some people are. It's not necessarily worse, it's just different.