People who only use meta teams

[Chump94]

Let me start by saying I'm not trying to make jabs at people but would like to understand the thought process of people who only use meta teams, I'm talking only using like the top 10 mons.

Personally I have and always will only use pokemon that I actually really like look wise and game play wise and I can understand using some of the more competitive mons as I'm a big fan of garchomp myself.

I have to say every battle just feels like I'm fighting the exact same team of ruin and paradox pokemon, it's very rare that I see an original team that is fun to fight against.

I love eelektross and noivern and have been pretty successful with them in my team and I would love to fight more people using fun and interesting teams.

Anyway rant over tell me how you feel about it.

 

[Sweet Serenity]

Let me start by saying I'm not trying to make jabs at people but would like to understand the thought process of people who only use meta teams, I'm talking only using like the top 10 mons.

Personally I have and always will only use pokemon that I actually really like look wise and game play wise and I can understand using some of the more competitive mons as I'm a big fan of garchomp myself.

I have to say every battle just feels like I'm fighting the exact same team of ruin and paradox pokemon, it's very rare that I see an original team that is fun to fight against.

I love eelektross and noivern and have been pretty successful with them in my team and I would love to fight more people using fun and interesting teams.

Anyway rant over tell me how you feel about it.

The thought process of a player that only uses meta teams is to win battles. "Meta" Pokémon are defined as the best current Pokémon of the format in question. Naturally, players that want to increase their chances of winning are more likely to use the best Pokémon in battle. Depending on what Pokémon you like, your favorites might not always be able to win battles consistently. As for this generation's Pokémon constantly having Paradox Pokémon and the Treasures of Ruin, this can be attributed to only 39% of all Pokémon being available in the games. This is likely to increase highly after Pokémon Scarlet and Violet receives Pokémon HOME compatibility and DLC. If you want to battle others with more fun, less serious teams, on the Nintendo Switch, I recommend selecting the casual unranked battles in the Battle Stadium or the basic Link Battle option for traditional 6v6s. I also recommend Pokémon Showdown, which has a format called "Anything Goes (AG)" where players tend to use random, over-the-top teams.

 

[Corveone]

If you're doing a job, you'll normally want to use the most efficient tools available to get that job done as good as possible (unless your budget can't afford them), otherwise other people doing the same job but more efficiently will be taking job opportunities away from you. Of course your knowledge and skill are also very important, but you'll be still at disadvantage if you're using inferior tools.

Well, competitive is when gaming becomes a job. It's not about playing for fun, it's about finding out and using the most optimal tools (In this case Pokémon) to do a better job than the competition.

It will happen in probably every competitive game. Play a battle royale that has twelve characters, but two of them are factually superior due to poor balance, and you can bet that 90% of the players will be using those two characters unless developers realize that's not good and decide to nerf them or boost the weak ones nobody use accordingly.

That's why balance is extremely important in competitive games and one of the reasons why Pokémon will be never actually good at this, because a competitive game requires very solid and fine-tuned character balance, and Pokémon games were mainly designed to be RPGs, not perfectly balanced PvP games.

 

[Sweet Serenity]

That's why balance is extremely important in competitive games and one of the reasons why Pokémon will be never actually good at this, because a competitive game requires very solid and fine-tuned character balance, and Pokémon games were mainly designed to be RPGs, not perfectly balanced PvP games.

Why exactly do you think this? Just curious.