[DISCUSSION] Getting Into Competitive

[Justin]

1. How were you introduced or known about Competitive Mons? Was it reviewing online sites like Smogon, NB, Serebii, etc? Was is a certain "Poketuber" or someone / thing IRL who told you about this?
   

Just trial and error. Have a couple tutors that would essentially give me mons so I understood good movesets.

1. What's the main reason why you play Competitive Pokemon in general? Basically the endgame goal aside "be the very best". If you don't play competitive, can you explain so. (Here I won't judge too much in everyone's response to this, but will be noted).
   

Well there's really only 2 things to do after you "catch em' all" battle or shiny hunt, so I did both.

1. Are there any areas you struggle with from Teambuilding, Theorymoning, Battling, Prediction v Rewards, RNG Management, or anything I didn't listed. Essentially to regards to the Competitive Pokemon itself. 
   

I often don't know where to start when team building, which is mostly derived from my lack of wanting to study move pools and base stats.

1. Kinda similar to Q2. Are they any issues concerning with Competitive not regarding actual battling itself (Skip if you want).
   

Rude people in the scene. People not standing up for each other. People still being friends with cowardly bullies when you know they're bad people. The point structure of VGC. Poor tournament tournout. Difficulty getting approved to hold tournaments from Pokemon. Rage quitting without punishment.

1. If there's one thing about competitive Pokemon that will make it "accessible", what its it? 
   

Reduce in game team building time. (QR codes may help this, sort of).

1. Final Question: How optimistic you feel about Competitive Pokemon for Generation 7? Yes the poll, though people can just say their feeling about competitive for this gen. Obviously we are only 3 weeks in Gen 7, but like to ask still. 
   

Looks pretty awesome so far, lots of powerful pokemon that don't have great synergy with each other, which seems to be diversifying teams at the moment. Not sure how things will be once pokebank opens.