Smogon: Who we are/Why we do what we do.

[Joushou]

As much as I enjoy the convenience of the Showdown simulator, I do not like the difference in pace from in-game battles and so I try to battle in the game as much as I can because I think you feel more stress and think more since you cannot cancel your actions once you have confirmed them. That aside I do think that the Smogon formats are important for single battlers. What I really want to see in battles though is not what Pokemon can make their way to the top of their respective tiers but new and interesting ways of running Pokemon. I feel like I encounter that more in the VGC format which is why I choose to mainly play that.