(Jan 12, 2015, 11:45 AM)tygaa2 Wrote: @Rogue so your saying Greninja shoud not be allowed because if someone leads with it and you don't predict correctly you will be in a bad postion? Predicting that is part of the game and if that is what smogon wants to take away the the "watering down" comment I made earlier is hard to argue against
What I'm saying is Singles is different then Doubles. It's not just "you'll be in a bad position" it's "you could literally lose the entire game all by your one bad prediction."
Also, there is no guy who's the ruler of Smogon who just woke up one morning and said: "Hm, I'm gonna ban Greninja." The high level players vote on this. The community. The voting was stopped early at 249 votes because 82% already voted for a ban. We don't like how we HAVE to run multiple Pokemon just to counter one Pokemon that we may not even get to counter according to their team. If you can give me 6 pokemon on one team who can shrug off Greninja, and STILL live in an OU environment, I'll agree with you.
OU has been a mess recently because literally all the teams look the same because Greninja limits team building.
