May 15, 2015, 07:06 AM
I really can't wrap my head around the idea of saying Smogon singles requires less skill, less predictions, and less metagame knowledge. Considering that there are way more pokemon that are used, way more sets that are viable in singles, and way more play styles that are viable. When do you see hazard play in doubles? When do you see things like toxic play? Ever see someone use healing wish in doubles? Do you know the movesets a mew can have? Jirachi? Keldeo? I could really go on forever.
It's literally a different ball game. Every mega, excluding audino, is used quite a lot. Every Pokemon in general can be used. Do you understand what I'm saying? 6 Pokemon. 4 moves on each. Possibly different roles on each. 1 item on each. The different abilities they can have, The kind of pivots they can make based on their team (switching out into a check or even a counter) and so much more come into play. I have to keep my mind sharp every battle and know what every Pokemon can do.
The only "super banned" pokemon that had to get it's own tier for is mega rayquaza. If you want to count ubers pokemon as "banned" pokemon when it's just a higher tier, There are currently 28 pokemon in ubers. 31 if you count the other forms of deoxys. There are currently 32 pokemon banned from vgc. 35 if you count deoxy's forms. So, take that as you will. Not to mention last year, vgc 14, literally more than half of the pokemon in the entire game were banned. So. Uh. Yeah.
Also, counters are important in both styles. You can't make an OU team and only account for the OU pokemon, thats bad team building. People bring UU pokemon in an OU battle. Or BL or RU and etc. and one of those can easily tear your team apart.
Maybe I'm just being a child and can't handle dirt being thrown on my home. But something just irks me about seeing people who don't even play singles at a high level say things like that. It doesn't even make sense to even imply it takes less skill than the other, especially when I take it seriously and put a lot into smogon frontier tournaments and I always place high. But I guess anyone can do that, right? Since it takes less skill.
All well. Whatever, yo. I just wish we all could respect each other without throwing dirt on the other.
It's literally a different ball game. Every mega, excluding audino, is used quite a lot. Every Pokemon in general can be used. Do you understand what I'm saying? 6 Pokemon. 4 moves on each. Possibly different roles on each. 1 item on each. The different abilities they can have, The kind of pivots they can make based on their team (switching out into a check or even a counter) and so much more come into play. I have to keep my mind sharp every battle and know what every Pokemon can do.
The only "super banned" pokemon that had to get it's own tier for is mega rayquaza. If you want to count ubers pokemon as "banned" pokemon when it's just a higher tier, There are currently 28 pokemon in ubers. 31 if you count the other forms of deoxys. There are currently 32 pokemon banned from vgc. 35 if you count deoxy's forms. So, take that as you will. Not to mention last year, vgc 14, literally more than half of the pokemon in the entire game were banned. So. Uh. Yeah.
Also, counters are important in both styles. You can't make an OU team and only account for the OU pokemon, thats bad team building. People bring UU pokemon in an OU battle. Or BL or RU and etc. and one of those can easily tear your team apart.
Maybe I'm just being a child and can't handle dirt being thrown on my home. But something just irks me about seeing people who don't even play singles at a high level say things like that. It doesn't even make sense to even imply it takes less skill than the other, especially when I take it seriously and put a lot into smogon frontier tournaments and I always place high. But I guess anyone can do that, right? Since it takes less skill.
All well. Whatever, yo. I just wish we all could respect each other without throwing dirt on the other.
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