Well, this is kind of a question from what point onwards you can even speak of a defined lead meta. It is true that the lead in gsc is probably the thing you shouldn't worry alot about at all, which is also hugely because of the fact that you will have a durable and healthy switch-in for basically everything at the very beginning of a match in gsc (unlike in dpp which is a huge aspect of why the lead meta there is so important, but that was already covered). That's why there is basically 4 types of "big" leads in gsc, but then again, those aren't very well-defined but they are definitely there. 1. Spikes leads - if spikes is an integral part of your strategy you might as well try setting them up turn 1, 2. Electrics - most common lead mostly because they prevent or punish early spikes and since you can lead anything you might as well lead something that has a great matchup versus most of the whole tier, 3. Anti-electric leads - lead nidoking, lead snorlax, actually raikou too to some extent, heck i have even seen lead marowak. Expecting the incredibly common electrics lead and giving you a great matchup vs. that specifically, 4. Status leads - Eggy lead falls into that category, Nidoking, Snorlax, etc do too. Gaining an early advantage by crippling mons with status, even though there the categories here aren't that, well, defined since they overlap and there are quite alot greyzones. My point is that there is more to gscs lead metagame other than "it's basically arbitrary unless you lead something shitty" - there are good leads in gsc and strategies like the turn 1 explosion with forry on the electrics, that was discussed somewhat recently on here, actually proves that there is a imo quite well-defined lead meta. The only thing is that even if you win the lead meta as in get the better matchup that allows you to follow your strategy and interupts your opponent from using his strategy you won't really gain huge advantages because as already mentioned there usually is a mon on your opponents team that can just take the attack, the status, etc. and gets the matchup advantage back to the other guys side. But yeah, gsc lead meta is not nearly compareable to rby lead meta, which is not only limited on very few mons but also has a whole lot of more impact on the outcome of a match than in basically every other tier. Rby lead meta is basically the definition of a well-defined lead meta, gsc is far away from that, even though i wouldn't go as far as saying it doesn't have a well-defined lead meta at all (sadly no usage statistics have gsc ou lead statistics so i could actually prove my points...)