yes, once you get to know people, and know who's good at what, all of the background 'spam' sorts of just passes by and good things do come from those conversations
lol, I learned a lot more about competitive pkmn from there than on Smogon
lol
the moment I get access to a comp I hop on PS! It's quite fun there, I've made a few friends or two. The discussions aren't all that awesome though lol so you probably aren't missing much. There's a shit ton of spam and then I have to mute peeps and it gets ugggh
tbh I haven't actually talked on PS! chat about pokemon in quite a long time lol
but, enough about me. What tiers do you play? I'm an OU'er, working on LC with my tutor though