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Recently I've been constantly looking through the suspect testing thread at the nominations of members of the community and I'm a bit appalled at some of the Pokemon that people are even suggesting. At the moment it seems like almost every new thing is a problem, Drizzle, Landlos, Latios, Doryuuzu, Kingdra, Garchomp, Nattorei, Rankurusu...etc
Then we have people coming up with multiple suggestions with how to possibly neuter the problems people have, like with Aldaron's proposal and threads stating how we should just ban all weather. Why the fuck is everyone so damn ban happy all of a sudden? It seems to me and a few other members I've spoken to that a lot of the community is simply unwilling to accept a lot of the changes from Gen 4 to Gen 5 and to put it bluntly is just trying to make Gen 5 as similar to Gen 4 as possible because that was their comfort zone.
There is definitely a pretty big difference in terms of offensive capabilities when comparing the two metagames and for the most part it seems like a lot of the community is just lazy and wants to play a metagame where they feel comfortable being able to switch from counter to counter for everything. Initially we had the same problem with the transition from Gen 3 to Gen 4 but not to this degree.
I'm not even sure if this is just a rant but I would like to suggest people think a lot more about this in a larger scale. Each generation of Pokemon is adding bigger and bigger threats and we might just have to accept that and learn to play the game as it is without trying to ban everything that we find that might be an issue.
Recently I've been constantly looking through the suspect testing thread at the nominations of members of the community and I'm a bit appalled at some of the Pokemon that people are even suggesting. At the moment it seems like almost every new thing is a problem, Drizzle, Landlos, Latios, Doryuuzu, Kingdra, Garchomp, Nattorei, Rankurusu...etc
Then we have people coming up with multiple suggestions with how to possibly neuter the problems people have, like with Aldaron's proposal and threads stating how we should just ban all weather. Why the fuck is everyone so damn ban happy all of a sudden? It seems to me and a few other members I've spoken to that a lot of the community is simply unwilling to accept a lot of the changes from Gen 4 to Gen 5 and to put it bluntly is just trying to make Gen 5 as similar to Gen 4 as possible because that was their comfort zone.
There is definitely a pretty big difference in terms of offensive capabilities when comparing the two metagames and for the most part it seems like a lot of the community is just lazy and wants to play a metagame where they feel comfortable being able to switch from counter to counter for everything. Initially we had the same problem with the transition from Gen 3 to Gen 4 but not to this degree.
I'm not even sure if this is just a rant but I would like to suggest people think a lot more about this in a larger scale. Each generation of Pokemon is adding bigger and bigger threats and we might just have to accept that and learn to play the game as it is without trying to ban everything that we find that might be an issue.