pika pal my examples were simply scenarios where a "simple change" snowballs exponentially, that is what i'm referring with snowball effect. Touching a single piece of the balance has consequences elsewhere. In this case people were talking about "letting psychic hit steel normally", or "let steel not resist rock", and I pointed how shortsighted that was, because sure in a vacuum it's innocuous, until you actually get the whole picture and it isn't anymore.
Same goes for the whole Snow thing, sure in a vacuum letting Ice types getting a defense boost in their weather is nothing particularly amazing and doesn't really fix much, but once put in practice, it made a few pokemon way stronger to the point of getting considered "overpowered", while doing literally nothing for all the other ice types. Because once more, "in a vacuum" doesn't work with how big the Pokemon roster is.
GameFreaks definitely cares about balance, otherwise they'd not even bother buffing/nerfing pokemon between generations.
Whenever they do a good or bad job at it, it's up to debate, but saying "they don't care" is just a toxic, entitled attitude we could very well go without.
If "you" (not you specifically, any smogon poster) think you're better than GameFreaks at balancing a videogame, by all means show me your gaming design degree, I am waiting.
It's like the whole part where everyone apparently was a 3d graphic engineer when SwSh released, and everyone could program a 3d model in mere minutes, and produces atrocities like the good old Larpas
Same goes for the whole Snow thing, sure in a vacuum letting Ice types getting a defense boost in their weather is nothing particularly amazing and doesn't really fix much, but once put in practice, it made a few pokemon way stronger to the point of getting considered "overpowered", while doing literally nothing for all the other ice types. Because once more, "in a vacuum" doesn't work with how big the Pokemon roster is.
This is a blatant lie by the way, a terrible attitude and one of the main reasons for which i tend to be denigratory toward the general smogon posterbase. (and honestly, most of internet anyway)i mean i will be upfront in that i don't care if anything i want changed in the games fucks up vgc because gamefreak itself doesn't care about balancing it so i don't either lol
GameFreaks definitely cares about balance, otherwise they'd not even bother buffing/nerfing pokemon between generations.
Whenever they do a good or bad job at it, it's up to debate, but saying "they don't care" is just a toxic, entitled attitude we could very well go without.
If "you" (not you specifically, any smogon poster) think you're better than GameFreaks at balancing a videogame, by all means show me your gaming design degree, I am waiting.
It's like the whole part where everyone apparently was a 3d graphic engineer when SwSh released, and everyone could program a 3d model in mere minutes, and produces atrocities like the good old Larpas