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I'm just gonna say if someone feels serp should be banned I feel bad for them shit's mediocre as hell and not even that fast for this meta. No immediate power, frail/trash defensive monotyping, trash coverage unless/even if you burn tera which is huge opportunity cost, even leaf storm PP can be...
And people use meow + kyurem because it’s what they’re comfortable with. There are many other Pokémon/team structures that are viable now as well, and just because people are gravitating towards meow + kyurem right now does not imply a healthy meta game. The same was the Berlin being used a...
I took snippets of what I thought was relevant if I missed something you deem important I'll happily address it.
1. You even admit in the YGO example this is to increase sales mainly and not for the sake of balance, also I did say that I was not against banning anything at all. I'm mostly...
I think it does because if you look through posts on Reddit nobody seems to agree with that sentiment at all and it is all people complaining, in the same manner as they do here, that the same 1-2 guns are dominant every single year and any time something comes along that could compete it just...
I just don’t really get the complaints of a centralized meta game because that’s literally how games work and how they’ve always worked. This is how opportunity cost and diminishing returns come together.
in competitive COD, there’s almost always been 1-3 guns better than all the rest and...
I see where you’re coming from, but I’d push back and say if Pokémon X is broken then Pokémon A—H are introduced, enough of which check/counter X…. Maybe X isn’t broken anymore? If it’s because A-H are all more broken than X was but it still results in balance… what’s the problem?
And also even...
My bad if this is out of line, I am a complete idiot.
However one thing that strikes me immediately is that not only is there not a universal consensus on what is “broken”, a lot of posters here seem to think 12+ mons are broken and I can’t help but think they simply list things they don’t like...
Yo not to keep harping on this, but every time I see people’s lists of the most threatening mons in the meta I’m reminded tinkaton is such a solid counter to almost all of them. Meow darkrai and weavile get hard walled, even moon if you run balloon. It’s the perfect check to all the new...
What? You are literally saying that your opinion is automatically correct and no matter how many players disagree or what their skill level is you are still correct. You were saying darkrai is obviously broken and was “free ELO”. Like you can have a different opinion but you explicitly dismiss...
I’m just curious, what separates this from something like hoopa-u for you? Just being a better mon overall means less opportunity cost against non-stall matchups, being harder to revenge kill with priority, less one-dimensional? Not saying kyurem isn’t way better than hoopa but if anything I’d...
It got mentioned a few pages back the overall consensus was that outside of Moon it isn't really broken on anything. Although the sample size here is small/not the best quality and some people disagree and think it's inherent;y broken.