Recent content by Shrek is love

I-I never played melee, and only casually played brawl. I understand what you are trying to say though. While it is true, that not all teams are same, those 400ish FE's and the few ok NFE's that exist only contain probably 80-100 viable Pokemon for OU. That seems a little less, at least to me.

Yeah, I get what you mean, but even if not for early game. What if I took a Mightyena, Zangoose, Dragalge, Weezing, Tropius, and Hydreigon into battle? These Pokemon are all mostly lategame type of Pokemon, and they will simply be destroyed in a match against a vanilla team. And the way GF...

But for example, if I play Mean Bean Machine against my friends to win, and I am better than them because they are average it does that mean that it's enough to make the game "competitive"? Competitive gaming is a slippery slope in of itself and Pokémon is nowhere close to even fitting the...

No, it's just that I don't think Pokemon is meant to be competitive. Its fun the way Smogon has engineered it in a nice competitive fashion, but at it's root, its a non-competitive game And also, a competitive game should not contain this many inherent luck facotrs

I feel as if Pokemon in of itself isnt shaped to be a competitive game, but its the community trying to portray it as one. The competitive field feels as if its mandating you to use staple Pokemon on a team in order to play it properly. Dont get me wrong, I had a blast playing on Showdown and...