Recent content by TornadoCreator

Three reasons. First, people post videos to YouTube, which I occasionally watch. Second, Smogon is so pervasive, people on the actual DS/3DS games complain if your team isn't "OU" or if you don't abide by the "evasion clause". Third, Smogon told me. Look at the forums, the articles, etc. there's...

(char limit) If every battle I saw wasn't exactly the same, I'd be OK with it, but they are. Sure you don't have Mewtwo, Palkia or Kyogre in every fight, but it's no less predicable. Almost every team now includes Ferrothorn, Sizor, Tyranitar, Excadrill, Garchomp, or Latios. Probably more than...

Basically Smogon gets its rocks off by banning shit, I get it. You see what's popular, you ban it. It doesn't make the game better though, it doesn't make it more varied. Out of over 700, it'll always be the same 20-30 Pokémon with the same fucking moves; because that's what works. Banning the...

I could say the exact same about you. How can you claim to have any understanding of the true balance of the game, if all you play is your stupid skewed metagame. You have no concept of what is and isn't actually powerful because you're too busy working out what's good in your metagame rather...

I have no issue with people practising, I just find it a little sad that we all go out and buy these games, spend 100+ hours raising a team, then we all use cookie-cutter mons in Showdown, (which I'm genuinely shocked Nintendo hasn't sued into the floor already).

I don't refuse to take part False. I just like to battle competitively with my actual DS/3DS game. There's far more meat to a victory when you actually DID train those Pokémon yourself. It also takes the sting out of the so called "ubers", because let's face it, everyone doesn't have a perfect...

(Damn character limit, fucking stupid) When someone can battle me and beat me using their actual DS/3DS games, that's when I'm impressed. The idea that competitive Pokémon only happens on an unofficial unlicensed (and copyright infringing) program is Smogon-centric wishful thinking.

Nah, it's where theoretical Pokémon happens. Everyone fights with perfect natured, perfect IV, perfectly EV trained Pokémon with exactly the moves they want (often moves that take chain breeding to get). These people don't actually have those Pokémon... it's all wishful thinking.

Sorry, but I don't currently own Black or White. I do however own Pokémon Y and will happily battle you at some point, just send me your friend code. Only had the game a few days so nothings trained up yet though... Oh, wait... you meant a battle on Pokémon Showdown didn't you? Where people can...

Thanks for the comment but you, like most on this site, are still not listening; or at the very least, you're not taking in what I'm saying. No it's not "all through luck", and if you understood what I was explaining; you, and the rest of Smogon, wouldn't keep saying that. Clearly people aren't...