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Resource BW Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread

Not a simple question but something that has always been on my mind: why is BW considered by many people to be a crummy meta? Is it too centralized on a few key mons without much room for new stuff?
 
Local Dog said:
Not a simple question but something that has always been on my mind: why is BW considered by many people to be a crummy meta? Is it too centralized on a few key mons without much room for new stuff?
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A lot of people on the outside are ignorant and think weather wars are an overly defining characteristic that is repetitive, but in reality they seldom define games and aren’t as linear as claimed.

BW is an interesting case because it’s the first generation with team preview and it comes alongside a large general power creep and the weather distribution, so a lot of people naturally took and still take exception to it. This coupled with Aldaron‘s infamous proposal and clouded tiering decisions during the main generation left us playing a decade of catch-up since then, which has also left the tier to be dragged through the muds of public ridicule.

In reality, it’s a hectic and proactive, but enjoyable, metagame that certainly isn’t one of the worst in my eyes.
 
What’s up next on the chopping block? Gems were banned a few months back, I’d reckon the meta games settled down and adapted since. What’re we testing next boys?
 
Why did sleep take so long to be banned? Did y’all just not realize the sleep timer was funky? Or was it a point of contention banning it?
 
crimsonbacon38 said:
Why did sleep take so long to be banned? Did y’all just not realize the sleep timer was funky? Or was it a point of contention banning it?
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Sleep was not a priority when we had a slew of other things to sort after BW became an old generation. Keep in mind that old generation tiering didn’t exist until decently far into generation 6 itself, we had things like Shadow Tag, Arena Trap, and speed-weather abilities to tackle, and sleep varied in both usage and counterplay over a number of more volatile metagame states along the way.

The first time anyone seriously brought up sleep, it got looked at and banned, which started with the dice PR thread a couple of years back. It wasn’t deemed pressing prior to that and really only became pressing as the metagame settled to a point where Sleep Talk roulette determined interactions and foddering things to soak sleep had to be commonplace.
 
Why is Finchinators mini avatar for his banner not a garchomp????
 
Yveltyy said:
hi, so um im new to bw ou and i was wondering if there were any resources for teambuilding? thanks!!
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I would recommend going through the resources here https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/read-before-posting-bw-forum-rules-and-bw-metagame-resources-directory.3686881/

Also recommend joining the BW Discord where people are more than willing to give advice for teambuilding https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/bw-community-discord.3686882/
 
Is there a thread somewhere on the forum here where I could read up on lando I and thundo I’s bans? Im tryna get some kind of edumucated opinion on the two
 
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