Isn't a metagame shift defined by discovering new sets, trying different pokemon out, and using those pokemon in different ways together? The start of the metagame would be a chaotic jumbled mess with nobody knowing anything. That chaotic jumbled mess..shifts when bans happen and when people get more knowledge. Which then..shifts when even more sets and pokemon are discovered.
I fail to see the purpose behind this thread. Rising popularity in a pokemon when it didn't exist before or rising popularity in a set when it didn't exist before defines a metagame shift, regardless of its inevitability.
I fail to see the purpose behind this thread. Rising popularity in a pokemon when it didn't exist before or rising popularity in a set when it didn't exist before defines a metagame shift, regardless of its inevitability.