'Make a poll, with these questions( DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ARGUE MY PROPOSITION WITHOUT MAKING THE POLL AND DISPROVING IT THAT WAY WITH PUBLIC INPUT FIRST, WE ARE DEMOCRATIC):
Would you be opposed to suspecting electro shot or damp rock over archaludon?
Would you just like to ban Archaludon blindly without acknowledging its root issues?
Would archaludon still be considered unhealthy without its massive rain support and 8 rain turns?
if you all are not opposed to my idea of testing the damp rock or the move electro shot, please vote do not ban.'
i read the entirety of storm zones essay and since he said dont tag him i wont, tbh i think the idea of creating a poll is great, theres been games where they do that and people love it, those games would never have such great playerbase retention if not for that system. but unfort, i dont think theyre going to do that, they wouldve done it 10 years ago or even 5 if they were going to do that, why would they start now
i 100% think they should make the poll but i dont like him saying if u agree with testing damprock/electroshot, then dont ban archaludon, cos he said if u ban it, we will have a less diverse meta. if u dont ban it, the ladder is already jammed to the brim with people spamming the same 4-5 man cores peli arch barra treads raging bolt and 1 last breaker that differs from teamtoteam cos they know it works, what diversity are we even talking about here, id think myself if arch was banned theyd hve to find a good replacement for the defensive behemoth that also poops out dmg at the same time, wouldnt that encourage diversity if anything
havnt been around gen9 long enough to know abt other suspects for broken things like gholdengo/walking wake, so whatever i say might be a bad take, but ill still say i think u guys not banning gholdengo is so bad, idk wat he meant by we adapted to nicely, yea by sticking heavydutyboots on my 5-6 of my guys?, what if i dont want to do that what if im more comfy with running defog over rapid spin as some1 who last played older gen ou formats, its like im literally forced to run great tusk every team cos thats the only 1 that actually beats gholdengo unless i want to play excadrill with shadow claw rapid spin which every1 knows excadrill isnt good of a spinner in gen9. so im sposed to run great tusk everyteam if i want to play offense/bo to rid myself of rocks which is my fav playstyle instead of balance or stall with me sticking boots on 5-6 of my guys? u can argue i can just use a spinner in the lower tiers but thats bad, i want a competitive team, even if they have a good matchup vs gholdengo they might fare poorly vs other toptier threats in the tier and give setup opportunities to them. defog doesnt work either cos most of the current defoggers lose to the golden blob. not sure what kind of diversity is being promoted, boots 5-6 of my guys hurrhurr for balance or stall, play offense/bo run great tusk every team. just seems to me the ppl that didnt want golden blob banned is just people who were abusing the pokemon and didnt want their ladder/tour success to be cut cos of the banned if anything :)
lastly, its very fun to come here to cope or cry as some gamers would call it about the meta change, but if ppl had any spine, they would just not play till the problems are fixed, as for how to fix the meta, ask the guys who run the tier, theyre the ones who wanted the responsiblity over a video game so that becomes their problem, but polling is definitely a good idea to get opinions from the playerbase instead of just "heres da broken mon, suspect test it then votebanor no" over other options like "maybe we ban the item/move", even tho ngl its probably not gna happen. if that doesnt happen, we just boycott the game till all thats left is a small circlejerk to run their tier with a non existing playerbase and let them feel good about it. its already happening from what i can see, ladder is a lot more dead then it was prev generations
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