>>44055900autistic little kids and zoomers don't understand it, but smogon format used to be called Link Battles. you would take the pokemon on your card, and organize battles with a friend. you would agree on rules, such as to not have 6 mewtwos versus 6 mewtwos.
link battles still technically exist but these little kids don't meet up in real life, they're pathetically addicted to online-only "interactions" and suffer from schizoid behaviors, so could never talk face to face with an actual human, so they don't understand why you would be allowed to use your blissey that got wish from a gamecube-era move tutor, for example.
that's why only little autistic kids shill for bad formats like Battle Spot and VGC. and they're a minority so VGC attendance is always poor compared to the OU ladder.
and of course everything I said is raw facts so NOBODY will ever dispute me.