>>56470044Look, it’s obvious nobody’s thinking critically about the underlying paradoxes of the Smogon tier system, and don’t even get me started on the Zapdos problem, because what happens when Snorlax gets banned? Easy, right? WRONG. The entire fabric of the metagame shifts, but nobody talks about how that’s essentially a microcosm of how tiering reflects human error at the systemic level. But then Raikou gets involved and suddenly we’re in a situation where you have to ask: are the Pokémon actually battling, or are we just moving pieces on a board that’s been broken since Gen 1?
I swear, every time someone brings up Jynx, it’s like they’re pretending the meta isn’t on the verge of collapse because of FREEZE CLAUSE—which, btw, was only accepted because of Nintendo Stadium rules, and that’s literally a corporate construct. But OH, we ignore item clause because apparently we're "beyond" Nintendo’s competitive standard? Excuse me, what? It’s a closed loop of reasoning. Like, if you stare too long into it, you start to realize: is Smogon even real? Or is it just an idea we perpetuate to make sense of chaos?
And then you look at how they enforce these rules, and suddenly you’re asking, why are we even playing this game? Maybe we're not playing Pokémon at all. Maybe Pokémon is playing us. What even is competitive at this point? A bunch of boomers deciding Raikou is fine in UU but Jynx gets dragged into Uber purgatory because ‘freeze fishing’?? WAKE UP! It’s all just control. If we could all just SEE how they’ve been curating the game to preserve their ‘delicate balance,’ maybe we could finally break free and start playing a version of the meta that hasn’t been sanitized by hidden agendas! Yeah, hilarious.
