>>48005237I played comp from the ass end of Advance (on Shoddy Battle) all the way through early Gen 6. Fairy types also killed my will to play comp for a long while. I honestly don't know why I even got back into competitive battling on Showdown when the current OU is the worst we've had since Gen 2.
You can't even run any fun teams since the current meta is so stagnant due to the power creep. Fatter teams are harder to make progress against than ever before, and offensive teams are more oppressive than ever before. Special attackers cannot break past Blissey or Galarian Slowking whatsoever, and physical attackers are dice rolls on whether the Slow-triplets and Toxapex get their Scald burns. Stall-busters like Gliscor, Staraptor, and Breloom are gone, leaving stall to run amok and offense to play as cheesy as possible because there is no way to chip anymore with HDB and pivots like Greninja missing.