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>Why hate
Well for starters, if you started competitive battling in the fourth gen where your in game teams have started to just become relevant you would practically have no other choice but to play someone from Smogon seeing as they were an active community dedicated to Singles battles.
At this time Pokemon that were banned were under good circumstances.
Following into the fifth gen where you can battle online without FC's they weren't that big of a deal.
Problem is, if you want to battle competitively in haste time it's best to go to Smogon. Recently they have doubled bans on Pokemon with a base stat yield of 600 or less.. This is a tad bit frustrating for casual players to follow seeing as a lot of strategies some people used before the bans are now banned.
Smogon players are a tad bit strict on their regulations and forget that Pokemon to others is just a game. Some players who abide by Smogon rules will DC or insult other players that break those rules.
Other things are certain sets made by the site itself. Some Smogonites don't acknowledge indifferences to those sets as viable. Some of them have a terrible attitude with how they present their reciprocation to those sets. Making them sound arrogant and rude. ( I once told a guy over the voice chat that I don't care if a weather team isn't viable in NU and he persisted to state his opinion when I finally told him it's just a game..)
Another thing is that people who hate Smogon are Smogon players themselves. When a Pokemon is overused and then is banned obviously the people who are using it are going to get upset.
I mean I can see why they can be hated, they're a democracy within a Pokemon game... I mean come on, Ned Flanders has more charisma than that.
>pic related: another reason why people would hate them.
