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You have to fucking stop playing single, it's a retarded metagame. In doubles you can pick almost any pokemon and do something with them. Sure if you look at VGS top teams it's even worst than Showdown, but it's because those are ultra min-maxed teams, the top pokemon are not way above the rest. In single, bulky DD Dragonite with weakness policy and roost is just monstruous, in double with smart planning you can kill him turn 1. I run a friggin' mono type ghost team with mega Banette and it never feels like a burden. Double is really the superior metagame (and I played both for ages), it's really more skill dependant than single where team building is 90 % of the work. GF and Nintendo understood it, Smogon fan should.