>>45143684I can't account for all VGChads, but I learned to hate Smogon for a variety of reasons.
>Smogon's prominence in the online community while promoting their fan-made format overshadows most 'competitive' discussion, even though it's fanmade>As an extension of this, boiling down discussion of VCGmons usually gets fags who try to talk about their utility in singles, i.e. people who suffer from Dunning-Kruger thinking that you need to run entry hazards in double battles.>As a result, when trying to discuss how competitively viable a Pokemon is, a lot of VGC players maddeningly need to specify they mean VGC and not a fan-format.>Smogon has a reputation of banning shit that's manageable in VGC, leading to some players not being able to smoothly transfer between them and in general giving the community an impression of being entitled>Since Smogon acts as the central hub for its fan-made singles (since GF doesn't care about comp singles), its users are absolute elitist dickheads>To further this, they used to give Serebii users shit for using Garchomp to 'solve' the meta back in the days of DPP, even though every single one of them is aiming to play the game to win and will happily use whatever currently "solves" the meta at the time>They consider a child of a hacked mon to be hacked even if it was generated 100% legitimately, meaning if you want to be self-sustaining and breed in a timely manner, you need to go somewhere else to get your 6 IV Ditto, or put up with a lot of stupid shit as well as waiting just to get egg moves>Members are absolute dickheads about this rule even though their main means of battling is an online simulator.>I'll never interact with these people unlike the other pre-Wuhan Flu leagues I attended, so there's no real sense of community>Good luck going on there to ask about VGC team rates with regards to whatever your local meta might be running since the only thing anyone ever knows is the online ladder.I miss Nugget Bridge.
