>>46515449At first people tricked themselves into thinking Pokemon was a singles shitfest starting with Gen 4 and the whole no preview window thing and very specifically designed cross evo steroidmons only usable postgame which implied online use, but over time doubles started getting more and more toys to play with and people realized doubles has been the official meta since Pokemon fucking Colosseum, until finally they broke the camel's back with Gen 7 and its just been a shitshow full of drama and pearlclutching zoomers ever since. Now no one on this board gives smogon the time of day anymore besides oldfag holdouts that chopped their dicks off somewhere around 2015-2016 and still simp for the format on here.
