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The existence of an organized metagame council makes me miserable.
Competitive pokemon is just a matter of choosing a pre-made team like you're playing fucking pokemon stadium, then choose moves and switches according to a precise flowchart, which will diverge only in very small spots based on whether your opponent chose a certain flowchart option.
In very small occasions, the flowchart breaks because of unforeseen circumstances (non-surefire moves, crits), but it's only a minor deviation, and you can go back to the status quo easy enough.
I really wish Game Freak became like Sakurai, a demon hellbent on scouring competitive forums, seeing what the autists use to ruin the game, then make every "competitive" aspect impossible by programming the entire game against it.
