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>Attempt to play pokemon competitively because variety and move set synergy fascinates my ass
>Spend hours and hours trying to make competent teams that dont get sweeped
>Always eat shit to something no matter what I build
>There is always something missing that I cant cover for in a team
>Lose horrifically bad to teams and throw myself in the lab to make the perfect counter team to it
>Lose to another entirely different team with such a consistency I'd swear showdown purposely ques me against team compositions I cant beat
>Follow smogon guides but still run into things I could never expect that none of their dumbass guides could've prepared me for
>Just want to make the perfect winning pokemon team but you're either dying for being too slow, dying for not being bulky enough, dying because you don't maintenance for hazards well enough, dying because of one mon giving you problems but if you try to cover it you just end up with more holes in your team, you die because your opponent switch spams between mons you dont have a wallbreaker for or does so in a way that you have no choice but to predict switches, you die because you tried too hard to over predict switch spam but they just attack instead, entire games decided on coin flip moments, 200+ turn games where you're praying your opponent forfeits out of impatience, loss by crits, loss by missing a move that if I switch out for a more accurate move wont do enough damage to get the kills I need
>Start to wonder if competitive pokemon is a fool's errand and that I'm wasting my time trying to play a purposely sabotaged game
>Start thinking about other competitive nintendo games and how theres always incredibly irritating aspects to them all that feel designed to punish you for trying to push their mechanics to its limit
why is it all so....unreasonable?
