>>35195263I still play and do decently, but the series has become less enjoyable for me over time. There are more and stronger threats to account for, but your options to deal with all these threats are the same: Fit counterplay into six slots, use speed tiers to your advantage. There are more games decided on matchup in later gens because of it. My point is that a change in format could keep a similar pool of threats while adding more organic counterplay to all of them, rather than simple bring x to stop y.
The main series will probably never change this way, but more spinoffs would be nice.
