>>52751921from what I've seen smogon tries to stay away from any degenerate unfun strategies like literally any other competitive metagame you'd find in other games like Ice Climber wobbling in Melee or One-turn FTKs in Yugioh.
none of those strategies are consistent enough to dominate the meta and win every single tournament, but playing against a baton pass team, sitting and watching you go from 0% to dead getting chain grabbed, or watching your opponent play solitaire in yugioh and they kill you without getting a chance to play is unfun.
AG is out there for people that what to experience what pokemon is like without any restrictions, but the novelty of that gets old fast. 6v6 singles in pokemon is just a fucking mistake, leave that for single-player only
