>>14418723In contrast:
-Japan's Meta is fucking all over the place. They honestly do not have one unless 'Gimmick Teams' could be used as a catch all.
-Smogon on the other hand might as well be LoL's logic of 'Everything is made for a single role, and can not do any other role outside of that, and if it can, it shall be banned'. Also in turn, Smogon is pretty much ether Sweeper, or Stall in meta. Nothing else ( outside of using Gimmick's JP's pretty much Sweeped American's asses with thanks to said limited scope ).
The JP's are just far more open towards everything that unless you are in a 'legendary's allowed' setting, you'll almost never see the same thing twice. I mean fuck, who else uses Dream World Weavile to fuck up Stall's hold items?