>>15368020The sad thing is Smogon actually understands how the game works better than Gamefreak does. Gamefreak essentially grabs a pile of types, abilities and stats and throws them around wildly, which is why you end up with shit like Nidoking, who has an amazing special movepool yet shit SpA (and then they give him a BST boost, to attack, lol) alongside a lot of shit that is completely redundant, shit that is utterly useless like Articuno, and Stealth Rock.
People call SR 'smogon stones' but they don't realize that if Smogon was making the game and someone proposed this as a concept of a move, it would have been called OP immediately. Smogon brings order to the chaos that is pokemon, creates metagames which allow players to use a wide variety of pokemon, unlike wifi where stuff like Blaziken/Talonflame will just run out of control.
Also Smogon seems to be the last champion of 6v6 while Nintendo drops everything to 3v3 or 4v4/2v2 doubles. 3v3 is shit because it completely shits on defensive lineups and often comes down to luck, you can't make complex strategies work, you can't make defensive switches often, you need quick setup power. 6v6 actually allows a wide variety of playstyles to flourish.
And of course Japanese players are on top of the current online ranked battles, most smogon users don't play on wifi.
