>>16150817Actually, that's sort of untrue.
GameFreak DOES have a competitive metagame in mind.
It's just that it's 4v4 doubles, not 6v6 singles, and it's played with item clause at level 50.
Most competitive players will tell you, the balance is totally different in doubles and far more mons are viable. It has its own OU strategies (centered around spread moves, which need a moderate doubles nerf IMO) but the game play is totally different.
GameFreak makes balance decisions that pertain largely to this meta. 6v6 is not a meta they give a shit about balancing. And a lot of stuff that's broken or centralizing in singles doesn't mean jack shit in VGC doubles (see: evasion, hazards, speed boost, etc)
