>>17128915Yet everytime you talk anything about pokémon on the internet you're bombarded with smogonfags giving their stupid advice or criticizing based on "strategy" they got reading their beloved smogon articles.
Smogon spread the cancer all over competitive pokémon. Before smogon, it was all about having fun, now it's all about using the same gimmicky strategies to win, win, win.
>but you can play however you wantThat doesn't matter, if you play with anyone that's using smogon crap you'll always face the same strategies, the same 30 pokémon, the same guaranteed victory sets.