>It has been revealed that America & Europe is to hold a new Battle Competition soon. The 2014 April Friendly is to be held in April. This Battle Competition is a Single Battle competition, with only Pokémon in the Kalos Pokédex eligible with no restrictions so Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde & Mewtwo are eligible, and only if they were hatched/caught in Kalos. The other rules are standard: Level 50, 3 of 6 Pokémon in your team eligible, no two Pokémon of the same species, no two of the same item and it keeps the 20 battles a day restriction of the Beta Competition. The registration period runs from April 17th 2014 to April 24thth 2014 and the competition itself runs from April 25th 2014 to April 28th 2014.

>3v3
>Kalos dex only
>Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, & Mewtwo all allowed
>no duplicate items
>DID I MENTION XERNEAS, YVELTAL, ZYGARDE & MEWTWO ARE ALL ALLOWED?!

Nintendo clearly give 0 fucks about Singles, & they've never even tried to make the game balanced for Singles. When they bother with it, this is what they come up with. So, please explain to me why Smogon isn't necessary/a necessary evil (depending on how you look at it) for the Singles metagame?