>>19657061>Except GF wasn't trying to make a balanced Pokemon, they were trying to make a powerful Pokemon. M-Gengar/M-Blaziken is broken in singles because they were trying to make it incredibly good, not because they were trying to balance it for doubles. Why are you assuming this? Does your dad work for Nintendo? They both work in Singles and they both don't work in Doubles. There's no reason at all to say "they meant it to be OP in everything" instead of saying "oh, guess it was balanced for Doubles."
>There is no meta that is balanced in Pokemon because Pokemon was never designed for competitive.Aye, and neither was M:tG. Look at the size of the tournaments, they should give you a clue.
>And it certainly wasn't designed for doubles either given how incredibly few spread moves there are even after 3 gens of doubles, and how Fake-Out/Protect/Intimidate are still the only common moves/abilities of their kind.Put it this way; moves like Wide Guard, Quick Guard, Helping Hand, After You, Follow Me and Rage Powder have literally no function in Singles. If Singles has a move that literally cannot be used in Doubles, please let me know. As for "incredibly few" spread moves, there are currently seven in common use and many more that aren't commonly used or are unviable. There's a whole major section of the damn game that can't be accessed in Singles, and the same cannot be said for Doubles.
>And Moody/Dark Void are still broken in Doubles, really all you need to do to break something in doubles is give any good status move the ability to hit both Pokemon.Go read Nugget Bridge. The people who invest serious time and money into going to tournaments, sometimes in other countries, think it's a shit tactic and tend not to use it. It's not broken, and it's just about tournament-viable.
