>>20030364>>Implying Smogon is better at balacing than the people who created the gameI dont know why people don't understand how manhours works.
Assuming GameFreak has, on staff, 35 people playtest every single mon, they have a relatively limited amount of time to do so. Give 4 hours to test each and every pokemon, they would have 10,080 hours of play testing to balance them and figure out if its what they want. Keep in mind - Not every pokemon is intended for competitive play. Even Kangaskhan's Mega was not intended to be as good as it is.
10,080 is a lot?
Smogon gets 2,374,267 in 3 months. 791,422 hours per month at that rate, translating to almost thirty-three thousand days of play testing.
Per fucking month.
You know what happens when that amount of time is spent developing something? You get absurdly vast amounts of information.
GameFreak spends comparitively (according to my completely random figures) about a year, and much of that time is probably spent deciding movesets and actually programming them, not just constant battling.
tl;dr, Smogon outs literally thousands of times more effort and time into balancing the meta than GameFreak ever could
