>>20430699but singles breaking easily if anything is pushed at all is a symptom of it being defective
individual threats being able to destroy entire teams with little to no setup is 100% the fault of the 1-on-1 structure; the only way to prevent that is to never have anything beyond a hard-to-define power threshold
having to ban a ton of shit to end up with a "fun", "skill-based" game is not normal, it's a symptom of faulty design
smogon is fighting a battle it cannot win; every generation the singles ban list grows more because smogon are the only people who still give a damn
yet smogon doesn't admit that 1. their main formats basically aren't "simulations" anymore and 2. trying to create a good game if your only tool is the banhammer cannot fix the underlying problems because that is not how game design works
smogon is drenched in nostalgiafaggotry and unwarranted developer-worship and for all the guff about being better players they're stuck following old rules because they're old rules and change is scary
