>>21005977>Smogon is not official. There is no wiggle room here for discussion.No one has every said they were.
>Smogon is not competitiveIt's as competitive as any other game played with an alternative ruleset.
>[They think] if you are not a top player you do not deserve to have an opinionIf you suck at the game then no one cares what you think. On the other hand, if you're at least sort of good, and what you say is coherent and makes sense and you can defend it with rational arguments, people will at least listen to you.
>And even if you do have an opinion and a ladder score, if your opinion still falls outside the mindset, then you are chided, ridiculed and told to sit down and shut up.This is utterly false.
>Mods have come out and said that when discussing bans, you can't bring up certain mons who indeed are counters, because they are considered niche or weak.Well, yeah. Who should give a shit that Arcanine counters Mawile? No one, Arcanine is awful, countering Mawile is basically all it is able to accomplish. When teams need to have answers to Y/X-zard, Azumarill, Mega Pinsir, Thundurus, Sand Rush Excadrill and Sand offense in general, Rain offense, Greninja, Talonflame, Keldeo, Lati@s, (Mega) T-Tar, Mega Gyarados, Terrakion, Mega Venusaur, Mega Medicham, Mega Gardevoir, Mega Heracross, Mega Scizor, Garchomp, Clefable, Heatran, Ferrothorn, etc. etc. dedicating an entire ONE SIXTH of your team for ONE, SINGLE POKEMON is unreasonable.
