>>23227748>If all according to smogon all legal pokemon are equal.wat
also species clause is to prevent stupid matchup-reliant teams
for example, if I had a team of six staraptors, almost every "counter" to birdspam is gonna get broken down just by the sheer pressure of having to wall an entire team instead of one mon.
those kind of games are barely even competitive given the level of input from the player running a spam team
you're just rolling dice that your opponent didn't pack the hardest of hard counters to your mon.
