>>23596278This is why I'll never understand people who whine about balance, at least in the PvP sense. I mean, some amount of "balance" in terms of how people experience the game is needed, of course, but turning Pokemon into an overly PvP-centric game would make it boring as fuck. A lot of the best RPGs I've played were unbalanced as fuck but the fun was in figuring out all those broken strategies, or trying something gimmicky just for the hell of it, or you know, just plain roleplaying like what the genre is called.
There's nothing wrong with a third party like Smogon which tries to separate the unbalanced clusterfuck into tiers so people can enjoy a more "fair" competitive battling environment, but I think it's annoying when people say that the game should make competitive balance a major issue, because the truth is if you wanted a competitive game out of Pokemon there'd only there'd only need to be like 20-30 Pokemon total.
