>>24807516CHALK is an archetype in itself.
After seeing replays and other shit, comments, reports and analysis.
Jap players dominated because they were with a proper archetype to fight; wereas everyone else prepared their teams to "counter" the great "threats" that appear in Indianapolis and Germany.
They bring up counter-teams but what they were supposed to counter never showed-up. That mentality needs to stop, sure, you need to be prepared, but being over-prepared against a specific pools of Pokémon is stupid and that's why the Japs dominated 2015: They weren't prepared against specific Pokémon, they bring teams that could just put up a good battle; western teams just fall apart because they were focused in countering, not for battling properly.