>>29602034Don't get into the competitive scene with the stupid mindset of "it doesn't use a shitmon, therefore his team is shit, boring and takes no skill to use". Use the strongest options available to win, since that's the objective of competitiveness.
Adding to the last point, nobody cares what you use, so don't try to use shitmons just because you want to be unique, use them if they're just what your team needs; this is something a lot of newbies tend to fall for, since they want to be the special snowflake in the tournament/ladder and then they get mad when they get fucked by competitive people.
Basically, what I'm saying is: I'm not against variety, it's just that adding them for no reason other than "style points" is stupid; if they're what you need, then go ahead and use them as you see fit.
... that being said, this year there is definitely going to have a lot of natural variety because of how many seemingly viable options there are, and how many overpowered bullshit was removed due to the rules (no megas, alolan pokedex only - which means finally no genies outclassing fucking everything -, etc), not to mention that it seems like a bunch of things have counters, so it's going to be a lot of fun to explore. My points on variety were mostly for the general competitive concept.
