>>30956742Up to gen 6, Game Freak had absolutely no idea what the fuck they were doing. This isn't because they were dumb, it's because they literally did not give a fuck about competitive. The first sign of a pulse was HAs, which were the first time GF gave a major buff to anything.
Gen 6, GF wakes up, and decides they are going to balance this "meta" the kids are going on about. They take one look at the big 6 of gen 5 (Weather Wars and MagDrag ), nerf weather, and introduce fairy. The Dragon nerf kinda failed, because GF didn't understand that the Dragon type wasn't particularly good, but many of the best pokemon were dragons.
Gen 6, GF becomes aware of the meta, and tries to interact with it. They don't know what the fuck is going on, so they screw the pooch with "meta" mons like Smogonbird and Aegislash. They don't understand the consequences of these actions either, they don't forsee what widespread priority to a 120bp stab move, or that a pokemon they intended to be physical, but that they gave equivalent special attack, and a good special movepool will indeed be used mixed.
ORAS, they tried to hotfix things the only way they could. They tried to create competition for OP roles with new megas, resulting in some of the most cancerous introductions to the meta at all levels of play.
S&M comes around, Pokemon still doesn't know what the fuck it is doing, but it knows more than it did when it first woke up for gen 6. They outright nerf the most problematic shit, then de-power creep new offerings, and make meta-styled min-maxed ultra beasts. Unfortunately, they forgot backwards compatibility was a thing, so all the old, just-beneath-the-surface OP shit that avoided nerf is still around, then they made the tapus of healthy meta. They are getting better, but still don't know what the fuck they're doing.
By the way, the forced pokemon of gen 7 is Tapu Koko. It is literally established as your destiny to fight it in the opening minutes of the game.
