>>31089167Again, not everyone is concerned with favorites. Some people crave competition. The effort comes from strategy, prediction, and being clever.
You are also under the mistaken impression that OU consists completely of OU pokemon, but that is wrong. I see Qwilfish in OU with pretty good frequency. A pokemon with poor stats to be sure, but its movepool, typing, and versatility give it strength.
You clearly like pokemon for a different reason than they do. There's nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is demonizing them for playing in a way you don't agree with.
And finally, I cannot TELL you how many times I have seen the "same copy/pasted" team online or in Showdown. Do you know what happens to Joe Shmoe who copies an OU team move and stat by stat? He fucking loses. Do you know why?
Each OU team is crafted not just to suit the metagame itself, but to suit certain personal strategies. To suit an individual player's ability to predict, to suit their team's needs, to support a core pokemon they genuinely enjoy using because he's gotten them so far in the game.
Back in the D/P/Pla days I had a "friend" who was notorious in our circle for hacking in OU pokemon teams he blatantly copied from Smogon, but he could never fucking win with them. He had the moves, the stats, but he didn't really understand strategy, checks, team sync, proper switching, or predicting his opponent. I usually beat him with my shitty mixed bag team of my favorite pokemon not because of HURRR FRIENDSHIP but because it was blatantly obvious what his next move was going to be. Anyone can copy a team but using it is a different matter.
