>>31352922In a game where one speed-tie can decide the outcome of a whole battle, you're just stupid if you don't use the perfect Speed on each of your Pokémon.
Whether that "perfect Speed" is as high or as low as possible or just one point above or below something specific, depends.
Speed is the single most important stat in competitive. It is all or nothing. You either attack first or go second. There are no ranges or rolls during a battle, except for the obvious coinflips that can happen.
Even some shit like Slowbro or Snorlax without any investment and played outside of Trick Room wants to have a perfect Speed IV or at least be hyper-trained in Speed. You never know when you run into another Slowbro or Snorlax or some other shit with the same base Speed.
