>>31791292While it is true that Pokemon is about prediction, the VGC website posted teams, movesets and natures and it turns out that they're quite predictable. Sure a random pachirisu will shake things up, but for the most part, assume that all Garchomps have EQ. It's called standard and lots of people use standard things because they're good. I can know what my opponent is going to do and still lose because their team is better.
Also, while Pokemon isn't a reflex game like Street Fighter, I've personally done better the more I use my team just because I'm more acclimated as to how they work together. That takes practice. And you do have more time to practice, because you have more time.
Even if there were close to an infinite number of strategies, you would want as much time as possible to create and polish your team.
What really bothers me about injectors isn't the practice of it (which is clearly a violation of the 3DS's guidelines and probably Pokemon's), but the fact that they INSIST that what they're doing doesn't have an advantage over other people who want to play the game as it was intended by the creators (and ultimately, how it SHOULD be played). As an injector, who got tired of SRing for a good zoroark with sludge bomb (because the process is retarded) I have more resources and less headache when it comes to making a team than my friends. That's an advantage.
The problem and the reason for injecting comes from how obnoxious it is to get good Pokemon legitimately, and I understand that. Just don't say that you're playing fairly, because you aren't, whether it's noticeable or not. Have some integrity.
You're almost as bad as the Verlis witchhunters.
