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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:21:24 No.34935953 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>34936004 >>34936143 >>34936989

Yeah, I’d say the smogonfags are fucking retarded. Why do so many people act like a fanfic meta is “official”?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:23:15 No.34935962 Report

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I suggest going to a group home that specializes in low-functioning autistic people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:29:15 No.34935989 Report

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B8 thread, sage goes in all fields.
Show me the official 6v6 singles meta. Protip: it's smogon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:30:24 No.34935999 Report

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All battle timers considered, it's funny confirming there are still ragequitters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:30:33 No.34936004 Report

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>>34935953
because it is the only worthwhile meta, has way more thought put into it than the garbage that is vgc

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:30:56 No.34936008 Report

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:49:35 No.34936124 Report

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smogon babies btfo xD

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:52:51 No.34936143 Report

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>>34935953
>>34936008
>implying stealth rock is broken or that swagger isn't
the problem is that swagger is unfair because it's too rng heavy and is unbalanced. stealth rock is just good, not rng based and not broken

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:54:16 No.34936150 Report

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>>34936143
Is Swagger still banned?
Gen 7 nerfed confusion into the ground.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:54:43 No.34936153 Report

Quoted By: >>34936165

>>34936150
nope, it was unbanned

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:57:31 No.34936165 Report

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>>34936153
Good.
It honestly feels like Swagger is more akin to giving your opponent a free SD than anything else nowadays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:14:20 No.34936258 Report

Quoted By: >>34936297

Stealth Rock would be ok if it wasn't given out to shit that it doesn't make sense for like the Blissey line, hate how carelessly distributed it is, same with Knock Off

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:19:42 No.34936297 Report

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>>34936258
I wish there was a way to remove Stealth Rock in a similar way to Toxic Spikes.
Switch in a rock type and it shatters the rocks, or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:31:05 No.34936378 Report

Quoted By: >>34936388 >>34936414 >>34936420 >>34936509 >>34936561

Banning RNG is fucking stupid. RNG is a legitimate competitive tactic. If you’re that good you can play around randomness.

Look at Hearthstone. Everyone bitches about RNG, and yet, the competitive circuit standings are relatively stable. If the game was all random you’d have randoms winning every so often

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:32:34 No.34936388 Report

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>>34936378
Gamefreak is slowly nerfing a lot of the rng in pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:37:01 No.34936414 Report

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>>34936378

Hearthstone works because anything Blizzard makes will become an eSport no matter how bad it actually is.

Being good and balanced has absolutely nothing to do with the eSports side of a game. That is only determined with how fun something is to watch.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:37:50 No.34936420 Report

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>>34936378
this, either nut up or shut up.

anything goes or nothing does

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Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:49:20 No.34936509 Report

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>>34936378
>RNG is a legitimate competitive tactic
>RNG
>Competitive
Improvement isn't always a good thing anon is that you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:54:15 No.34936561 Report

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>>34936378
>RNG is a legitimate competitive tactic
and yet gf wants it gone

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:55:21 No.34936568 Report

Quoted By: >>34936595

Being good at smogon: nobody fucking cares
Being good at cartridges: even the japs and koreans will know your name

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:55:50 No.34936570 Report

Quoted By: >>34936759

Unpopular opinion time: Smogon is actually really good at what they do and provide an alternative to the official VGC rules which blatantly ignores their own inherently broken or just plain pissy mechanic.

Since the official game cares nothing about balance as they think they're making for 12 year olds, Smogon is doing an amazing job of creating a somewhat fair and fun meta-environment for anyone who wants to actually play with thought.

Sorry VGC has no nuance and thinks the game is already balanced (lol)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:59:20 No.34936595 Report

Quoted By: >>34936657

>>34936568
Being good at VGC is like being a good professional football player, you'll likely be known around the world.
Being good at Smogon is like being a professional handegg player, nobody but Americans will give a shit, but since Americans don't really give a fuck about soccer either way they are happy this way.

The difference is that unlike handegg Smogon's formats are better and more balanced than VGC.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 18:05:48 No.34936657 Report

Quoted By: >>34936670

>>34936595
Are Pokémon players that big of a thing?
I mean, I know of famous players from a lot of gales I don’t play like WoW or MTG but the only famous Pokémon players I know of are more akin to youtube celebrities like Pokeaimd or Verlis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 18:07:17 No.34936670 Report

Quoted By: >>34936748

>>34936657
Usually world champs are famous all across the board while good Smogon players are only well known among themselves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 18:19:22 No.34936748 Report

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>>34936670
This is only because VGC has the backing of Gamefreak as its official tournaments while Smogon doesn't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 18:20:34 No.34936759 Report

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>>34936570
>fun
I'll give you fair but don't say that the Lando-stealth rock-auto pilot meta is anywhere close to fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Feb 2018 18:50:28 No.34936989 Report

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>>34935953
>Stealth Rocks
>Rocks
People who call it this need sending to camps and burning in a furnace.

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