No, I was just thinking today about a discussion of how meta form, and in specific why "just playing with your favorites" will never be a thing.
Consider a group of players who ONLY play with eachother, nobody ever quits playing pokemon. They buy every new game, and always play together and only fight eachother. For simplicity sake, lets say that theres only about 10 people in this group of friends. Let's also pretend that how well a pokemon preforms doesn't play into them being better in your mind thus changing your favorites. They pick their favorites purely based on aesthetics.
How long do you think a group like this one, will take to convert from using their favorites only, to using their favorites + pokemon they think are good, and how long do you think it'll take for them to drop using their favorites in favor of using only pokemon they think are good?
I personally think it'll take about one, or two meetings of this group before they've stopped using their favorites entirely. The first time the dude whose favorite is unevolved pokemon only meets up with the dude whose favorites are the same pokemon but evolved. He has no choice but to lose against this guy FOREVER or evolve his pokemon. The first time the guy who only plays bug pokemon meets the guy who only plays bird and fire pokemon, he has a choice to make he can lose forever, or he can change his pokemon. Due to sheer randomness at least one group will become absolutely dominant. (more likely 2-3 groups will share dominance due to ending up being similar by sheer randomness.) Lets just make this simple again, this wouldn't be the case but lets say, three people of the 10 pick pure fire teams, and the rest of the group picks teams specifically weak to fire types. After the first meeting, do you think it's likely that SOMEONE will put at least a few water pokemon in their lineup to counter the fire types?
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