>>36310075Or whoever runs this site is vastly overselling it. If there were any sort of existing tournament record for this I might believe you, but there isn't and all evidence points towards Venu being similarly shit in 3v3 as in 6v6.
>worst starter in the seriesBullshit claim because mechanics and metas change from game to game. Only mons with truly unsalvageable designs like Parasect and Unown are universally shit. Zard is garbage in gen 1 and the single best starter in gen 2, then mostly bad again until gen 6 where suddenly it's meta. Meganium has a niche in gen 2 and is garbage in every subsequent game. Venusaur is bad to mediocre in gens 1-4 but gets mechanical changes in 5 and 6 that make it good.
>Nintendo doesn't enforce too many rulesThey don't make an effort to balance the game but they love arbitrary flavor rules like item clause, 155 combined level cap, random legend bans (because articuno is just as OP as lugia), regional pokedex clauses, dragonite bans, unbanning some box legends but only allowing 2 per team, etc. Not to defend Smogon, but at least their bans nominally serve some other purpose than flavor.
>Just because it's dead now doesn't mean Venusaur was bad in Gen2It was definitely shit in every 6s format (Smogon might not have existed, but 6s was a natural way for players to play and NetBattle was a thing) and probably also shit in this obscure jp-only tournament you've decided is the end-all be-all GSC format. It's bad.
