>>42441352smogon is like communism:
on paper it works perfectly, but if there's any corruption or idiocy in the seats of power, a domino effect of bad things will happen. for example, smogon should ban all legendaries to Ubers because they're legendary. certain pokemon shouldn't be given special treatment. the metagame shouldn't revolve around "who is better than garchomp and who is worse?".
> there should be a gen8 national dex AG doubles bracket on showdown.
however, even despite all of its drawbacks, smogon's tiers are the best option we have for competitive battling due to the tiers getting constant updates & allowing for any & all pokemon to shine in their respective brackets. meanwhile, vgc over there has 2 tiers: normal & legendaries. the ability to allow all (non-legendary) pokemon in the same bracket is more freeing and even fun in some ways at certain times, but the ubers & ag tiers already allowed that; it's just that in vgc it's so incredibly discouraged to try something against the norm that i'st disgusting.
