>>43136667I know Pokemon players never playing a game outside of Pokemon is a meme but this one rings really true. Tons of games have fan-made metas, especially before esports got big, and a lot of them are way more cancerous than Smogon.
I remember playing TF2 years back where leagues would ban basically everything for no reason. Some of the reasons were just 'well its bad so nobody would use it anyway, might as well ban it'.
Smogon's tier system is pretty great in comparison, gives most of the roster a chance to shine somewhere. VGC could really use it so it's not the same few Pokemon dominating 100% of games.
