>>43168672>but the most commonly known gambits is a 15 movement play.that's part of the meta game, an advanced strategy that developed more or less organically over centuries of play.
chess has a more complex meta, yes, partly because it's hundreds of years older and is generally played by much smarter people.
you're right but it's a little ridiculous to compare the concept of chess gambits to a game that inherently can't have anything like them
>players who forget what moves are super effectivei hope this is meant as a joke
>what abilities or sets you are runningthere are abilities and sets that are mathematically more likely to succeed
in the settings people play pokémon, (online ranked, showdown, tournaments).
but you aren't exclusively running into those sets. you have to deal with the guy who uses his favorite bro mon and custom-built a team around it just as often as you face jimmy smogon with the copy-pasted meta team. and you're not going to make it far if you don't have a decent understanding of what that team can do, even if yours is statistically superior.
