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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:25:37 No.43831854 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>43832087 >>43833631 >>43833772 >>43833819 >>43833888 >>43834667 >>43836556

What's your favorite generation for the competitive metagame?

Not necessarily talking about fanfic rulesets like Smogon or VGC, but just in general, what's there at the foundation?

Factors to consider include but are not limited to:
>Physical/Special Split
>Multi-Battles
>Abilities & Hidden Abilities
>Powercreep & Balance
>Megas, Z-Moves, Dynamax
>Movepools

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:27:20 No.43831876 Report

Quoted By: >>43832122

Gen 7 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 1 > 6

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:33:21 No.43831950 Report

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For me, it's Gen III

>supremely well-balanced without legendaries, and amongst legendaries themselves
>has more options for play than Gen I & Gen II: more held items, more moves, more Pokemon, more mechanics
>has double battles to add variety and an extra layer of strategy
>lack of physical/special split facilitated the balance GameFreak originally set out to make starting as early as Gen I
>lacks the bloat and imbalanced powercreep of later gens, like Stealth Rock, Scald, hidden abilities, megas, z-moves, dynamax, and generally overpowered Pokemon like Ultra Beasts
>is neither too basic nor bogged down with bullshit

To me, Gen III competitive was peak Pokemon. Gen IV is a close second but Stealth Rock ruined it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:42:42 No.43832030 Report

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Weather wars fanboy here. But also fuck the genies, especially that fucking floating Tony the Tiger ripoff

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:46:58 No.43832076 Report

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THANK YOU GENIES, you'll be back soon!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:48:20 No.43832087 Report

Quoted By: >>43832122

>>43831854
6 > 8 > 4 > 7 > 3 > 2 = 1 > 5

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 00:51:35 No.43832122 Report

Quoted By: >>43832540

>>43831876
>>43832087
Don't understand how you tolerate or praise newer gen metagames but rank Gen IV's above Gen V's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 01:48:00 No.43832540 Report

Quoted By: >>43832780 >>43833642

>>43832122
Weather wars was atrocious, only reason it isn't last is gen 1 is a meme meta and gen 6 had megashit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 02:19:14 No.43832780 Report

Quoted By: >>43833467

>>43832540
Weather wars were based and gen 7 also had megashit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 03:53:35 No.43833467 Report

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>>43832780
> Weather wars were based
Zoomer trash

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:18:07 No.43833631 Report

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>>43831854
HGSS/Pt

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:20:06 No.43833642 Report

Quoted By: >>43833702 >>43833834

>>43832540
>Weather wars was atrocious
Then it was better when Gen 5 nerfed them to 5 turns

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:30:25 No.43833702 Report

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>>43833642
Gen V was the one that gave Drought and Drizzle to non-legendaries, and created Sand Rush and Sand Force in the first place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:39:03 No.43833772 Report

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>>43831854
THANK YOU GENIES

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:45:30 No.43833819 Report

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>>43831854
gen 3>5>4>2>6>1>7

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:47:50 No.43833834 Report

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>>43833642
Gen VI made that nerf, retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:53:18 No.43833870 Report

Quoted By: >>43833962

5 and 7 were the best by far. Any other meta is dogshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 04:56:55 No.43833888 Report

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>>43831854
4=3 > 5 > 7 > 6 > 8=1 > 2

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 05:06:57 No.43833962 Report

Quoted By: >>43834746

>>43833870
Gen VII was powercrept to an enormous, absurd degree with its legendaries de jure and de facto, in addition to having Megas and now Z-Moves that could easily break the game; and although most of the dex was tame to say the least, it introduced others like Toxapex which were definitive cancer, in small part thanks to Gen V's Hidden Abilities which provided an excuse for introducing busted crap like Regenerator.

Gen V also introduced Scald, buffed Knock Off, Shell Smash, and other OP garbage; items like Eviolite and Assault Vest; and unlike Gen VII's dex had an on the whole competent dex even without legendaries that nevertheless imbalanced the metagame, such as Ferrothorn and Darmanitan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 06:50:52 No.43834633 Report

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 06:51:29 No.43834638 Report

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thank you genies

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 06:58:07 No.43834667 Report

Quoted By: >>43834671 >>43834721

>>43831854

Competitive wasn’t really balanced until Gen 8.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 06:58:53 No.43834671 Report

Quoted By: >>43834691

>>43834667
ironic how one of the worst metagames yet is brought about by gamefreak finally dipping their toes into """""""""balancing"""""""""

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:02:43 No.43834691 Report

Quoted By: >>43834921

>>43834671

You probably think Dynamaxing is unbalanced, kiddo. Gen 8’s meta is smooth as butter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:07:33 No.43834721 Report

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>>43834667
Damned lie. Either bait, pure retardation, or underagedness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:12:20 No.43834746 Report

Quoted By: >>43834799

>>43833962
epic armchair analyst that doesn't actually play

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:20:00 No.43834799 Report

Quoted By: >>43834883

>>43834746
epic drone that just looks at smogon guides to play

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:37:13 No.43834883 Report

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>>43834799
where did this non-sequitur even come from?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:45:19 No.43834921 Report

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>>43834691
I don't know who's the bigger dumbass.
You for saying Dynamax is balanced and that gen 8's meta is smooth, or me for replying to such obvious bait.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 07:49:49 No.43834938 Report

Quoted By: >>43836539

Gen 6 for me, some dude won World Finals with a Pachirisu :D

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 10:25:35 No.43835603 Report

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 10:28:10 No.43835608 Report

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6. Megas were peak competitive comfy. I only wish M-Mawile was unbanned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 11:01:51 No.43835762 Report

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Another vote for 6. I played other meta's for a short amount of time because they didn't interest me. Gen 6's meta was incredible though. Even gen 7 dropped the ball right after it and I didn't like that meta either.
God I wish we had a meta as good as 6's again. The true golden days of competitive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 12:45:04 No.43836204 Report

Quoted By: >>43836372

4 because fuck team preview, managing how much info you were revealing and trying to guess that the opponent had up their sleeve was the best. I don't know why they decided to fuck over Zoroark so hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:11:28 No.43836372 Report

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>>43836204
>fuck team preview
forgot about this, this also factored into my reasoning against nugens

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:37:27 No.43836539 Report

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>>43834938
Yes, because Pachirisu was a perfect anti-meta pick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:39:44 No.43836556 Report

Quoted By:

>>43831854
THANK YOU GENIES

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:43:48 No.43836585 Report

Quoted By: >>43836604

4-6 are the only good competitive gens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:45:46 No.43836604 Report

Quoted By: >>43836621

>>43836585
define "good"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:47:11 No.43836613 Report

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thank you genies

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:48:19 No.43836621 Report

Quoted By: >>43836658

>>43836604
Still playable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:52:58 No.43836658 Report

Quoted By: >>43836672

>>43836621
Then you're wrong. If you can stomach Gen VI shit you have no reason to turn your nose up at Gen VII, and you barely have reason to continue playing Gen V other than muh 3D.
Meanwhile Gen III remains the most playable pre-split meta, being the peak of that system.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:54:56 No.43836672 Report

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>>43836658
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 13:56:37 No.43836681 Report

Quoted By: >>43836705

wait what the fuck that's my college roommate on the right

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 14:01:26 No.43836705 Report

Quoted By: >>43837623

>>43836681
tell him he's a fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 14:14:38 No.43836782 Report

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>Stealth Rock ruins the meta
>gen 6 meta is perfect because I remember people using epic memes like Trevenant before the meta settled
>team preview is bad because my bro Zoroark got screwed wtf Game Freak :(
>some retard who thinks only gen 6 had megas and gen 5 nerfed weathers
>gen 8 meta is "smooth"

Great thread so far

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 16:01:05 No.43837615 Report

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2020 16:02:40 No.43837623 Report

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>>43836705
I mean, he is literally gay, but fuck you. Probably knows more girls than you.

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