>>44871132I caught the tail end of it and it was basically this
>>44871221. Maybe these were just the communities I lurked but there was a lot of disillusionment with RSE compared to GSC and there were plenty of people who were like "fuck the games, only competitive play matters." The Orre games were seen as an odd novelty, I think being on Gamecube limited their attention somewhat. Competitively Gen 3 was the last "old-school" gen in that Smogon was very decentralized and didn't have all the weird bureaucracy it had today. One common variant rule I remember that was common was that in UU, you could use up to 2 BL mons and I'm a bit surprised no one has tried bringing that back since otherwise BL mons are essentially stuck in limbo.
>>44871237The logic was that the longer a battle lasted, the more likely it is to act as a true indicator of skill. It's a funny thing to think about today because Gen 3 matches could still drag out for quite a while compared to modern metas. Stall vs stall could end up with battles taking over 100 turns. I don't agree with that logic mind you, Gen 1 is my preferred old-ass meta of choice.
>>44871597That and the seven weaknesses. But there was a small handful of people who wanted the thing sent to ubers anyway and some servers would set up scripts to auto-kick you if you had it in your team. Good times.
