>>45392609>How come no one else could think of it?Overlooked meta pokemon happen all the fucking time. There's a lot of pokemon, and a lot of them need serious tinkering to even be viable.
To put this into perspective, the Advance meta is STILL developing; it's very close to solved, but not quite, and new pokemon are still being identified as having some meta relevance with the right team set up.
There are only so many people in the world to actually look over each shitmon and realize a way it can work in a given restricted format. Se Jun was rewarded for identifying a pokemon that was slept on, that could foil the developing meta at the time.
The two biggest differences between then and now is that first, many, many more people are invested in competitive pokemon, meaning many many more people are trying to play the game, including internet funnymen and memelords trying to troll with antimeta teams, that do a lot of the obscure pokemon testing for the people who are actually going to win, both in identifying wildcard picks and making people aware of the counters to them, and second, the power gap between meta relevant pokemon and the average shitmon is so fucking massive that average pokemon just can't compete in it, and indeed actually open up opportunities for an opponent to shitstomp you for trying and giving them the opening.
