>Smogon has one of the most poorly-moderated forms on the internet, with no accountability for mods who can ban at-will. Mods commonly use this power to stifle discussions, turn the meta towards what they want to play, and prevent warnings about pedophilia and child abuse from reaching other players
>Something not many people know is that the elo system in pokemon showdown doesn't mainly depend on you're winning ratio, but on the ammount of turns you're won battles take. So higher elo rated players are not better, just play longer battles, aka stall
>The VGC bans being based on the top 10 pokemon is something much more objective than the council quickbans decided by 5 normies or their elitistic suspects, were only a small minority of high elo players can vote. That's why a lot of things like dynamax had +90% pro ban vote, only stall users could vote.
>In generation 7 the ou council assured that landorus therian would not be banned even if it reached more than 95% usage
>Smogon's one suspect test to UNBAN a Pokemon is because it supports stall, and because a Smoggie "influencer" wants it to be unbanned so they could make clickbait videos
>The smogon council is biased and bans offensive pokemon like darmanitan, cinderace, dugtrio and dracovish, while stallmons like ferrothorn, who see much more usage in ubers, are kept
>Smogon itself has been absolutely infested by pedophiles and child sexual predators for decades, with high-level and adult-male admins posing as 15-year old girls in order to get sexual conversations and photographs out of 14-year old girls,
>Smogon being biased pro-stall makes a lot of sense: longer games with less thought required to play gives you far more opportunities to groom your opponents
FUCK SMOGON
