>>48211172Not that I don't like doubles, but my preference for singles mainly stems from doubles' greater centralization. Doubles tournaments are more often won by players that use almost or exactly the same team, but differ in places like EV spreads, item, and movesets. This is especially true in national dex formats. Hell, sometimes team members of top placing doubles players go unpicked for all but a game or two. There's also move centralization, like how Protect's prevalence in doubles pretty much eclipses the dominance of any one move in singles. Some centralization in other aspects plays in, too, like how Intimidate gets way more mileage out of affecting two pokemon and is still extremely common despite the introduction of abilities like competitive and defiant, as well as direct nerfs like adrenaline orb and more abilities ignoring Intimidate. Some centralization also shared between singles and doubles also made a bigger impact on doubles, such as terrain wars in gen 7 and same-turn speed control in gen 8.
Don't get me wrong, doubles definitely has its advantages and I think pokemon made the right call making them the official format since it's easier to watch. I would say it has more room for innovation than singles, but that doesn't mean as much when doubles' generic meta teams have an easier time stomping innovative teams than their singles counterparts do. The whole point of a monster collecting RPG is a choice of multiple different teams.
