>>50848469>That's because people applied new gen strategies to old gens and found they were good there tooNot without the bans to Arena Trap and Baton Pass. You're missing my entire point.
>Old Smogon: let in as much as possible without breaking the game, we don't develop metas, we just call the game as GF created it>New Smogon: fun things are fun, GF is run by hacksGen V was the first meta where players started to go back to older gens to play, because Smogon so poorly managed it. The majority of players moved forward each gen otherwise, but those old metas were still "reliving the past" because of Smogon's old policy of archiving the old meta's final tiers before the new gen.
Gen VIII is where we see a huge push back into older stuff, reversing of the archive rule, because the players by and large think they're more informed and better at balance than GF is. Why didn't this happen in Gen V? Because boomers were stubborn about nostalgia and keeping the shit metas in place for years, letting them stagnate.
Look at the autism around Gen II Snorlax for no further evidence. Newfags to the meta want Snorlax banned because "muh 100% usage" despite both tradition and experiments with a Snorlax-less meta showing it would be shit without lax in the tier, despite Snorlax ALSO being the best Pokemon in Ubers.
