Is there really a point in wanting a change of pace if people will just copy each other anyway? The winning move is not to play. It's especially gross when you do see innovation but people just copy that innovation to death anyway. It makes you wonder how lame an actual Pokemon world would be since people would just be trying to raise the same selection of mons they hear are good. It's like if every high leveled trainer you ran into while traveling had Infernape + Staraptor + Garchomp in Sinnoh, Greninja + Talonflame + Aegislash in Kalos, etc and you just had to fight that over and over.