>>57128172Verlisify calls out
>cheaterswho make people who don't cheat or devote hundreds of hours to crafting meta-relevant teams unable to compete on equal footing, since Pokemon is so heavily a numbers game where better stats provide overwhelming odds of winning---and it doesn't even stop with stats, but with access to certain mons and moves too that are terribly inconvenient for a regular player
>smogoniteswho claim they love competitive Pokemon while all their policies show a consistent hatred of what Pokemon actually is, as well as an overwhelming desire to keep their metas stale and predictable in order to protect and promote their own favored strategies at the expense of others' idea of fun, even if those hated strategies have checks and balances which merely require adaptations in one's own play
>criticslike the guy who made this video that love to dodge his actual arguments and the content of what he's saying, favoring ad hominems like furry pedophile or bad player, all the while accusing him of being the hypocritical and unreasonable one
>GameFreak & The Pokemon Companyfor putting out lackluster games and not only not taking action against bad actors, but actively promoting them
There's so many agreeable attacks he makes, but he's labeled a "contrarian" because, as he puts it, the community has become mostly "toxic" where all of this gets embraced and celebrated instead of rejected. It's commendable he doesn't bend the knee and continues cooking up more diatribes against what he notices wrong.
I've always hated Smogon myself, so he really just brings another perspective that validates my own and adds to it.
