First Darkmalice says Australia doesn't have WiFi and now Pocket says he can't count to one. This thread is incredibly confusing :(
Anyway, Ray did share something very important that both you and Darkmalice missed. There has been multiple years of development in doubles and for some reason most people are ignoring that in their team-building. Your metagame would feel a lot more developed if you used that as a starting point rather than starting from scratch, but being terrible is fun in its own right and makes this metagame feel really nostalgic. Reading some of your posts where you discover things for the first time in particular bring a bit of a smile to my face because I can remember back when we discovered those things for the first time as well and how excited we were! It's good to see more players getting introduced to doubles battling.
I ask, to what are these multiple years of development actually referring? If you mean to say that half a decade of four vs. four double battling under Nintendo's officially sanctioned format, a metagame which has not yet had consistent rules for an extended period of time and has sometimes been radically different year to year, should have bearing on a brand new style of standardized doubles, then that would be correct in one way, but wrong in another. If you mean that there has been 6v6 standardized Doubles going on behind the scenes for some time, then I wish I had known about it!
6v6 standardized Doubles and the VGC are very close to each other. They even share a similar origin as styles of play that were misunderstood by the competitive community at large, but eventually became accepted through the hard work and success of its players (though Doubles is not quite there yet). Because they are both double battling, it certainly follows that there will be overlap in strategies and usage, as well as what is viable and what is not. That much should be obvious and I will not argue against that because I agree with it.
It is wrong, however, to believe that the experiences and anecdotes from the VGC community are common enough knowledge to influence new Smogon Doubles players and the rest of those currently playing, because they are not not common, or readily available knowledge. I do not know what won the Video Game Championship last year, nor do I participate in the VGC, or read the analysis that are on Smogon's website, or have a clique of collaborators to conspire with. I am totally unconcerned with the Video Game Championship and so I know very little about it. It is irrational to assume that because Hitmontop was a star player one year in the VGC, that it would remain a star in subsequent years, and so that should indicate to every player starting out in standard Doubles that the factors that make certain Pokemon effective in the VGC should necessarily translate to Smogon Doubles, never mind if they even know about the Video Game Championship. Whether or not that the VGC and Smogon Doubles directly translate, the relationship between the two cannot be assumed to be obvious. I have no idea if Hitmontop, whether it has Intimidate or Technician, is currently viable in the VGC. It might be, I imagine it is, but I know the qualities that make Hitmontop effective in standard Doubles for all reasons except for knowledge of the VGC.* The same goes for the likes of Cresselia and weather.
I also want to address the primary substance of your post, namely the last bold portion. I do not know if your intent was to sound flippant, or if you were not know completely aware what you were writing, but what you have expressed in your post as a whole is a condescending apathy towards Smogon Doubles and it is not worth discerning why. You do make a point and that is that Smogon Doubles should take inspiration from the VGC, which I agree with, but everything following that is totally irrelevant to the effort of establishing a standard Doubles metagame. I do not think anyone cares who you or what "we" are when you insult a brand new metagame that has never had this much support in the decade since its game mechanics were programmed, and when you insult those players who are trying to enrich the diversity of the Smogon competitive community.
I look forward to hearing more from you. You seem to have been playing doubles in whatever form for a while and you have expressed an interest in this metagame. I am interested in your opinions. I recommend, however, that you be more careful with what you express in your posts.
*I want to point out that I am not ignorant of the Video Game Championship, nor am I knocking it. I have built teams and battled somewhat seriously since 2010, but I do not do anything VGC related anymore. My experiences with both Nintendo's format compared to a standardized Doubles format lead me to believe that the relationship between the VGC and Smogon Doubles is not as direct as it may seem.