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I heavily disagree with this take. They have a pretty clear view of what VGC should look like, and it's a fast paced metagame with explosive turns. The presence of high powered swing moves and high RNG value has been a thing for last few gens, and it got increasingly prevalent over time. They...

Mence was one of the viable megas in gen 6 and one of the best in gen 7, mostly for the notable access to super fast tailwind and spread hypervoice combined with ST nuke (special or physical, user choice!) I mentioned Sableye cause honestly... I can't think of a utility mega that had any use in...

Also I think there is a misunderstanding on "balancing". New tools are purposely more powerful than the old ones. New pokemon will not get use / spotlight if they aren't better than the previous ones. There is nothing to "learn" because the powercreep is on purpose and natural course of long...

To be honest I think you do underestimate the impact of Inner Focus on a physical attacker pokemon that is locked on not using a item but does need the mega to hit a relevant speed tier. ...but then again Lopunny exists and has Scrappy which also blocks intimidate...

I vaguely remind someone making a list of the actual tradeback gains and it was incredibly minor moves with no real competitive benefit.

Ngl I wouldn't have said it better. I do agree this is likely the problem, aka that they never really see them as a series and just develop their game in isolation. Which would be *fine* if they didn't also try to keep the compatibility between each other. I rather them just stop trying (keep...

That screenshot is from the official site. They're likely giving them early via PvP for FOMO (so people will do some pvp regardless of being interested), and then distribute them via event at later point as well. Still *very* annoying don't get me wrong, but less tragic than people make it be...

True, but how convenient that the next competitive game seems to have been finally removing IVs completely. (And even if they're not being removed from the actual games, the fact they're not used for the competitive games makes them not much more than a in-game shenenigan not relevant for...

I dont see it here, you can catch and evolve those in LA then move them forward

:mehowth: honestly speaking, that is something I still don't understand to this day. Call it unpopular, but I have never seen any reason to move *back* my pokemon. After a game went out of CG, i usually just moved everything to Bank/Home and either uninstalled that game or only kept around the...

That's honestly funny, but a more grounded idea is that they figured it'd be too much of a hassle to keep the backporting going FOREVER. Imagine that they kept that up for every pokemon game released, eventually every Pokemon stored in Home would have needed to keep storing dozens of titles...

Bad news, this isnt relevant for this discussion, because surprise, that's the thing for smogon too! You don't see people using Mega Audino in OU do you? (And let me tell you, you can ban every single mega from OU, and people would STILL not use Mega Audino) Sure you can go down the trash tiers...

Ahahah no. If you expect more than 4-5 megas to be viable in serious competitive play, that's what i'd call Copium Overdose. People play to win, not for fun, they aren't going to use worse megas for charity when there's money on the line. And with the opportunity cost of "single mega per...

yeaaaaah while sure I can see the thought "i wish to do more with my pokemon than just battle", Pokopia doesn't remotely correlate to what Palworld offers to players in the slightest. One is "DQ builders except it's pokemon" The other is "warcrimes and ecological devastation featuring...

I'll believe it when they give pokemon guns and let me butcher pokemons (and humans) like I can do in Palworld.