Man I was really close. I could enjoy this meta, I thought. But I am legitimately out of gas. After falling out of the 1900s, I thought I could bounce back again. If the meta adapts to me I will just adapt back. A few losses are just setbacks. Build new teams and strategies maybe incorperate some of the opponents cores into my style or try unothodox strategies like fairy blast rotom to lure in dragons. I briefly went back only to fall again. Since then I just couldnt climb back. I cant even beat players from the 1500s anymore, it is that bad.
I dunno, maybe I am truly talentless at this game or I am not in the right state of mind. There is no way that a player of 1900s caliber should ever lose to someone below 1600s this much so my run was simply a fluke. It is absolutely insane how fast the meta adapts though.
One thing I wanna say is, I absolutely HATE how many resources a lot of prominent mons require to beat. I am gonna name Kyurem for example since it is one of the mons that is a suspect candidate in many peoples eyes. If specs would be its only set, it would be fine. It's moves can be scouted with bulky walls like Slowking or bulky balloon resists like Gambit and then you go from there. But this thing has various sets that can be outright game ending. DD tera blast sets, DD mixed, DD-sub, Boots 4 attack and there is still more. These sets have different counters and checks. Guessing wrong will net you a dead mon at best and end the game at worst, with the one dead mon also being potentially game changing. Not to mention all these sets can be run on many different teams
Counters and Checks usually have the trait of having favorable typing against mons they check or counter but Kyurem can blow past water types with freeze dry and fire+steels with earth power on top of having high bst, verstality and the ability to end games on the wrong scout. Pair him up with a mon that also exerts huge pressure like Ogerpon, Gambit, Gouging ect... and then good luck. Kyurem is certainly not the only one like that of course.
I also highly dislike Zamas presence, he has many of Kyurem's traits above listed with high bst, a lot of viable set variance(ID-press alone has a lot variations like roar(to stop tera ghost setups), crunch for ghosts, rest, heavy slam for fairies,edge for the birds and more dangerously sub to block status and set up on passive mons. Even the evs you set can be extremely customizable with some running less speed and more def to hit harder on the spot and others investing in spdef bulk which it can tank suprisingly nicely for a "physical" mon.
There is also band and boots attacker set that can catch mons offguard. Like banded crunch can open up Slowking for the likes of valiant and bolt.
And true it wont sweep fatter teams but it can still put pressure on a lot of builds and even punch holes for other teammates. Not to mention it so goddamm fast for how bulky it is, how hard it hits and the potential to end games too. If you don't have bulky ghosts or dragapult on your team you will probably need atleast 2 mons to deal with this mon. Which is I guess is fine for a lot of people and honestly probably nothing special in a way. Who knows, with the rise of Sinistcha maybe things are adapting to it. But Zama will probably adapt back.
Lastly I wanna apologize if it comes across as "doomerpostin". I had to let out some of my negativity and grievances somewhere and it sure as hell shouldn't be towards my opponent so I hope you can forgive me. The points above might just be salt fueled and my own frustration at myself at not being able to adapt when I felt like I could before. I admit, I am a bad player so hopefully I can make peace with that now.
I know people will tell me I can quit the game and play sth else if I don't enjoy it and to be honest,, FAIR. Mons has been the game I love for years but it is not like the only game out there. Cheers.
