I don't think we've had topic like this since the forum died a couple of years ago. This is a general topic really: what do you think of the Pokemon Metagame? Love it and you do competitive battling a lot? Or is it just a massive turn off...
I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm definitely not Smogon level competitive battling but I like the whole strategy and I keep up with the trends. It's just one way I get into Pokemon and it influences how I write as well. Recently I've found my competitive side waning quite a bit but I think I'll get more into it again once I get my hands on Black 2. I still need to think about whether I'm adding Genesect to my team or not, but I digress.
Overall I like the metagame of Pokemon. Yeah, you get people who take it too seriously, but I just find it fun. My only complaint is when people get too stuck in a certain way of battling to where you can't really enjoy using other Pokemon. But that might be because I like sucky-ish Pokemon sometimes xD
I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm definitely not Smogon level competitive battling but I like the whole strategy and I keep up with the trends. It's just one way I get into Pokemon and it influences how I write as well. Recently I've found my competitive side waning quite a bit but I think I'll get more into it again once I get my hands on Black 2. I still need to think about whether I'm adding Genesect to my team or not, but I digress.
Overall I like the metagame of Pokemon. Yeah, you get people who take it too seriously, but I just find it fun. My only complaint is when people get too stuck in a certain way of battling to where you can't really enjoy using other Pokemon. But that might be because I like sucky-ish Pokemon sometimes xD