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Now that you’re
essentially a Pokemon Master I want to take the time out to discuss my thoughts
on Competitive Battling. I’ve had my ups and downs with battling, so I want to
see how much other people can relate to me.
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| Gen 3 remakes tho? |
That’s
that Ish I Don’t Like
My number one
pet peeve (and I’m sure it’s others’) is how unoriginal most teams are. People
tend to use the strongest, most overused Pokemon in the game. There are only so
many Aegislashs, Talonflames, and Rotom-Washes I can see before I start to lose
it. Originality is a huge problem in competitive battling (and mostly every
other online game), but what can you do about it? People want to win and they’ll
do anything to do it. Just look at this picture...
It’s nice to win
when and all, but are these people having fun? I could use one of those teams
and probably win more than I do now, but I simply can’t bring myself to do that.
When I’m building a team I like to use primarily Pokemon I used playing through
the story mode, then add on from there. I’m not saying you have to do the same
thing as me, but at least try to make the team personal.
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| This is the kind of love trainers should have with their Pokemon |
But
After all, it is Competitive Battling
I enjoy a good
competition ever now and again, but sometimes I just want to have fun. I make
teams that would be fun to use in a battle but stand no chance against anyone
taking the battle serious. I wish there was a place where people could battle
and not care about wins or losses (but actually thinking that would be possible
is kind of crazy because I’m sure everyone loves to win).
I could always
use my fun teams outside of competitive battling, in story mode, but where’s
the fun in that? I want a challenge, but I don’t want to battle someone with a
standard team (in whatever tier they may be in). And this is a problem I have
with other games, more specifically Call
of Duty, where I want to try different things but I can’t because everyone
is using the most overused things in the game. This caused me to step away from
Call of Duty, and more recently Pokemon Competitive Battling.
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| Oh, how true this image |
Some
Advice
If there’s one
thing MisterFantasmo
has taught me, it’s always have fun. I haven’t been having fun battling
competitively lately, so I decided to step away and give it a break. The reason
for me stepping away started when Smogon
gave multiple Pokemon I used the Ban Hammer in their respected tiers (in
Pokemon Showdown); this threw off the synergy for my teams and caused me a
great deal of anger because my teams were now terrible. The reason that really
caused me to turn away is the unoriginality with a lot of people’s teams. I’m
not going to lie; competitive battling has legitimately made me angry, and I’m
a person who doesn’t typically get angry.
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| MisterFantasmo, aka Andre |
My advice would
be if you’re not having fun step away from the game; and the great thing about
this advice is it can be applied to many things. The odds of doing better angry
are low, so it would be more beneficial to come back when your mind is clear. I
don’t know when I’ll come back to competitive battling, probably when Mega
Lucario gets unbanned from Ubers (Highly Unlikely), but I hope my information
has been helpful.
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