brilliantI was a pretty average player until I saw MoP bitching at some people
keeping up with the metagame is where I fall down. Just when you can get your head 'round what's runnin' 'round, something flies in.
brilliantI was a pretty average player until I saw MoP bitching at some people
I guess this redirects the aim of the topic, at least differently from your misleading title.The point of the topic is asking what was the hardest part of the competitive scene for you? It could be from any where from typing to not being able to predict, and everything in between
Sorry for the "misleading title" but I really saw no other way to keep it less vague. Ev's are part of the metagame for people who don't copy paste, having to try out different spreads until they find one that works. In that sense it actually it part of the metagame.I guess this redirects the aim of the topic, at least differently from your misleading title.
Interesting topic, nonetheless.
This. One day I decided to try new shit, stop using a Gliscor / Blissey / Cresselia in all my teams, and try new shit like stall, offensive, and gimmick teams, this pretty much opened my mind and I realized a lot of things that can be done with different synrengys, in example mono-rock team, which is funA few years back I would do stuff like "always have a phaser, always have a counter for X Y Z A B C L M N O P, always have a status move, always have blah blah blah" which obviously imposed unnecessary limitations on my team building.
That's something I forgot to mention in my post. I despise seeing Pokémon like Lucario, Infernape, Gengar, Sceptile, Salamence, Azelf, and such: fast, versatile things with powerful offenses. They always make me twinge, even now. In particular, when I have a Poke with a double weakness out (Scizor, Dragons, Heracross, Swampert, Gyrados, etc.) then I get all paranoid about a surprise Hidden Power. Defensive but versatile Pokémon like Blissey or Bronzong don't have that same effect for some reason. Probably because, although you don't know what they're going to do, you know they aren't going to faint your Pokémon.For me, it's the extremely versatile Pokemon that give me trouble. Not being experienced with the DPP metagame, I find myself panicking when a versatile Pokemon such as Salamence, Lucario, Dragonite, Gengar, Celebi, etc. come out. I don't know the moveset for sure, and can't predict right.
interestingly enough, I was pretty suckish myself before I saw aldaron bitching to a few people =/I was a pretty average player until I saw MoP bitching at some people about a very significant point.