Same reason Pokemon and Mario fans go after Call of Duty fans.
Pretty much that;
Same reason Pokemon and Mario fans go after Call of Duty fans.
Also, on HeartGold, my Togepi is suicidal. It's only attacking move was Metrinome, and it kept using Selfdestruct, Explosion, Healing Wish, Lunar Dance, and Memento, battle after battle. the friendship value still isn't high enough for it to evolve, so yeah.
Basically what he said, except he's probably better than me.My age is 14, and no, I don't scream "hax!" or "n00b" whenever I lose. Nor am I actually bad. Well, I do terrible on days like these, but usually I wind up ranking 12,00 points on smogon's PO ladder.
I'll have to admit that I'm a bit biased, but I think it's pretty clear that not all 13 year olds are noobs.
I think you got that the wrong way.
Ever met a guy on Xbox Live that has Pokemon in its name, while Playing Call of Duty? No?
That's because I'm probably the only person who does that.
either way, it's the call of Duty fans that go after Pokemon. trust me, I know that from experiance. I don't know about Mario though.
What, no battlefield 3? Or TF2?My name is HellFireVio94, and HellFire is always the name of my Typhlosion, and the character that's in my comic series, AKA Typhlosion.
You aren't the 1% Lol
Also, it's Halo VS CoD.
What, no battlefield 3? Or TF2?
I've ne'er done anything like that, although I named my Hydreigon Dovahkiin.
My name is HellFireVio94, and HellFire is always the name of my Typhlosion, and the character that's in my comic series, AKA Typhlosion.
You aren't the 1% Lol
Also, it's Halo VS CoD.
My Live account is "PokemonGX", and I highly doubt anyone else has the courage to have Pokemon in there name.
Did you ever play when Swift Swim + Drizzle was allowed, where people could slap a bunch of abusers on a team to sweep with their doubled speed and double STAB in Rain? Did you ever have to face Excadrill when it could reach the equivalent of 2 Dragon Dances in a single turn and barrel through teams with its near-perfect coverage and already impressive power? Did you ever try to tackle Blaziken when it became nearly impossible to outspeed after a couple of turns and could eliminate almost every OU-viable Pokemon after a Swords Dance AND could destroy the SD set's counters with a simple mixed set?
Each of those bans went through an extensive testing process where the entire community tested the Pokemon/ability/move/etc. and decided whether or not the ban would be made. You can't just push that off as "they were scared."
Not to put you on the spot, MugoUrth, but I feel that this statement sums up a lot of the resentment towards Smogon in a nutshell. Many are just mad because "smogun dozent like muh supah garchomppz and charizardz." In other words, many players don't like Smogon just because their precious favorites are banned or in a lower tier.
I think a lot of this stems from a misconception that Smogon is some entity that makes these decisions in competitive battling, when in reality, Smogon is simply a community much like this one that makes these tiering decisions based directly on the activity within the community. Heck, there are even a ton of people on this very site that are either a part of the Smogon community or at least participate in usage stats by playing on their Pokemon Online server. If you're favorite Pokemon is in a lower tier, then that just means that the entire community plus some others aren't using it enough.
Another complaint I've heard often is that Smogon "makes" people use certain sets (it's even funnier when people suggest that those sets suck). This argument is really sad and ill-researched. In reality, Smogon doesn't make anyone use anything. Their sets are just the ones that work, the ones that players commonly use. In this regard, Smogon is just a reference where you can see good sets for some inspiration for your own team, or just to know what is common and what you should prepare for.
There are some other common complaints that I could address, but they seem to have slipped my mind (and I'm not looking through 15 pages to find something else to argue about, lol).
even tho the last guy pretty much said everything.........
I dont like smogon mainly because i feel they dont give us the best info. What i mean is that they will not give out good sugggestions because they are scared of people being more powerful then them if that makes sence.....
And also they keep banning good pokemon because they are scared. I can understand garchomp a little. (even tho i still think it shouldnt be banned) but swift swim users, excadrill, and blaziken? come on now......