Pokemon is crazy unbalanced. Hence why on a community side many things are banned. of an ideal competitive field. On Nintendo’s hosted events pokemon are still banned because they know some things are just flat broke. The meta formed after consciously acknowledging the broken elements in the game and restricting them to form an ideal competitive scenario Plus the game has a huge following and the mechanics are fairly solid excusing some RNG.
Smash bro’s same thing. Fox only, no items, Final destination (not srs). Community driven took balance to an extent into their own hands by limiting what they knew was detrimental to the field.
Was funny watching Custom Arena’s come out, but there weren’t any sort of restrictions. Considering CA you’d think with all the “To hell with x in the meta” Players would run their scrimmage and ban a trait and see if that balanced things out.
All CA based tournaments/scrimmages could’ve had Dhuumfire banned before-hand if they wanted to before Anet put any nerf stick at it. Actually think I would watch some restricted CA fights at this point since it’s so boring to watch right now.
Pokemon? Rofl, this game is way to unbalanced to even be considered an esport. It is also way to boring to watch. This is coming from a rank 76 OU pokemon battle on showdown http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
. Do you even know how many ability/pokemons got banned to get a glimpse of balance. There is also those matches weere you LITERALY lose, and I MEAN IT, literaly lose because of hax (luck/crit), even thought you outplayed your oppenent. Just no, pokemon will never be considered as an esport, ever.
