Singles as one of the recognized battle format are gone forever, aren't they?
>>59166749BSS is right there
>>59166749the games always pushed 2v2 doubles as the official format. It's just smogtrannies that insist on 6v6 singles
>>59166878>the notoriously lazy and bad devs prefer 2v2 because they're fast and more prone to luck masking their bad balance decisions. Therefore smogon, the online community that has dozens of supported formats, are retarded for not prioritizing it.*yawn*
>>59166749no one respects singles fags
>>59166749Not on the most popular competitive platform, no.
>>59166966dunno about the luck thing but they’re definitely pushing 2v2 because it’s fasterChampions is going to be a mobile game and Kobayashi-san on his morning train ride isn’t going to have 20 minutes to play out a full game against a singles stall team
>>59166749What are you talking about? Champions has a singles ladder.
Singletrannies want to waste an hour of your life playing stall. Like they get joy out of sitting there for an hour doing nothing. Absolutely autistic format
>>59168030>Nobody ACTUALLY enjoys playing a competitive game. They're all just autistic. Yeah, that's it!the type of retard that thinks nobody enjoys chess because it doesn't personally appeal to him.
>>59168155>explicitly playing a format that LIMITS strategy, unlike how doubles multiplies itSo you're playing checkers instead of chess then getting mad when shitheads laugh at you while they're playing Go (the board game).
>>591669662v2 is way more skill-based>targeting decisions let mindgames outplay stats, a well-placed double up can win the game and it’s almost impossible for “outspeed and oneshot” strats to work due to spread damage reduction>bring 4 ruleset means you almost never have a party that can answer any threat, you have to understand your opponent and pick to counter what they’ll bring>item clause means you can’t just slap choice / orb / lefties on every fucking mon, you have to choose who can capitalize the most on a given item, which makes it harder to create offensive or defensive redundancies and exposes your win condition to disruption more if you aren’t carefulThe speed of the battles (because it’s 2x as many actions per turn) changes the balance, it makes powerful effects with a short turn duration more potent, and minor effects with endless turn duration less potent, which is helpful for the balance of status and hazards, which is another positive though I wouldn’t say that it’s more skill expressive
