After 30 years, I finally realized that I'm bad at Pokemon.
You understand that comp pokemon is a joke right. a huge portion of pokemon battles are decided by 30% flinch rolls and people gambling on damage ranges, this game unironically leans on randomness more than actual card games like yugioh
>>59170618unironically I’ve been struggling in Great Ball rank doubles and most of my losses are just getting fucked by 10% rng or making the wrong 50/50 coin flip calls and its starting to get tilting
>>59170725Decisive 50/50 moments are too common in official formats because battles take 5-10 turns.I fell for the smogon is just stall meme, until i realized that strategies like encore/taunt/etc work even in high elo. I dont think stall is viable atm. No battle will take more than 100 turns unless BOTH players use stall. Stall vs no stall takes 30-60 turns, like an average chess game, if you use proper stallbreaker sets, you might just win in less than 20 turns against stall. Singles takes15-50 turns which is long enough so that skill matters more than luck rock/paper/scissors turns, and short enough so it doesnt become sleep-inducing.
>>59170601I realized I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing
>>5917072590% accuracy means 70% accuracy. 80% accuracy means 50% accuracy. 30% flinch rate means 50% flinch rate. 10% freeze chance means 25% freeze chance. Crits and king's rock are a 20% chance.This is why I perish trap.
>>59170725RNG is what makes games trive and last longer, if there was no rng shit game would be so fucking boring and solved already.>>59171605Use the same moves a thousand times and record the hit and misses.
>>59171579Smogon is the red pill. Shitters for years complain smogon bad because of rules, when without those rules the game is infinitely worse.
>>59170725>Mega-Blastoise with Shell Smash and Water Spout>Sinistcha spamming Rage PowderEnjoy reaching Ultra at a minimum.
>>59171605what do you do in trap mirror
>>59170618Me losing because my Floette never thawed out
>>59171719the problem is Mega Blastiose isn’t Mega Chandelure
Im in masterball running my own concocted team lol its easy
>>59171758kill Gengar by winning the speed tie
>>59170618Weird how the best vgc players win more consistently than yugioh players......
>>59172124Highly doubt it, pretty sure there has been only 1 guy with back to back wins in VGC. Even former champions like Glick got knocked out in the qualifiers literally the next year
>>59172164And in yu-gi-oh..... ?
>>59172189You can't really compare the two, Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't even offer cash awards in their biggest tournaments.The best indicator for consistently is MD master ratings which pretty much features the same players every season.
>>59172212So it's not even remotely comparable then, and the metric you are going off is no lifers grindng a leader board on the yu-gi-oh mobile game. Gotcha.
>>59171625>”I’d be solved already!”Chess has existed for thousands of years, has only 8 pieces, only has been updated a few times, and fucking computers check for every possible move combination, and hasn’t been solved yet. I’m pretty fucking sure that Pokemon can survive without random Freeze or random crits.
>>59172240this implies that game freak wants to make a game that has good gameplay. what they want, is for you to keep buying it and you do.
>>59172257... so if they made a better game we wouldn't buy it?
>>59172240What decides who goes first in chess?
>>59170618Any completion where chance is an element is about mitigating your exposure to bad luck. There's a reason because the same handfuls of players make top cut and you can track rising star's progress through tournaments
>>59172340Huwhite men always go first because racism
>>59170618>OMG DOOD RNG MADE ME LOSEor you just suck, put yourself in situations where you're not relying on rng to win.
>>59170618As if card games doesn't have dead draws or never drawing the cards you need. Go play chess if you don't want any kind of luck interfering.
>>59172164>pretty sure there has been only 1 guy with back to back wins in VGCwhen Rizzo won worlds 3 times in a row the only active players were pretty much a few friend groups from Japan, USA and I think Europe, and Rizzo won because he was the first to study the Japanese meta. It's like Uruguay's world cups, there was merit on winning them but it's not remotely the same as today.Currently you have dozens of tournaments all year, between Internationals and Regionals/SPEs, that assemble even more players than Worlds itself, and many are almost as stacked.No one has won Worlds twice after Rizzo, but the guys at the top of majors are always the same few people interchanging positions (as long as they show up in the tournament). So actually there IS a lot of consistency. Just that the actual winner is decided on small details. That's Wolfe's merit despite winning Worlds last ten years ago, the last couple of years he has pulled a crazy number of wins in very large, very stacked tournaments.If any the most inconsistent part is top players actually attending tournaments; since traveling is expensive and Pokémon doesn't leave that much money, they have to pick their fights.
>>59172240>>59172393I like chess but it's so deterministic there hasn't been a checkmate in the World Championship since 1929 because top players already know the outcome several turns ahead and just forfeit to not waste time. THAT is a joke.
>>59172413Reminder that your precious Wolfey was also part of those "plumbers". And I can bet you anything that he'd still be parading a 2012 win, doubly so considering that such a win would have broken Ray's streak.Remember that by your own logic even his 2016 win is also a "plumber" win.Cope all you want trying to dismiss him and diminish him and crying how it "doesn't count", Ray is and will forever be the GOAT and you will forever be butthurt about it.
>>59172479>inexperienced player didn't win worlds>gains experience and wins worldsit's almost as if people who keep practicing get better over the years. Shocking
