>THE OFFICIAL FORMAT IS DOUBLES BECAUSE-....>BECAUSE IT IS! STOP ASKING!
>>59275333Because it's the most easiest to balance.
>>59275333Because it's faster and they don't really need to ban anyone
>every move and ability works in doubles>many moves and abilities have no use in singles
>>59275361They literally have to restrict legendaries and have made bans on Dragonite, Tyranitrar, and rotom before.Not to mention they banned chatot for saying the N word.
>>59275333i would be fine with doubles being the official format if they'd actually prep people for it
>>59275361Regulation H literally banned half of the meta.
>>59275333Because double battles are quick and explosive while remaining complex instead of slow, boring switchfests like singles
>>59275409>>59275423Legendaries are one thing, you know what I'm saying is that they don't permanently ban pokemon like smogon does, you're never going to see Kyogre in any OU metagame in a trillion years
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>>59275480how much money can you win from bss?
>>59275480How is the Physical/Special split "holding one's hand"?But the EXP Share from Gen 6 onwards is somehow not?
>>59275477All paradox pokemon are banned arbitrarily.
>>59275526why are you lyinghttps://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000182/masters/
>>59275333>doubles is the offical format for comp90% of in game battles are singles Bravo gamefreak
>>59275523>How is not having to think and slapping min/maxed STABS on everything "holding one's hand"?>But this thing that has no relevance to the difficulty of the game is somehow not?
>>59275563If the games are that easy, why would it matter if the Pokémon are minmaxed or not?You're contradicting yourself.
>>59275333>I'm new to competitive Pokémon, but I'll criticisize the entire structure of the official format anywayswhy are you like this?
>>59275333I would tenderly make endless love with Mina until she was squirting paint
>>59275593Campaignshitters don't think the games are easy. That's the problem.
>>59275333Competitive singles in pokemon is a sluggish mess.Either you do a 3v3 that can finish but comes largely down to match-up checks and who was lucky to call out what the other would bring, or the full 6v6 that takes forever
The best format was Gen 6 Triples.No idea why they got rid of Triples, it was a blast.
>>59275333Singles are too slow and too RNG-dependent.
Having Triple Battles as the VGC format would be better. Triple Battles are Double Battles with one more Pokémon per side, mid battle position changing, which Pokémon goes where mattering and more variants in targeting for Moves. But really, even better than that would be if they had decided on some manner to VGC battles be any out of Single, Double, Triple and perhaps even Rotation Battle.And Wonder Launcher should not only be in every main game, it should be always on for Ranked Battles and VGC. With 60 minute timer. Now THAT would make Ranked and VGC battles quite big brain and interesting.
Because it filters casuals
Mainly because it filters retards like (You).
Get rid of open team sheets and team preview. Game was unironically balanced before those cringetroductions
>>59275722I like this opinion too. It adds more surprise factor, need to adapt and readiness for what Pokémon could be sent out with what set. It also adds more of an aspect of what to reveal to an opponent as the battle goes on. Needing to think about what Pokémon of yours you have revealed to your opponent and what Moves they've seen them use.
>>59275333there are a lot of moves and abilities that are completely useless outside of doubles. most of them are shit, and even in double nobody uses them, but I imagine gamefreak wants as many moves as possible to be available in their official competitive format.not that it matters because who the fuck plays competitive?
>>59275757>>59275722the issue with that is that this game is nuke city and you have no turns to adapt considering you guessed wrong once and suddenly your solution is gone
>>59275333>There is literally only 1 mandatory doubles battle in the entire mainline series>For some reason doubles is the official format.How did Tate and Liz psychically control everything from Gen 3 onward. Nintendo Cup was singles 3v3 before Gen III
>>59275858Wrong, there's another one in SV And the second half of the DLC is almost only doubles
>>59275858Wrong, Route 3 in B/W has a mandatory doubles battle. Also Raihan and Ryme are doubles battles.99% of the games are singles battles, but there have been at least 4 doubles battles you have to do to finish the game.
>>59275722>>59275757The problem is in a live tournament setting its impossible to keep your surprises hidden - someone is going to blab about what moves or items you ran against them.Also Tera without team sheets is a nightmare, every single opponent no matter how expected their moveset is has a possible surprise factor
>>59275333It's just cause it's faster. 6v6 would have longer rounds and the tourney would be significantly longer especially because at least one motherfucker would bring stall. Doubles have less pokemon to KO, end faster and stall is unviable.>>59275722>>59275757It sounds nice but when thousands of dollars are on the line you have people being paid to spy on teams and report all the movesets/items/tera/natures/etc, no one can really discuss their teams because anywhere because every bit of info is suddenly an advantage. Open teamsheets take care of alot of bullshit that would otherwise plague these things.
6v6 singles is cancer if you're time constrained
>>59276163A lot of people just play showdown and don't realize how agonizingly slow the real games actually are with animations and HP drop.
Sean lost and made an angry post in a random thread kek
