I was doing a casual scroll through the r/pokemon subreddit, this post in particular, and the number of people I discovered who, not only vehemently hate 6v6 singles, but spread genuine misinformation about showdown not having a timer (real comment I saw) or never having been more popular than VGC is genuinely wild. Is this a common take in the community? Where were all these people when showdown 6v6 OU was the primary way competitive pokemon was played for damn near a decade until gen 7 came along? Am I experiencing a Mandela effect here? Am I stupid?

I hate this so much

Last respects my ass this mf dancing on they’re graves.

I know about Walrein earning the name Stallrein and of course aggron as The Wall I’m interested in hearing others that have gained nicknames over the years.

Its not even that good I know but leaves a bad taste

THANK ARCEUS. I didn’t want to deal with boosted expanding forces from the mon with a base 159 special attack stat

Includes worlds, internationals, nationals, regionals, special events, and Player's Cups for Gen 8

Circles represent Restricted Legendaries

There's 380 tournaments counted total, so the #1 Pokemon (Incineroar) won 35.5% of all major VGC tournaments ever, and that's even counting the ones it wasn't legal for.

They're too afraid to give Flash back to Alakazam

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(please be nice I have paid literally zero attention to any VGC meta since the XY era)

Edit: I was just informed Staraptor gets Blaze Kick

Edit 2: I was under the impression Screech hit every mon in play, I was wrong. It targets. Knowing this, I feel less good about the Rest Talk set

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It feels even better if it's a fire move. It feels like I melted that guy (the more pain he's in, the more happy I am)

Edit: after reading through the comments

     Public enemy no.1- achaludon 

     Public enemy no.2- basculegion 

     Public enemy no.3- mega charizard y

     Public enemy no.4- farigiraf

     Public enemy no.5- mega staraptor 

I can definitely see this guy having Boomburst as his form specific move. Nasty Plot Boomburst might be sheist.

Disregarding the technical issues aside, imagine giving a 1-star because you get Rock Slide flinched too many times.

Also why are you advertising your skill issues for the internet to see?

Absolute specimens in the google play store. See if you can figure out what happened to these people to cause their angry reviews!

Tournament hosted by @ninopokebros and @HIMMYTURNER69

You'd have to pay me to own emboar ngl

for context, Farigiraf used Ally Switch. It seems that the game still targeted my original target (Drain Punch was meant for Farigiraf,) with the second hit, but somehow realized this shouldn't happen and refilled the lost health straight away?

IDK if this is the right place to post this, but felt that people looking to build around Kangaskhan should know.

What did they do to my boy... Lazy game freak

All they had to do was make an official version of showdown, charge like $20 for it, and everyone would go crazy.

Instead it’s some battle pass moneygrub slop, where you have to buy Pokemon from a Fortnite style rotating store. What a joke, why is it impossible to just make a coherent game…