Lutra - Today at 8:02 PM
I just used like 1 team in each era
and got pretty near top
Disaster Area - Today at 8:02 PM
the 1 or 2 team thing is funny
honestly i don't really feel that until we moved out of the rby2k10 era into the smogon / more pp era that you really saw
much in the way of players who use multiple teams
even though it's super commonplace in later generations
i mean i don't think there's any argument that, at the least, throughout most of the life of the metagame, you could use just 1 team and be the very best
Lutra - Today at 8:03 PM
well it depends on the competitiveness of the players
it's all relative
Disaster Area - Today at 8:03 PM
it's a case of mastering a single team versus being not quite as capable but still strong with a slew of teams
Golden Gyarados - Today at 8:03 PM
honestly i think marco is the only player i really know who plays so many teams and still wins
people do settle into their team grooves/playstyles
Disaster Area - Today at 8:04 PM
yeah and there's no harm in that but it's interesting to see how
spl shakes up some players like that
Lutra - Today at 8:04 PM
It comes down to an RPS game if it's competitive
Disaster Area - Today at 8:04 PM
because in that tournament the level of preparation is often pretty high and if you do use just 1 team then that's like the most likely place you'll be punished for it
but yea it was a super interesting dichotomy for me to observe particularly when i was newer to rby
because I was incredibly used to the sort of smogon / later gen mindset of understanding that
teams always have strengths and weaknesses and you should use a mix of teams to prevent being too exploitable etc
Lutra - Today at 8:06 PM
I think that mindset is kind of wrong though, not accurate enough
Disaster Area - Today at 8:06 PM
in the rby meta tho, a lot of players seem to just plough straight through that
it depends
i mean in later generations, the weaknesses are going to be bigger / more exploitable than they are in rby
simply because of the amount of options available
Lutra - Today at 8:06 PM
yeah I agree with that
Disaster Area - Today at 8:07 PM
but yeah I still have quite a lot of that mindset in the way that I play... even though I acknowledge that there's less truth in it in rby
it's how I learnt to play I guess?
it is amusing too to see how relics of how a player learns is reflected in their later more advanced level play
but it's hard to point to many examples
Lutra - Today at 8:08 PM
I guess that's kind of how I learnt without win conditions
then introduced them later on
like I would just try conserving HP and stuff all the time
not focus on what I had to keep
unless it was obvious
but gradually I learnt things are less obvious
like keeping rocks
electrics
back
Disaster Area - Today at 8:09 PM
I mean it's interesting too bc i wasn't that good when i started rby and i didn't actually
understand the idea of win conditions back then
so there's some similarity for me here and
it really shows in the way that i play
being about accruing smaller advantages with predictions and trying to snowball them
that's a very non-win condition-oriented way of playing
Lutra - Today at 8:11 PM
yeah kind of how Lusch plays
but he's good as well
but he did predictions vs peasounay
like the going back and forth
and booming kind of stuff
I felt like Lusch has done that
leru too