Ok, I don't know if this deserves its own thread but I hope a lot of experienced players will give their opinion.
We need more players in the Ubers ladder. There.
Seriously, this is not a joke thread or a rant. The older/more experienced players know this already. The leaderboard is filled with just 6-10 guys and their alts. I created an alt 2 days ago and got into top 25. And I think better players get top 10 in 2 days with their alts. What's the issue? Is it the "centralization" thing? IMO, we need to do something about this because I really think Ubers is more difficult to play contrary to what most OU ppl think. Yes, there are probably only 10-12 pokes that you see very often but there are a ton of sets for them too. Gyarados, Vaporeon, Swampert, Blissey, Scizor, Lucario pretty much run only one set, while Dialga could be Specs, Scarf, BU RestTalk, Twave support or Mixed all of them having different ways to counter it. One turn set up could be GG in Ubers while in OU there are reliable pokes to deal with a SD Luke, DD Gyara, DD Tar or CM Cune. Hopefully 5th Gen is gonna bring more Uber pokemon but I don't think that will be the answer. More articles in The Smog, maybe? More Wi-Fi or Smogon Tournaments? I don't know the answer but really a lot of new players get easily discouraged when they face their Psychic Mewtwo against the #5 leaderboard for the third time in a row. More new players will mean more competition at lower levels which will translate into a faster (and more enjoyable) learning curve.
Feel free to comment on this and if the mods think this is not an appropriate thread then you can lock it. I was just trying to make the ladder better.
We need more players in the Ubers ladder. There.
Seriously, this is not a joke thread or a rant. The older/more experienced players know this already. The leaderboard is filled with just 6-10 guys and their alts. I created an alt 2 days ago and got into top 25. And I think better players get top 10 in 2 days with their alts. What's the issue? Is it the "centralization" thing? IMO, we need to do something about this because I really think Ubers is more difficult to play contrary to what most OU ppl think. Yes, there are probably only 10-12 pokes that you see very often but there are a ton of sets for them too. Gyarados, Vaporeon, Swampert, Blissey, Scizor, Lucario pretty much run only one set, while Dialga could be Specs, Scarf, BU RestTalk, Twave support or Mixed all of them having different ways to counter it. One turn set up could be GG in Ubers while in OU there are reliable pokes to deal with a SD Luke, DD Gyara, DD Tar or CM Cune. Hopefully 5th Gen is gonna bring more Uber pokemon but I don't think that will be the answer. More articles in The Smog, maybe? More Wi-Fi or Smogon Tournaments? I don't know the answer but really a lot of new players get easily discouraged when they face their Psychic Mewtwo against the #5 leaderboard for the third time in a row. More new players will mean more competition at lower levels which will translate into a faster (and more enjoyable) learning curve.
Feel free to comment on this and if the mods think this is not an appropriate thread then you can lock it. I was just trying to make the ladder better.