What actually defines a "healthy meta?"

What actually defines a "healthy meta?"

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A top tier bulky ground type.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Will we ever get a modern gen without him?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      See you in Gen 12. I can't imagine them being able to justify shoving the genies into the XY remakes.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The Battle Chatelaines use the genies

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Aside from GSC, have we ever gone an entire generation being unable to obtain every legendary in that same gen?

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stall shit gimmicky and low viability like gen 9.
    No fast/scarf unga bunga unwallable trash like Chien Pao, Kartana, Lele,
    No annoying Pokemon enabler like Lando

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Stall
      >healthy
      Stopped reading right there

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah you've made it quite apparent that you don't read much at all since you somehow managed to interpret the exact opposite of what the post actually said

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >what is a healthy meta?
        >when stall has low viability
        please complete basic literacy before posting

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      so primarily bulky/balanced offense teams?

      my favorite shitmon is in=meta is healthy

      based

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    my favorite shitmon is in=meta is healthy

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The meta will forever be unhealthy.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gothitelle, my beloved, being usable in ou = healthy

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    being able to murder that stupid fat ugly b***h

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Smogon is bias against offensive because they see stall as the superior playstyle for some imbecilic reason, In gen 2 OU, Snorlax has 100% usage yet isn't banned. Somehow Snorlax isn't considered unhealthy for the metagame despite it legitimately being mandatory for any team to function you need exactly 2 different pokemon that check snorlax if you want any chance of winning which wasn't even guaranteed to work because snorlax ran a large number of sets. Meanwhile Darmanitan-Galar was banned because it hit hard and Smogon tards couldn't slot in a mon that had the ability to kill it in one hit. Like Choice band Scizor, Priority, Protect, Choice Scarf, Weather sweepers, Mon's that can just straight up take a hit and then retaliate like Buzzwole slowbro also fits this criteria, And if your opponent is banded, You can straight up outspeed it's 95 speed tier.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Snorlax bad even doe every team with spikes (every team) naturally kills it over time even without normal resists

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Listen anon, The fact that GROWL Miltank is considered a viable strategy in GSC OU Simply because it has a somewhat decent matchup against snorlax says more about how dominant the pokemon is than your snarky little comment ever will.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >listen chud, snorlax is broken because [passive cleric with shit spdef that melts to every curser in the game if it doesn't run growl] runs GROWL of all things to beat curselax!
          Btw Miltank is only used on half-viable drum/wak teams from 2003 that can't even fit spikes. I wonder why they need Miltank.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        not when it always carries Rest

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Darmanitan-Galar was banned because it hit hard and Smogon tards couldn't slot in a mon that had the ability to kill it in one hit

      No, it was banned because it broke the confines of the game mechanics - you get choice scarf and choice band at the same time with no added drawback.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        In other word, Because it hit hard.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >No, it was banned because it broke the confines of the game mechanics - you get choice scarf and choice band at the same time with no added drawback.
        No, it got banned because it hit hard(Band) and fast(Scarf)
        >https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/darmanitan-galar-is-now-banned-from-ou.3658369/
        Nothing about breaking "the confines" of the mechanics.
        Banded Gorilla Tactics is the main reason for the ban too(with Scarf being the good alternative that also threatens opposing teams), so yes, it did get banned because it "hit hard"(but could also hit fast)

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Banded Gorilla Tactics is the main reason
          wrong

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Gorilla Tactics was strictly a worse Huge Power.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gen 2 isn't a real tier. Smogon didn't exist until gen 3 but realistically no one had ever heard of them until gen 4. And the mechanics of gen 1 and 2 weren't even accurate on the simulator until only a few years ago because no one cared enough to research them at all until like 2016. Gen 1 and 2 are not real tiers.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Gens 1 and 2 are now frontiers of creative expression, unlike every other solved gen

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          What are you even talking about? Gen 1 and 2 are the most solved generations out of any of them. Snorlax literally has 100% usage in the latter, and it's not too far behind in the former.
          When the meta has solidified so much that only a handful of Pokemon can even be used, and the victor of a match is entirely determined by who gets fricked the least by paralysis/freeze/miss RNG, the meta is solved.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >not a real tier because i wasnt alive when people started playing it

        [...]

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Being extremely predictable and locked down to a handful of uncreative archetypes based around mostly defensive play.
    Players should not be able to build momentum and win off of it, instead the play should be based around extremely slow trades with little ability for sweeping.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've seen a lot of people specifically in smash say it's when fighters are distributed fairly evenly through the different tiers and I think that's fair. If everything is good nothing is really good

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    you just posted the answer

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What actually defines a "healthy meta?"
    Basically something that never happened and never will happen:
    No stall shit
    Flexible team comp - more/less agressive or defensive (but no stall)
    High team diversity (so matches are dynamic and new, instead of every team being the same to the point it's just a matter of who got better RNG)

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      so most low tiers

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    "healthy meta" is just a buzz term for "what I enjoy playing." The game is "healthy" when the game is fun and that's going to change from person to person. Imo BW2 OU and USUM OU were the most fun across all gens and gen 8 is the only gen I particularly don't like. Not everyone feels that way and that's okay

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly 6v6 singles will rarely ever be "healthy."
    Game is just not meant for it.
    Its why entry hazards are so strong when 1 turn of set-up hits a full team of 6 as they swap around, why stall can exist as they can pivot around 6 different defensive mons, why Baton Pass got banned.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      4v4 doubles sucks just as bad, but the people who play that have no other choice because that's what TPC pushes.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    one where I'm winning

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    To me healthy meta was just hopping on the old DP gen 4 simulators where most people had no idea what they were doing and it was mostly heavy-offense teams trading revenge kills, with a lack of team preview so a key component came down to if you could conceal the surprise that could sweep your opponent until the right time.

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