So am I retarded or is battle tree kinda fucking hard? Also

>>30911615
>So am I retarded or is battle tree kinda fucking hard?
it is
>Also what is the best way to start trying to understand the meta?
lurk

>>30911631
So I know you guys don't like Shofu but I watch him and I do lurk. I've been told doing showdown and doing trial and error is the way to go but that seems like by and large the wrong thing to try.

>>30911615
Battle tree is in fact bullshit.
For your second question
>go on showdown
>put together a team of pokemon you've heard are good
>play a bunch of battles, see what works and what pokemon are popular
Eventually you'll understand how stuff works.

>>30911660
Depends on who you ask, really. /vp/ is generally shit at competitive.

I'm good at it and I got good by learning from shofu and pokeaim and thunderblunder. pokeaim is probably the most informative/thorough of them in terms of instructing learners.

>>30911722
But sir, I only use bad pokemon

>>30911826
Then you can play in a lower tier like NU or PU where shitmons are viable.

>>30911877
My dude.
Drifblim and Arcanine here I come

>>30911938
>Arcanine
>Shitmon

You are mistaken my friend. Arcanine is pretty good.