Why is Gamefreak's official format 4v4 doubles when the

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Why is OP a massive faggot?

>>31043036
It takes advantage of more mechanics?
It allows more obscure pokemon to be used, instead of the sanctioned 10 pokemon used in smogon OU?
It's more visually interesting, and thus, better as a competitive format?
It's fun?

>>31043066
The second one is a joke, which makes the third one as well.

Do you follow either? Because it doesn't look like you even know what VGC's meta is right now.

>>31043066
>it allows more Pokemon to be used
haha

Since singles is incredibly broken. Somebody can power up a whole lot and if they get lucky they can just sweep the entire opponent's team. Doubles eliminates that by allowing you to only attack one opponent at a time, or attack both but with weaker moves. It makes it so that all threats are possible to be dealt with.

Doubles allows more strategy and from a spectator standpoint singles can be awful because it's vulnerable to stalemate situations

>>31043036
Colosseum and Gale of Darkness confirmed better games and truer to GF's grand vision

Doubles is a lot more interesting, there are exponentially more decisions to be made every round in a Doubles match.

And things like stalling make singles boring to watch.

>>31043066
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>>31043114
The point isn't whether doubles is better than singles or vice-versa.

The point is why the FUCK is Gamefreak STILL making the games single-battle based when they constantly try to shill VGC nowadays?

>>31043066
Assuming OU mons in Smogon are still useful in doubles.

Man, most of the centralizing stuff in doubles is banned in singles, and the OU mons are often too one dimensional to be consistent in doubles.

Lando T, Garchomp and heatran are the only OU consistent mons in both formats. Don't try to sell the terminology of OU when you don't even know of the centralization in doubles.

>>31043143
Because they want the tournaments to go faster than the games, and doubles goes faster.

>>31043036
>Why is Gamefreak's official format 4v4 doubles
Because it's harder to make a 'mon broken in Doubles, battles moves faster, and you don't get as much Funbro-tier bullshit. The last one is actually why the switch was made in the first place and also why Struggle eats up 25% of your maximum HP on each use instead of a percentage of damage dealt: some chucklehead cheesed official tourneys with Wobbuffet to force Struggle wars.
>when the game, anime, manga and basically everything related to Pokemon in existence shills singles?
>game
Probably because they're for kids, even though the Game Cube games showed that an all-doubles game could be done.
>anime, manga
Double battles are harder to draw and animate.

>>31043143
Competitive is a completely different part of the game

>>31043159
>Because they want the tournaments to go faster than the games, and doubles goes faster.
How do 4v4 go faster than 3v3 (that's how battle spot singles are played)?

>>31043066
>It's more visually interesting, and thus, better as a competitive format?

this is hilarious

>>31043143
Singles have more casual appeal but Doubles are better (read: quicker) from "competitive" standpoint.

>>31043143
>The point is why the FUCK is Gamefreak STILL making the games single-battle based
Oh, that I have no clue. The games should be doubles based, no doubt.

>>31043100
I'll remind you that some guy won with a pachirisu. Not because of high BST or good coverage, but because it was able to slot into his strategy.

>>31043036
Because it's way faster even on worst case scenarios.
And requires actual predictions and mind games too.

Because Game Freak is too lazy to revamp battle mechanics in order to prevent singles from turning into stallfests or switchfests.

>>31043189
3v3 is a complete joke though, the vast majority of matches are decided on the team preview/select.

>>31043189
Because when you can get hit by two things at once, it's a little harder to play stall.

>>31043202
Yeah and everything else on his team was basically cookie cutter.

>>31043189
Even 3v3 singles matches can go on forever because stallwars can happen

>>31043211
That still doesn't make the point moot though. If Gamefreak's official format is doubles, I don't see why they don't make it a central part of the main game and, as such, try to push more players towards the competitive scene. They're already TRYING to turn more players than ever to the competitive scene, so making the main game based on double battles (or at least focus a big part of it on double battles, like 50% or so) would do a better job at it.

>>31043212
Stall is non-existent in Battle Spot Singles.

>>31043036
A lot of fsggots up there are just guessing.

But I remember reading some years ago in a interview that the only reason is doubles is faster. They first wanted to use singles, but realized battles were very long for the tournaments, so they ended up using doubles.

>>31043202
Doubles will fuck up how you raise your team and will add a fucked up layer of shit to capturing Pokémon, we had the game cube series that pulled it right, let's not go full retard with the EVs that are a necessity but often hindered by double fights ingame.

And Pachirisu was a niche pick in a very limited pool of Pokémon, Pachirisu was only considered because he thought amoongus would be too predictable.

Also Gothithelle did all the fucking work not that stupid rat, stop trying to push that squirrel, if you are going to praise that guy then praise Gothitrap for fucking the other players silly at team preview.

>>31043255
>or at least focus a big part of it on double battles
Well, a bunch of the pivotal story fights in this game were doubles with AI partners, or just regular doubles, so they might very well be trying to do this, slower than we'd like, however.

>>31043211
>the vast majority of matches are decided on the team preview/select
Only if you have a shit team and don't know how to analyze team preview

>>31043066
>It takes advantage of more mechanics?

>Pokemon used Protect!

>>31043289
>the vast majority of matches are decided on the team preview/select
>I disagree
>because you need to get better at analyzing team preview

really makes you think

>>31043288
Hau using his z move on you...freaking genius.

>>31043287
>Doubles will fuck up how you raise your team and will add a fucked up layer of shit to capturing Pokémon, we had the game cube series that pulled it right, let's not go full retard with the EVs that are a necessity but often hindered by double fights ingame.
Make trainers doube battles and wild Pokemon single battles.

Options in battle facilities and online for single battles would still exist, of course, but focusing a game almost entirely on double battles would definitely push more people towards the competitive scene, which is what Gamefreak has been trying to accomplish since Gen 4.

>>31043287
EVs are not necessary for in-game. I don't use this word often, but if you EV train your starter and such, you are autistic.

If you mean the way of obtaining EVs for competitive, then notice how GF has been adding things like super training and the pelago, so perhaps they should continue making it easier to spec EVs once you complete the story.

Or just do what >>31043334 suggests.

>>31043332
If both players analyze team preview properly then matches won't be decided on it, dumbass

>>31043380
They still will.

With only 3 Pokemon there is no room to counter things properly, and little room for switches and plays in general. What you bring to the battle becomes a lot more important than your decisions in the battle itself, which are most of the time very obvious and the outcome predictable.

>>31043412
This is all completely wrong, sounds like you're applying a 6v6 mindset to 3v3 and blaming the format for your inability to understand the meta

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>Almost 2017
>Game Freak won't acknowledge Singles as the official format anymore
>Game Freak is still trying to push a shitty gimmick format that was made 14 years ago in an attempt to pander to esports faggots
>Even when they introduced two new gimmick formats in Gen 5, they still decided to go with Doubles for some inexplicable reason

>>31043202

Sejun explicitly stated that Amoonguss is better, and that he only used Pachirisu because everyone was prepared for Amoonguss

faster matches