lolwintersamehere
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Im just going to leave 2 cents here in as little dorky fashion as possible because I don't really ladder otherwise. I saw Ikaru post the very reason why I'm behind this kind of. To me, there's three different phases to pokemon matches (note that I did not say battle).
That whole thing about prediction lands on the number one phase. Every time I start a wifi battle on X/Y, both me and my opponent see each others team. A typical game on Singles Battle Spot is 3v3 Species, Item, clause, because that's as far as nintendo's willing to go in terms of keeping it fair. Soo each player see's all six of what people might use... so they need to really guess. Other servers seem to work the same way, only except it's 6v6 rather than 3v3 in singles, which is ok
The second phase of the match is the first, oooh say three turns. Wifi Clause (and official xy wifi battles) allow you to switch your lead right? Well, what if something happens, you gotta change and flex your strategy right? The same goes even without wifi clause, only except you have no real way of knowing what your opponent might use, and if either side has a definite advantage, whats the fun of that? Wifi Clause would allow people to flex and adapt in these first few turns.
The Third phase of a match is the rest of the battle and I can't really describe that without being a huge dork in my words, other people might be able to describe it. tldr the first few turns make stuff happen and now there's huge giant setups that are just begging to be started, and taken advantage of.
it's all about prediction, and wifi clause allows for some very fun prediction games. Because if a battle has no surprises, it is not fun. it's a lot like chess, and to quote Radomus "This is not unlike a game of chess, wherein various strategies are tried in various formation."
Look, IM fucking supporting this. And I have been in the past EVEN MORE STUBBORN THAN ERICK on keeping reborn different. You know want to know how that ended up? It ended up in me developing a metaphorical bloodclot that only made me angrier, and angrier. It's just better to accept change and go with the flow.