Bearadactyl

Yes, I am fully aware that VGC is the official competitive tier; I am actually incredibly anti-Smogon, always have been. But, my point is; what you're saying should not be the case. Even in VGC, there are only a handful of total viable Pokémon and that is a crime as far as I am concerned.

Why? Because, it stagnates. It gets old, and it gets boring watching and having to use the same handful of Pokémon in competitive play. You cannot have a healthy meta game with a power creep reaping through the roster, that goes for any game.

I'm no expert about VGC but knowing only that Incineroar is in every team and can cripple everybody's Att and SpeAtt easily prevents me to try that meta. I understand the power creep issue you're talking about. But I don't see it being solved by any means.

That's why Smogon is interesting. No matter what changes you will make, the 200 evolved mons will never be seen at the same time so categories had to be made.

And there are a lot of playable mons. Just look at Smash, 80 characters and 20-30 playable. That's HUGE. Smogon's OU contains 50 pokemons and the meta is still evolving after 2 years even if people wait for Gen 8.

I mean, you had to create tiers to see everyone. It's like a fighting sport. There are weight categories. I would even say it's like soccer. There are leagues. It's the same for Pokemon and maybe every other game.

I just feel like given the core principles of the series, every Pokémon should be viable in battle situations. I mean, they've preached it since Gen 1; and those core values have been a very big part of my evolution as a person.

And, the power creep could easily be mostly solved by a stat re-balance and ability revisions. That's all it would take. The only other thing that would require an overhaul, might be the Ice and Grass types given how bad their match ups are and how unviable they are overall. Outside of that, maybe a handful of movepool revisions.