Ahem. Hi there. I'm here to be pissed off about something
See, a lot of people be hating on Stall as a gameplay style. And as someone who enjoys Stall teams (both as and against) far more than any other setup, it really frustrates me when people call Stall players cheap and skill-less
Don't get me wrong, I'm the one who ran a team that had four Pranksters with Swagger on it a while back, I'm a fucking cheap-ass troll. But playing Stall is not what makes me a cheap-ass troll
I hate hate hate playing against all HO teams always, and hate playing them even more. When I think of "cheap" I think of Talonflame (well, early XY Talon at least) and Mega Lopunny. It's no fun (to me) to see any Pokemon on either side get chunked for massive damage. Thing is, my dislike of the playstyle doesn't make it a wrong way to play. And it's certainly not my job to tell you its wrong
Now, to many, Stall is a pain in the ass to play against, and I can see why. As kids growing up with the game, we learn to completely avoid status moves and run Charizards with four high damaging Fire attacks and sweep the entire E4. Using status effectively is a lot harder than simply using a bunch of attacks. And even as we develop into a more competitive standpoint, we still tend to focus on dealing as much damage as possible always. It takes a lot of time to break that habit enough to run even Stealth Rock (talk about cheap tactics BTW...)
So then when someone has the idea to take things a little slower and try to wear you down while preventing you from dealing damage back, it feels pretty lame. You've learned over and over to hit things as hard as possible as fast as possible, and here someone is not letting you hit them at all. You might feel powerless, and feeling powerless is lame
On top of this, Stall is a lot slower than obliterating things, it takes up more time. And while I personally can't stand when a match takes less than twenty minutes, I'm in the minority on the matter and I get that. People are busy. But the thing is, that's not really a reason to call it cheap or cowardly. Annoying and time-consuming and you've got me. Although there's not actually anything wrong with being time-consuming if you have the time to consume. It's not my job to make sure my opponent is always going to have the same amount of time to play as me
Now I can't speak as to whether or not stall is any good in the current meta, but Stall as an overall idea is not a cheap trick that gives free wins to people to lazy to learn to play (that's Lando-T that does that ) It's a much more in-depth playstyle that requires a lot of thought to pull off or you'll quickly find yourself obliterated by a much faster team setup that managed to snatch away the game's momentum before you could say "Protect"
The fact that those who enjoy Stall are the minority does not make them in the wrong for enjoying it
Also, for the record, nobody has any right to tell anyone else what tactic is right or wrong, at least not here on Reborn
Thank you for your time, I'll be happy to stall even more of it away anytime we meet on the battlefield
With Hope,
Lexi