HongaarseBeer

the main reason smogon adds clauses to their tiers is to keep balance in the meta. nice example: sleep clause. it was implemented after someone won a match (VGC I think?) by using spore ammongus and putting everything to sleep. now, you can probably see why they implemented that, because there's about 0 things you can do if your opponent just puts all your mons to sleep as soon as a new one swaps in

I don't even check smogon... I prefer to see the movepool in bulbapedia and think myself for what I can do. E.g. I'm running Play Rough on my Beartic to counter Fighting types. Play Rough isn't even mentioned as a move worthy of teaching to your Beartic, but I've defeated some people's Fighting types with Slush Rush/Play Rough Beartic.

Creativity is about thinking yourself. If you use other sources only, it's the same, regardless of their name. Smogon, verlisify, pimpnite... Check them, but think yourself and try things too.

Yeah, I do. I'm one of the best creators for Metagross movesets, because I've been studying this Pokemon for 8 years. It will be always my favorite Pokemon, doesn't matter the rises and the drops of this Pokemon in the metagame I love this Pokemon in the same way.

I also do search for moves and I do the best movesets for them like I think it's better. EVs spread, moves, nature, ability, held item... Many things like these. I try to make the best movesets for many Pokemon, not only Metagross.