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@Leafs_25 @TrueBurna it nerfs the teams that cared about their natures being hidden, which is good for the other teams that don't care about that (most commonly teams which are published). i'm assuming you're referring to japan nats, which is played entirely CTS until top 8. cheese is king at JCS.

@NailsOU @TrueBurna How does this buff recycled teams it literally does not change teambuilding other than teams that relied on natures being hidden to get wins. The most innovative region in the whole world is Japan and they have had this rule since OTS was legal no?

Not really lol. Running a more defensive spread on an offensive mon (say Impish Ogerpon) or a faster support piece can definitely ve a good thing depending on the team while also being somewhat surprising. I don't think running atypical natures is something that is indicative

@Leafs_25 @TrueBurna it's a spectrum with gimmick on one end and innovative breakthrough on the other. every new set falls somewhere on the line, and regardless of where it falls it gets nerfed by this change. falling tide sinks all ships. it buffs recycled teams that weren't trying to innovate.

@NailsOU @TrueBurna The change doesn’t nerf novelty it nerfs gimmicks If you have a novel set that fits what your team needs you run it What this buffs is the better pilot will now win slightly more often and lose slightly less due to cheese, overall good for the game

@Leafs_25 @TrueBurna it's not that black and white, a novel set can be both things. if two sets are equally good when known but one had the benefit of being unexpected you'd run the sidegrade that's harder to play against. surprise is a real thing with tangible value. this change nerfs novelty.

@TrueBurna Then it should be a good thing to run on its own, right? This changes 0 things about teambuilding that wasn’t trying to cheese game one anyways. If a set is good it is good

haven't seen one person excited about open natures lol. Is this change just something that TPC Japan forced on the rest of the competitive scene?

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@6squirrels1 @JacobSkraw believe me i'm aware, i'm one of the leading forces driving that innovation insofar as any individual player can claim to be. after a certain point of a format (usually it takes a few tournaments) they start to turn into matchup roulette. early format is the most skill-based.

@NailsOU @JacobSkraw Formats will evolve for as long as they have tournaments that people want to win. I’d rather the ebbs and flows come from innovative players than up top saying “how do things change if now this is allowed?”

We’ve been begging for longer formats for years now and the new wave wants the format to rotate every month. Wild disparity

@JacobSkraw i think stale formats are boring and lame, fresh formats are awesome and fun and cool. basically what donald said, make small tweaks every monthish that nudge the metagame in a direction. there's a ton of rippling consequences without breaking anything usually. 4 good mons/month.

@mentalsyndrome every format sucks once it gets stale, development is the whole point

Every format is the worst format. People dislike M-A for centralizing around AeroZard slop People dislike Reg I for centralizing around CSR Zama People dislike Reg F for centralizing around Bolt Balance People dislike Reg G for the variety and non-centralized meta

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what's the worlds spec pass resale market looking like rn

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@BustinJurns nah it's the store's, i'm not as cool as @ragimali

@NailsOU did you get to take it home

won a cup tonight and they had me take a victory pic with the belt, it was pretty sick lmao

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New chapter, same story

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