(04-07-2019, 03:38 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote: I wonder if that's because Uranium is a completely different kind of metagame than the main series? A lot of the good pokemon in Smogon OU tend to stay there, so it can start feeling a bit samey after a generation or three of playing with the same mons with only a few changes to the core teams.
I'm afraid it's exactly because of that. I was for the most part an UU main, but still played OU. At some point I just grew tired of OU and dropped it completely. Eventually even UU wasn't that much fun and interesting, and I moved to LC. Most of my love for LC comes from the fact that it's a whole new way of playing competitive, and that's what kept me playing it even after I had pretty much stopped playing the main series competitively. Now I'm but a Uranium player waiting for the [real] Comp scene to arrive, building teams and enjoying the incompleteness (is that a word? hahah) of the simulator.
This is also part of the reason I always liked draft-league formats. It's a format that really tests not only your battling skills, but also your teambuilding skills, and because of how it is I guess it's harder for it to become "stale" like tier-based metagames can be.
