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Good. Now imagine endless rainy weekdays, battling them over and over again, each time gaining nothing but a PITTANCE of points, until you've reached 1300.
Here's the catch: I was bored. There were mostly noobs. I beat many of them. Each one gave at most +3 after defeat. I was at ~1200. There were a couple good matches there though.
End of holidays. Look at rating. 1300. WTF.
After all that I think I lost the touch at ubers, and decided to go UU for a while so I could use my Shaymin in peace.