Hey
Skore are you Skore
in ORAS? If so, I faced against you (my IGN is Cara). I thought the opponent's name was just a way to say "scoring chicks" or something but now that I see you post right before me I'm thinking it might've been you! He was definitely a good player compared to most of the players I faced so it'd just make sense if he was a Smogonite ;)
Anyway, I ended up 7-3 which technically isn't a bad record but I'm pretty upset because I know exactly why I lost each game. The first loss was my very first game and was just due to me not being really warmed up yet honestly, and also I really underestimated how good my own Mega Rayquaza was and used him too conservatively. That's a loss I'm fine with. The other two losses were pretty infuriating because I can't even blame them on hax or bad rolls, both of them came down to me not using Protect when I should have. If I had just used Protect I would've gone 9-1, a much better record. I wasn't in the doubles mindset honestly, I'm too wired for singles I guess, haha. Kept forgetting about the Protect option.
Those stupid losses made me really tilted and made me make some terrible plays (I accidentally did not Mega Evolve Rayquaza because I forgot what the Mega Evolution button looked like when selected, so I deselected it thinking I was actually selecting it. This prevented Delta Stream from going up so my Landorus could not survive an Ice attack.) Fortunately, I still won because my opponent wasn't very good. In fact, most of the people I played weren't very good...and not just in the normal sense either. The second player I faced literally did not have any items equipped. Like
Togedelques said, some people are just using normal doubles teams with no ubers...and some look like they're using Singles teams. This isn't just me either, a lot of people have been noticing this. I wouldn't be too surprised, I think a competition with these sorts of rules does certainly attract a large number of casual players.
Anyway I think tomorrow will go better, I've learned quite a few things so that's good. Unfortunately it looks like Rotom-W is pretty much a deadweight on my team, I wish I could replace him with some sort of Ghost but it's too late. I've never really used Rayquaza or Xerneas before this so I wasn't really so sure on how to use them but now I think I've got it down pretty well. I'm never not bringing Xerneas and Rayquaza from this point on, they're just too good.
I only saw one Groudon too, in my final game but fortunately I was able to handle it with no problems. I only saw one Xerneas and one Rayquaza too; Mewtwo was the most common one I ran into. Quite surprised, I think the competition is going much differently from what we expected and prepared for.