This forum needs a serious quality improvement. I genuinely can't believe I'm seeing people bitch and moan and whine about stall in a meta so inherently and fundamentally biased against it- the shit people are saying lately is almost literally "smogon love stal!!!!!!11!!1" tier nonsense. Stall is not, will not, and cannot be a dominant force in the current metagame and anyone who's played the tier to get above fucking 1200 on the ladder knows this. Banning the myriad broken offensive threats is not going to create a stall metagame, and, to be blunt, you're an idiot or arguing in bad faith if you believe it will. People on here are literally complaining that they can't just simply OHKO every mon or that a game goes on for longer then ten minutes. This isn't even getting into the clear toxicity a lot of people are exhibiting towards defensive play and treating it as some kind of "fake" or "skill-less" way to play the game. It's exactly what I'm talking about when I call this community HO-brained- so many people, for no reason other than they don't have the patience to sit and play a game for longer than ten minutes, continue to post uninformed and inflammatory takes towards defensive play and the people who play those styles. Some of you need to grow up and realise that just because you don't like to play against a playstyle (that hasn't been good, short of having brief stints in in-between metas, in a very long time) doesn't mean that style or those players are invalid for playing that way.
Can we start requiring a certain GXE to even post here to begin with? I'm sick of seeing uninformed, nonsense takes like "the meta is almost completely stall now!!!!!! don't banned sneasler!!!!". I literally don't even care if it would stop myself from posting here, I just want to see actually informed, useful, and interesting takes on the metagame, and clearly that isn't (and hasn't been) present here for a while now.