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SilvosForever posted...

I don't see the point in Smogon having different rules than the official Nintendo tournaments? Like why practice all that much, just to get smashed at a real tournament by someone using a Pokemon you haven't even played against?

Smogon focuses on the singles format that isn't supported by Nintendo. All official Nintendo tournaments are doubles. It is in essence a different game crafted from a common pool of material and it's a good thing that there is a community that supports and creates a competitive system for the unsupported format that was the only way to play pokemon for I think the first two generations of the franchise and still in all future games correspond to 99% of the in-game battle experience a player has.