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ForteEXE3850 posted...

I stopped caring about competitive Pokemon myself a long time ago, I was just talking about a popular idea for varying up the gyms like you said.

I believe the official competitive format has been doubles only for years now (because it's faster and disallows stall strategies). So no matter the strategy single battles wouldn't be matching the official competitive format anyway.

I've heard some suggest the games be doubles only to match the official competitive format (not that I believe the official competitive format was designed with anything but speed in mind anyway) but the issue with that is within the Pokemon franchise it's mostly only the official competitive format where doubles are the norm. Everywhere else 1 vs 1 is shown to be the normal way Pokemon are used, the anime, movies, most spinoff games, etc.

Yeah. I always try to do doubles because with singles, it turns into people switching constantly to get a pokmon who's strong against another. And that gets boring...

As for the anime, movies, spinoffs, etc..., they just need to catch up and do more doubles...