Discussed this with Quanyails on Discord.
Ever since SM were released back in November 2016, I've been curious to try new metagames besides the standard singles, such as Doubles, Monotype, or even the two retro generations available on Virtual Console. There are other options available, but the first two in particular seem to have big enough of a player base to work. The Updates took a while because the first 11 CAPs were outdated by a whopping three generations, and Showdown consequentially only released Pajantom (CAP 23) this year. Do any of you believe that branching out could allow the CAP Project to learn more about several other legal formats, rather than limiting ourselves to a standard OU-based metagame? We could get even more CAP projects per year, as opposed to creating only two in that given duration.
Generations of Pokémon games are only getting shorter nowadays, as USUM have been confirmed to be the final main 3DS games for this franchise. Working with metas outside of our comfort zone every now and then would help create some great Pokémon for competitive gameplay in various legal formats.
Ever since SM were released back in November 2016, I've been curious to try new metagames besides the standard singles, such as Doubles, Monotype, or even the two retro generations available on Virtual Console. There are other options available, but the first two in particular seem to have big enough of a player base to work. The Updates took a while because the first 11 CAPs were outdated by a whopping three generations, and Showdown consequentially only released Pajantom (CAP 23) this year. Do any of you believe that branching out could allow the CAP Project to learn more about several other legal formats, rather than limiting ourselves to a standard OU-based metagame? We could get even more CAP projects per year, as opposed to creating only two in that given duration.
Generations of Pokémon games are only getting shorter nowadays, as USUM have been confirmed to be the final main 3DS games for this franchise. Working with metas outside of our comfort zone every now and then would help create some great Pokémon for competitive gameplay in various legal formats.