n1n1 said: quick ban



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this sort of shit is absolutely unacceptable in a discussion thread and honestly its the kind of stuff that makes me super glad that im not a mod anymore so I don't have to deal with you appealing the infraction i would give you to the senior staff, but considering you do this shit all the damn time and seem to have no clue why its unacceptable I figure I'll give you a hint.Maybe you're confused because you sometimes see people like myself posting potentially controversial opinions in shorthand and think that it's okay to emulate that posting style. There's two problems wrong with that assumption.First, at risk of sounding a little conceited, I've earned the right to post like that. People respect your opinion more when you're a top player because your ability to understand the meta is backed up by your results. If you consistently pull in wins, you obviously know what you're talking about, so people tend to give you the benefit of the doubt. If I come across, say, Memoric, or any other good player posting in a thread that, "Zard Y is a TR mega" with no explanation I would thinkand possibly post something like "hey why do you think zard is best in TR? [x, y, z thoughts on zard in/out of tr to start a conversation on the topic]." When I see n1n1 posting a statement in a thread that I disagree with like "Zard Y is a TR mega" with no explanation I just think "oh look theres n1n1 being fucking delusional again what else is new" and go on with my day. Unless you have proven success I'm not going to automatically assume you know what you're talking about, so if you go against something considered "established wisdom" you better come out the gate with arguments to back it up and convince me of your position or I'm just going to assume you're wrong. Any time you make a potentially controversial point you should be providing arguments in support, the more the better as long as you don't get redundant, yes even if you're me. But my success has earned me the privilege of my opinions on the meta coming with the inherent authority that allows me to be selfish and short-cut the system sometimes. I don't know what kind of respect you think never making it past top 32 in a seasonal earns you. You seem to fancy yourself a top player. Well here's a hint:, so you don't get the privileges of one.Second, and this one is more relevant to the current topic of discussion: notice that i kept saying "controversial" in the previous paragraph. That means things that haven't already been established to be controversial. If we're having a conversation about the ranking of Venusaur, and I say "Well Charizard Y is only good on TR anyways so Venusaur doesn't have a niche," or if we weren't talking about anything at all and I say "I think Zard Y is best on TR," that is a potentially controversial statement because I am the first to discuss Zard Y TR and am contributing by bringing a new topic to the discussion. If pressed on the matter I would then continue to provide my reasonsI think Zard Y is best on TR. But if someone's already mentioned that they think Zard Y isn't best on TR and I come in and say "Zard Y is best on TR" I'm not fucking contributing anything, I am wasting space. There's exactly one person to whom your personal opinions matter and it is you. If you are able to provide information or arguments that contribute to someone else's knowledge, and that new knowledge causes them to reconsider their personal opinions, well, that's the goal of a discussion. But just your raw opinion: it's entirely worthless to everyone. Keep it in your head.As for thoughts on Volcanion: I built a team with it, it's brutal vs Trick Room. Status as a rain check is overhyped since Kingdra owns it anyways, as does every single other dragon. Didn't seem obviously suspect worthy to me, it did pretty well in some games but was far from just destroying opponents. It could potentially be sleeper suspect-worthy since my opponents seemed to have trouble OHKOing it and it hits pretty damn hard. I ran goggles and came across like three brelooms in 5 games, i guess it was hyped as a big steamy counter, which is cute because even at +0 it doesnt ohko big steamy with a 5 hit bullet seed. get owned kids lol. I didn't fight any opposing big steamy which is obviously a big part of forming your opinion about a mon so i dont know how infuriating it is to face yet so i cant really form a good opinion on if it's suspect worthy.PS the nickname for volcanion is big steamy so we dont confuse it with volc(arona)