2014-01-09, 07:19 PM
This might just be me, but I don't play on showdown for their tier listing. I know how it's made and for their purpose, but overall I just play custom games and random battles with friends. On the occasion, I build teams just to test it out with random players.
With this generation, if weather was permanent, you'd see a lot of people abusing it all over wifi. I can only bet Nintendo won't restrict stuff like that other than their standard VGC rules. I can see permanent rain would be quite prominent as there are so many things that can abuse it now, 100% accuracy hurricane spam from Noivern and the swift swimmers for instance. It'd be annoying to counter anything that doesn't use weather themselves, and might just end up becoming the staple of the game. At least for X/Y, there is somewhat of a balance, and auto weather is more useful and viable in doubles/triples than it is in single battles, despite it not being permanent.
With this generation, if weather was permanent, you'd see a lot of people abusing it all over wifi. I can only bet Nintendo won't restrict stuff like that other than their standard VGC rules. I can see permanent rain would be quite prominent as there are so many things that can abuse it now, 100% accuracy hurricane spam from Noivern and the swift swimmers for instance. It'd be annoying to counter anything that doesn't use weather themselves, and might just end up becoming the staple of the game. At least for X/Y, there is somewhat of a balance, and auto weather is more useful and viable in doubles/triples than it is in single battles, despite it not being permanent.