Pokemon isnt so lame now huh?

I agreed with your post before, but then Kasuhitomi's post up there made me remember why Pokemon seems lame. Though I suppose any competitive game is like that? I dunno, I'd play the new Pokemon games with friends but I don't want to listen to crap like that. I want to remember Pokemon as a simple, fun game targeted at children, and not care about strategy or stat whoring.

See, that takes away the fun, in my opinion. That's why they call it 'Metagaming', meaning to play 'out-of-the-box' and to think differently in regards with the game's current mechanics.

Some examples:

-SSBM (Wave Dashing, SHFFL, L-cancelling, etc)
-Pokemon (Training Effort Values/Points, the 'metagame': Same Type Attack Boost [STAB dmg], SkarmBliss, etc)

You can't really diss something until you actually try it. I thought NB was quite geeky and nerdy, til I tried it. I got addicted to the competitiveness, and even took hours and hours building a team trying to counter other teams. Or a team that was well-rounded, etc.

Aspects of the Metagame:
-Physical Sweeper
-Special Sweeper
-Mixed/Pseudo Sweeper
-Tank (Physical+special walling, ex: SNORLAX with a +Def nature with Thick Fat nature, giving it a high resistance to fire and ice. With Snorlax's high mag def, makes it quite strong to almost any and all special attacks, unless the attacks were buffed.)
-Physical Wall
-Special Wall (not sure if they use this term anymore...)

Back when I played NB, I was in mother fucking Smogon battling against their moderators. I almost fucked up a moderator's entire team, but a mother fucking CELERY fucked up my patterns.