Because I play to win? Cool if your out-of-the-box thing does well, tbh though it's scarcely worth the time investment to refine make optimal a rogue that can perform well in the meta. I can quickly find a high caliber list for whatever archetype I think is the play. It takes about as much time to make a really solid list of said archetype just off the top of my head. All I need to do is go fish a little to get a feel for it and play a couple games to check for design flaws/playstyle preference. In exchange, rather than spending all Friday night testing, I can do other things and sleep well, as realistically only TOM, luck, and my own misplays will influence my performance beyond that point.
tl;dr - it's not worth the time investment to go heavily out of the box for tournaments despite the possible greater reward, personally. It's also not worth playing a bad list just to play a bad list and see how well you do, because I like winning/making returns on my investment.
This post irked me, are you actually saying that you make a return on the investment of playing Pokemon? You obviously must:
A) Value your time at a low rate
and
B) Not be talking in monetary terms
I say this because as I was reading through this post I laughed when I saw the last bold statement. If you are attempting to say you recoup the monetary investment of purchasing packs, cards, gas and other travel costs; well unless you are getting thousands in scholarships that are offsetting some loan-then you are not recouping monies.
Are you stating that your investment is your time and not monies? In this case, I would also wonder what you value your time at? Sure you save some time by not creating a wild deck, but with the same logic, you are spending time looking for already made lists, testing (to avoid net-decking), and then playing at a tournament/event. All of that time invested, surely can not create a return off of winning a Pokemon match? Unless you consider your time of such low value that winning a card game event is better than an hourly wage you could earn working and building net worth...
I should state that the ONLY reason I am being so...obnoxious about this, is because you are essentially telling people to just read what is online by the good players and then net-deck it and play. Maybe some people enjoy thinking for themselves, creating from their own hands and not being a succubus in general. I know Pokegym is a great place to raise more Remorraids that just feed off of the Mantines, but inspiring innovation is much better for the real world. What this community has is a lot of people looking to be led, and little looking to lead- or at least not appropriately. Just last week at league I played someone who had such a bizarre and different deck, that it made for one of the most interesting games I have ever played. Clearly that person follows their own guidelines, their own inspirations- and while maybe in competitive Pokemon that counts for little, it counts for a lot more everywhere else. I would ultimately suggest you try and understand other principles that guide someone considering you yourself have bizarre values that include not recouping your investment.
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i fully encourage people to use subpar lists for some arbitrary personal satisfaction that derives from 'being different' even at the detriment to one's potential successes in a game where one is investing a lot of time.
i fully encourage people who use run on sentences to keep posting only to continue using superfluous vocabulary on a website that contains a young audience or wait maybe you just like being detrimental to your own purpose
