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Hey. (New to comp. past reading over metagame threads out of interest)
I was wanting to get into comp. - and preferably RU, as the pokes I want to use are mostly there and I don't like the ones in OU - and just wondering: how much of it goes on via simulators (Showdown, I presume?) and how much...