Honestly, most people I see mentioning Double Team call it a bad move, because even though it makes their attacks unreliable, it's also an unreliable defense. Double-Team all you want; at +6 evasion, a little coin flip still says you're eating a OHKO.
Yeah, my main problem with double team is that if it is in fact as bad as people say, then why is it banned?
I do agree with the quote being referenced. The "scrub" mentioned are typically people who are, indeed, uncompetative, and playing 'for fun'. They don't enjoy winning, and shouldn't really be in 'hard-core' tournaments. I know I personally find "cheap tactics" such as chain-throwing to be skill-less and crude, because it really doesn't involve skill either though. It involves abusive knowledge of how the game works. In such a case, "competative" players mistake skill for such knowledge on how to play the system in just such a way to ensure victory. And it works. I won't say it doesn't for the life of me. Competative? Yes. Absolutely. Fun? Nah, but that's not what we're discussing here. Skilled? If anyone can pick up the controller, use the same pokemon, run the same deck, and with nothing but a script on how to use it, achieve similar results, than no, not at all.
There is more in that article to respond to what you are saying, but it is not in one place, and as easily quotable as that last one. Though I highly suggest reading it (I linked to it above).
Now there are three things you mention at then end: Competitive, Fun, and Skill.
It seems we both agree on it being competitive, so I won't spend time on that.
Fun is a 100% subjective term. As it says at one point in that article, the competitive players utilizing these techniques are usually having just as much fun as those who call the techniques cheap. If it wasn't fun, why would they play? So calling those moves not fun is just showing that one regards them as unskilled moves.
Skill, though, is what we really need to get at. That is the whole point I was trying to prove with that quote. People think that if something is easy to do or not reliable (luck based) that it doesn't require skill. That is just not true. Skill is knowing how to use the available moves to win. If that means using things viewed as easy, who cares? They are taking advantage of what the game has provided for them in an attempt to win. That's what Skill is. If something really is both so simple and so good, why aren't you using it. It is only once people accept that everything within the rules is fair game that they can start to develop true skill.
you still haven't answered me these questions...
Fine. I will.
do you enjoy it when the whole battle is decided by a single crit?is this fun to you?
It can be annoying, but its part of the game. I am just as elated when I win because of one as I am annoyed when I lose. I just accept them and move on.
do you enjoy it when it is down to your last pokes and you win simply because he misses against your sand veil poke?again is this fun to you?
Same as the last question. It can be annoying, but it can also be exciting. Its just part of the game.
do you enjoy double team as a strategy?
I don't care about it as a strategy. It is currently against Smogon rules. I play by Smogon rules. So I don't use it. I have no real experience with it , so I can't really judge.
and one final question...do you play pokemon only to win?'cause if you are doing this then you are pathetic...
No, I play Pokemon because I am a huge Pokemon fan. Competitive Pokemon isn't even the most important part of Pokemon to me. I play it because I enjoy it. However I enjoy winning, and I enjoy competition. As such, I play to win. And if I am playing against other People who do not play to win, then it is not fun. So yes, playing to win is very important to me, even if it is not the most important thing.
Just want to point out one part of your post:
...and fun means winning...
That is exactly what I have been saying all along. It is only when you strive to win that not only can you have fun, but can you improve, and let the metagame develop.
And if you think fun in Pokemon is:
...not criting your opponent...
or any of those other things, then you need to find yourself a new game. Those are parts of Pokemon and always will be parts of Pokemon. And I, personally, want to play Pokemon, not some skewed version of it.
ah and if you mind pls answer also my question that i made you before,as to why moves like double team have been banned.i would like to hear your answer!
I honestly do not know why they have been. I was not in the competitive community when that decision was first made. However, as I have said, since I want to assume policies are made by rational, logical people, I would hazard a guess that it was because they had become incredibly popular, to the point of over-centralization.