This would also completely destroy the viability of a number of other Mega Evolutions, and severely limit the options available to damn near all of them. I would personally like to be able to use Substitute / Focus Punch / Play Rough / Sucker Punch Mega Mawile, or use Heal Bell on Mega Ampharos, and Ice Punch on Mega Aggron, etc.
I never meant non-Kalos mons wouldn't be able to MEvo. My thinking was along the lines of that only Kalos-bred mons would be able to be used in tournaments or Wi-Fi. If you have a Gyarados from 5th gen, you'd be able to MEvo ingame and whatever, but you wouldn't be able to use it in the Battle Spot or in tournaments or whatever.
You have a lot of good information in here, but this video is a bit to long for what's in it. You could say all of the relevant information here in around 10 minutes less. Less time and more concise and too the point. I mean 25 minutes is already long, but 44 minutes? Yikes. I know you said this at the end but still, a lot of people will get scared off when they see the length.
If a max defense/speed Terrakion is honestly being discussed as an option, then there's something wrong with Mega-Kanga
I'm from the school that doesn't think Blaziken or Gengarite should be banned, but I have my doubts about Kangaskhanite. I've made two serious teams, and in both cases used a Skarmory/Gengar duo as Kanga coverage. While I've had relatively little trouble against Kanga (it's beaten me fewer than a dozen times in around 500 battles), one Pokemon shouldn't be so centralising as to demand this kind of coverage. There's also the matter of my own Kanga team, which is sitting pretty at a record of 56-7.
Why were you against the Blaziken and Gengarite bans, if you don't mind my asking (while also keeping this relevant to Kanga)? In my opinion, all three of them are problematic since they are all centralizing and can easily take down one critical mon on a team that can make it fall apart.
I don't want to derail this thread. I'll simply say that Blaziken and Gengarite never posed me a significant problem. Did I consider them when team-building? Certainly, but to the extent that I have to think about Kanga? Not even close.
Circle Throw will hit twice but only phaze on the second hit :( Roar isn't affected by Parental Bond because it only works on attacking moves. I had the same thought when it came out. Would have been amazing for stall teams (heck, any hazards stacking team would love it).
More damage is still always a good thing, though. Kangaskhan is probably the best user of Circle Throw.
That was tested out a little while ago, Parental Bond only works on attacking moves, so you can't double phaze with that, and Circle Throw DOES hit twice, but only phazes the opponent on the second hit, which once again prevents any double phazing shenanigans that could've happened without it. So there's no need to worry about getting double phazed to death or anything.
Although I fully agree with your point, that Terrakion set is just a really silly option considering any normal Terrakion set already checks MK well. No need to run weird niche sets that try to "counter" it, and poorly at that since it can't really switch into EQ more than once.
That doesn't make it a good one.
Nothing really walls Crunch MKhan except Sableye, but all Sableye can do if switch in and WoW Khan. I'm seeing more and more people bring Magic bounce specifically to shut down Sableye, and if you don't have a ghost to switch into PuP, Khan just beats everything else down with raw power. If he's running crunch, Khan doesn't care and just murders them with it. Rocky Helmet Ferrothorn is the only other thing that can sort of stop Khan, but all you need is a solid Ferrothorn killer. If Khan already has PuP running, he can actually just beat Ferrothorn down (at huge cost) which is kinda horrific.
Actually, Kanga's 4MSS isn't that bad. PUP, Return, Sucker Punch covers most most of the meta, the real choice is in that last spot. Crunch hits Jellicent, but pretty much every other ghost is still hit pretty hard by Fire Punch. Lets look at some numbers on some of the more relevant Ghosts.
Kanga's modes of operation are either:
What's so horrible about sableye being the one great check, is that all you need is Magic Bounce on Khans Team to poop all over Sableye. Espeon is ideal now, as it gets Dazzling gleam off a good Satk. the entire match becomes a war to keep Sableye alive, as once the Khan "checks" are down, Khan just needs to come in to revenge something/set up Pup and proceed to tear the entire metagame appart.
However, if the Sableye user knows you have Espeon, it can just Foul Play the switchin for a lot of damage. Prediction works both ways.
