Adamant Zoroark
catchy catchphrase
Sure, there must always be a challenge, but there is no challenge in using weather. It's just an automatic win condition, that's all there is to it. There's absolutely no fun in it.Sure, its overcentralizing the game and weather has become a staple. But it should not be banned. EVER. For any game to be fun, there must always be a challenge. Things like manaphy, blaziken, excadrill, and tornadus t are examples of things that make it too dificult and impossible to play. They should be banned for that. Weather is a huge component in this metagame, and it provides a level of difficulty, fun, and creativity to the game. It is not broken, just extremely common.
If we were to ban it, that would be dumb. BW is a weather metagame, period. Every generation has its era, and this is the era of weather. I personally think banning weather would make the game less fun than it is now. Rain is far by the most troublesome weather, but not impossible to prepare for. There are plenty of pokemon capable of putting rain to a halt. Amoonguss, ferrothorn, virizion, and celebi are all great for this. You just have to stylize your team to deal with as many of the different threats as possible. Thats the fun in team building too, isn't it?
Anyway, thats my two cents on it. I seriously think we should not ban weather.
Also, Genesect was not impossible to prepare for. Excadrill was not impossible to prepare for. DPP Salamence was not impossible to prepare for. Something "not being impossible to prepare for" has never been a good argument and never will be. If anything, I'd argue that weather encourages uncreativity since you can just use the same cookie-cutter Rain team with a few changes, click that button that says "Hydro Pump", and win. Then, every team has to dedicate some slots to beating the cookie-cutter Rain team, as well as the cookie-cutter Sun team, and the cookie-cutter Sand team..... Fuck, that's already a pretty big burden on team creation. Point is, nearly everything in this generation is cookie-cutter.