How is Explosion dead?
All it means is you can't spam it against a team with the ghost gone and kill almost anything. Now you have to, oh man, weaken it just a little to kill it!
At least a certain amount of these calcs seem pointless too. Who uses bold, max defense Ninjask? Most things, aside from heavy defense monsters like Skarmory, Cresselia and Hippowodon, still take major damage from this.
For example, Leadgross' Explosion, without EV modification, still deals upwards of 60-70% to most Pokemon, so just hit it lightly with after Stealth Rocks and bam, dead. It's also still great as a last resort due to sheer damage.
And, for example, Choice Band Metagross still does 74% - 87.4% to Hippowodon, 65.1% - 76.8% to Cresselia and 97.1% - 114.4% to Physically Defensive Zapdos. About the only thing that sucks is you can't take down Skarmory with it. Oh, and Swampert takes 60.1% - 70.8% from Leadgross' Explosion. For more defensive sets, Agiligross does 79.1% - 93.3% to it with Explosion and Choice Band Gross does 90.3% - 106.2%. So Swampy still appreciates Damp.
I'm still not that pleased with the change, but meh.
Oh, also, have we confirmed the same with Selfdestruct?