I think "take out your team" has to be an exaggeration. I have never been able to just take out a team with Aegislash; though, I have done very serious damage with him. Further, I do think it is possible nor good form for an argument to take all of its traits into account in a single analysis, because Aegislash, as it has been said before, is something like no one has ever seen. It has a unique typing, a unique move pool, a unique ability, two different stat distributions and a very unique effect on the metagame. Trust me, I do see why Aegislash has ultimately come up as a suspect and I do see how one may think that all these traits in one pokemon is too powerful for the meta, I just disagree. I tend to think, giving nintendo the benefit of a doubt, that Aegislash was carefully crafted and designed to be unique equalizer. That is what I see. Anyway, got to work and I think many of our arguments have been exhausted the last couple of days. I do not have time to get my coil on the suspect ladder up to 2700, because I would have to redesign a team completely; though, I will still be battling in the suspect ladder and continuing to post my findings on here. Anyway good luck. Oh, and my deepest apologies to all the individuals I pissed off. No excuses. I am sorry.As I hope you have seen on the suspect ladder, the absence of Aegislash has been a nightmare for stall because now all the stallbreakers are on the loose, so what you said there is simply not true, the absence of Aegislash may temporarily encourage more of an offensive playstyle, but that will only be temporary as we straighten up the tier. A tier that is so convoluted and centered around Aegilsash that dealing with the aftermath is actually a reason people are using to not ban him, which just shows that they are lazy, and can not come up with a good argument to keep him.
Over centralization is never a good thing, otherwise it would be called centralization. That means that ONE pokemon has soo many good traits it can completely discourage entire playstyles and pokemon from being used, forcing players to pick from a pool of albeit good pokemon, but regardless if they are good or not he limits teambuilding creativity single-handedly which is enough for ban for me. When you think of the tiers biggest threats you think charizard-x and mawile mega, these pokemon very well may get banned but they dont have impact the tier 1/4th as much as aegislash does, if you want a check for charizard x, just gets rocks on the field and have a scarfer with a dragon/rock/ground move, if you want to check mawile just use willowisp which is a good addition to any team and helps check other physical threats as well. But here is the point I am trying to make, Aegislash is the first pokemon that is not a sweeper and has wall like defenses that forces you to prepare for it. So that means that you now have one less spot to prepare for sweepers and offensive threats because you are worrying about an offensive pivot that if you dont prepare for it will take out your team.
I have similiar feelings about Aegislash as I did genesect, because honestly there is no reason not to put Aegislash on your team, he is easily the lowest risk highest reward pokemon, and the ratio is disproportianate in my opinion, like I said before, you need to address the issues comprehensively, breaking them down one by one is not going to convince anybody, if you want a solid argument in my eyes, you need to say ok here are these 5 traits that AEgislash possess and here is why I think the combination of these 5 traits is manageable and perfectly acceptable in OU.
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