Honchkrow: Do not ban
I was a little torn on Honchkrow. He’s got that boss MoxieKrow set that’s rather difficult to stop without Steel-types and Rock-types. He’s also got the good MixKrow set, but
nobody uses it. If a lot of people used the MixKrow set, then I might have changed my opinion, but now I don’t think it’s broken and nails’ post below basically sum it up (and also because I'm lazy to type long tl;dr things.
If honchkrow gets banned people will just start complaining about braviary and swellow. It has multiple hard counters (gligar, steelix, rhydon) and a number of good checks (aggron, klinklang, bulky waters). Yeah, most of the good switch ins are rocks and steels; guess what, if you build a team without a flying resist you're going to have issues with honchkrow. That's like saying that rotom is broken because you don't have an electric resist. There may not be many steels, but there are still a decent amount of good switches into krow.
VS. Offense it’s beaten by anything faster that has Substitute or priority or not sharpedo-frail Dark resists. Yeah there’s the issue of sucker punch prediction but you need to win those predictions to actually win.
Lilligant: Do not ban
There’s no doubt about it—Lilligant ain’t broken. She has coverage issues, and is flat-out beaten by whole types. Sap Sipper mons are the strongest check to it, and both Sawsbuck and Bouffalant are good mons on their own right. Special walls like Munchie wall it and can pHaze, Gallade can take a hit and strike back, etc., and there is no shortage of checks for every playstyle. The only problem is that if you get your switches to sleep fodder is predicted, and your sleep fodder fares badly vs. Lilligant, you’re staring down at a sweep. But a lot of things are good if you have perfect prediction. Most of Lilli’s leverage comes from sleep powder, and if you can get that sleep fodder thing covered, you’re good to go. Prediction shouldn’t play a role in ban votes.
Smashpass: Do not ban
Before I say anything on the matter, I thank you for having that definition of smashpass vote just for me. You guys were probably thinking inside ‘lol wtf this random gets council once, gets this self-important feeling, and starts beating on a dead horse. There’s people still arguing about this?’ And like a good sport you guys were, I’ll be a good sport too and work with what we agreed. I also thought of abstaining b/c I felt that I might be biased to no ban just because ‘I don’t want this complex ban.’ But I’m pretty sure this is the closest vote we have and I don’t wanna make this something really sketchy like 3 ban 3 do not ban and 1 abstain.
Now on topic. I do feel that it makes the game really ‘non-competitive’ but I think that’s simply not enough to warrant a ban. I’d enjoy a metagame without smashpass, too, but I think I’m out of my place trying to ban it. Besides, I didn’t have too much experience other than SGV’s smashpass teams. Yeah the fact that his team really was nowhere near well-built but it got him first in ladder made me doubt the RU-ness of smashpass, but w/e. The guideline says if I’m legitimately torn then go with do not ban, and that’s what I’m doing. If I knew / expected I'd be in the council then I would have played with smashpass myself, but meh.
Yeah I’m really conservative I guess.