Latias wasn't banned because it lolovercentralized the metagame. Latias was centralizing because it was powerful and popular, but it was banned because it was decided that something it could do was broken. A team of 6 Arceus would never happen in OU because Arceus is BROKEN. Stealth Rock isn't BROKEN.
Scizor was centralizing. It was very threatening and very popular, so if your team didn't have a way to deal with it, you probably didn't do well. That is the definition of centralization; however, not everything that's centralizing is broken.
You failed so miserably to understand the point that gness is nice made....He talks to you about species clause and all you have to say is about arcues???So what about all the other same species pokes that i can't use in conjuction and are not broken???Why are those banned??Can you guess???
Because variety is a wanted thing for a desirable metagame!!!And sr limits greatly this variety...
It is really simple to get it but you just have to actually read what others post...
I don't want SR banned for other reasons,but if it was only about limiting variety then i would totally support the banning of it...But it so infuriating to see people like you to fail to understand the biggest problem with sr...
Limits variety and doesn't have enough viable counters(the second reason is not absolute it is just my opinion but it is a fact that SR linits variety GREATLY)!!!Of course sr doesn't only do that and that's why i don't want it banned...
Lol @ argument saying SR made Zapdos down.
That's complete BS, its Thundurbro's fault that Zapdos is in UU, because Zapdos has been outclassed. SR and Zapdos existed for 1 generation together, the mechanics for SR didn't even change, so how is SR the fault of Zapdos being UU? That's just plain dumb.
Moltres, Articuno and Charizard are down in the lower tiers because of SR? Why isn't Volcarona down there? That's even worse.
Volcarona isn't there because it is an amazing poke that would propably be uber if not for sr.This just shows how much sr infuences the metagame.If a poke with amazing sweeping stats,the better boosting move and nice typing(it has a perfect typing if you take out the sr weakness)is needed to outweight the cons that sr brings then this should really show something...Of course all the other 4x sr weak pokes are not as good as volcarona but that doesn't mean that they should be overlooked...
I cannot imagine what kind of argument would be here today if SR was Ice-typed instead. Every single dragon in the game not called Kingdra just got nerf'd, hooray. >.> SR is a part of the metagame, and if you don't know how to deal with SR, learn to deal with it.
This is the reason that i posted...Saying something is a part of the metagame so you have to deal with it is a very dumb and meaningless statement.
You could easily say this for sleep clause,ohko moves and every ban that has been made...
So why didn't we deal with all these things???
'Cause we make the game!If sr was found to be broken you wouldn't say it is fine so deal with it...Just because now sr doesn't have any chance of being banned doesn't give you the right to act so arrogant and say shitty arguments like the one above...
It would be much better if you just tried to understand the points that some people here are making and discuss them instead of acting like the i-know-everyhting-guy telling bs like it is part of the game so deal with it....
As I said earlier, I'd say it again: Even if SR doesn't exist, if your team has a gaping Rock weakness, its just an invitation for something fast to come in and completely murder you with Stone Edges, and you'd be forced to rely on a 20% chance to miss every time. If your team is raped by SR, change your team members so that you won't have that big of a Rock weakness.
Also, nice LOL at the Rapid Spin TM argument. Rapid Spin Tyranitar would troll the fuck out of the entire metagame.
And finally your rock weak team example is a huge failure!I could easily have a team with two 4x weak pokes to rock or three 2x weak pokes to rock and still do pretty well 'cause i cover the weaknesses with the rest of my team if it wasn't for sr.But with sr those kind of teams are imidiately a no no...
Jesus, just let this shit die.
I thought that only posts that contributed to the subject of the OP were allowed...We have a point that we are discussing!!!Who are you to mock and hummiliate our point in such a way???