Scizor wasn't really centralizing since it had multiple hard counters, wasn't fast and could could grab momentum only a against a select few Pokemon. Pretty much everything fears Genesect's download boosted Coverage moves, plus Genesect packs a relatively fast U-turn to get out of sticky situations, making it difficult to counter and easier to grab momentum with it.I suppose my intention was to show that through careful team building and playing Genesect can be easy to manage. Sometimes keep it in to confirm may be the best option; sometimes switch in to a Genesect check is. It depends on how much one values the Pokemon Genesect is attacking in a given situation, and it is a rather tactical decision.
Well, Scizor can be centralizing too but it wasn't banned. Tell if running a Blissey, Gengar, Mamoswine, and Tyranitar on the same team would be a good idea in Gen 5.
Of course running a team weak to Scizor in a gen where Scizor was the most used Pokemon would be a bad idea :/
Except that Dark doesn't have the same super effective coverage that fire has, Greninja has poor defences and can be revenge killed pretty easily, and doesn't really hit as hard as Gene does. Greninja isn't centralizing at all. And heatran is pretty much the only Pokemon that can reliably deal with Genesect.I suppose one could switch "Genesect" for "Greninja" and replace "Fire" with "Dark", not to mention Greninja usually has the luxury of switching moves. Having a fire weakness is also bad against Heatran, not mention being burned for a Physical attacker. Gen 6 Physically Defensive Rotom-W is also "centralizing" since it punishes non-fire physical attackers.
I'm not sure you understand what centralizing means. A Pokemon is centralizing when you have to resort to using several methods, sometimes obscure or non-viable, just to deal with it (what your post seemed to imply about genesect). Centralizing Pokemon may render some normally viable mons less viable (Genesect's prevalence is one of the factors why Lati@s are used less often IMO). Rotom-W doesn't really fit that description.
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