Sorry LouisIX, I agree with you on the Miraidon angle, but I need to disagree with your views on Basculegion.
It's clear the playerbase agrees that this Pokemon is toxic based on the survey. There's no reason to give it a chance. It's literally just an OHKO move with an immunity. We shouldn't have to play around a low-skill high-reward mon like this.
Why does it matter what it does in the early game? It's going to OHKO in the late stages of the game. You're literally always going to get in the endgame anyway. But even if we take your statement at face value. It only takes 1/2 KOs to get it online. Wave Crash in the rain also does a boatload to so many things in the meta. And once again taking this statement to heart, why should we have a meta that favours Offense over everything else? On the opposite coin of your argument, Defensive teams are literally unviable because of Basculegion alone, let alone with the bikes available.Basculegion has recently surge in discussion about its brokeness and uncompetitive nature since SCL. To me, Basculegion has numerous limitations:
1. Literally zero contribution in the early game, meaning it has extremely low tolerance to Offensive team.
That may be true, but that's for one major threat: Choice Scarf Koraidon. CS Koraidon needs you to be Scarf and Webs if you ever hope to outpace it. But that forces the Koraidon player to keep CS Koraidon healthy, which is not normally how it is played, and it is also the most susceptible to hazards, meaning it can be worn down easily.2. Heavily rely on webs, occasionally in Trick Room.
Okay, so you admit that it's well-positioned in the current meta?3. Heavily abusing the threat of Koraidon in the teambuilder and its typing advantage of Koraidon
This is just factually incorrect. You don't even need Tera to break down Arceus, it's super easy to wear down unless it's Recover Arceus, but then you're running Recover E-killer, which in itself, is terrible.4. Relies on tera.
Just as Kate mentioned, let's not fall into this habit of banning or not banning a broken mon because we theorise it does better or worse in a meta that doesn't exist. You ban what's broken and deal with any more broken things after. Just cause there is a chance that Basculegion could be more manageable after a Koraidon ban, doesn't mean we should wait til one that may never come. Basculegion is a problem now, so we should treat it as such.I think 1,2 and 4 are relatively easy to understand so I will elaborate on 3 a bit more.
Koraidon is a premier fighting type so far. Basculegion/Last respect as a ghost type threat, undoubtedly benefited from the premier fighting type Koraidon suppressing the usage of darks and normals.
On the other hand, Basculegion itself hold one of the best typing against Koraidon, the water/ghost. With Tera fairy, it punishes all 3 stabs Koraidon is running most of the time which makes it one of the heaviest punisher to a locked Koraidon. Please be reminded that Scarf Koraidon is recognized as the best scarfer in the tier by far.
With the above observation, I sincerely believed that when discussing about the necessity of Basculegion/Last respect Suspect, we cannot just put away Koraidon, and thats why I truely believed that Basculegion/Last respect should be the last thing in concern.
Thanks for reading.
It's clear the playerbase agrees that this Pokemon is toxic based on the survey. There's no reason to give it a chance. It's literally just an OHKO move with an immunity. We shouldn't have to play around a low-skill high-reward mon like this.