I was browsing through some OMs and decided to read the OP of STABmons. I've played a few games on PS and wanted to read more about it. I found these complex clauses/bans there:
Clauses apply as follows:
~Sketch Clause (Sketch banned outside of Smeargle)
~Pre-evo Clause (STAB can be transferred from earlier evolutions, see bottom of post)
~Forme Clause (certain formes can transfer STABs, see bottom of post)
~Nice Ubers Clause (some Ubers are allowed, see bottom of post)
~Limited Normals Clause (as of 10/3/13, only 1 instance of extra STAB is allowed for Normal-types, including access through the Pre-evo and Forme Clauses)
With all this talk of potentially banning various moves, abilities and some complex bans, I was wondering why complex bans had such strong opposition. To me it came off like they were a thing of the past, like the Drizzle + Swift Swim ban in OU that I think someone mentioned here. But clearly this was just updated yesterday in fact and that "Limited Normals Clause" looks quite complex, feeding off other clauses and only allowing one extra move for Normal type only. Sounds pretty similar to the proposed ban for PH on normals in Balanced Hackmons to me. I'm just not understanding why the inconsistency.