For the sake of my lovely boo
Haunter, I will do a real serious post.
- Is Baton Pass (with specific reference to full Baton Pass teams) a problem for the development of the metagame?
In terms of metagame development, I don't really believe so. Tournament players seem to be building teams at the higher level without really worrying about Baton Pass (mainly because there's like some non-written code that you shouldn't use BP if you want to be acknowledged for battling skill). I do believe that Baton Pass teams are overpowered if given to someone who is semi-decent or better at battling and knows the metagame. You can't give a Baton Pass team to someone who is new to the game and expect them to perform well (not like the sense of Mega Lucario or Mega Kangaskhan), however, if you know what you're doing, then 9 out of 10 times you should win with Baton Pass.
- If so, what elements, in particular, do you think are pushing Baton Pass over the edge?
Perhaps the only factor that pushes BP teams over the edge is that if you are able to successfully start up a chain, it almost becomes near impossible to stop. This is because it's very easy to build a team that is able to pass around the most dangerous threats in the metagame and set up on them. (I don't really have any BP experience in XY, but this was most definitely the case in BW2).
- Do you believe that banning individual Pokémon (such as Espeon/Scolipede) would make Baton Pass manageable?
I don't think that banning the Pokemon is the right call. These Pokemon aren't really broken, even with Baton Pass. Anyone knows that you can't completely sweep a team with something like Scolipede + Espeon unless your opponent has like absolutely nothing for it (something named Tyranitar, but there are obviously others).
- Would you support a blanket ban on the move Baton Pass?
Absolutely not, because Baton Pass isn't broken. It's the chains that are the biggest issue. As we saw in BW2, things like BP Celebi were viable tools in order to not get absolutely fucked by Tyranitar + Keldeo teams.
- Would you support the introduction of complex bans (like Pokémon X+Pokémon Y on the same team)? Feel free to suggest more forms of complex bans, of course.
I think as Haunter was suggesting, the best way to go about this would be to add a clause that limits the number of Pokemon that are able to use Baton Pass. To answer his above post, I think that three is the way to go for this, because four could potentially have a chain with the fifth member not having BP and the sixth member being something like a suicide hazard setter or something.