So.... they'd be building a normal team then? I really don't see how that argues against species clause.
And also, what exactly am I slowing down? And what are these huge threats that need serious banning? I mean, I have a couple things in mind that are higher priority than species clause, but those aren't the discussion. Species clause is. And "don't implement this because I don't feel it's as important as this other thing" really isn't an argument against an implementation.
Also, for those saying that species clause would be too limiting, why? I ask because there's a reason why I don't offer an explanation in my above lists of arguments against. So, why do you feel that implementing species clause would make BH a less interesting, less varied, and/or less competitive meta? ("It hurts my teams is not" a valid reason, just like "it helps my teams" would not be a valid reason to be in favor of it.)
ye could at least tag me fren.
Anyways:
Lets say you have a 6 mm2x team, you implement species clause and this is what you get:
mm2x/blaze-mega/lucario-mega/keldeo/m-herra/imposter
how does that increase variety? all your doing is encouraging type spam instead of one mon spam, which in some cases is actually stronger because of the variety.
The general banning philosophy should be not to implement clauses we don't need. This is taking out variety for no reason.
I haven't seen one good argument for implementing it other than "let me make a team and show you" or "why not- the anti ban is pretty weak so lets do it". We shouldn't be aiming to restrict things that don't need restrictions.
"And also, what exactly am I slowing down? "
by this term, what I meant was your slowing down the use of 5 mon spam, not outright preventing it. In a way it can live on in the sense of type spam which can be more variant.
"And "don't implement this because I don't feel it's as important as this other thing" really isn't an argument against an implementation."
sorry, what I meant by this is: why are we trying to restrict things that don't need restricting. We shouldn't be wasting our effort into something that isn't exactly broken. I don't mean we shouldn't have this at all, discussion is always nice but I find this to be the most pointless test in BH yet. (aside from having people actually have to vote to say PB was broken :/)
It wouldn't make BH
that less variant but I see no reason to ban this if its just so we can be "omg we're so standard look at us". All we're doing is taking gimmicks as sacrificial lamb so we can look more standard or whatever the point of this pointless test is.