May I just address the fact that aegislash will always and i mean always take something down with it. There is no casual counter for it in ou, you have to be running something ESPECIALLY JUST for aegislash. Being Mandibuzz and Bisharp Which screams over centralized. What can take this this down 1v1 besides those two? Ok, lets say the aegislash is a physical one, you messed up or mispredicted or maybe played it right but there was nothing you could do and it got to +6 attack with its cheap ass swords dance. I challenge you to find something else in ou that can stop a +6 aegislash and kill it besides its two counters. Lets take the bulkiest thing in ou besides aegislash himself because another cheap attribute of his is being insanely bulky which ties aegislash himself, diancie. Even with a bold set running all evs on defense it gets OHKO'd by iron head which aegislash actually OUTSPEEDS even with a brave nature so its bye bye diancie. Even if you run speed on diancie which nobody does, whatre you gonna do? Diamond storm it? Moonblast it? anyways it doesnt matter because its not really a counter and it never has been. Next thing is skarmory. Skarmory takes a +6 sneak living with less then half. Then what? youre gonna brave bird it? Thats not doing anything even to blade aegislash and youre dead. Ok next up venusaur, incredibly bulky. You get shadow sneaked, you live with less than half, hp fire the blade aegislash and at full hp AN AEGISLASH BLADE WILL LIVE IT. Shadow sneak you're dead. Aegislash WILL sweep your team if you dont deal with the swords dance immediately, and if you mess up, youre gone. Is it really fair that one mess up or misprediction can cost you the game?