This thread is ridiculous.
Everyone complained about
kokoloko (make your SPL shootouts, you fool) and his ban happy system. Now we are taking a different and more balanced approach to make the UU tier enjoyable for everyone, that doesn't require banning every single little threat, like Scald, Staraptor, or Victini, and people are complaining about it. You can't please this crowd.
The Scald thread showed lots of people wanted us to balanced that move, and that lots of people wanted to keep relying on a 30% to beat sweeper that resists Water-type moves, like Salamence and Haxorus. To try to make everyone happy, we settled for the middle ground. This mechanic still allows users to rely on terrible odds to beat threatening sweepers, because running a consistent counter is foolish; the odds are just slightly worse for the Scald user now, because they still risk getting swept by a Pokemon with multiple boosts, but now they also have a chance of automatically fainting. Players are now forced to play smart and run properly built teams, instead of relying on a 30% to beat every physical sweeper.
"But this ruins bulky Water-type Pokemon"
No, it doesn't. If you don't want to risk your Pokemon fainting, you have two options:
- Play smart
- Use Surf
It's foolproof.
The best part about this mechanic change is that we are setting a precedent that can be used to fix other problems in the near future, for example:
- Knock Off: It's not luck based like Scald, so giving the user a chance of auto fainting is dumb. But we can make the user lose its item + take 30% or 50% recoil damage, or simply revert to Gen 5 Knock Off mechanics
- Staraptor: We can just decrease Reckless's power boost, or make moves like Brave Bird and Double-Edge not affected by this ability
- Victini: This one is a bit harder because Victini is incredibly versatile. I guess we can give it a lower BST.
- Klefki: Thunder Wave, Spikes, Light Screen and Reflect don't gain priority. You can still use Magnet Rise, Toxic, Calm Mind, Rest, and Sleep Talk
- Smeargle: We can ban the combination of Geomancy + BP
The possibilities are endless. We can finally balance the tier without banning Pokemon, which is what many people want.