I wish to Nominate further Quick Bans to the Council.
I think 2 Pokémon are not enough.
Frankly, I think the Council is being to passive in Banning these Broken Pokémon, Moves, or Mechanics.
I think the Council needs to be more aggressive in their Ban’s.
1st - I want to Nominate a Quick Ban for Dragonpult.
The Below Screenshot is taking directly Gen 8 PokémonDex.
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Several Pokemon who are “Dragonpult” Checks & Counters are not out in the game.
In addition, The Person who wrote the Checks & Counters named several Pokémon then said those checks are not really checks if Dragonpult is running other move set variation? WTF
I want to know who Hard switches into Dragonpult? Blissey?
Is it Iron Bundle all over again?
It is my understanding that the Councils Goal with Quick Bans is to take the blatant strong Pokémon out of OU which restricts Team Building.
I want to know how many Pokémon actually Hard Counter Dragonpult
Generation 8 - Dragonpult might have been ok because they had several Pokémon options which could collectively deal with him.
Generation 9 - We lack a lot of Pokémon and I haven’t seen anyone talk about any New Pokémon which Counter Dragonpult.
Has the day come when Dragonpult has simply because to strong for OU?
I think Dragonpult is very Oppressive.
I feel Dragonpult should be Quick Ban.
Look at all the things Dragonpult has going for it:
- Fastest Speed in the OU Tier
- Strong Offensive Moves
- Strong Typings
- A Lack of Defensive Checks due to the fact most of his Checks & Counters are not out, yet
2nd - I want to Nominate a Quick Ban for the Ability Good as Gold (Which is Gholdengo ability)
The Council did a vote on Gholdengo and found him not Ban Worthy.
I completely agree with the Council Gholdengo isn’t Ban Worthy!
What I think is Ban Worthy is Gholdengo Ability
Good as Gold.
See what I did there guys? I found the Technicality.
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I want to bring evidence of Good as Gold Ability being OverPowered!.
I want to clear up a misconception people have been saying which could have influenced the Council’s Decision.
Players in the forum keep saying the amount of Hazard Removal Pokémon are limited.
This is a fat out lie!
The below screenshot shows 14 different Defogger in the game.
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We can clearly see there isn’t a lack of Defogging Hazard Removal.
The issue is the Ability
Good as Gold is completely shutting down Defog.
1 ability outright shutting down 14 Pokémon.
Is that not oppressive and overpowered?
Gholdengo is an average Pokémon at best.
Gholdengo isn’t Ban worthy.
The Ability Good as Gold is a Godlike ability.
The Ability Good as Gold is Ban worthy.
The issue is ”Gholdengo“ is the only Pokémon with the ability Good as Gold.
Thus, what needs to happen is for Gholdengo to be ban, until the game releases a new Pokémon with the same ability.
Once, A new Pokémon comes out with the same ability as Gholdengo, we can monitor & compare how the new Pokémon does in the meta.
If the new Pokémon completely shuts down Defog similar, Than we will truly know for sure that the Ability was broken and not Gholdengo.
Gholdengo should then be allowed to rejoin OU just with out his ability.
If the new Pokémon doesn’t shut down Defog, Than we will truly know for sure that Gholdengo was broken and not Ability.
Gholdengo would than stay in Ubers.
NOW LET ME ASK YOU ALL A QUESTION
Do you think Gholdengo would be as popular as he is if he didn’t have the ability Good as Gold?
3rd - I want to Nominate a Quick Ban for the Move Shed Tail.
Once again, I agree with the Council Decision to not ban Cyclizar.
I believe Cyclizar isn’t ban worthy.
What I think is Ban Worthy is Cyclizard move
Shed Tail.
Shed Tail is absolutely broken in every sense of the word.
Shed Tail has turned the Regular move Substitute as we know it and transformed it into Substitute on Steroids.
Powerful Sweepers & Wall Breakers which use the move Substitute did so at the cost of their own health & move pool.
- The Reduction in Health reduced the longevity of the Powerful Sweepers or Wall Breakers.
Allowing Players the option of potentially using Revenge Killers with Priority moves to finish it off after being weakened.
- The Move Substitute in the Move Pool of a Sweeper reduces the Lens of all the Pokémon it can destroy.
Allowing Players the option of potentially having an Effective Counter.
Shed Tail uses the Health Pool & Move Pool of a completely different Pokémon to make a Sub.
Than passes the Sub. to the Powerful Sweeper or Wall Breaker.
Full Health Sweeper - Which completely invalidates the possibility of revenge killing with priority.
3rd Move Pool Slot - Which pressures a player’s roster of possible checks.
Now, The move Shed Tail is on 2 Pokémon Cyclizar & Orthworm.
I believe both of these Pokémon are not Ban Worthy.
I think they are good Pokémon, but not Godlike.
I think the move Shed Tail is Godlike.
I think the move Shed Tail should be Ban.
NOW LET ME ASK YOU ALL A QUESTION
If Cyclizar was Ban tomorrow, Do you think Shed Tail would fall off the Map?
Or
Do you think the players using Cyclizar would delete him from their roster and add Orthworm in his place to keep abusing Shed Tail some more?
In my eyes, Any Ban to Cyclizar or Orthworm individually would make no difference.
I think the real Culprit is the move.
The mere fact players use Cyclizar more vs. Orthworm is simply happenstance.
Cyclizar happens to have little more Health vs. Orthworm to make slightly fatter Subs.
Cyclizar happens to have little more Speed vs. Orthworm to make set up sweeps slightly faster.
4th - I want to Nominate a Quick Ban for the New Gen 9 Terra. Mechanic.
I believe Pokémon being able to Change Typing at a moment notice in a Battle is Fundamentally Flawed and destroys everything Pokemon has tried to accomplish for the past 20 years.
I wish I knew the imbecile responsible for creating the Terra. Mechanic.
They should be fired and ban from all Official Pokémon events.
Honestly, Do you know who I feel sorry for the most?
The Smogon Strategy Pokédex Authors.
Gen 8 - Arcanine Checks & Counters on Smogon Strategy Pokédex:
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Wait till the Authors make Arcanine Gen 9 Check & Counters, You can almost image it can’t you?
Water-types: Offensive Water-types like Starmie and Blastoise are the hardest for Arcanine to deal with,
until he Terra Electric and Completely Destroys you with a Electric Terra Blast move.
How fabulous!
I can’t wait to see it.
How do you peeps they will do it?
Will they put a warning label at the end of each Check & Counter list?
Will they put a warning label at the beginning of each Check & Counter list?
Will they write a single 1 liner sentence? —-> Checks & Counters - They don’t exist this Generation, Thanks Game Freak!
Its funny to think about because of how sad the situation is.
Oh, well I ranted long enough.