This is a good mindset to have. You like that the meta is fun but don’t like how Tera skews the balance of certain mons. Most of these mons, especially Gambit were built in mind with one or two major weaknesses, but Tera removes that weakness and leaves you with an unbalanced mon.
However I disagree with this one statement.
Um…
Amoonguss, Clod, Corv, Ghold, Tran, Molt, Slowking-G, Scizor, Toxapex, Volc
I'm going to put the fact that things like Psyshock, Shadow Ball, Focus Blast exist and these switch-ins are an easy predict, especially since most teams only have 1, maybe 2 of these mons, but I love calcing to show how stupid Tera is sometimes lol
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 84 SpD Amoonguss: 159-188 (36.8 - 43.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Corviknight: 166-196 (41.6 - 49.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gholdengo: 158-187 (50.1 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 248 HP / 248+ SpD Moltres: 118-139 (30.8 - 36.2%) -- 56% chance to 3HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 236 HP / 0 SpD Scizor: 176-208 (51.7 - 61.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
So really you barely have to predict, as these calcs mean most these mons can't safely switch in, you just have to spam Moonblast, and then fire off a Psyshock, Focus Blast once, or cripple with Trick.
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Banning tera blast for me doesn't really solve nothing, it nerfs some tera user but most of them will remain more broken than ever, making them even stronger
The strongest way to use tera for me is by turning into a typing and get an immunity (like flying for evading eq or fire for evading wow) or turn into ghost for antispin reason
Tera blast can turn NU pokemon like ice moth into something viable in OU thanks to the legendary coverage ice-ground but it still requires support to swipe a team alone, it doesn't automatically make ice moth broken, the only one was regieleki.
Sneasler without the ground (or fire) tera is still a top 5 threat thanks to 130 atk, 120 speed, unburden and in any case, has shadow claw for hitting ghosts
Haven't been on for a few days and just kinda using your post to hop into the ban TB discourse.
TB is actually a huge problem.
I meant to come back later when more ppl had voted, but this gives a quick glance.
I've seen Fairy TB on Specs Zap in rain and scarf Rotom-W.
The others are fairly obvious and most have seen what TB these run.
Anyway, banning TB is a huge step towards balancing the gimmick.
Gaining resistances is one thing, but gaining offensive power and coverage is much better.
Was Gambit designed to be able to resist Fighting/Ground etc? Probably not, but that's part of Tera.
We can live with that if needed.
Was Gambit designed to hit Fighting types for SE damage? No, definitely not.
Just like Pult wasn't designed to hit Dark for SE, or Volc wasn't made to be able to hit Ground for SE.
Gaining the ability to have a move a mon was literally built not that have is insane.
It's 100% a part of why Tera is a problem and if we can get rid of it the meta gets better overnight.
I don't like how mons are being pushed past their built in flaws in regards to coverage moves, it feels broken and stupid.
GF takes such care into choosing what moves a mon should have, Nagan literally didn't have HP Ground, they manually removed it so that it couldn't hit Steel for SE lol.
Any they got rid Hidden Power, cuz even that low damage was still too much for some mons to have that coverage.
(Why then removed HP for balancing, then made us suffer with Tera I'll never know lmfao)
Frankly, if I had to choose between Preview and banning TB then I'm banning TB.
If we are to touch Tera (either ban it or restrict it), Tera Blast should be left alone. There is a clear opportunity cost to running Tera Blast. Running a mon with Tera Blast often means focusing the entire team on making use of that one mon with Tera Blast. Even if a mon has Tera Blast, it doesn’t always mean it completely blows over the whole team. A Tera Blast Tera Ghost Pult is still getting checked by Garg, the same way a Tera Ground Sneasler is still getting blanked by Zapdos or Balloon Ghold. Tera Blast is also often deadweight except when you Terastilize which is a problem for mons like Sneasler or Gambit who want coverage or in Gambit’s case (Iron Head or Low Kick). Its more of a commitment than clicking Tera Steel or Dark with Valiant. What’s more is that most of the OU tier doesn’t need Tera Blast. Sneasler and Gambit are fine with not using Tera Ground or Tera Fairy Blast. Bax certainly doesn’t need Tera Blast and neither does Valiant nor Ghold. I believe we should keep our focus on Tera as a whole and whether or not we want any action taken upon it.
Again, its either a high skill cap meta or a balanced meta.
The opportunity cost really isn't that high.
A lot of good teams have a dedicated sweeper/cleaner running TB, and sometimes they have 2, maybe even 3 TB users for different MU.
It doesn't always mean it completely blows over a team, but sometimes it does.
Something common like Ground Bax is still going to be good even if Tera is used or plans to be used by a different mon.
It still has its two stabs.
A better example would be Volc, but it's banned, ironically due to TB.
There were times I would set up and sweep and never Tera the Volc or use TB, QD + Fdance + Buzz/Psy/Giga was enough.
Your other points about like, Sneas gets blocked by Zap... that's just how pokemon works...
It also is just going to click Dire Claw next turn so idk..
Anyway, back to the main topic.
Storm Zone has a rain team with specs Zap with Fairy TB.
Many, many games I never had to use it and still got insane mileage out of the mon with Tbolt/Volt/Cane.
Choice locked mons and overall great mons don't really care if their 4th move isn't used half the time- it's the other half the time they do that matters.
It's actually a simple low-risk high-reward situation most of the time.