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Wait, wasn't there just a ban last month? Imo if you ban everything, the meta will become stale as shit and the game will lose traction. No need for a ban tbh. Another thing I notice is that people who choose to not ban, will Koffing react because that's how our community works. Just try to...
This is super accurate, I strongly doubt there is a world where Cinderace will stay banned with shit like Zygarde, Tapu Fini, Kommo-o, and Rhyperior running around and plenty of speedy checks to it.
There are so many arguments regarding Melmetal's power and while I completely agree with those points, I do feel that a way to beat it is by exploiting its horrendous SpDef stats.
Melmetal was quickbanned because of the fact that there wasn't a consistent answer on the defensive side to it...
I feel like WP Aegis isn't really something that should be in the meta. It's almost as if it's a meme that has a niche. I prefer using Choiced Aegis if I run offensive variants of it, simply because you can hit hard as soon as you can. I agree with Weavile and Gyara sets being pretty unique.
I also see that Lord Finchy here misinterpreted what I was trying to say all along. It was a simple back and forth we had and I left the convo as he was repeating the same point over and over again. Maybe make the community more open and welcoming and less about a Council would make things...
Competitive as a whole in gen 8 is boring. The Council just likes to make things not fun and not let people experiment. We are seeing Defensive cores built around Corvi/Clef/Seismitoad and offensive cores built around Zera/Aegis/Dragon-type mons and it just isn't fun to face.