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the metagame will have little to no change without salamence its usage was just as popular as gyarados and tyranitar, with scizor still being more popular. with its banning people will simply find a similar replacment. half the people didn't even use salamence due to personal favour or due to...
Even if salamence was centralizing it had its checks in other forms such as priority users and residual damage. With its banning one other poke will become the top dog and will that mean that its to centralizing. If some one brings up rayquaza and its residual damage they need to shup the f***...
yes it i see were you are coming from but it also had its checks in the form of residual damage and priority users, so i dont see it had to be banned. salamence was not the only poke to have a check around every poke does. you as a player have to be ready fro scarf jirachi and flygon, bulky...
ofcourse scizor is a check if salamence comes into stealth rock its over for him. stealth rock itself should have been a good enough reason for him not being banned without even mentioning sandstorm and LO, heck with all that even a rattata with a quick attack could take him.
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scizor that has completely changed the metagame is not even bothered looked at but salamence that has been the same since his introduction to the game is all of a sudden banned. Just because stall users didn't like him doesn't mean you got to ruin the game for the whole other lot of people. talk...
i was just curious is rock slide better or stone edge. i have been using stone edge but the accuracy has cost me many matches. any advice would greatly be appreciated.