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I wasn't going to look at this thread much more but I got shown this and had to respond:
I made a point of finding the dumbest possible strawman here. I assumed it would be fairly obvious that my point is not to unban Shed Tail, given that it's a ridiculous proposition.
The status quo is to...
I.] Inherently Broken Nature
- is only viable on 50% of mons that use it, rather than a majority
II.] Universal Applicability Across Eligible Users
- see above, only banned due to mons with passive healing abilities
III.] No Plausible Scenario for Balance
- sceptile and smeargle are fake
Due...
seen some opinions catching up
tera blast ban is a band-aid solution to be sure but it’s still a solution to some issues, and in a metagame where so many top mons have three to six different viable sets there’s still merit in looking at it on the basis of centralization alone, since tb...
you know what really enables balance? gholdengo. impossible to remove on it. spikes for days. therefore it makes games filthy stall and needs to be ILLEGAL. also gholdengo dm’ed me pics of his hoard and called me poor which was a big meaniehead thing to do, but i can’t say anything back because...
i like that the examples for why this philosophy would work are the mon that infamously struggles to break things nowadays and the mon that relies on specs while being weak to sucker
putting them on the same pedestal as bloodmoon is like putting a plate of spaghetti next to a messy...
for what it’s worth i think i should mention that i also opposed the moon ban, im not the strawman that wants every offensive mon banned
i just think there is a balance to be struck and it’s more easily disrupted by offense than defense
im not a psychologist but “bad thing wouldn’t be bad if we had worse thing” seems like a poor line of thought.
reshiram isn’t your top 5 ubers mon but that doesn’t mean it would be fine in ou just because we also added like koraidon to check it. likewise if i took your example of magearna and...
gholdengo, this is a declaration of war. it’s over for you when i remember to ladder two hours before the deadline. the world will know thy name, and they will curse it.
your days are numbered.
While I’m not personally a huge fan of this gen, I have to admit that the meta has felt pretty healthy as of late. The power creep is absurd compared to other gens, sure, but it feels like as the tier currently is, everything feels fairly balanced.
And yet I still hate Gholdengo #banGholdengo