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Who in their right mind thought this would be okay in OU it was oppressive before the AT ban and now it's even worse.
Anyway, Melmetal. If this thing doesn't get banned I think we all know it will comfortably rest very high on the VR. It is very oppressive and there are no consistent defensive...
Yay one liner uninformed posts with dumb arguments. I almost want this thread to lock now.
NO ONE cares what banning an ability will do to a pokemon's viability. In fact, their overwhelming use and uncompetitiveness led to this thread being made to suspect the ability in the first place. The...
First off, what is up with all the dumb anti-ban arguments? Was leaning towards anti-ban on the basis that many mons could either avoid trapping or kill duggy well, but after seeing some incredibly uninformed posts on the anti-ban side, I am now in favor of a pro-ban. Thanks finch.
Anyway...
Trapping, as a whole, is uncompetitive. Regardless of whether or not the good pokemon have levitate or are flying/ghost types, it still deserves to be banned.
Why do you think shadow tag was banned? Because it promoted trapping with even less counterplay, regardless of how useless the pokemon...