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seriously? every single strategy out there relies on some sort of luck. by the removing luck based aspects of the game you are also nudering the entire meta game which means no one can use moves like focus blast or hydro pump because they are luck based or abilities like flame body and critical...
they cant keep ignoring complex bans. sooner or later they are gonna make them. but right now even if they wanted to they don't have the guts to do so because they are so scared of complex banning shit.
How is Blaze Blaziken uber? I mean blaziken in general has all these checks and counters para hax, talonflame, Jellicent, Azumarill, Topsy turvy, Clear smog. all these things destroy blaziken. and why are complex bans so bad? I mean its just one complex ban, just make him useable in lower tiers.
Infernape cant handle Gliscor. it pretty much shits on it with toxic stall, actually it shits on everything that isn't poison or steel or that has poison heal, immunity, natural cure, hydration or magic bounce and kills said types with e-quake.
not really I just don't want it to be banned because this is the first time that lucario could do something other than the extreme killer set because its normal form is kind of frail and requires sash and SD to even do something.
but the question is who keeps either evolite chansey or lefties blissey in for a physical move? the answer is obvious. no one does. they either switch into gliscor or avalugg to take the hit and then get your physical pokes out of the way and then just troll you until your team is dead.
lets say if mega luke did get banned. there would be a slight increase in chansey and blissey usage, then lets say if mega mawile mega medicham, mega heracross and mega tyranitar got banned then pretty much then the meta would be overrun by those 2 pokes because all the physical threats are...