It's not neccesarily a ban. Pokemon cards have had these things called "regulation markers" since the SS base set that denotes how old a card is. In order to keep metagames fresh, they'll make it so players can only build with cards from later regulations. The most recent regulation is for cards marked F and higher, which is the last bit of SS and all of SV, so flaafy (a regulation E card) is no longer allowed for tournament play.why would they ever ban flaaffy wtf
we love flaaffy here
:pmd/flaaffy::pmd/bellibolt:
The main important bans are Arceus-VSTAR and most Single/Rapid/Fusion-strike cards, which is a legitimately good metagame shift as Arcstar decks were hell to play against (mew-vmax decks were fun to play with tho but that might be the HO brainrot speaking), but this does unfortunately mean that Flaaffy can no longer abuse the shit out of "once per turn" being poorly worded.
The exclusion of this card actually hurts the deck a lot. Because "once during your turn" only refers to the specific card and not the ability itself, you could have a very reliable battery for multiple bellibolts with just 2 of these guys (no discarding neccesary) which would halve the amount of electric energy and quarter the amount of energy acceleration needed to make the deck function. Cards that only allow the ABILITY once per turn normally have an additional clause tacked on such as with Crobat-V
Edit: The current regulation bars regulation E and lower cards. Flaaffy is still banned.
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