That's "muh slippery slope fallacy", and it's this kind of reasoning what pro-bans are using the most instead of adressing the questions like Over Zealous said.
What if your opponent has a Skarmory and your Choice Specs Thunderbolt Latios gets eaten by, say, a pursuit AV Tyranitar and you're left with no way to check said Skarmory? Do we ban Tyranitar too because you didn't take this outcome into account when building a team?
That's an issue with Specs Latios, which is a risk you should be prepared for when you TBolt Skarmory. Its one Pokemon. Having to do that for every Pokemon if you want to kill or use a Fighting / Normal move on your team is utterly ridiculous.
As I already quoted, there are 50 different checks that do lots of things appart from checking mGengar. They're not dedicated checks. They're fucking OU pokemon that everybody uses anyways and happen to check mGengar. If you don't want to use one of those checks on the list, then it's your problem and yours alone for purposedly ignoring the fact that mGengar is a threat that must be deal with. Do you go out there without checks to common set up pokemon like Swords Dance Lucario / Garchomp, Rock Polish Terrakion or Calm Mind Alakazam? If you did and your team gets wrecked by them, it's because you weren't prepared enough in the first place, not because they're "broken beyond belief".
You have six Pokemon to find place to check or counter those threats. If one of your Pokemon doesn't counter MGengar, you can count on that Pokemon not being able to help you at all once it gets trapped. Also, stop comparing Gengar to sweepers, because they have little in common. Gengar kills problem Pokemon. Sweepers kill everything else.
Does stall have a harder time trying to deal with him? Of course it has, but it's not 100% impossible. It does in no way guarantee a kill. And as already said, if you force mGengar away, you're fucking checking mGengar because you're preventing him from doing his job! Checking, not countering! So you can't come with the "but nothing can't switch into it!".
Lovely. What's stopping it from coming in and doing it ON SOMETHING THAT CAN'T STOP IT OR FORCE IT OUT? Because that's what Gengar is going for.
Comparing to Dugtrio:
- "But Dugtrio can't trap flyers!"
Guess what. MGengar cannot trap ghosts.
Ghosts make up a tiny portion of the meta compared to Levitate or Flying mons.
- "But Dugtrio doesn't have Perish Song or Destiny Bond!"
But Dugtrio has Sucker Punch so it ALWAYS 2HKOes, unlike mGengar which is outsped by many things.
Dugtrio is piss weak and misses out on OHKOs. It has neither the coverage nor the power to rip through its trapped Pokemon. Who cares about Sucker Punch when you can guarantee OHKO by using the proper coverage move?
- "But Gengar can switch out if it feels threatened!"
Same with Dugtrio.
- "But Gengar has a huge array of supporting moves!"
That's precisely why Gengar gets checked by Pranksters.
Wut.
- "But I don't want to be forced to carry a Shed Shell!"
You're not forced. Nobody is pointing a gun to your head. Apart from Shed Shell, ghosts and volturn, there are 50 pokemon that check mGengar, and it's not like we haven't used it before to escape Magnezone.
That was pretty much only used on Skarmory when DragMag was huge and Heatran when GeneDug was huge. You're suggesting we run Shed Shell on anything Gengar might want to trap?
Also, note the fact that Dugtrio is immune to Volt Switch, so some pivots cannot escape him. Plus, he's always going full speed ahead since he can't be t-waved.
Gengar is immune to Fighting and Normal attacks, immune to Poison, and doesn't care about burns. Why are you switching into Volt Switch?
If you still keep claiming that mGengar can't be checked or deal with that's because you haven't put much effort into doing it.
Nope, that's because it keeps coming in on my Rotom-W and smashing it hard enough that it can't take Talonflame's Brave Bird's anymore. Should I run Tyrantar too?
Please, don't keep coming with the same fallacies that have been answered again and again and again and again. It's ad hominem, and it keeps clogging the thread with fallacies.
'Kay.
Furthermore, if it's not Gengar, but the suppossed sweeper the one that will butcher your entire team standalone, if you neuter said sweeper while keeping mGengar at bay forcing switches, predicting and playing like you are suppossed to play, what is mGengar going to do?
Pick off Pokemon so that something else can run through. But uh, if your opponent is playing well, why is s/he switching their designated sweeper into something that cripples it?