we definitely made the right move with pory, my only concern is that people think our only course of action from now on can be to ban a mon. i don't think this should be the case. sure, most of the time the quickest, easiest, and cleanest way to go about things is exactly that, ban the mon, but sometimes you have to get dirty. cutiefly is not the problem in my opinion, baton pass is. it has been a problem in lc before, it has been a problem consistently throughout smogon's history. i keep hearing that "we don't ban moves", but it's not like we haven't gone against precedence in the past, that's the whole point in our growth as a metagame and community as a whole. not to mention, there have been instances where baton pass has been banned or severly nerfed, so it's not like this is coming completely out of the blue. baton pass cutiefly is the only set that is broken on it, i would argue other users of bp are rather uncompetitive as well, although this definitely more of an opinion shared by me than the rest of the community it seems. going even further, i would argue that the reason bp is different than any other move is because it really isn't breaking the pokemon that has access to it, it is allowing a user to break another pokemon in the middle of a battle, and then using bp as a scapegoat as to why that is allowed. continually, while the entire strategy of bp may not be broken per se, it is very matchup reliant and even skewed towards the users advantage, and is incredibly potent against those teams that don't stack up well against it. i relate this slightly to bw ou and the sun ban, where drought teams were objectively worse than rain / sand, although the builds of such teams turned matchup into too much of a problem for the metagame, and thus it was banned.
i am not saying we should ban bp entirely per what uu did last gen, i would much rather implement the bp clause or something of the like. i have been told that that is "dumb" and "stupid" tho so idk. apparently we here in lc must adhere to what the other metas do in precedence when it comes to banning mons, yet when it comes to other stuff that other metas do such as bp clause we're too good for that? sounds to me like we're picking and choosing shit rather than sticking to "policy". again, i might be the only one who feels this way, but this is not a cut-and-dry situation when it comes to cutiefly, so please don't try and make it out to be one.