Alright... considering the absolute uproar the ban of Ursaluna caused in both the discord and less so the showdown room, i think we need to talk about this ban and how this Pokémon is actually ok.
For starters, yes yes it's a nuke. But here's the thing, both it's stabs have immunities respectively on the Pokémon who takes damage by existing, making it easier than most Pokémon to pivot around. For starters, there are Pokémon who can switch into or pivot into specific Ursaluna clicks and force it out, let me name a couple:
This isn't the full list, excluding Pokémon like Flyinium Zapdos and the Mega Lati twins, but this is a sizeable amount of common, popular Pokémon who can at the minimum, pivot into Ursaluna. Of course, most of these guess wrong and they die. However, Ursaluna is a Pokémon who lives and dies by prediction, while somewhat lacking in ways to effectively come into the game and actual force the kills it's known for. Additionally, even tiny attacks like Torn-T U-turn aren't things it wants to/can afford to take multiple times, lest it be even more prone to being worn down by hazards and it's self inflicted status. Suffice to say, this Pokémon lacks longevity and can be abused very easily.
Now, I'd like to ask a question. Who does Ursaluna switch into? Pokémon it safely comes in on and can force a kill more than once, the list will be shown here:
..A blank slate? What gives, surely there's Pokémon it- no. There isn't any. Most Pokémon in this tier have a way to either smack it hard enough for a Pokémon that temporary, pivot out like U-turn Koko, or just are slower end mons like Garganacl and Toxapex who can smack it with super effective moves for 20-45% range, which is bad news for a Pokémon like this. The only main standout is maybe Clefable, but honestly if I want to abuse Clef there are plenty of Pokémon who can also do that, it's not special. Moonblast also does 30% minimum to uninvested Ursaluna, which you have to be unless you want to be outrun by crucial Pokémon like Mega Scizor, Kingambit, Skeledirge, Heatran and more. Generally, Ursaluna struggles to get in, and sucks vs offense. "Oh but he can tera and gotcha a Pokémon out of the game" LITERALLY every bloody Pokémon can with the balanced type change mechanic, this thing isn't special for that. "Oh but he can face tank a lot of neutral clicks like Lele psychic" again, ok you take 90? Have fun going 1 for 1 at best with the Pokémon that just got quickbanned.
Another point I need to mention is what was written in the ban post itself. Apologies if this comes off as rude but, what the hell are you guys talking about? Trick room? Melmetal 2.0? You can not be fr. Melmetal was doing 50% to my max max rotom washes with Double Bash, and flinching it right after. While having a superior defensive profile, and clicks that don't have Immunities to blank it with, and doesn't have the same longevity issues. Second off, it didn't have the luxury of having a contact blocking w punching gloves.
And most importantly... TRICK ROOM SUCKSSSS. It is terrible, garbage, trash, dogshit. It gets obliterated by the literal top 1 mon in the tier, hatterene is 1 flinch on lead away from losing, it's just a bad fish in a tier where we have significantly better fishes, so i have no clue why you guys lauded Trick room as a primary reason it got banned in the banpost. Overall, this is a good mon on a bad style and an ok mon on a good style at best.
And that's where my main reason for making this post is.. Why did this even happen? I genuinely did not see a single QB or even suspect mention for this Pokémon, meanwhile Sneasler got a ton of bitching and Dire Claw is one of the dumbest things Game Freak has put into the world. And Sneasler got 1 ban vote... which what? How. This isn't a post about sneasler since frankly I could care less I'll get run Lum berry skeledirge. What I have an issue with is the complete lack of any sort of both communication and understanding this decision and frankly a lot of this gen's handling has been this whole time. The rushing of bans across the board has been frankly poor and while I partially sympathize with the work it takes to get things right, getting things this wrong multiple times just isn't acceptable. No survey, no community discussion whatsoever, nobody supported this in the discord outside of council literally nobody.
Here's my suggestion, Suspect Ursaluna back down within the next week. Ubers is doing a similar thing with Calyrex-Shadow, and doing it like this would help rectify with, and pardon my bluntness, absolute dogshit decision in every corner. Another thing that would help to rectify it is too not be so caught up with time management that you rush decisions like this. NDPL is not going on, and it's not like Ursaluna trick room is gonna take over NDLT. You know who will though? Sneasler. That aside, stop being so trigger happy and try putting out more surveys for this type of stuff before taking action like this, and the headache of nearly an hour of "what the fucks" from every person in the discord server won't likely happen again. Apologies if this comes off as headstrong/overly aggressive but I'm not the only person who thought this, and it's 1am so I want to go to bed
For starters, yes yes it's a nuke. But here's the thing, both it's stabs have immunities respectively on the Pokémon who takes damage by existing, making it easier than most Pokémon to pivot around. For starters, there are Pokémon who can switch into or pivot into specific Ursaluna clicks and force it out, let me name a couple:
This isn't the full list, excluding Pokémon like Flyinium Zapdos and the Mega Lati twins, but this is a sizeable amount of common, popular Pokémon who can at the minimum, pivot into Ursaluna. Of course, most of these guess wrong and they die. However, Ursaluna is a Pokémon who lives and dies by prediction, while somewhat lacking in ways to effectively come into the game and actual force the kills it's known for. Additionally, even tiny attacks like Torn-T U-turn aren't things it wants to/can afford to take multiple times, lest it be even more prone to being worn down by hazards and it's self inflicted status. Suffice to say, this Pokémon lacks longevity and can be abused very easily.
Now, I'd like to ask a question. Who does Ursaluna switch into? Pokémon it safely comes in on and can force a kill more than once, the list will be shown here:
..A blank slate? What gives, surely there's Pokémon it- no. There isn't any. Most Pokémon in this tier have a way to either smack it hard enough for a Pokémon that temporary, pivot out like U-turn Koko, or just are slower end mons like Garganacl and Toxapex who can smack it with super effective moves for 20-45% range, which is bad news for a Pokémon like this. The only main standout is maybe Clefable, but honestly if I want to abuse Clef there are plenty of Pokémon who can also do that, it's not special. Moonblast also does 30% minimum to uninvested Ursaluna, which you have to be unless you want to be outrun by crucial Pokémon like Mega Scizor, Kingambit, Skeledirge, Heatran and more. Generally, Ursaluna struggles to get in, and sucks vs offense. "Oh but he can tera and gotcha a Pokémon out of the game" LITERALLY every bloody Pokémon can with the balanced type change mechanic, this thing isn't special for that. "Oh but he can face tank a lot of neutral clicks like Lele psychic" again, ok you take 90? Have fun going 1 for 1 at best with the Pokémon that just got quickbanned.
Another point I need to mention is what was written in the ban post itself. Apologies if this comes off as rude but, what the hell are you guys talking about? Trick room? Melmetal 2.0? You can not be fr. Melmetal was doing 50% to my max max rotom washes with Double Bash, and flinching it right after. While having a superior defensive profile, and clicks that don't have Immunities to blank it with, and doesn't have the same longevity issues. Second off, it didn't have the luxury of having a contact blocking w punching gloves.
And most importantly... TRICK ROOM SUCKSSSS. It is terrible, garbage, trash, dogshit. It gets obliterated by the literal top 1 mon in the tier, hatterene is 1 flinch on lead away from losing, it's just a bad fish in a tier where we have significantly better fishes, so i have no clue why you guys lauded Trick room as a primary reason it got banned in the banpost. Overall, this is a good mon on a bad style and an ok mon on a good style at best.
And that's where my main reason for making this post is.. Why did this even happen? I genuinely did not see a single QB or even suspect mention for this Pokémon, meanwhile Sneasler got a ton of bitching and Dire Claw is one of the dumbest things Game Freak has put into the world. And Sneasler got 1 ban vote... which what? How. This isn't a post about sneasler since frankly I could care less I'll get run Lum berry skeledirge. What I have an issue with is the complete lack of any sort of both communication and understanding this decision and frankly a lot of this gen's handling has been this whole time. The rushing of bans across the board has been frankly poor and while I partially sympathize with the work it takes to get things right, getting things this wrong multiple times just isn't acceptable. No survey, no community discussion whatsoever, nobody supported this in the discord outside of council literally nobody.
Here's my suggestion, Suspect Ursaluna back down within the next week. Ubers is doing a similar thing with Calyrex-Shadow, and doing it like this would help rectify with, and pardon my bluntness, absolute dogshit decision in every corner. Another thing that would help to rectify it is too not be so caught up with time management that you rush decisions like this. NDPL is not going on, and it's not like Ursaluna trick room is gonna take over NDLT. You know who will though? Sneasler. That aside, stop being so trigger happy and try putting out more surveys for this type of stuff before taking action like this, and the headache of nearly an hour of "what the fucks" from every person in the discord server won't likely happen again. Apologies if this comes off as headstrong/overly aggressive but I'm not the only person who thought this, and it's 1am so I want to go to bed
(literally is stuck in low ladder for like 2 years wtf)
(hopefully)
(Hopefully the first one is true but won't oppose more tera :D )