I think people are significantly misunderstanding Rumplestiltskin's point. I'm on my phone so this may have terrible formatting but w/e
Lets compare Trick Choice with Perish Song. The justification for the banning of Perish Song is that it destroyed an entire team archetype (stall). So does Trick Choice. The difference between the two is that Perish Song is annoying to deal with on teams besides stall, but that is beside the point. My personal opinion is that people who supported the Perish Song ban and do not support a Trick Choice restriction did not vote to ban Perish Song to defend stall like they claim. Yes, Trick Choice has counters on stall, such as Protect Disable Banette. However, just like Soundproof in the Perish Song discussion, it is 100% dead weight against non-Choice pokemon. (Megas do not necessarily beat Trick Choice because the Pokemon in question might die to coverage moves that the Choice user runs). I personally do not run complete stall so this decision does not affect me directly, but I believe that in order to have a balanced metagame, most if not all playstyles should be usable. People keep saying that Trick Choice is really easy to beat, but besides the aforementioned Banette set, there are no reliable answers on stall. I think that this is overcentralizing and must be suspected.
Edited to finish last sentence, for some reason it posted without it
Edit 2: there are no reliable answers on stall
Lets compare Trick Choice with Perish Song. The justification for the banning of Perish Song is that it destroyed an entire team archetype (stall). So does Trick Choice. The difference between the two is that Perish Song is annoying to deal with on teams besides stall, but that is beside the point. My personal opinion is that people who supported the Perish Song ban and do not support a Trick Choice restriction did not vote to ban Perish Song to defend stall like they claim. Yes, Trick Choice has counters on stall, such as Protect Disable Banette. However, just like Soundproof in the Perish Song discussion, it is 100% dead weight against non-Choice pokemon. (Megas do not necessarily beat Trick Choice because the Pokemon in question might die to coverage moves that the Choice user runs). I personally do not run complete stall so this decision does not affect me directly, but I believe that in order to have a balanced metagame, most if not all playstyles should be usable. People keep saying that Trick Choice is really easy to beat, but besides the aforementioned Banette set, there are no reliable answers on stall. I think that this is overcentralizing and must be suspected.
Edited to finish last sentence, for some reason it posted without it
Edit 2: there are no reliable answers on stall
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