Deoxys-S : Basically guaranteed Spikes, Magic Coat owns Mischievous heart users and forces you to run Espeon/Xatu if you dont like losing your whole team to hazards, Spin also but that is rather easy to stop and there are a distinct lack of good spinners. Dual Screens are also way too easy to get up with this thing too which makes that irritatingly broken Gorebyss Shell Smash pass strategy easy, which players like Stallion abused this round. Its basically too fast and its movepool is massive and does its job at supporting the team too well, it hasn't changed from last gen. People say there is no such thing as a lead, i call BS on this. D-S is THE lead.
Blaziken : Speed Boost makes it way too powerful in Sun, the Protect/SD/Hi Jump Kick/Flare Blitz set is broken. It basically forces you to use Psychic Slowbro or bust as other waters are doing nothing to it with their main STAB move nerfed blasting through even things like Jellicent with fire moves. The sheer force of Sun boosted Flare Blitz is ridiculous, after a Swords Dance post intimidate (+1) it OHKO's 4/0 Salamence and Gyarados with SR up. This is with Leftovers and no boosting item on Blaziken, that speaks for itself in my opinion. You cant even revenge kill it because it'll just Protect on your scarfer and get even faster.
Reuniclus : Nothing apart from Sp.Def Scizor and Jirachi handle this this well at all whilst still actually being useful. Spritomb and Shubaruugo are scarcely used which are the next best things to actually dealing with it. The former is inferior to Jellicent/other Pokemon at doing other things and Pain Split has always sucked and now Rest sucks too. The latter is inferior to Scizor and has a poor movepool. Tyranitar is also not a counter or a good check, for a start it cant actually KO Reuniclus and is also at risk from Focus Blasts and then there is the Trick Room set which also KO's it. The Calm Mind set is far too bulky and is ridiculously hard to take out and stop it sweeping and this is amplified against stall whilst the Trick Room set rips though offense whilst still being really bulky.
Latios : The other Pokemon which forces you to use Sp.Def Jirachi, Sp.Def Tyranitar and Sp.Def Scizor, preferably the latter 2 with Pursuit or it'll just keep coming in and out to wear your team down easily. People say this is a diverse metagame, how ? When there are things like this forcing you to run a few specific Pokemon or lose. It will beat pretty much everything else by simply hit and running with Specs Draco Meteor. It KO's things like Max HP Scizor with its STAB move if it switches in which is ridiculous. Trick makes any defensive counters absolutely dead weight such as Blissey which makes them easy to beat, not only for Latios but for team mates too which would be the old "support characteristic" in gen 4. I get that this isn't gen 4 anymore but it still does essentially the same thing.
Sandveil/Snowcloak/Bright Powder/Lax Incense under evasion : Yeah, we have enough luck in the metagame. If you outplay your opponent the whole match, this can still cost you, that really should not be the case. Its my own fault if my Fire Blast misses, i but cant do anything to stop this. It adds nothing viable to the game skill wise and when you have crap like Sub Chomp subbing down fishing for misses you know its broken. There was a reason evasion was banned and its to stop stuff like this ridiculousness.
Blaziken : Speed Boost makes it way too powerful in Sun, the Protect/SD/Hi Jump Kick/Flare Blitz set is broken. It basically forces you to use Psychic Slowbro or bust as other waters are doing nothing to it with their main STAB move nerfed blasting through even things like Jellicent with fire moves. The sheer force of Sun boosted Flare Blitz is ridiculous, after a Swords Dance post intimidate (+1) it OHKO's 4/0 Salamence and Gyarados with SR up. This is with Leftovers and no boosting item on Blaziken, that speaks for itself in my opinion. You cant even revenge kill it because it'll just Protect on your scarfer and get even faster.
Reuniclus : Nothing apart from Sp.Def Scizor and Jirachi handle this this well at all whilst still actually being useful. Spritomb and Shubaruugo are scarcely used which are the next best things to actually dealing with it. The former is inferior to Jellicent/other Pokemon at doing other things and Pain Split has always sucked and now Rest sucks too. The latter is inferior to Scizor and has a poor movepool. Tyranitar is also not a counter or a good check, for a start it cant actually KO Reuniclus and is also at risk from Focus Blasts and then there is the Trick Room set which also KO's it. The Calm Mind set is far too bulky and is ridiculously hard to take out and stop it sweeping and this is amplified against stall whilst the Trick Room set rips though offense whilst still being really bulky.
Latios : The other Pokemon which forces you to use Sp.Def Jirachi, Sp.Def Tyranitar and Sp.Def Scizor, preferably the latter 2 with Pursuit or it'll just keep coming in and out to wear your team down easily. People say this is a diverse metagame, how ? When there are things like this forcing you to run a few specific Pokemon or lose. It will beat pretty much everything else by simply hit and running with Specs Draco Meteor. It KO's things like Max HP Scizor with its STAB move if it switches in which is ridiculous. Trick makes any defensive counters absolutely dead weight such as Blissey which makes them easy to beat, not only for Latios but for team mates too which would be the old "support characteristic" in gen 4. I get that this isn't gen 4 anymore but it still does essentially the same thing.
Sandveil/Snowcloak/Bright Powder/Lax Incense under evasion : Yeah, we have enough luck in the metagame. If you outplay your opponent the whole match, this can still cost you, that really should not be the case. Its my own fault if my Fire Blast misses, i but cant do anything to stop this. It adds nothing viable to the game skill wise and when you have crap like Sub Chomp subbing down fishing for misses you know its broken. There was a reason evasion was banned and its to stop stuff like this ridiculousness.