Hello. I usually lurk in this subforum, like I think I've only made one post ever here because I'm by no means the best or most frequent OU player out there. I've seen a lot of talk before about banning the Slowtwins, and I remember seeing a lot of people debating over whether to ban Boots, Teleport, or the Slowtwins individually. Something I've been wondering though - why is Regenerator almost never put onto the table to be argued for a ban?
When I use something with the ability, I feel like I can get away with some really stupid, risk-free plays like staying in with, say, Toxapex on certain things that by all means should be hard Pex counters just to get a free Toxic or fish for a Scald burn, eat a hit that may or may not be super effective depending on whether or not my opponent predicts me properly, then switch out and regain a bunch of health. I feel like this uncompetitive as it removes an aspect of control from my opponent in these situations, as no matter what damage they end up doing now, very often I can patch it up effortlessly. Sometimes I'll need only one opportunity to get healthy again, maybe even zero depending on what the opposing mon is and how much damage they did to me. Obviously not impossible to deal with because it would have been banned by now if that was the case, but I feel like it kind of skews things in the player of the user for this reason. I know you can make the argument that only specific abusers of Regenerator have this aspect to them, but at that point, why would you argue against Teleport? Blissey and the Slowtwins are the only things that are prominent that you could argue make Teleport broken here, and Chansey would definitely pop up if Blissey didn't exist in this meta.
I might not be thinking through this deeply enough and might be missing something obvious here, so I want to hear others' logic for why this likely isn't true. Thank you in advance!
