just want to throw out there, OU is considered a "joke" of 99% of metas, due to their extreme bias towards offense...and this isnt just a "OM" thing, even UU and NU tend to joke about it. they clearly dont favor balance, while Stabmons does.
and as ive said before, if technoblast is bad, we can ban that too, its basically just as bad, as eevee even added it on to the past suspect. this is not a reason for boomburst staying.
and also arguing "dont ban it because it doesnt do anything" is a very flimsy argument, completely avoiding the question of "does it break pz, altaria, and sylveon" we aren't asking if "it has a replacement" we are asking does boomburst deserve to be banned due to what it does. alternate moves, mediocre abusers(in that it nerfs them), and its resistances are ALL irrelevant to answering this. and i want an answer that ISN'T derailing from this point. what separates boomburst from geomancy and belly drum, which as i said before, are basically carbon copies of why you are arguing for boombursts stay. tell me all you want "they break all mons who run it" but that is complete bull because geomancy klefki and whmsicott (both fairly common users) were both on best average with it. same with belly drum, snorlax was a common user, and it wasn't nearly as bad as say, lopunny(this was geared more towards funbot
Funbot28) sure it boosted their power.but boomburst is a attacking move, and comparing it to the two makes no sense no duh it doesnt boost stats its "broken" because its literally a 140 base power nuke with 0 reprocussions, and as it has shown, ANY user of it gains viability 3 of which happen to be considered broken. shell smash is on a different level from the 2, as ALL abusers were broken with it. and so far it is the ONLY one with that reputation. am i missing something? is something really different from void, geo, and belly drum and boomburst other then "its an attacking move" and the falsely claimed "the two makes all users threatening with it"? nobody is answering this and are instead commenting that the three will be broken with another potentially broken move.
and lastly, your saying we shouldnt look into banning a broken move because...it doesnt make playstyles viable? why ban dark void? it doesn't either. the ban changed nothing of the meta except making a few mons less viable. if you truely believe boomburst is not banworthy because of that, i think geomancy and dark void should be unbanned for the same reason. both didnt nullify a playstyle, and did nothing more but nerf a few broken mons. we can ban the mons instead. banning moves is actually such a slippery slope, because now people are nitpicking mon vs move. as ive shown, and nobody has proven me wrong, theres literally no difference in "What makes boomburst bad" compared to dark void and geomancy and belly drum, and if these three were banned with NO ARGUMENT. why is boomburst being defended? im getting tired of constantly repeating this. and getting the same "Derailment" answers. "oh, p2 and meloetta dont like the nerf" "technoblast exists!" "the 3 mons are the only things broken with it" are ALL not arguments. and that's ALL ive been hearing from you guys. well on top of "its the mons that are broken" but again, no arguments on why boomburst ISN'T the problem other then one of the above three exuses. those aren't arguments, they are exuses. all im asking is for a decent answer WITHOUT one of the three. you bring up a good point with the "they arent that bad in the current meta" but, hey, they still destroy stall completely, and can scare offense with a different set. do we really want a "OU metagame" which is what we had before we immediately asked for the move/status restriction removal, and as ive mentioned before, most om players detest the concept as is.
a bit of a long one, but eh. its a part of arguments. sorry for nitpicking the "three arguments" but i wont accept those kind of arguments in ANY form. if you want to convince me, i suggest going with the "not bad in current meta" as that's really the breakthrough for me changing opinion on boomburst. as the "three arguments" just makes me laugh at this point.