I think banning Darkrai is a mistake, because it's the symptom of the bigger problem of sleep moves, sleep clause just doesn't cut it in a super hyper offensive gen like this, and I wouldn't mind sleep being gone.
Also banning Darkrai over an uncompetitive set that isn't even its best one is dumb honestly from a tiering perspective, sleep is the problem when we look at lower tiers, as Hilligant could pull the same shit in RU with sleep powder victory dance prior to being banned like Darkrai does up here. Point being it's already proven to be problematic in lower tiers and a sleep ban is the only way this issue is gonna get solved
Anyway I think Kyurem and Roaring Moon need to get out, and while I do not really think Gouging Fire is broken due to the fact it needs a dragon dance and or sun up to threaten a sweep despite being really strong in the meta isn't unmanageable at all, because unlike volc it is pretty easy to tell whether it is Bulky defensive Gouging Fire or the Sweeper variant, and both have different counterplay. It's definitely difficult to beat sometimes, but not unreasonable to beat at all
Also banning Darkrai over an uncompetitive set that isn't even its best one is dumb honestly from a tiering perspective, sleep is the problem when we look at lower tiers, as Hilligant could pull the same shit in RU with sleep powder victory dance prior to being banned like Darkrai does up here. Point being it's already proven to be problematic in lower tiers and a sleep ban is the only way this issue is gonna get solved
Anyway I think Kyurem and Roaring Moon need to get out, and while I do not really think Gouging Fire is broken due to the fact it needs a dragon dance and or sun up to threaten a sweep despite being really strong in the meta isn't unmanageable at all, because unlike volc it is pretty easy to tell whether it is Bulky defensive Gouging Fire or the Sweeper variant, and both have different counterplay. It's definitely difficult to beat sometimes, but not unreasonable to beat at all
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