slippery slope Slippery Slope SLIPPERY SLOPE
SLIPPERY SLOPE
Its not a valid argument. Its a flaw in the argument. "If we ban Salamence we have to ban Altaria too because it is Dragon/Flying and has a blue body." Does that make sense? (Its a rhetorical question, but I will save you the trouble of having to actually think and tell you it doesn't) Dragonite and Salamence are not really comparable. Dragonite is a good bit slower (20 Base speed is huge), has less physical bulk and a slight case of movepool syndrome, when compared to Salamence. It won't be even brought up for suspect most likely.
I guess I'll discuss my movepool syndrome mention.
Here is a list of common moves that Salamence carries (I'm going to exclude hydro pump because thats only the specs set, which is terrible):
Dragon Dance, Outrage, Fire Blast, Earthquake, Draco Meteor, Dragon Claw, Roost (I guess, do people even use bad BulkyMence?)
As you can see, it really has a few options it almost always carries, but they still make it quite a force.
Now lets look at Dragonite:
Dragon Dance, ExtremeSpeed, Dragon Claw, Outrage, Earthquake, Roost, Fire Punch, Fire Blast, Aqua Tail, Thunderbolt, Draco Meteor, Thunderpunch
These are all common moves I have seen on Dragonite, although Aqua Tail is less common. As you can see, it has quite a large movepool to pick from, which makes it harder for him to sweep outright. If you go with ExtremeSpeed on a DD set, you have so sacrifice Earthquake or a Fire-type move, but you are able to hurt, and potentially kill Ice Shard users. So it has to pick from either: being able to not be KO'd by Ice Shard, or being able to sweep outright and have to worry about Ice Shard.
So now that we have that out of the way, can we try not to go on this bad argument again?
Except the slippery slope IS in effect here. This is the third dragon type we've banned due to being offensively strong.
No its not. Its a flaw in an argument, therefore it is never in effect. Also, maybe the dragons have been banned because gamefreak likes to buff them up a lot so they become more potent threats???????????????????????????