alright
Curtains said:
You can easily be forced to u-turn into something that you don't want to face the pokemon that the opponent left in
How is this different from switching
takes away competitiveness
so rendering the risk of the double switch obsolete on some of the metagame's most offensive pokemon isn't taking away competitiveness?
You have to do that when you lose momentum, which can happen off a lead matchup. Bang, you're forced to backpedal, but you can completely swing the momentum to your own side with a smart double switch! but you cant as U-turn fucks you, are you sensing a pattern
I see you have u-turn so now I can switch into my X with a better piece of mind that none of your moves will do any damage.
Lets continue with the hypothetical, your X (lets say Jellicent, sure) Jellicent comes in and then gets hit with a U-turn, sure it does like 5% but now you're staring at a Thunderus-T.
and if you're a master of prediction and don't switch I'll go into Heatran, whatever, works too. I have a big advantage. Point is
never once did I predict, which is what's the problem: I just gained the advantage/momentum without ever having to think
So to say that there is no risk is a falsehood because switching in to the unknown can be equally as dangerous and game changing.
Well clearly, no one said that U-Turn never has risks when i said "no risks" in my previous post I was referring to an offensive situation where any move is a clean OHKO, which in this instance it isn't. But the risk/skill involved in using U-turn is much, much less than double switching.
Just have to think and play the game
point is with U-turn you don't have to think
Anyway, if i can sum up your argument, it's that
A) The pokemon who can currently use U-Turn aren't good enough at playing offense to use it
B) Sometimes switching isn't your best option
A) I'll be diplomatic and say this is a matter of opinion, but i'd say Scizor and Jirachi abuse U-turn while being excellent at offence, while U-turn keeps things like Infernape actually competitive. In addition, the three banned pokemon (Genesect, Tornadus-T, and Landorus-I) with U-turn would probably be retested with the move banned, similar to Garchomp during the Sand Veil suspect test. {please dont take that comparison out of context and go "omgg he says Sand Veil = U-Turn!!!" I dont. It's an example of a retest that happened during/after a suspect test}
B) Well that much is clear Stealth rocks is the best move in the game using it every turn is pretty ineffective, U-turn is meant to be used situationally of course, and in those situations it's so powerful it merits at least consideration of it being broken. I'm not saying it is, i dont know; but everyone need sot at least understand the reasons someone would think so