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>Blaziken has zero votes to ban
I knew i was right, i swear i hate every dumbass that claimed Blaziken is broken just because they just happen to have a team that had an abyssmal matchup with the specific 4 moves that Blaziken had and cry about it in showdown's OU chatroom.
Blaziken has a really bad case of terminal 4 move-slot cancer this generation. You want protect to get free speedboosts vs offensive shit you can easily outspeed at +1 but even then, there's a sizeable amount of priority flying around and Blaziken's bulk is a bullshit 80|70|70 spread, you also want swords dance to become the famed flaming chicken that automatically wins the game when you hit +2 speed and attack, you definitely want STAB because now that Blaziken learns Close Combat you don't risk HJK misses, but you sometimes wish you were HJK because somehow, CC did not kill shit where HJK would eliminate bulk-ish neutral targets with pure ease and let me tell you about coverage, you're trash. EQ is mandatory or else pex walls you forever but you also want Stone Edge to hit Zapdos and especially Moltres without risking getting paralized by the former and even then, EQ has a wider list of targets. And like many people said ITT, Smogon forums and even the fucking OU Showdown chatroom, we have a lot of shit that can outspeed and kill +1 Speed Blaziken.
Now i am not saying that Blaziken is shit and will drop to UUBL because at the very least Blaziken would take down 2 opposing mons with him to the grave, but then you realize that same logic applies to a lot of offensive pokemons before Crown Tundra released, if Blaziken is going to get banned, i seriously hope it is through a suspect test, which could happen because right now with shit like Zygarde, Kyurem-Black and Spectrier running around, Blaziken is somehow outclassed as a sweeper in OU by shit it used to carbonize in past generations.
Pic related is how Blaziken looks like in contrast to everything else right now.
