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>All these smogonfags crying about evasion
Oh fucking hell. Let's see your arguments:
>Earlier smogonfags cried about Megas being shit since they can't hold any items
>"Anything can hold Bright Powder, it's broken"
Yeah, like any Pokemon would waste an item slot for Bright Powder. That's not an effective strategy and you know it.
>"Boohoo Pokemon have to give up on coverage moves so they can carry moves that bypass accuracy and evasion..."
>"...but anything can learn Double Team so it's broken"
Yeah, Double Team users have to give up on coverage moves too. What they gain in evasion boosting they lose in attacking power. Not an effective strategy.
Ways to counter evasion:
>Moves that always hit the opponent (Aura Sphere and Sacred Sword are powerful, Chip Away is decent, the others are boosted by Technician)
>Roar, Whirlwind, Haze... (all hit always regardless of evasion and accuracy)
>Toxic now bypasses accuracy and evasion when used by a Poison type, no opponent would stay in spamming Double Team when they're badly poisoned
>Keen Eye ignores opponent's evasion boosts
>Defog lowers the opponent's evasion in addition to its other effects
>etc.
Seriously, there are so many ways to counter evasion that it's ridiculous wanting it to be banned. I encounter evasion abusing nips every day when playing random wifi battles and not once have I thought that it's broken. Chansey spamming Minimize? Whoops, OHKO with Sacred Sword.
