>>30644773No, this applies to not only pokemon, but every other pvp games with multiple characters that employ banning as a form of balancing the meta (think dota or LoL). Rather than have every match be played around a certain character that is way too good, you ban them and make room for a larger amount of weaker characters.
Stuff like greninja wasn't banned because it counters all the sub 1400 shitters that use a cookie cutter OU team. It was banned because it was so good that you had to use it, or be left at a major disadvantage at the higher ranks. And then you also had to run a specific counter to your opponents greninja.
Since greninja can 2hko so many pokemon, this pool of counters is incredibly small. Many special walls became absolutely useless and you were forced to use chansey/M-venu.
>"what you are describing is a pokemon that can come in on almost anything and do its thing"Never described this, you're putting words in my mouth. A pokemon can be extremely overpowered even with glaring flaws. A lategame can sweeper can extremely overpowered and force overcentralisation, even though you can "just switch to a wall lol, it can't 2hko everything so it isn't that bad".
Since you rag so much on usage based tiers, what tiering option is better for achieving a maximum amount of pokemon being useable?
