>>57696964None of those things are counters to the things Smogon bans in the first place.
Insomia Pokemon are immune to Sleep, but what are you supposed to do with your Insomnia Pokemon afterwards?
If your Insomia Pokemon is Banette, what are you supposed to do to Darkrai? Darkrai has more moves than just Hypnosis. It will just Dark Pulse you and get a KO because it’s also faster than you.
What are you gonna do when your Aerial Ace Pokemon has to fight a Double Team user that is Steel, Rock, Electric, or has good bulk?
Those shitty abilities and moves are not counterplay to Evasion or Sleep because you don’t beat the Pokemon that use them. You’re just bypassing the mechanic that majority of people without actually solving the problem.
And that isn’t covering the fact that you’re using up a teamslot of 6 Pokemon just so your Banette takes a Hypnosis then dies and does nothing else.
Or the fact that no one would care if there was proper counterplay. The point of banlists is to remove unfun things from gameplay without using mods. Evasion and Sleep are not fun mechanics.
If you don’t like it, just play AG instead of pissing and shitting yourself over yout crutch mechanics being banned.
