>>15882082It's literally NOTHING but "after a few turns he always goes first, and my shitty frail all-sweeper team is useless if they don't hit first".
Case in point: Carvanha is banned in Little Cup.
It's the same story for both mons; they went from not banned to banned as soon as Speed Boost got released.
The ONLY THING anyone on Smogon cares about is whether or not a mon centralizes their precious bullshit speed tiers. Same reason Sand Rush Exca got banned, and Drizzle + Swift Swim got banned.
Hell, Talonflame will probably be next because MUH PRIORITY
Smogonites seem systematically incapable of building teams that do anything other than outspeed-and-OHKO.
You could show them a mon with base 200 SpAtk and SpDef and they'd go "58 speed? A shit, it can't KO anything".
I was hoping that shit like weakness policy and Assault Vest, which are geared toward bulky offense, as well as the general presence of good new bulky offense options, would mitigate the tunnel vision somewhat, but no.
And you know, being a bulky offense player I never use Banchicken anyway. But what I WAS looking forward to was people responding to a decreased ability to Always Go First, and an increased ability to tank hits and hit back, and say "maybe trying to outspeed is a losing strategy. Maybe I should go bulky".
I'm fucking bored of hyper offense.
