>>17669754You're not making a point.
Here's the actual Point.
>Losing your mega stone cripples your Pokemon. >Similarly, losing your lefties or Life Orb ALSO cripples your pokemon. There's no reason one should get special advantages over the other at all.
Here is the list of Megas used in OU:
Char Y, X
Tyranitar
Chomp
Venusaur
Lucario
Manectric
Mawile.
Of these, two are not OU viable; Mawile and Manectric.
Leaving us with:
Char X, Y
Lucario
Venusaur
Tyranitar
Chomp
Of these 6, 2 rely completely on their megas; Venusaur and Char X, specifically for the attack buff.
Lucario, Charizard, Chomp, and Tyranitar all function JUST fine without their megas, whether the stone gets knocked off or not.
Let's say your chomp is holding Life orb and your T-Tar is holding Assault vest. They both get knocked off, now you're dealing with an itemless chomp, and an itemless T-tar. Assume they're instead holding their respective stones. If Knock Off DID knock off stones, as it should, you're now dealing with an itemless chomp and an itemless T-tar, there is no difference whatsoever, they are both now in a crippled normal state without items.
Now, take the same situation above, and now assume it works the way it does now. The former have been crippled, and the latter STILL have access to their megas.
It's not fair. Your argument of "It's better with regular item instead." Yes, well, times change and the meta changes. Perhaps it will be more wise to carry stones on these simply because they can't be crippled by it anymore.
Do you know WHY chansey is not used over Blissey? Because people expect others to carry Knock off for the Evioite, otherwise, Chansey with Eviolite IS stronger than Blissey with lefties.
