>>20493470I don't think it's that Smogon wants stall to be the ONLY playstyle.
But Smogon (at least, the stallfags of Smogon) insists that the metagame is not balanced unless stall is a thriving, viable playstyle just like offense.
The problem is that it's not supposed to be like that. GF did not design Pokemon with the consideration that some asshat is going to do nothing but switch and spam recovery moves for 150 turns, and so of course the game is not balanced with regards to that kind of strategy.
Stall is not a natural component of the metagame and you have to forcibly warp the meta if you want it to even be equally viable to running a balanced team, or a HO team.
I think that's why whenever a ban comes up you always hear "but the meta is just going to be stall if X gets banned!"
Because HO is organically very viable, it seems like most bans are out to help stall.
Something has to be REALLY fucking borked for offensive teams to be unable to deal with it.
