>>22769086>lore>BSTs>matteringExcadrill was banned in Gen 5 despite having 508 BST. If you care about lore, make a romhack that rebalances the game and makes legendaries appropriately powerful while neutering currently minmaxed regular mons.
Most ~600BST legendaries already allowed by GF are not even problematic in the slightest. People keep bringing up Lando-T but it was perfectly okay in Weater Wars: The Meta and nobody complained. It's the most used OU mon because it happens to check/counter the most powerful OU-legal mega evolutions, all of which happen to be physical.
>>22768718Gen 3 was pretty nicely balanced. While very bulky in general, the infant Smogon managed to get by with only Lati@s ban while managing to unban Celebi and Jirachi. Gen 4 only stabilized after banning four most powerful GF-legal dragons.
Hillariously enough, Gen 5 was probably the most balanced meta in history precisely because weather spam managed to get a whole bunch of shitmons to be on same level as generally powerful mons like powerful 600BST legends and pseudolegends. Only five bans were needed while a fuckload of officially illegal things were unbanned.
Gen 6, by comparison, is going to end with a fuckload of bans. Scolipede, Metagross, Sableye and Lopunny are all very likely to get canned to ubers at this point and some people are already talking about Landorus-I.
