>>28173282You were replying to the me who just woke up in the morning.
If Smogon had an item clause, they wouldn't have had to shit themselves as much over Baton Pass teams as they did.
It's one of those rules that are in the game for a good reason, firstly for fairness since most of those items are limited or hard to acquire and secondly to prevent some extremely one-sided teams.
I'd actually argue that none of the Smogon-added rules have any place in ladder play. Banning OHKO and evasion for an elimination-mode tournament might make sense, but hardly anyone would use those in the first place.
Most of the others fall into the category that you shouldn't lose a game even when you're completely unprepared against an opponent's strategy (which are mostly stuff <10% of people would actually use.
And Endless Battle clause is a clunky way to deal with a deficiency of their simulator. If you can't defeat Funbro, press the damn forfeit button. Also a non-issue because nobody outside of Showderp would use it without getting bored themselves. Though I guess someone would have written a bot for it.
