>>31021161As someone who hated bird spam in generation six.
Yes, they completely demolished a Pokémon to the point of uselessness. There is now zero reason to run it in any tier higher than NU due to the prevalence of rocks, faster priority, anti-priority abilities, etc.
This was the worst way GF handled the situation and makes me a bit sad for the bird despite how overwhelming present it was last generation. S/M has brought a lot of questionable design choices to both Smogon and VGC that I'm not really a fan of and this probably one of the worst offenders of trying to "balance" they could of done. The point of balancing something is to keep it in check from becoming overwhelming in a meta, not destroy it.
