>>32436547It depends. If Megagross gets the boot, this remains one of, if not the only thing that can reliably stop le tapus of balanced meta. Banning Megagross WILL cause a spike in its usage, just because it suddenly finds itself the premier pokemon for two important roles. If Smogon bans M-Mawile after that, there will be basically nothing to stop a Tapu besides your own, or a slew of specific, shaky checks and counters to only one, or at best two.
If they instead ban, say, Lele, M-Mawile would be a better ban-candidate afterwards, since having to run a counter for Bulu and Koko is less disruptive than having to run a counter for all 3.
Honestly, I think Smogon's going a little ban-crazy at the moment. I'm not sure when exactly it started, but this thing has been happening where they ban a 'mon, so something else already in use steps up as the next best thing. The increased versatility of that thing makes its usage spike, so it then gets banned. Normally I'm neither pro-smogon nor anti-smogon, but in this scenario they seem to be doing a shit job of managing things if they haven't noticed the trend thus far.
I mean, Megagross spiked because Genesect got banned for being on every fucking team for countering the tapus. The only reason Genesect got that spike was because they re-banned Aegislash who also counters the tapus (and Pheromosa, who everyone thought was overpowered in the beginning) more because status quo, let's ban Aegislash this gen too instead of actual play information. Given these details, it seems obvious to me that the problem isn't the steel types they keep banning, but the things that are causing these steel types keep being added to teams. But fuck it. I don't play showdown a bunch anyways.
