>>36623285Cry harder.
#10. Choice Band/Specs in Conjunction with High BP Spammable Moves
When Choice Band was first introduced to the game in Ruby and Sapphire, there were very few competitively viable physical attacks with higher than 80 Base Power and, with the exceptions of Explosion, Earthquake, Return, and Focus Punch, most of these moves had horrible distribution.
You'll notice that the most powerful physical attacks with the best distribution have something very important in common: they all have immunities, various resists, or horrendous drawbacks to discourage misuse. Explosion sacrifices your own Pokémon for an extremely powerful attack, but god help you if you explode on a Ghost or Steel-type, rendering your attack nullified / significantly less powerful at the cost of one of your team members. Focus Punch similarly has no effect on Ghost-types and comes with the huge drawback of doing absolutely nothing if your opponent decides to use an attack on the turn that you use it. Return, again, is useless against Ghost-types and has the downsides that it will never hit for super effective damage and is resisted by the ever common Steel-type. Lastly, 8 of the 26 OU Pokémon in RSE are either part Flying-type or have the Levitate ability and 2 additional Pokémon are resistant to Ground-type attacks, greatly discouraging the overuse of Earthquake. Aside from those moves, most often when an attacker employed the use of a Choice Band, they were relegated to using a physical Hidden Power or the weak Rock Slide to round out their coverage.
To be continued here:
https://www.smogon.com/smog/issue27/ruined 
