>>36735110>UbersMost players don't want to play with box legendaries and Mewtwo etc. They're head and shoulders above every other mon in the game, so there's no guarantee that it's balanced and that the game won't revolve around like 1 or 2 really strong Pokemon. So as a starting point, most of the really powerful box legends and such are banned from OU play, which is the standard ("Ubers" allows all/most of these mons for players who do want to use them). From there, Pokemon that are still too powerful by comparison can be banned.
>Sand Veil and Snow CloakEvasion is banned. Pokemon like Garchomp and Gliscor could cheese out wins with Substitute and a few lucky misses.
>Soul Dew on Lati@sLati@s without Soul Dew is fine (mostly, there have been some calls to ban Latios but that's another story), Lati@s WITH Soul Dew is Ubers-tier. So they opted not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
>Drizzle+Swift SwimRain-boosted moves are strong as fuck and Swift Swim makes nukes like Kingdra and Omastar also fast as fuck. Rain dominates way too much when they're around.
>Drought+ChlorophyllNot as strong as DrizzleSwim, but still strong between Sun-boosted Growth, Dugtrio support, and Sleep Powder. Now that Dug is gone they're talking about undoing this.
>Sand Stream+Sand RushExcadrill is, again, very strong and very fast under Sand. They're talking about this one too since both Sand Rush Stoutland and non-Sand Rush Excadrill are both fairly balanced. The precedent is "don't ban abilities for one Pokemon only," but that leaves them in a conundrum here so some people are arguing "fuck precedent just ban Sand Rush Exca only."
