>>43447922Having a banlist IS why Smogon metas are harder and require more skill.
You can’t just rely on overpowered things to win and if something is overcentralized, it makes teambuilding skills and metagame knowledge skills less trivial.
As an example, Smogon currently has Clefable, Dracovish, and Regular Kyurem on watch for a future suspect in OU.
Clefable’s strong Wish+Teleport combo makes battling skills trivial as it makes the game flow charty and makes teambuilding trivial since the only 2 team archetypes right now are Balance and HO.
Dracovish’s incredible power in Fishious Rend+Strong Jaws is even more flow charty than Clefable, as all you do with Dracovish is spam FR and occasionally it’s 3 coverage moves. It also lessens teambuilding skills since every team currently requires a Water immune Pokemon or to be mostly fast Pokemon. This just encourages people to only use Sample Teams since anything else is just not viable.
Kyurem is similar to Dracovish, making it so that you can’t be creative with your teams.
