>>46849714>>The smogon council is biased and bans offensive pokemon like darmanitan, cinderace, dugtrio and dracovish, while stallmons like ferrothorn, who see much more usage in ubers, are keptAnd all of those Pokémon are kept banned because they’re overly meta-defining. Darm, while funny, was fucking bonkers offensively. Cinderace is trap furbait that plays like Ash-Gren 2.0, another retarded Pokémon. No reasonable answers, exactly like Ash-Gren in Gen 7, except Gren overstayed his welcome and made Gen 7 garbage to play. Also half the OU metagame in every generation sees use in Ubers, it’s literally pointless to bring up, especially on a Pokémon like Ferrothorn who crumples like paper when fire is involved. Now Pex, that’s a (debatable) one.
> >In generation 7 the ou council assured that landorus therian would not be banned even if it reached more than 95% usageThey also kept uncounterable offensive menaces in, like the aforementioned Greninja in, so there is hardly any “bias” towards Stall, especially when Lando was good across the board. Though I will agree, Lando was too much by that point.
That being said though Smogon has been shit ever since Gen 6, consistently replacing the OU Council with retards who lack metagame knowledge and who arbitrarily ban and unban, not based on raw data, potential counters, player input, and gameplay trends, but on whatever the fuck they want. Why else would they keep a Pokémon with 0 hard counters and who forces a sack to even know what they’re running in OU? Game Freak may make the shit Pokémon, but Smogonfags lap it up.
