>gen 9 ou started out with arena trap, shadow tag, and king's rock already pre-banned by default
Yawn. In every other gen I'm honestly ok with dugtrio being banned because I like using heatran and tyranitar without consequence, but I see no rational reason that these bans should've been implemented automatically in gen 9 from the get go. It's just stupid in principle. It's also interesting how they always do this complex ban (banning abilities instead of the individual broken pokemon), yet on the other hand ban cinderace not libero for example. Their inconsistency is undeniable, they don't have any real philosophy, it's just whatever tournament players complain about I guess.