>>58284471>>58284590correction: because smogon will ban literally everything for the sake of "balance" other than duplicate items (and full teamsheets, but that's a new thing), something that has been banned in literally every official tournament ever, with four exceptions:
- Mobile Cup 2001 (This tournament was just fucking weird. Clauses weren't used at all prior to the semi-finals, and you were allowed to change teams between rounds.)
- "The First Pokemon Champion Tournament" in 2003 (Zero clauses were in effect, doesn't count)
- Pokemon Masters 2005 (This was organized by a fansite, doesn't count)
- Pokemon Emerald Ultimate Frontier Brain Battle (BECAUSE ALL ITEMS WERE BANNED OUTRIGHT)
>>58284760also their inconsistency on "game cartridge accuracy", they'll add a ton of bugs that were patched in Stadium to the Gen 1 metagame, but don't enforce the legal IV/Nature sets for Legendary/Mythical Pokemon in Gen 3
>>58288012FEAR is a material trade at best and gets completely shut down by multi-strike moves, weather, iron barbs/rough skin/rocky helmet, a substitute, priority, entry hazards, or just pressing a status move and not falling for that shit. Anyone actually using a Rattata instead of a Taillow (because Scrappy) is also retarded.
The Aron set is better because of Sturdy + Shell Bell, but it requires Sandstorm to already be up and basically can't do anything against mons immune to Sandstorm damage or holding Leftovers
