because it is super duper broken. it traps essentially all the good mons and makes the metagame really unhealthy. there is no counterplay to it. the metagame with dugtrio was really really bad. duggy + clef (cm clef in particular) was essentially unbeatable. trapping as a whole is just really incompetitive and rarely healthy
Relevant threads for yourself and anyone else interested in learning why it got banned:
DPP's meta is based around usage, not viability. Since the tiers have been frozen, the OU by Technicality mons aren't going to be dropping anytime soon.
Breloom is one of the tougher threats for stall to handle and most stall teams come equipped w two hard counters to it, most commonly defensive Latias and one of Skarmory or gliscor. There are others too: on stalls without Latias, zapdos, celebi, and nidoqueen are also also good choices. In a pinch, defensive Jirachi and cresselia can handle loom if something else absorbs sleep. With good predictions, resttalk rotom and Gyarados can also absorb sleep so you can handle it with something else. As you can see, tyranitar can’t pursuit all of these. If you’re solely using Latias to handle it, you’ll be vulnerable to tar, but defensive Latias has switched back to reflect for a reason — so it isn’t quite such big pursuit bait. A lot of dealing w loom on stall is managing your resources: loom hates spikes and can only break so many times if it for example switches into clef using stoss w sand up. Scout out your opponent’s mons and know what you do and do not need to handle everything.
Gallade is interesting. Surprisingly, it has a good variety of sets depending on what you are looking for or your team. You can make Lum Berry by BSlam rachi or Spore Scarf loom up to a set with Custap Berry + DBond. I think it is one of the most complete fighting types on a defensive level as well, capable of withstanding DM of Modest Specs Latias lead or Scarf Trick for passive leads like Hippo or pert.
They're occasionally showcased on the RoA Spotlight ladder which rotates monthly
I would say they're only RoA Spotlight ladder when they randomly get selected. When they do though I would say in my experience especially last month for DPP Ubers it was pretty active.
It's easier to purge. Opposing evasion boosts can only be bypassed/purged by the likes of Aura Sphere, Swift, Haze, and Perish Song. Roar/Whirlwind and Encore check accuracy like most other attacking moves, so your options are to either run one of the few rare moves that have little viability outside of beating evasion, or play the evader's game and roll the dice to brute force past it. Plus, when it beats a pokemon, the accuracy problems persist.
No Garchomp would not be balanced today, Sand Storm was very common back in the day as well as it being unlimited, Garchomp with no ability was probably a top 5 mon easily, Speed bracket, ability to stick Swords Dance, Choice Scarf, Choice Band. You put the 20% to miss on a 100% move and it snowballs out of control, I know this is a Frosslass thread so I will say that Frosslass shouldn't have been banned obviously, its really a mediocre Pokemon I play a lot of ladder and I never see that cheese tactics with Aboma anywhere.
I would tend to agree with most of this; I just wanted to be certain. Like I said earlier, I’m also far from the most knowledgeable person in the world on this tier, so any advice or suggestions from more experienced players is never a bad thing, so for that I’m grateful :)
Garchomp would still be banned even without veil, in bdsp ou its one of the best mons in the tier and thats with fairy type and a way better weavile
No, it's not a mistake. If you are protected in sub, Acupressure will fail.
