Hey everybody,
I would to open a discussion the decision to ban inheriting from Ubers and Mega Evolutions. Let me disclose that I have not been in active in a while so if there is an obvious reason for this decision, I'm all ears. Inheriting from Ubers and Mega Evolutions were legal for the first itterations of Inheritance and it was fine. I'm not active anymore and haven't been for a year (haha get it since its january second?) but I worked closely with Snaquaza when he lead it and was honored to be on the council with Chopin and Lcass when we ran it together. I believe it was under scpinion's leadership inherinting from the afformentioned groups were banned, so lets dive right in.
Inherenting from Ubers and Mega Evolutions
The box legendaries were rarely something you would inherit from as it was usually their outrageous base stats that got them placed into ubers, think of Zekrom or regular Groudon. They would wipe the floor with an OU metagame, but that's because their stats are astonishing. Their movesets and abilities are good but not without its flaws. They're Ubers when backed by 680 and 670 BST respectively, in my experience they would usually be thrown aside for better inheritors like Victini, Ho-oh to name a few. These aren't the inheritors that would cause problems. It's the mons that got placed in Ubers not because of their stats but because of their ability and moveset, and especially those that got placed their for having all three. Mega Lucario, Mega Blaziken, Primal-Kyogre, Primal-Groudon, Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Salamence, Landorus-I, Marshadow etc. Mega Evolutions are similar. Most mega evolutions are specifically made for that pokemon and enforce their strength while reducing their weaknesses. Keep in mind that you could inherit from Ubers and Mega evolutions for two years, the policy change is fairly recent.
However this fails to recognize that these pokemon usually only have a handful of key-features that make them overpowered and there are already pokemon that can compete with them for their spot in the. There is not a power-vaccum in Inheritance right now and there are pokemon whose moveset and ability can compete with anything you can find in Ubers, mostly anything but I will get to that.
The most important point to stipulate here is this: Inherenting from Ubers is powerful, but Inheritance is a very sturdy metagame. Inherenting from Ubers would not break the metagame as there are already inheritors that are uber level.
Landorus-Therian is a great pokemon to inherit from. You get Sheer force, coverage, stealth rock, defog etc. but is it really ubers level compared to Nidoking. Nidoking gets more coverage than Landorus-I, stealth rocks, toxic spikes, taunt etc. My point here is that Landorus-I is an Ubers pokemon when combined with its stats and in an OU Metagame. Inheritance is a bulkier metagame with far more competition. Is the difference between inherenting from Torkoal and Groudon so great that Groudon should be banned while Torkoal-inheretors aren't all that? Sure Primordial Sea Keldeo is great, but so is Dragalge Keldeo with duel adaptability stab and a lot of utility.
I'm not arguing that we unban inherenting from every Ubers pokemon, Mega-Kangaskhan, Mega-Gengar etc. are obviously broken beyond belief and the idea shouldn't even be indulged.
What do you think? Personally I really loved the variation mega evolutions and megas brought to the table, it's another 70 pokemon to inherit from. I'd love to start a conversation on the topic, let me hear what you think! :)