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Quickpost because im too lazy to elaborate much
BAN:
Baxcalibur : Can basically beat any common defensive check with little adaptions (see: tera fire for orthworm/zong for example) and it can get set up opportunities without much difficulty throughout the games
Hydreigon : We all know it from day 1 and teraing into a steel type that alongside being immune to ground, it also turns the tables against its best counters being fairies. While the most common set uses tera and np is subnp tera steel with flash cannon + dark pulse, it can very well drop flash cannon for focus blast (hitting the new drop ttar and bisharp) or flamethrower or even draco. Subnp is probably the one that pushes it over the edge but it can use other sets well like specs, scarf or lo for example.
DO NOT BAN:
Rain as a whole : While it's true that Floatzel and even Barraskewda can muscle through some of rain checks i think that in floatzels case it's not that hard to force it to wave crash and get low to the point where it'll hardly get more than 1 kill if you can limit it and barraskewda is a bit weaker than floatzel spamming wave crash which makes stuff like slowking, tsareena, gastro, etc a decent check. While it's a decently strong archetype atm imo it's not enough to push it over the edge
Gengar : I honestly didnt have trouble with it at all or found it to be broken when using it while i laddered (i laddered a decent amount in the first month) and friendlies. I can see it being a potential problem in the future once the brokens go and the metagame develop further but atm i think it's pretty kept in check through either offensive pressure or enough defensive counterplay like grafaiai, bisharp, ttar, gastro, etc.
KEEP AN EYE ON:
I don't think there's really anything broken aside from the dragons but once the metagame develops more i think we should keep an eye on stuff like hawlucha, polteageist and who knows even sleeper pokes like armarouge.
BAN:
Baxcalibur : Can basically beat any common defensive check with little adaptions (see: tera fire for orthworm/zong for example) and it can get set up opportunities without much difficulty throughout the games
Hydreigon : We all know it from day 1 and teraing into a steel type that alongside being immune to ground, it also turns the tables against its best counters being fairies. While the most common set uses tera and np is subnp tera steel with flash cannon + dark pulse, it can very well drop flash cannon for focus blast (hitting the new drop ttar and bisharp) or flamethrower or even draco. Subnp is probably the one that pushes it over the edge but it can use other sets well like specs, scarf or lo for example.
DO NOT BAN:
Rain as a whole : While it's true that Floatzel and even Barraskewda can muscle through some of rain checks i think that in floatzels case it's not that hard to force it to wave crash and get low to the point where it'll hardly get more than 1 kill if you can limit it and barraskewda is a bit weaker than floatzel spamming wave crash which makes stuff like slowking, tsareena, gastro, etc a decent check. While it's a decently strong archetype atm imo it's not enough to push it over the edge
Gengar : I honestly didnt have trouble with it at all or found it to be broken when using it while i laddered (i laddered a decent amount in the first month) and friendlies. I can see it being a potential problem in the future once the brokens go and the metagame develop further but atm i think it's pretty kept in check through either offensive pressure or enough defensive counterplay like grafaiai, bisharp, ttar, gastro, etc.
KEEP AN EYE ON:
I don't think there's really anything broken aside from the dragons but once the metagame develops more i think we should keep an eye on stuff like hawlucha, polteageist and who knows even sleeper pokes like armarouge.
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