You know what I think though, Stealth Rock ought to be banned. The only reason it sounds crazy is because everyone is too used to it and its not actually a something you cannot put a face on. If I am correct, Smogon bans stuff because it is just clearly unfair and pure luck based (see: Double Team) or they are just clearly forcing the metagame to adapt to it too much. Stealth Rock fits the second. Charizard looks like a fine Pokemon to me doesn't it? Great Speed for UU and very usable offense, not to mention if you use Sunny Day+Solar Power (just ONE turn of set up) you are essentially going to KO anything and everything slower than you (which is about 70% of the tier really). Yet Charizard is in the lonely depths of RU, just because Stealth Rock makes is damn near impossible to set up.
If Charizard was the lone loser because of Stealth Rock I would have no problem with the move, and yet it is not. Articuno, decent special wall with phazing recovery and Toxic right? No because it can wall nothing at 50%. Scyther has awesome power and is fast enough to maul most of the tier. It also has beautiful coverage with Bug, Flying and Fighting leaving nothing I can think of for unresisted hits except Zapdos. Actualy most things will have to eat a STAB move or a super effective Brick Break.
All of these pokes and probably lots more are hardly ever used none of them making it to even UU. One move Stealth Rock has made so many pokemon almost unusable, so why shouldn't it be banned?
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About only 15 pokemon are 4x weak to Stealth Rock. Of those 15 only 8 are competatively viable; Moltres, Charizard, Volcarona, Articuno, Yanmega, Ho-oh, Scyther, Ninjask. And 3 of them are already seeing high usage in their respective tiers. So we should really think about banning the best support move so that only 8 pokemon can played without the stigma of losing half of their life? If let's say over 50% of pokemon lost half their life because of Stealth Rock, then this move wouldve been banned a long time ago.
It's hard being a Deoxys-D counter and knowing he's gonna get Spikes up anyway. It's also hard being a team full of Deoxys counters and watching him get hazards up anyway...over and over again.
Actually I would say your video showed how easy it is to have team synergy around Deoxys-D. That guy had multiple ways to beat your deoxys but you always had a way to retaliate with another poke. Thats what really caught my eye in that video.
Right now idk whether to call deoxys a nuinsance or really game changing. Having one on your team and your opponent doesnt, isn't similar to like it was back in staraptor or vulpix days. Where you had an auto team advantage or even an auto-gg. But I have seen so many games where the match was borderline determined by the speed-tie of taunt.
Anyways to bring up an old post of diamonds in the rough. Weavile is still one of the best underrated sweeper in this metagame. So many teams are just weak to all of its moves. It only has literally 0 to 1 counter on every team. Also another diamond in the rough is Galvantula, Yanmega, and Offensive Venomoth. Bug Buzz IMO is one of the best offensive moves in the tier right now. Limited Special walls, hits the most popular pokes in UU and for all three coverage moves and/or abilities are there to support Bug Buzz. Its so sexy seeing something like galvantula just run through a team and take out the majority of the opponents team.