I'm tired of this circumstance where Milotic will always Ice Beam with Venusaur switches in.
What if Milotic switches into something it tanks and has to recover off the damage? For my team, if Milotic doesn't recover as Venusaur is switching in, then it'll be at half health and easy fodder since it's forced out and will come back in again at half health. Unless it outspeeds Venusaur, but that'll be plenty obvious when it can't even tank the damage it tried to switch into because of the lack of a Bold nature and defensive EVs.
People who support Venusaur for BL seem to assume that it always gets to attack/sleep with the right move on the switch. If that's the case, it makes sense to assume that for Milotic as well. Otherwise, we might as well say "what if venusaur has to synth" or "what if venusaur leaf storms a moltres". Prediction and situations need to be applied equally to both Pokemon.
Note that I don't feel Venusaur is BL at all; I've had more success with Jynx than I have with Venusaur (yes I recognize that they're different; Jynx is better ;). The speed and the easily-resisted STABs (I don't get this "great coverage" argument, poison and steel resist both and a boat load of things resist one or the other) are a major turn off, and offensively-EVd Venusaur isn't nearly as bulky as people keeping make it out to be. In my experience, the best "bulky" offensive Pokemon are those with immunities, not those with okay resistances (like Venusaur's) because UU Pokemon hit disproportionately hard compared to what the average UU Pokemon can take in. I mean, Hitmonlee 2hkos Venusaur with Close Combat ffs...you really can't get it in on anything but weak stall team members. And even then, stall mostly commonly has the Pokemon that can actually switch into Venusaur. Registeel, other defensive Venusaur, Drapion, Weezing, Clefable, Chansey, Altaria, Moltres, etc etc all do a good job.
The sleep is probably the only thing about Venusaur that is even remotely concerning, and that is a big deal, yes...and if Venusaur had, say, Rhyperior's coverage and power, it would be probably be out of here already. But that's not the case. Venusaur doesn't hit too hard (especially compared to fucking Roserade) and its STABs are mediocre, so it gets way less out of those free turns than a more powerful Pokemon would.
Also...the comparisons to Breloom are retarded. While Venusaur is not "bulky" per se, Breloom is downright FRAIL (guys it has 60/80/60 defenses, that's worse than infernape), extremely slow for the tier its in, and highly predictable. It also has several counters that can stay in and sleep for as long as they want before stalling it out of all its PP; Celebi, Zapdos, RestTalk Gyarados, etc etc etc. Nothing wants to be asleep on a Venusaur, because the only thing that isn't beaten with 3+ turns of sleep is Registeel. Venusaur also gets synth and better coverage and typing and etc etc etc. They're not comparable, just like Venusaur and Moltres aren't comparable.
Anyway...I'm really disappointed that the FWG core is still so popular. There are many, many Pokemon who easily anti-metagame it (see RT's team) and end up with an easy victory against them...so why are people sticking to the same sorts of Pokemon? I've said this before, but if you find the metagame stagnant or boring, you have no one to blame but yourself. Go make a new team with some new pokemon for fucks sake.