1. No it's not.
its a guarenteed way.
It's guaranteed but also results in a much less threatening Sneasler since one of your moveslots ceases to do anything after triggering, when Sneasler wants an Attack boost and is already picky fitting a coverage move alongside its STABs.
Steel and Poison type exist.
Not sure the argument here. Fake Out's purpose was to eat the Normal Gem and trigger Unburden, not to get a free hit and Spread Poison
Magearna exists right now. Any dark type that isnt somehow immune or greatly resists fairies is being Shin Kikoho'd into oblivion
Avalanche Chien Pao?? Who let him cook???
It's a glass canon and it's very difficult to have it in against a mon that can't KO it. The meta being HO-oriented is also not helping.
To be fair Pao gets Icicle Crash so maybe he meant to that.
Rage Fist and Last Respects are only as uncompetitive as the mons that use them. Primeape is not broken with Rage Fist.
I agree on Rage Fist, but for Last Respects, that's a big fat no- Last Respects was absolutely the problem with Houndstone and Basculegion (hence why it got banned and not the 'mons), and it's the same case with Shed Tail (hence why it eventually got banned when Orthworm started wreaking havoc in the tier after Cyclizar's ban). In order to make a Pokemon with Last Respects actually balanced, you'd have to make it Rampardos-tier bad.
HO is naturally gonna struggle with leki. You have to run a special wall to stop it. Clodsire, Slowking G, Blissey all limit leki.
Smeargle will return on the dlcs but just like Batton pass isn't broken on very single user, most likely it wouldn't get unbanned because Smeargle since most of the user are good with it.
oh god the iron defense + body press sets are gonna be even better now that theres no regieleki to slowly rack up damage with volt switch, now only dragapult can outspeed the dog so definitely on a good spot rn.
best rapid spinner in the tier is gone so he wins. jk. Seriously tho samurott-h now has less to worry about when spamming ceaseless edge so thats a win for it.
i honestly have barely seen this mon but i assume it's a massive winner from the regieleki ban, one less pokemon that it can't just brainlessly click u-turn/dire claw without worrying about getting outsped.
I've experimented with this a bit and i feel like the standard bulk up set is kinda good rn. With its natural fire/ghost typing it resists STABs from magearna and sneasler and any damage done to ceruledge can be recovered with bitter blade, shadow sneak is also useful against low hp basculegion.It actually hurts Sneasler because Leki was a great teamate forcing switches to bring Sneasler safely with volt switch.
It all depends on the mons that have it. As your last sentence suggests, if a sufficiently bad mon existed with Last Respects, it could be legal. It's why Shadow Tag is banned in SS Ubers but Arena Trap Dugtrio is legal even though the only difference is that Arena Trap can't trap flyers. Dugtrio is C- tier in Ubers.
I'm not sure if Samurott benefits all that much. Tera Dark Black Glasses Sucker Punch is a clean OHKO, tho Eleki could play around it with clever switches, Sub, Espeed, etc. Eleki was kinda good at limiting some of Samurott's checks like Urshifu-Rs too.Glad regieleki is gone, it was tiring having to constantly predict when it was going to tera or having to hope your regieleki wins the speed tie otherwise the opponent had a fast mon that you are almost never gonna be able to attack. Unfortunately regieleki was also the only spinner in my teams so now i just lose to hazard spam
On the other hand tho
Not related to regieleki whatsoever:
Tera bug is as good as always giving it the capabilities to deal with heatran, enamorus(?), tusk, and maybe others i haven't faced yet.
I haven't actually used this so this is more in theory, but tera grass could work too. still is good against heatran and tusk while also being better than tera bug against arcanine-h and urshifu-r.
Alternatively, if you feel its not doing much, you can also switch it into an ursaluna hoping it clicks facade.
Ceruledge definitely isn't extremly good but its decent against some popular pokemon rn.
The only time I've seen it was in trick room with Ursaluna. I clicked tera normal facade and the mon was deleted through the plus one
I think explanations on why these 3 are very broken has been done to death now. I don't see a healthy future for these pokemon. Mage can be teched to beat just about anything it seems, forcing Zama-C out is one of the most aggravating and painful tasks ever, and Chien is only here because these 2 manage to successful employ my favourite metagame strategy called broken-check-broken. Would be glad to see em go.
I do think it is broken under trick room, but trick room is definitely A: enabled by broken ass Mag and B: preying on nonsensical day 1 lazy offence teams. Even if trick room should adapt to losing the Gears that make it turn, I think it will still be more on the gimmick end of things. Outside of trick room Luna is still definitely a monster, akin to kingambit in the previous meta. All the same I think it could and should be deserving of time in the tier without the big 3 mentioned above. Luna so far seems like it heavily preys on the extreme ends of the playstyles, Hyper offence and stall, and imo having limitations placed upon those playstyles can be healthy. Going forward should Luna further restrict the building of all other playstyles as well though, I could definitely find myself supporting its ban. On the fence about this, ID sets on it dont hit nearly the same as his Father's do, as lacking steel typing really sucks. Being faster is cool and all but the only speed tier this one is taking over Crowned is Chien-Pao, which ideally is banned regardless so I don't think this benefit matters much. It is also weak as piss, but it is a good tera abuser and it having more set options definitely sets it apart, but no individual set has felt any bit as impressive as I would hope. Also feels hard to actively fit on teams. I think this too, just like Luna, might be preying on lazy early offences, but this prediction I could also see being wrong in the future, and if so, would support a suspect/ban. I think this mon will fall off overtime, not just because haha run covert cloak but because I do not think Poison is as spammable of a stab as you'd hope, so forcing something out with it safely while being able to click dire claw isn't often a free situation, and more often than not a hard read (which has a 50% chance to amount to nothing, and a 50% chance to be annoying) and spending games into BO/Balance fishing for poisons or sleeps and wittling down whatever tusk or lando or chomp you load into just seems like a hunk of shit. And then yeah, ofc, there is still covert cloak poisons to be looked into the future, but this point I do not think matters much with the mon options we have at hand. 
genuinely don't know what to say on this one. Many seem to think it will be a future broken and I can definitely see it. Has been getting high value in current meta as well, but does seem to have some level of 4mss, for whatever that is worth. it is definitely a FRAUD . . .
