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This entire laddering session convinced me that 84% gxe at 50 games would not be an unreasonable requirement
Also once again, s/o to Oreospeedruns for the team
Im arguing that theyre fundamentally uncompetitive. They encourage bad playing.
It's also not in the tiers best interest to not take a route that would make the tier better just because of a couple of shitmons
it also makes no sense to not want to ban a fundamentally broken move/poke just because there's a "better way" of doing it. The goal of a suspect is to make the meta better so if a ban does that (which this one objectively does), we do it, end of story
There's really no reason to preserve it just for Houndstone. ADV Ubers didn't preserve Baton Pass just because something like Volbeat wouldn't be broken with it.
Also, Basculegion-f and White Stripped Basculin exist, both of which would absolutely be broken with Last Respects. Last Respects is...
There's a small part of me that want's LR to stay in order for everyone to know just how ridiculously low an 80% gxe requirement is but ultimately, the health of the metagame is more important so LR should be banned.
There isn't a whole lot to be said that hasn't been said already but LR...