Announcement Kings Rock is banned! (along with other items)

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The council has voted to ban the following items: King's Rock, Bright Powder, Lax Incense, Quick Claw, and Focus Band. Quick claw received 7 ban votes out of 9, the rest received 8.

These items all work to reduce your definite counterplay into a luck based sequence, which you have 0 control over, making these items uncompetitive. They are obviously different from chance based abilities/moves such as serene grace because you can prepare for those abilities/pokemon. This is contrast to items such as bright powder which disregard any building/playing skill. Most of these items don't show up very often, which can lead to people wondering why action is being taken, but on the flip side, it doesn't hurt to get rid of items that are uncompetitive when they do show up.

Tagging Kris @Overused @ smogon to ban ty
 
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