Annihilape:
Rain Pelipper run Hurricane quite often, and are bulky enough to win the confrontation, while Dragapult, Darkrai, and Gholdengo offer strong Ghost attacks to bring it down, Darkrai less recommended than others.
pult and ghold were extremely common in pre-home too and that didn't stop annihilape from being broken. darkrai can't switch into it at all and peli has serious trouble if rocks are up, which isn't hard to do on teams with annihilape since it's such a fantastic spinblocker
Archaludon:
Many great members of the community brought up answers, but I don't want to assume that you'd agree with them.
i
did agree with the anti-ban arguments until i actually used arch rain for the first time and started picking up matches i had no business winning. i might not be great at the game but i'm fantastic at knowing when something is wrong
Baxcalibur:
Enamorus, Great Tusk, Iron Valiant, Primarina (thats ou? damn good for it), and like maybe a couple others are all good checks/counters, mostly checks but they all have good non-fire SE moves, and are OU. Can't have non-OU mons used to fight OU mons, after all.
out of those, only primarina didn't exist when bax got axed. not much has changed that would prevent bax from being broken, and what has changed would potentially make it
more broken than it was before thanks to the meteoric rise of glowking, which would be a great partner for bax in the same way that it's a great partner for kyurem because they're the same fucking mon
Chi-Yu:
This fucker thrives in the sun, but that shits overrated because it's rain season. Its fire attacks are halved, and there's 8 fucking water types, as well as at least three ground types to use. It's strong, but not unbeatable.
Chein-Pao:
It's an Ice/Dark type that relies on its speed and Atk to fuck shit up, but thats fine and dandy because Iron Valiant can booster outspeed, while Kingambit our lord and savior regularly runs Low Kick, as well as Iron Head. Two top mons that should be on a good chunk of teams.
yeah i get it, ha ha hee hee, this is a prime location for memeing and shitposting, but did you
have to put jokes in the middle of an ostensibly serious post? they aren't even funny.
speaking of, look at the post number haha nice well shit, someone deleted a post. i was so happy about sniping post 6969 again
Espathra:
It has to burn a Tera if it wants to stay in. Otherwise, its Psychic type fodder that has 4MSS if it wants anything but stored power. It could run tera fairy, but then it opens itself to Steel and Poison attacks, which arent uncommon.
espathra doesn't "have to burn a tera", that's only a phrase you use if you're planning to ever use another mon in the match. once espathra comes in, it doesn't go back out, it just clicks the funny button and wins
Iron Bundle:
Unless Raging Bolt Thunderclap OHKOS, this minmaxed fuckboy should also stay banned. I would say Electro Shot, but muh broken beats broken, which should only apply if we even agree on whats broken. I will not say FM can keep something OU, because that's patently ridiculous.
that wouldn't make much of a difference. the only thing that would do is force it to run an electric-resistant tera, and grass or dragon would likely be in use already thanks to rillaboom
Palafin:
It requires two total turns to be its best. Rillaboom, Raging Bolt, and other water types are good checks that can make it swap back out, and help you regain momentum. Unless that fucker packs Ice Punch hundo %, Zapdos too.
ice punch bodies rilla, bolt, and zapdos. other water-types just die to neutral hits because of how fucking strong palafin is. maybe it doesn't have room to beat the entire meta with just one set anymore, but it's still bullshit strong, especially in rain—which, as you've said multiple times in this very quote, is quite the popular archetype right now
Regieleki:
You are burning your tera with regieleki. Using it without it being net bullshit besides being the third electric type in OU requires burning your tera to Tera Ice. Being a pure ice type comes with all the net negatives of being fucking ice type. If you arent using your tera on this mon, regieleki will be walled by any ground type or electric resist.
This fucker wouldn't be banned if tera wasnt a thing, like its UU/RU self was back in gen 8. Instead, we get base 100 boltbeam coverage, that would die to a body press. Its frail, and very fast, and was contentious even when it was banned.
eleki wouldn't be banned if tera wasn't a thing, yes. but guess what? tera is a thing, and it's not gonna stop being a thing anytime soon based on how absolutely bodied the pro-ban side got in the recent survey. and it wasn't "contentious even when it was banned", it was
so overwhelmingly agreed upon that the mon was broken that the council had to do an emergency quickban. and again, it's not "burning your tera" when it's op after teraing. you didn't see anyone making arguments (at least, not serious ones) that terapagos required you to "burn tera" even though it was objectively the only thing you should have ever clicked the tera button on when it was legal
Sneasler:
Im tired as fuck rn man, dire claw is cheese hell.
sneasler's best sets didn't even run dire claw, it was broken outside of that altogether. although with the removal of sleep clause mod, it probably would run it way more often because of the ludicrous reward potential, which would make it both broken
and uncompetitive
Terapagos:
Jesus fuck just ban its Stellar Form like we did Zygarde Complete. It's a slow, tanky normal type otherwise with defenses slightly better than mew and an attack stat of 105. It can't even Tera normally, so its just mediocre otherwise. Gen 2 Tauros ass mon, but since we apparently can't separate Stellar from its normal form, even though we could separate complete zygarde from zygarde, its banned. With Stellar its ban, without it aint.
although i agree that stellar
should be banned exclusively, that's not how it works and there are specific programming reasons for why it can't work. the way in-battle form changes are recorded is kinda messy—since the algorithm apparently can't actually record the form changes, it just counts the in-builder things that make the form change happen, so every charizard holding a charizardite y counts as "mega charizard y" even if the charizard doesn't actually mega evolve. other in-battle changes are treated similarly—every rayquaza with dragon ascent is counted as mega rayquaza, every zygarde with power construct is counted as zygarde-complete, and so on. but of course there's no in-builder thing that makes terapagos able to turn into stellar, it just does it. this effectively means we
have to tier them together because all our current methods of recording usage statistics treat them as the same mon
