It would be incredibly irresponsible to have a suspect in a metagame on the verge of dying out due to DLC and we have repeatedly stated we are open to future action if and when appropriate. Banning Tera hasn’t had enough support yet and if one day it does, we will gladly move into a suspect period. And we will keep these threads open and surveys coming for that day if it is possible to reach.
Specially since the DLC will introduce
new elements to consider for Terastalization, as well as much needed defensive staples like Clefable or Gliscor. The prudent thing to do is to see what said rainbow/aurora/typeless/potato omelette tera might be, as well as if defense becomes more stable or less stable after the additions and prudent quickbans (Please remember to Quickban Melmetal. Tera Steel was just unwallable in NatDex, and will be worse in OU since defense is weaker, Z-Moves can't OHKO it and Cresselia is Viable in OU so there it can be surprise Semi-room cores).
Oh, for some reason I thought the discussion was still about roaring moon.
I NEVER mentioned Shedinja, I only mentioned Roaring Moon as an example of overreaction, because Roaring Moon doesn't really seem to benefit from NatDex due to not being that good of a Z-Move user compared to Garchomp or Dragapult, nor having Knock off and Pursuit like other dark types. At least Ursaluna has Return and Trick Room + Teleport pokémon to understand why it would be a problem.
The comment I made to was towards the one who banned shedinja. Maybe I'm understimating stuff but I can't really discard the option of overreaction or that at the very least Shedinja only got banned due to being a massive nuisanse, just like how people in VGC complain so much about Smeargle despite NEVER winning a VGC worlds.
Those kinds of critics are necessary for the health of Smogon, otherwise they will forget why Smogon exists to begin with; that happened to Riot Games, it obviously happened with Blizzard, and
I don't want this fan-made proyect made for pokémon fans to fall into the claws of corporative thinking. We'd already seen this on gen 8 where we put a generic "Don't use (Insert bad pokémon's name)"
instead of having
meme texts of
laughs at
the pokémon due to
how useless it
was in battle; I understand why it happened (Ever-expanding dex + volatile metas = no time to explain bad pokémons), but it's a lost nonetheless.
This Is why I insist
this is the single most important suspect test Smogon has ever done, because it'll tell us what we truly want showdown to be going forwards, because you can't eat your cake and take it too. If we say we ban tera, we'll betray the more casual audience who is still important despite what you would think otherwise, and if we don't ban tera we might end up betraying the competitive setting Smogon aspires to have, and restrictions might be either too little or too much.