Greninja banned to Ubers in Smogon

[DanielJames]

(Jan 12, 2015, 07:26 AM)tygaa2 Wrote: Greninjas counters are Priority moves and Choice Scarfed Pokemon! I would say talon flame would be a good job for this but smogon banned it too lol. The point I'm trying to make is when you constantly ban Pokemon that are not legendary [low base stats] it creates a domino effect and now you have to start banning everything because with each ban you make, you eliminate some other Pokemons counter. Its hard to make a good team that can take on the meta, but its much easier for smogon to just ban the threats

Primal Kyogre is a legend with a base stat of 770! Kyogre WILL NOT go down in one hit, even if its a super effective one so its hard for that to relate that to a Greninja ban. Thats 350 More base stat points than Greninja... that makes a huge difference. mega evolutions that make Pokemon much stronger are only increases of 100 base stats and you see how much that increases a Pokemons strength

edit: yet again no disrespect to smogon or those who play it

Completely agree. Every time a Pokémon is banned by Smogon, another Pokémon eventually rises and takes it's place before it too gets banned. Where does it stop? The problem when you tier Pokémon like Smogon does, there's always going to be a select few within the tier that excel more than others.