09-29-2016, 10:39 AM
Nucleon should be banned, there's no doubts about that. When a Pokémon has no reliable counter and forces you to always include Pokémons that can at least try to do something against it, well, that Pokémon surely should be banned. Over-centralization isn't a good thing in any metagame, in any game.
Inflagetah is a little bit weaker than Nucleon as there are some ways of playing against it. However, most of the things that threat Inflagetah are weak to Earthquake (which is a reliable move). Even with we had Heatran,a Pokémon that is immune to Flame Impact and resists Extremespeed, it'd still be weak to Earthquake, which leads to a scenario where, even if we theoretically have ways of playing against it, Inflagetah can overcome it's only weakness with just one move. You could switch a Ghost-type into Extremespeed, but, unless that said Ghost-type can win one-on-one, Inflagetah will most likely use Flame Impact which most Ghost-types can't take more than two hits, besides Antarki, but Antarki is weak to Earthquake so, you know. You could switch in a Pokémon with Flash Fire if you're predicting a Flame Impact, but the ones with Flash Fire are all frail and can't take Extremespeed - and one of them is weak to Earthquake too, lol. You could have a bulky Water-type, and that's actually your most reliable choice. To be honest, our best choice would be Mutios, but Mutios isn't available right now. That means Inflagetah forces you to include a Pokémon that can resist at least one of it's STAB moves, and that's over-centralization. In other words, deserves to be banned.
Yatagaryu, imo, doesn't have to be banned. There's plenty of options to counter it, like Lanthan, Metalynx, Mega Whimsicott (not so viable, I think), Luxelong. Alpico can switch into Dragon Pulse and retaliate with a super effective Ice-move; Scarf Laissure can switch into Thunder and kill Yatagaryu with an EQ. Of course, at least 3 of these Pokémons are weak to Focus Blast, but that's isn't a reliable move, so we actually have viable ways to play against the Electric Dragon. There aren't a lot of options, but there are more options than with the previous two Pokémons. However, that's just theory; maybe the reality proves that Yatagaryu is too much for Uranium's meta.
I don't know too much about Syrentide, so I won't dare say anything about it, but, considering what I know about it, I think there's no need in banning it. I can be wrong, of course.
Inflagetah is a little bit weaker than Nucleon as there are some ways of playing against it. However, most of the things that threat Inflagetah are weak to Earthquake (which is a reliable move). Even with we had Heatran,a Pokémon that is immune to Flame Impact and resists Extremespeed, it'd still be weak to Earthquake, which leads to a scenario where, even if we theoretically have ways of playing against it, Inflagetah can overcome it's only weakness with just one move. You could switch a Ghost-type into Extremespeed, but, unless that said Ghost-type can win one-on-one, Inflagetah will most likely use Flame Impact which most Ghost-types can't take more than two hits, besides Antarki, but Antarki is weak to Earthquake so, you know. You could switch in a Pokémon with Flash Fire if you're predicting a Flame Impact, but the ones with Flash Fire are all frail and can't take Extremespeed - and one of them is weak to Earthquake too, lol. You could have a bulky Water-type, and that's actually your most reliable choice. To be honest, our best choice would be Mutios, but Mutios isn't available right now. That means Inflagetah forces you to include a Pokémon that can resist at least one of it's STAB moves, and that's over-centralization. In other words, deserves to be banned.
Yatagaryu, imo, doesn't have to be banned. There's plenty of options to counter it, like Lanthan, Metalynx, Mega Whimsicott (not so viable, I think), Luxelong. Alpico can switch into Dragon Pulse and retaliate with a super effective Ice-move; Scarf Laissure can switch into Thunder and kill Yatagaryu with an EQ. Of course, at least 3 of these Pokémons are weak to Focus Blast, but that's isn't a reliable move, so we actually have viable ways to play against the Electric Dragon. There aren't a lot of options, but there are more options than with the previous two Pokémons. However, that's just theory; maybe the reality proves that Yatagaryu is too much for Uranium's meta.
I don't know too much about Syrentide, so I won't dare say anything about it, but, considering what I know about it, I think there's no need in banning it. I can be wrong, of course.
