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TopicIt feels like smogon bans basically everything
dioxxys
11/13/23 10:21:31 AM
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Stolen from Reddit, sounds ban worthy to me. I haven't been playing very much recently last time I played palafin was still legal.

The issue is the lack of counters:

If you play SVOU at a serious level about the first thing you notice is that the hazard game is just absurd nowadays. Hazards go up too easily and Ghold makes it too hard to get rid of them, especially since our pool of removers is very small and Tusk is getting more pressured with every meta shift. The culprit most people would look at is Gholdengo, but Gliscor is actually a huge part of why it's this bad lately as well.

With insane longevity, a great typing into many stuff, and access to both Spikes and Toxic, Gliscor can come in on many things and Spike a ton of times. Tusk is afraid to Spin on it since it hates getting Toxiced, and to even touch it back it needs to run Ice Spinner which HEAVILY limits what Tusk is capable of doing with its moveset. Corvi can Defog on it, but Corvi has been getting dunked on by Ghold all gen long. Other removers exist but are exceedingly hard to fit and don't even necessarily beat Gliscor.

Since Gliscor is nearly impossible to wear down passively, Spikes on pretty much everything at every stage of the game, and pressures the few removers we have, it together with Ghold is the main reason hazards are so unbearable to vs right now. There's also a notable amount of mons that fell off or have their moveset options greatly limited almost entirely because of Gliscor, and a lot of otherwise good teams (mostly Superman squads) struggle because they lack great switchins to Gliscor or options to force it out... except for their own Gliscor, but Gliscor VS Gliscor matchups are physically painful to play and watch
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