MarvelousGerbil posted...
To be fair, wasn't this the result of other things being banned slowly, some of which were due to HG/SS adding new moves to said pokemon? I don't really pay attention to competitive pokemon, but that's how I understood it at the time.
Hm...looking at the moves it picked up later...Platinum HG/SS gave it Outrage from a move tutor, so that's sort-of a big deal.
But I thought the reasoning was more "It can easily force a switchout given Intimidate, and between Earthquake, Flamethrower, and Draco Meteor there's no safe switch-in, so it becomes a guessing game".
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