Competitive Pokemon's Most UNDESERVED Bans:

These pokemon ask the very important philosophical question: “what if a pokemon was really fast and had a lot of attack?”

Iron Bundle is clearly super fast for one reason. Its Santa, but Santa who can visit every house on the planet in 1 night, as opposed to the Mall Santa that normal Delibird is.

It wasn't Gorilla tactics that got him but Blunder getting 6-0d by a G-Darm will forever be in the history books

Gen 9 had so many broken mons on launch that Espathra FELL TO UU because everyone was so occupied with the rest of the overpowered stuff to notice they made a Speed Boost Stored Power user. Insane

It's so funny that all of these pokemon got banned because of a combination of traits that made them broken except iron bundle who just has insanely stupid stats

Smogon: Ay bro can we get some hyper offense?

gen 9's power creep annoys me, but I like iron bundle specifically because it's overpowered. it really is just the funniest decision to make robot delibird into a nuclear terror.

Dracovish was quite interesting because it only got the 130 base power stab move if it moved first. So people thought to put a choice scarf on it so it would outspeed threats and hit them hard, but then walls like ferrothorn and toxapex could tank a few hits from it. So then people thought if you're going to outspeed these walls anyway you might as well put a choice band on to make sure you blow away these walls. So then it became a mindgame, do you stay in to half the move's power and get owned by choice scarf, or do you switch to your wall and get owned if it's choice band. And then came dracovish rain.

A thing about Darmatitan galar, is that it was played with Icle crash, earthquake, flare blitz, u-turn. And this combo of move is supereffective against most defensive pokémons in the game. It's super effective against most dragons, against, toxapex, against ferrothorn. It wasn't even a question of trying to find a resist, just finding a pokemon which wasn't weak was already complicated. And on top of that, it could just ignore the 50/50 and u-turn, or it could just dynamax and switch moves. Ah and since darmanitan was so stupidly strong, it means its other form had a niche : because any player seeing darmanitan switching in would try to win the 50/50 by switching, you could place a sub, belly drum, and sweep.

weirdly, Iron Bundle being considered the most powerful Pokémon helps confirm what AI Turo was so worried about. These Paradox Pokémon could have easily dominated and left Paldea a smoking crater.

Iron Bundle makes sense being that fast. It needs to deliver presents to all the children in the world in a single night. In a design perspective though, I don't mind the Paradox Pokemon or the Ultra Beasts being considered "legendary-lite". If one of them hits Uber, it's not so bad. They're meant to be abnormal.

Banning Magcargo from the horse competition because he was too horse-like is way more deserved than any of those...

"1 button gameplay monkey" is a pokemon archetype now and it´s delivered some terrifying results so far.

17:13 I think what pushed rage fist over the edge was that it didnt reset on switch. It'd be as if stat boost were kept when you switched out.

The second I saw Galarian Darmanitan when my wife and I bought these games, I 100% knew that I was going to use it in my playthroughs, and that it was 100% going to get banned in competitive.