Why Was Zacian Banned From Competitive Ubers Pokemon?

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Why Was Zacian Banned From Competitive Ubers Pokemon?
Pokemon can be crazy sometimes.

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It's incredible how Quagsire remains relevant in so many oddly specific scenarios despite having such mediocre stats. It's basically the dark horse of competitive Pokemon.

mcgoldenblade
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Ah yes, the best over powered trio. God themself, Mega evolved guardian of the planets outer skies, and big dog with stick.

werewolf
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But hey! Regigigas it's so powerful it needs an ability to nerf it!

TalkingVidya
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Short answer:
-Has arguably the best dual typing in the entire game
-Giving an attack boost to a base 170 mon upon entry is stupid
-2 points slower than electrode
-typing and defenses can help it set up swords dances
-its best answer is a pink blob
-stupid move pool, allowing it to hit ALMOST the entire metagame with either neutral or super effective damage
-assurance for necrozma dusk mane
-basically everything Regigigas wishes it had

theyammi
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I never even considered using assurance to capitalize on stealth rock damage, I always just saw it as a doubles move

sashiboop
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"Guys we removed 70% of the national dex in order to have a balanced game"

- Gamefreak

maverick
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That thumbnail got a big laugh from me. I love all the weird places you see Quagsire.
"This is one of the most broken Pokemon in the Ubers tier. Quagsire reliably checks it."

Sintra
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They made the Mascots of the Gen so unbalanced. Zacian was so good, that both forms got banned from Ubers. Whereas there was a time where they tested if Zamazenta-Crowned could drop to OU. They really shafted Zamazenta. If it got Body Press, it would actually be good. The worst part is that it doesn't even get Swords Dance and the only way to boost Attack was Howl.

AussieRiolu
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I had no idea stuff like Stealth Rocks counted for Assurance. I always assumed it was just a move meant for double battles like Helping Hand or something

BlueYoshi
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As a person who stopped playing competitively since gen 8, I found amusing how much broken this thing is in comparison to Zamazenta.

alinepiroutek
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One theory I have about Zacian Crowned, and to a lesser extent Necrozma DM, is that Gamefreak for whatever reason does not want to nerf Xerneas directly so instead they indirectly nerf it by adding mons that can deal with it like the aforementioned mons.

theimpersonator
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How about a "Why is Quagsire everywhere" breakdown?

thomaswood
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I never will understand why they made zacian the most broken thing ever while Zamazenta is just meh

jayisdecent
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Still stupid that Zamazenta loses Speed for donning armor while his sister be like "ayo time to nyoom"

D-S-G.
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It's like with each generation gamefreak is just trying to one up themselves by seeing just how broken they can make a pokemon

coolguy-mfwr
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If the Anything Goes tier eventually becomes like Ubers and gets a tier above it, I think it should be renamed ‘Anything Went.’

azzahnoble
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Well, I'm going to assume from the thumbnail that it was a super strong attacker that came with a built-in Choice Band (without the drawbacks) and a way to further boost itself while providing immense pressure to everything in the metagame with great Fairy/Steel STAB options. This meant that Unaware users were necessary for teambuilding, but since Zacian hit Clefable super-effectively, Quagsire was the wall of choice.

amberhernandez
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Zacian can even counter Quagsire too. If it's on Sun it can run Solar Blade, or Hero could run power herb. Zacian is too busted man

eyezuh_
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Man, someone at gamefreak really likes zacian, and really hates zamazenta. Let's make a legendary duo, make one banded mega rayquaza that isn't locked into a move with a better typing and higher speed, and make the other borderline useless, while also introducing a fighting type move that uses defense and not giving it to them.

lancejburns
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This is why quagsire is an absolute unit. God tier Pokémon that doesn't care about anything. I swear the amount of people on showdown trying to get massive stat buffs against my quagsire is just insane.

armakuni