Why Was Mega Rayquaza Banned From Competitive Ubers Pokemon?

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

SMALL CORRECTION: Mega Rayquaza resists electric, its not neutral.

Shouts to Pedro for being the first Team Freeze Member!

[zorochii]

Mega Rayquaza sounds like what a kid would make up first if they got like a super crazy pokemon editor.
Make all stats 9999, immune to everything, give it the best move with 9999 power.
I love it.

[thelaxfromthespace]

No cheesy technicalities this time, Rayquayza was just vanilla stronger.

[iloverobinfromarknights]

Ah yes, the Pokemon who invented Anything Goes.

[normal]

I remember seeing niche counter strategies popping up like Focus Sash Golduck. Cloud Nine let it ignore the weather, and thus increase Rayquaza's Ice weakness. This allowed you to hit it with a 4x effective Ice Beam or Blizzard for a surprise KO.

[Seth_rs]

I remember that battles were determined by who won the espeed tie between mega rays

[windwakerrules]

mega ray, its like deoxys attack with a better movepool and typing that also has the bulk of a mid range uber like dialga or palkia

[justarandomdood]

I remember playing when Mega Ray was first introduced, that was a WILD time

One of the few videos where I knew the answer before watching, but still an entertaining vid :)

[gengarzilla]

This was the point where Regigigas without Slow Start actually started to look somewhat sensible.

[enigmatic]

Rayquaza: Due to it's power and violent ways, it was banished by Groudon and Kyogre to a dimension called "Anything Goes" where anything can happen in comparison to our world
-Pokedex, I think

[gungisgrand]

Mega Rayquaza gets a 780 stat block with amazing, typing, stabs, and ability with the only conceivable downside being that you're forced into using a good move that you'd probably be running anyways

Regigigas has a stat total of 670 and gets slow start, a ok set of stabs, and an ok typing

Power creep is a cruel hag

[OMalleyTheMaggot]

Even wack niche mons like Shuca Rhyperior could get destroyed, I often run water moves like surf or waterfall (depending on what else I'm running) in AG since it is Ray's best option to cleanly OHKO primal Groudon since mega-Ray removes harsh sun. Which would also ass-blast rhy lol.
Totally unwallable.

[Ningflingslinger]

And if Arceus ever gets the Legend Plate on a competitive game, he's gonna come up to AG to keep Mega Ray company.

[blameitondanny]

I love how gamefreak created this monstrosity just to create a story line in the games 😅

[Kalicoat]

Ray was never weak to electric. Delta stream just made him resist electric I'm pretty sure

[sleprvrruy-lin-]

I remember when mega ray Was allowed in gen 6 UBERs.. Man that thing still gives me nightmares. Most games were decided on who still had their ray..

[N]

Don't forget that thecnically Gen 4 Arceus is AG as well, altough it didn't have that title at first.

[ElectroBlastLuigi]

V-Create Rayquaza was one of the most amazing but unusual events to happened back when XY first came out.

[dsaulgoodman]

Your sub growth is pretty impressive bro, honestly thanks to your quality vids. Keep it up!

[theholy]

Here's a video idea: Why was Dynamax banned within a month of gen 8

[GynxShinx]

Oh no. The one restriction for Mega Rayquaza is that you have to have Dragon Ascent, the only good flying move in the game and it just so happens that it's extremely op. This is so sad. Basically UU at that point.