The Most Controversial Bans in Competitive Pokemon

The Biggest Bans that have incited the most arguments and outrage

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[dream_weaver]

Gen 4 players having to hit the 80% because of Snow Cloak: This is unacceptable!
Gen 4 Players getting their lefties Magnezone paraflinched down by Jirachi: Oh that's my fault, I should have outplayed the coinflip

[LOLquendoTV]

The real most controversial ban is chatot getting banned in official tournaments cause you could use its signature move chatter to make it say slurs out loud

[omniultimate]

Mega Rayquaza: "How'd you get sent to AG?"
Moody Bibarel: "I'm very indecisive"

[enzoforgets]

Gen 6 Aegislash ruffles everyones jimmies because you could probably have it evade taxes for you and the IRS wont even know

[Juniper_Rose]

"wow, this mega razaquaz is pretty strong. luckily it's in ube-"
*life orb*
"alright that's enough of that."

[justcallmeleonardo]

"Just outplay the coinflip imo"
-Plato

[iBenjamin]

"...those whose favorite meta game was policy debate..." lol. brutal.

[aetherblackbolt]

Jimothy Cool went insane Laddering on Gen 4 OU just to get Machamp banned. He failed to qualify, with only 12 or so people doing so via laddering. This seems like funny timing to make this video now.

[solaimanshahriar]

Sleep in Scarlet and Violet should have been mentioned considering it got banned even without the Sleep mechanics from Black and White

[justinnzamora]

This wasn't mentioned in the video, but I just learned that Cloyster got banished to Ubers in Gen 5 long after it was the current gen.

[josea.ruizquinones]

The Froslass scenario seems silly when just a complex ban of “Any Ability that grants evasion is banned if the team has any way to trigger it” which would be default autoban Moody under the same clause since it can trigger evasion boost without additional triggers.

[ItsReallyColdOutside]

9:38 "a beast that made Xerneas look like a decent pick in UU" 💀💀💀

[SeriousStriker]

Feels like the ORAS Shadow Tag Suspect Test in Ubers should've been mentioned. It was outright rigged and is possibly the most controversial thing that has happened to Smogon in recent history.

[shiruotakuno]

The fact that people can unironically say "just outplay the coinflip" with their whole chest astounds me.

[LauthySanguche]

13:06 "if you were using obama"

[elilopez]

Describing the swift swim ban as the original sin really does fit the chaos of Gen 5 tiering. A choice that seemed harmless at the time but did so much damage that tier's only hope is just a full reset.

[mrorphaneater]

The most controversial ban imo was when pikachu was banned for tax evasion

[GabrielDelMaestroDuarte]

Since I've found out BKC writes those scripts, I cannot unsee his humour permeating the text.

Also, any video with a bojack reference gets a thumbs up from me.

[hoppersprez]

You can tell BKC writes the videos because of the way they glowingly talk about the snow cloak complex ban, then deride gen 5 complex bans...

[FiboSai]

I didn't know the Smogon forums are now overrun by the hivemind of the single "Smogon User".