Banned Strategies in Competitive Pokémon (Gens 1 - 5) 

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@@Neogears1312 psst im currently setting one up for him but dont tell him shhht!

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@@RiahGreen I just saw that this morning ty very much appreciated!

Excuse meee I'm doing a KETO diet whyyyyy are there carbssss in my foooood!??

I'm gonna remember that quote for a long while

It had me replaying the seconds LMAOO

I literally gave my mom context about pokemon generations being buggy just to tell her that

18:23 I know Jack shit about Pokémon. Watched just for the quote. Wasn’t disappointed.

Was he in Gen 5?

​@tysondennis1016 before BW2, you had to transfer Sol Badguy from a previous generation. But they added Sol Badguy in BW2, but only in Black City... Also yes, Breloom was in gen 5 because this was before they started cutting pokemon from the game.

What you mean by sitting on the ball? Literal sitting or playing around the time with useless passes?

@@olivergro7105 Pro players literally sitting on the ball. There were no rules against this because nobody thought it would ever happen. Rules were added when it did. You would have scores of 7 - 6 for the whole game.

@@randommaster06 not literally they'd just pass it constantly

I'm not sure I understand this comparison. These two things were banned because they were competitively unhealthy due to relying purely on randomness to be effective.

@@ChillavaKirby The shot clock and evasion ban are comparable in that allowing them creates situations that participants/viewers find unfun and can threaten the long-term health of the game. You solve the problem by eliminating it as an option for players. Forcing basketball players to take shots and banning evasion boosts, respectively. The evasion issue really started to matter in the original DP meta. (TLDR: the DP meta revolved around one interaction with evasion) Garchomp was everywhere and so was Tyranitar. Because there were no other good weather setters, so sand was almost always up. A +2 Atk Garchomp will OHKO anything meta-relevant. It's holding Yache Berry, so the only thing in the entirety of OU that is guaranteed to out-speed and OHKO it is Adamant, Choice Band Weavile with Ice Punch. Sand Veil means Garchomp has a 20% chance to avoid attacks in a sandstorm. If you have to play ten swiss rounds before cutting to top 8, if you are using that Weavile, you are estimated to lose two games to RNG because Sand Veil caused Ice Punch to miss and you got swept. Going plus/minus one miss (amusing you win all your other matches) is the difference between not making Top 8 mad being guaranteed a spot. An entire mera of "Does Ice Punch Miss?" isn't fun, and Smogon banished Garchomp to Ubers until the DPP meta introduced more pokemon the could deal with Garchomp.

Yeah apparently you could make it cuss (which is really dumb because it’s BP was based on how loud you yelled at your DS so everyone I knew was making Elder Scrolls FUS RO DAH jokes)

Best one is that one dude who got his chatot to say SHAWTYS LIKE A MELODY and you could tell it was the song easily Xd

@@christopherfleetwood5252 straight up screaming "FUS RO DAH" into a Mic to make a funny looking bird on my scream yell the same thing every time it attacked is absolutely something I'd do lol.

But that was only VGC Smogon did not ban chatot as you can't record anything in Showdown, nor have they ever made an irl tournament iirc

@@punga6102 playing competitive singles on console is like torture

This is what I think a lot of people miss, I think they jump to the conclusion that Smogon just shapes metas exactly to the liking of a small group of people and we go along with it, when in reality that's not the case at all

@@BigYellowSilly personally i think some of Smogon's councils can be too heavy on the banhammer at times, but for the most part i agree with that statement

Bro, no one ever used dig or fly in rby back in the days of internet gen 1 netbattle or Pokémon online. Ever. They were never banned back In the days preceding my time during 2005-2012. They weren’t banned and no one used them.

Yeah, if it's sucking the joy out of the game or pushing out other strategies, it's no good. Fuck Primal Groudon. All my homies hate Primal Groudon. Idk if it was actually competitively that bad but I didn't like it

@@justabluedream did people know about the bug back then, and did the simulators you used accurately recreate the bug? because if not then those anecdotes really do not matter. there's a very real chance that if they were aware of the bug at the time they didn't recreate it in order to not ban the move, but later on decided to more faithfully recreate the game instead of modifying it for 2 moves that you yourself are saying were never used.

Showdown is a toxic, inconsistent community. Once a guy a reported me for using a whole Explosion to enable a Gyarados sweep. Obviously, his request was dismissed, but then he opened a thread in Smogon crying about how Explosion goes against "strategy, and what it is a good match since it's impredictable" (he was a stall user) and I was astonished when I saw many people agreeing with him and asking for banning more than 2 mon with Explosion in the team.

@@alejandrop.s.3942 Showdown's toxicity is mostly just either tryhards or children. Most of the time it's chill

@@alejandrop.s.3942 tbf that idea is valid, explosion is pretty busted and restricting it to 2 mons wouldnt take away the merits of it while getting rid of braindead strats like 5 explosions+snorlax

@@mrschrubelhupfyay6397 the thing is, it doesn't matter if a strategy is brain-dead as long as it's competitive and not broken. Using 5 explosion mons is a very bad strategy ( even in gen 2 you'd only want like 4 on Very offensive teams) and it's relatively easy to play around. Considering how this was in gen 5 you can reasonably just tank explosions from certain mons and you have preview and can see what min they're trying to keep. It's really easy to play around and theres no reason to ban it.

@@exi_dudi2037 it being gen 5 is a major detail due to the explosion nerf, Id expected it to be gen 3 as gen 3 is the strongest gen for explosion, if it is gen 5 then that suggestion is absolutely invalid

Yeah... Gen 5 Sleep is way more devastating than Gen 1 Freeze and Sleep by a long shot. Not to mention, Gen 5 is very fast pace, where everything goes bang bang. Especially Choice Specs Latios, the king of Gen 5 OU. Also, the team building in Gen 5 is very difficult due to so many teams you have to be accounted for. Adding Sleep absorber on top of the constraint of Gen 5 OU teams isn't solving the issue due to the rng of Sleep and Sleep Talk (Unless if you use Poison Heal Gliscor).

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@@cashnelson2306 mother

I’m pretty sure in gen 5 the sleep counter is rest to 0 if you switch out.. so if you burn a turn of sleep then switch out and switch back in. It’ll stay at 0, I’m pretty sure that specifically coupled with the meta game is why sleep is so broken in gen 5 Though I could be wrong been a while since I looked it up

Insomnia and early bird and Clerics are also a thing. But yeah, feels pretty centralizing

Old gens having their meta's changing even today is so cool to me honestly

Honestly, it's not that different from people keeping older fighting games alive through sheer passion and modding. It goes to show how much love goes into a series, when players have their favourite episode and focus on it instead of just following the mainstream interest

@@BigYellowSilly I mean a meta in a game with enough characters is virtually impossible to truly solve. The idea is that there are X best strategies with a similarly small number of counters and weaknesses like a rock paper scissors effect. With too many options, you can quite literally change the meta but doing the same things often enough.

Gen 1 OU is really fun

That sleep ban was probably one of the best things that could've happened for Gen. V, cause those Sleep inducing moves were essentially more accurate legal OHKO moves, as the sleep counter would reset on switchout pre-Gen VI, so you'd just give one pokemon up to the Sleep move and that pokemon is just Sleep Clause fodder for the remainder...

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Great comic

The weird thing is that he's still allowed in UU and it's completely fine, so he's banned to Ubers but at the same time just vibing in UU

@@BigYellowSilly Weird, but Gen 3 has a lot of weird rules. Like how UU has the NFE ban.

@@DSaC_ Could they have done that because Chansey? Though they could've just ... banned Chansey

@@japanpanda2179 Nah, it was because UU players played the tier to get away from OU, and they didn't want the tier to be overrun with preevolutions of the OU mons they were trying to get away from.

@@DSaC_ Scyther: Ima pretend I didn’t hear that

And would make pretty good shit starter trio for a harder game mod actually…

I think Cacturne should get an evolution

@@christopherfleetwood5252 wait that's true...

@@christopherfleetwood5252 if you're making a mod, you can also take those three and give them mod fakemon evolutions, since they're all single-stage evos. Kind of would shit on the "harder" part, tho, but eh.

@@henriquepacheco7473 😊 I’m flattered that you think I competent enough to make a whole mod, but believe me, I’m not. lol That said thank you for your input, that would be a cool idea. 👍

Wait Extreme Evopass was actually a thing?

@@KeitaroHirochi It was banned eventually (Both to preserve pass and because even with base Eevee it was broken) in doubles but I don't think it was in VGC17.

@@wispyone3702 it was an ok team in VGC17 but it was way weaker in that format compared to smogon doubles

@@hope27272 That makes sense. I don't remember trying it in Smogon Doubles but I think I did. Maybe I tried it and that's how I learned it was banned in that format IDK. I wasn't usually playing in VGC but I remember I wanted to for S&M for some reason.

I remember running a Psych Up Golduck with Aqua Jet just to counter that strategy - if I saw Eevee on the team preview, I'd send in Golduck first, assuming they'd send in Eevee, then Psych Up to get its boosts and kill it. Didn't get to use it much, but it was brutal when I got to.

Don't forget Chlorodrought

I thought it was just those two because of Water STAB + Water move boost from rain + Swift Swim on already fast and strong Pokemon = DANGER and Excadrill and Stoutland out speed near everything in Sand. That is to say, I thought they didn’t ban Chlorophyll + Drought because it’s balanced by only Grass types having Chlorophyll (and they have a disadvantage against Fire which is boosted by sun) and said Pokemon having narrower move pools than Pokemon with Swift Swim and Sand Rush and the ones that don’t (like Tangrowth and Exeggcutor) being to slow to take advantage of it.

@@JAnne_Bonne It was definitely worse than the other 2 weather combos, but despite that it was still a potent combo. Growth Chlorophyll Venusaur in particular was an absolute near unwallable monster - and arguably easily as dangerous stall machine between sub+leech seed, or just using Synthesis to get back 66.6% of its health every time due to sun. It also had access to Sleep Powder, which as everyone who played gen 5 knows: reliable sleep is an absolute gamebreaker due to gen 5’s brutal sleep reset mechanics upon switching. It was incredibly hard to stop once it go going, and was incredibly difficult to kill with the right support. Honorable mention also goes to Sawsbuck, who was a genuine Sword Dance sweeping threat under sun as well and often the 2nd sweeper either competing with - or teaming with Venu on chloro-spam teams. The 2 were the main abusers and culprits for pushing the style over the edge. Once the other 2 weather combos were locked up, chloro-sun started taking over the tier and not too long after closed a full ban on weather + speed boosting abilities. However, it is worth noting that there is ongoing discussion in recent times within the Smogon gen 5 community of potentially unbanning choloro-drought due to Sun teams near complete dropout from the meta after the banning of Arena Trap. Dugtrio (and Diglet for the short time that duggy was banned but Trap was still legal) was crucial to sun teams for its ability to remove common roadblocks like ttar, Heatran, or a weakened Politoed to help win the weather war, since Ninetales is a bad but vital component to sun thats needed to function. And now that it’s gone sun can’t stand up to the rest of the meta because said roadblocks are too common and now are too difficult to remove while maintaining the needed extra support sun teams require.

Woah, when I stopped playing that it was just the rain variant that was banned

@@JustInCaseD how long ago did they ban the weather+spd abilities combo?

My idea was always to make it +1/-1 instead of +2/-1, but your idea would be a much better solution tbh

@@sammichu1906 It doesn't give accuracy and evasion in the game now and it's still comically broken lmao. I've played the game competitively since like 2012, I laddered for the moody suspect test in gen 8, and it was the single most degenerate meta I've seen. I'd argue it is almost the exact same thing as baton pass chains before they were banned. If you have the counters to it, the strategy falls apart, if you don't there is very little counter play and you lose on turn 2. It's not fun to play with or against. It should not be in the game. The only way to balance moody imo is to make it on hit instead of per turn. That would stop like protect, disable glare glalies and shit. All the mons that get the ability as of now are frail so I think this would be okay, but it's not future proof tbh. It's just an insanely broken ability it's gonna be hard to balance.

@@BigYellowSilly perhaps it could give +1 to you and your opponent? Not even sure if that's possible to make work.

@@scooter9537 your idea sucks even more. multi-hit moves exist

I rather just have moody be an rng Download, like boost a random stat when switched in, that sounds fun.

random freeze good. random miss bad. whatever man. smogon is just a small group of inbred players who want to make sure the strategies they have experience using remain dominant. Else they would have axed stealth rock forever ago. Been willing to devote a single move slot to haze etc... Like actually you can shut down their entire team of six baton passers with 1/24th of your team and they'd rather just ban it.

@@letsmakeit110 wait you can?

@@tangerinepaint3643 yeah. devote a single moveslot to haze or something else with 'removes all stats changes'.

@@letsmakeit110 question: does clear body work against haze?

@@tangerinepaint3643 honestly don't know

TBF the gambler's ability *also* (likely) wasn't in a multiplayer environment where people are being competitive and thus, Moody-esque RNG buffs getting to a point where they're unstoppable isn't really infringing on someone else's enjoyment of the game, since last time I checked, the AI used in JRPGs for enemies doesn't have feelings.

@shitcanget AKA yikes! When I learned of funbro I was immediately captivated with how fucking bullshit it is

in gen 8 fun bro doesnt exist like it cant learn the right moves infact nothing can i know becasue i tried to play it

@@azurefoxbh9280 I mean, can't you just transfer a Funbro over from a previous generation?

@@segafreak2000 not every move is in gen 8

@@segafreak2000 and the learnsets arent the same either

That's Teleport's whole gimmick, and it's pretty cool. Switch out AFTER taking a hit to protect the switch in.

Ah yes, the DlC era. You had the hole slow family teleporting with regenerator and throwing future sights left to right. What a time.

Could record curse words: unfortunate, but Game Freak isn’t responsible for what players do. Move actually becomes more powerful from volume, encouraging players to record earrape: oh, you were just asking for that one.

"FUUUUUUCK" power go

Was there a maximum?

@@isenokami7810me on my way to record a rock concert:

Just looked it up on Bulbapedia, apparently the volume only affects the chance of the move confusing? To a maximum of 31% in Gen 4, or 10% in Gen 5.

everyone g til fury cutter Venusaur and Heavy Slam Wailord pull up

@@BigYellowSilly "no guys, it's okay!! No STAB hydreigon and heavyslam wailord are VERY good and viable sets! Also why won't smogon unban evasion???"

@@givemeyourgarbage7980 "Hydreigon good, Dragapult bad"

Who is the furry

@@7purplepenguin428 think its a reference to weedletwineedles, recently Made a tangled feet video but it was after the comment was made

Prankster is not +1 Speed, it's +1 priority, which is far better.

isn't that literally the point of a prankster ability though?

@@thehumanstunlock7588 speed is the matter of who goes first, priority takes priority. A Pokemon with +1 Speed might not outspeed really fast Pokemon, but a Pokemon with priority vs a Pokemon without priority will always go first.

@@LunaroseClaire yeah, i know, and prankster gives status priority. i understand simple pokemon mechanics.

Liepard had Swagplay as an option too. Never abused it myself, but I thought it was hella neat.

a good bp team shouldn't have any problems dealing with that. all you need to do is trap it and trick it a choice band

@@le_nub6711 yeah, but 80% of people playing a bp team are doing it to avoid needing skill. But the other 20%... They are to be feared.

One of my favourite things about Breloom is all the different ways it's been viable, it adapted to not having sleep in Gen 5, and even before that it ran completely different sets in every gen it's been OU

Technician is great man

@@BigYellowSilly I remember a time when sub sporeless focus punch breloom was a thing people would run, what crazy times those were.

Banning Spore was like one step forward one step back for Breloom. It was already a great Pokemon but Spore was so good it had no reason not to run it on virtually every set, which meant that many of its other good move options were thrown to the sidelines. Now that it cant run Spore, it just runs those moves instead, which arguably make Breloom just as threatening and possibly even less predictable.

Smogon is the no fun allowed crowd. Spore Sub FPunch Breloom will always be the top

@@KuonilerariLoufanwald I mean, this is unbanned in every other OU so I’m not too upset about it. I think the main issue is why Gamefreak implemented sleep in Gen 5 like they did

Breloom was on my main team in generation 6 as either a focus sash lead or choice scarf lead. it had Spore, but i relied on attacks that worked with Technician, like Bullet Seed and Power up Punch. i think the last move was Rock Tomb, for slowing opponents down, to hit first.

@@KuonilerariLoufanwald Someone already said it so I'll just quote em: A lot of people complain "why does Smogon ban so much stuff, they're no fun, any time I come up with something cool it's already banned", and my first argument is "if it's banned you're definitely not the first person to come up with it", but more seriously, putting restrictions on a format results in having to figure things out as you go; that fabled "creativity" people idolize. If you just want everything unbanned, look at Anything Goes; it's a mess and you're either playing exactly what the best shit is, or you're playing something that counters it. Removing options when done right results in looking at Pokemon in new ways, which is why some people prefer to play only the lower tiers; what do you use when the five best options are banned? What's the next best thing?

@@KuonilerariLoufanwald In any other generation I would agree. In Gen 5, with the bullshit sleep turn resetting mechanic? No way. It's basically a KO at that stage.

is that like, recycle shenanigans

@@yourehereforthatarentyou Leppa berry + recycle + block + heal pulse. It forces a stalemate until the player using it gets bored. It's also the only strategy to be banned from AG!

@@yourehereforthatarentyou Its also leftovers Wobbuffet duels

You counter funbro with knock off

@@krexolsen3692 yes, but that requires the person playing Funbro to lock in a pokemon that would run knock-off in it's kit. keep in mind that block/mean look is often a part of how funbro works, thus locking your opponent out of counterplay. a lot of FUnbro is scouting out a victim to lock in.

Evolite is weird for me cause I actually loved the idea of it was excited to see what it'd do for OU but it was pretty much just a Chansey enabler

@@BigYellowSilly On the bright side, it did allow for Porygon2 and Porygon-Z to diverge further in kits, but yeah in general the item kinda pigeonholes more defensive NFE Pokemon.

@@BigYellowSilly can't forget a UU viable gligar and the deviously gimmicky murkrow 😈

Really weird idea, what if they introduced a similar item (let's call it Evolium) but for Attack and Sp. Attack? That might help NFE Pokemon break out of that defensive role Eviolite often pigeonholes them into. I think it could be interesting. Evolium would almost certainly get banned from Little Cup, though. Eviolite is basically the only reason defensive strategies work there at all - just look at Gen 4 LC, which is basically just a hyper-offence slugfest. So just being able to slap on an item that totally counteracts it with no drawbacks (in the context of LC) would not be great. I mean, Choice Band/Specs and Life Orb are already immensely popular in spite of their drawbacks, imagine a Mienfoo or something running a Choice Band without being locked into a move. In other formats, the drawback of both Eviolite and the hypothetical Evolium is that you're using an NFE Pokemon in a context where fully evolved Pokemon are the norm, AND it HAS to hold Eviolite/Evolium to be viable in that context (no Leftovers, Choice Scarf, Heavy Duty Boots, etc.).

@@BigYellowSilly I was so hype for dusclops back then…. Time flies

I haven't played much since 2011, but (during Gen IV), I'd normally base a team around one or two of my favorite 'mons. It let me use those awful mons in OU and still have a chance of winning.

@@cultreader9751 Which ones are your favorite?

I like to have fun with Pokemon, so...

Its luck in the sense that it was an unsure thing, same way you might say you got unlucky if you misjudged a roughly 50/50 choice, its not luck in the sense that RNG and the fates were involved(other then the part where your Swampert did/didn't instantly die to Crit HPGrass)

if you're boosting attack, why use aura sphere? Drain punch hits the same targets, and with all the attack boosts, most likely does more damage, in addition to healing you. Also, if your plan is to just boost attack, why not SD? it gets up there way faster. EDIT: Also, unless you're talking about mega lucario, use Extreme Speed. It hits neutral targets and targets that resist both steel and normal harder, and losing a stronger hit on fairies won't matter if you're boosting that much. Unless you have rock types you're worrying about? EDIT 2: Oh, yeah, ghosts. But hey, you can run both *and* drain punch! ...you'd need to drop whatever is your fourth move, though, so eh.

@@henriquepacheco7473 swords dance but I considered dropping it since I use power up punch.

Acupressure isn't banned because while it has all the hallmarks of Luck Move, it has ALL of them, which ironically renders it pretty much worthless, in contrast to Moody, it takes your action, its random, and the mons that have it all kinda stink, it gives nothing special, and most of the ways to abuse it are related to existing bans

actually, replace acupressure with recover or something.

acupressure isnt banned because it sucks and you cant really auto win with it unlike the other luckbased abilities

I'm curious what format you've played because the format and the year can be like spinning the wheel of fortune lol

@@justincarroll1836 modern back when birthing pod bans happened about 6 months either side and commander for the past 4 years

@@richardjohnson8991 well pod modern was the dark before time for me

This is a very good point, I would imagine the reason behind items like that not being banned is that using an item like Brightpowder means that you're giving up an item that would just make your Pokemon better. A 10% chance is still a chance, but you give up a lot for it.

acupressure isn't banned in battle facilities. back when i tried to get really high win streaks, i remember seeing people use Drapion for acupressure. but they could set up for free, because the lead Durant with truant had the opponent under entrainment, and the a.i never switches out from truant entrainment.

Assuming it wasn't simply forgotten about, it might have been because it combines the limiting factors of double team and moody. Double team always raises evasion, but it takes a turn to use. Moody activates each turn without needing to use a specific move, but you don't choose what gets raised. Acupressure takes an entire turn to use, and you don't get to choose which stat gets boosted.

If you are clicking Acupressure, you are clicking Acupressure. You are not clicking Substitute/Barrier/Rest and getting the Acupressure bonus on top of that. Also the odds of getting evasion early are really low. Moody was banned because you could force stall to eventually get what you need. It's much harder to force stall with Acupressure and also the opponent can see it happen and setup by themselves. You pretty much need an inherently tanky mon to even attempt something like this and the best you've got are... Drapion, Tentacruel and Toedscruel.

There is a move that does this in the form of Giratina's Shadow Force attack, along with it's weaker version, phantom force. But because they are two-turn moves, they aren't used by anyone for the reasons mentioned in this video (namely dealing with the fact that the opponent has the option to simply switch to something different to beat your Pokemon while you take those turns). There's also the fact that, while it wasn't touched on in this video, two-turn moves are not as effective, since you can either use an attack and a set up move or just attack the opponent twice to get overall better results

Certain two-turn moves can actually work pretty well in tandem with Power Herb (Geomancy and Meteor Beam mainly, though I think I've run into a few Power Herb Fly and Bounce users), as well as Sky Drop. I feel like you could buff these moves by maybe trapping the opponent on the turn the move comes out

@@grunkleg.3110 If you want to get past substitutes, you could also just use sound moves. Game freak should really make more of those (and have them be different types other than normal or electric).

@@MG-mq3zf sparkling aria exists just as much as overdrive

@@egon3705 technically slightly more considering its on 2 mons rather than 2 forms of 1 mon

Also, in gens 3 and 4, the fact that sandstorm was permanent meant that there was no real way to turn sandstorm off unless you specifically ran a weather move (and that still doesn't stop sand from coming back up). Even if you just banned the use of sand veil on sand teams, the likelihood of going up against a sand team was quite high, and they probably aren't spending a moveslot on the ability to turn their own weather off (sound familiar?)

It's that too.

That's a good point, now I think about it I should've defo said what Baton Pass was intended for before getting into the ban, thank you very much for your thoughts tho!

@@BigYellowSilly thats what i was confused about at first tbh LOL, ty for the reply and gl on ur next vids

@@Butterkix I see sol about to dragon uninstall breloom and “that guy” is about to set up sub and get emotional

Use swift lol

@@grihaspoormachine The problem is, Swift is a special attack. Chansey tanks special attacks with no issue. Especially 60 power neutrally effective special moves. So yeah, it’s not gonna be doing much of anything, nothing a Soft-Boiled couldn’t fix.

@@Abigail92749 It's physical before Gen 4.

@@athath2010 Ah, good to know! Would still be a pain to take out a Chansey with Soft-boiled using Swift, but more doable if it’s physical.

Aura Sphere, Aerial Ace, Faint Attack, Stomp, Dragon Rush, Smart Strike, Toxic on Poison types, Haze, No Guard, Keen Eye, and the definition of "+1 evasion" has been getting progressively smaller each Gen: Are we jokes to you?

Gen 6 for me is like a bit of a middle ground for me, I play Gen 1 -5 and I've never really touched 7 or 8, but I've a small bit of experience with Gen 6

@@BigYellowSilly they considered banning Scald from UU in gen 6... And got to the point of having a separate UU ladder with Scald banned for a little while.

If you crit you automatically lose the match

@@BigYellowSilly Smogon had a whole thing once where they implemented a program that would grade how much luck was involved in a match and then overturn the result if the winner was too lucky. They let it run for a week or two with it gradually overturning more and more results, then April 1st came and they revealed it was all just a huge April Fool's prank that was just flipping results at random to mess with people.