I'm usually a stallplayer, it's what I do and I'm good at doing it. But I agree that stall has gotten out of control. Regen spam coupled with Ditto makes battles easily last 200+ turns and its choking the air out of the metagame, I came up with the clause and I believe it to work effectively against specific abilities, there isn't Protean spam or anything like that. But it does virtually nothing to fix the problem with regenerator.
And trust me, if there's somebody who knows the wallbreakers and can rate them in order in most metagames, it's me... But I cannot reliably beat stall even when I edicate four members to it. FOUR. I had Mold breaker Lum Manaphy, Life orb Special Lucario, Kyurem-B and Sceptile mega - all of that paired with pursuit support, and still I found myself losing to stall... Regenerator cores, magic bouncers, unaware and imposter is a blockade preventing offense from being... Well offense.
In metagames like Inheritance there's always a way. Building a stall-team that doesn't automatically lose to TC Haxorous or Protean spam or Mega Medicham demands excellent teambuilding. But there aren't a lot of equivilants here... There aren't a lot of wallbreakers or stallbreakers, meaning you can create a stallteam as easy and with minimal effort and it'll work consistently on the ladder.
Battles aren't meant to last forever. I'd assume the average battle last around twenty turns, but here it's probably in the 50s. And I honestly prefer the metagame to be 9/10 in terms of offensive teams for one stall team.
So what can we do? Well... The clause works well, it solves overpowering offense and birdspam. But it doesn't solve stall. So when chatot is banned, I believe we should look into restricting
regenerator. And I'mtargetting regen over Magic bounce/Unaware because the ladder don't create endless battles. If you can't break a regen core, they can switch around endlessly, and without being pressured.
Options:
a) Ban regenerator
b) restrict all abilities to two per team
c) Restrict regenerator to one or two members
d) systematically suspect regen users and ban them
e) Ban stall. Ban bird. Ban aja
The Immortal any of these options out of the picture completely?
Thanks for reading
~ Aja