I hope you all are good and are enjoying all the updates we are getting.
Im here again to announce that the PvP Council have come to a unanimous decision to ban Ogerpon-Hearthflame. The votes were 7 for yes, 2 for no and 2 indecisive votes.
Ogerpon-hearthflame has always been a controversial ever since it got introduced in Pbo. One of the main reasons it didn't get banned immediately was because we lack terrestrialization and also we wanted to see how it would impact the bulky meta we had on Pbo.
Now after some time it's clear it has negative impact on the meta, with great stat distribution huge movepool and great ability makes it unpredictable and hard to counter consistently. It has great synergy with web teams that makes it almost nigh impossible to deal with. It forces niche counters to be able to deal with it and even then it's not a guarantee way to deal with it.
It has become the vocal point of the meta and every team centres around it, so we feel a ban help promote the meta become more diverse and hopefully more balanced. Feel free to discuss this in the PvP channel what your thought are.
Thanks for your attention and hope you all have a great day!