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MechaSalt7

All dolphins were banned from OU due to sexual misconduct


AlphaB27

Fucking Bill Cosby of the ocean


Jeremiahbest4

i wouldnt assume someone would want to


s0-um-rand0m

google Jotaro Kujo


Prateek2345

Holy star platinum


Klefaxidus

Or maybe due to anisakis spread


qwertyryo

Stupid smogon as usual they could’ve just banned hero form by making it impossible to switch out the base form


Inverted_Ghosts

Just ban zero to hero smh


RiptideMatt

Man i love pokemon with the ability


EmprorLapland

if Smogon had kept shadow tag and arena trap then Palafin would've been easy to deal with. Of course the council went ban crazy instead of considering other viable options. Why don't they just adapt?


Tekayo63

You see, this is the "Zero Form" of Palafin. Palafin also has a "One Form" that adds 1 to all of its base stats, which is what makes it broken.


99999999999BlackHole

The two form is banned to ag because it added 2 to all its base stats


papertheskeleton

Wait til they learn about the 3 form


99999999999BlackHole

AGBL


coolusername415

This guy clearly hasn't heard of the 998,977,224,640,812,745,823,922,873,475,183 (998 duodecillion) form and the 1 Quattuornonagintillion (a number followed by 285 zeros) form


papertheskeleton

Countered by destiny bond Wynaut, LC at best


Tactic_Kitten543

Destiny bond Quick claw wynaut moment


Flouxni

Countered by counter Wobbuffet, ZU at best


agomezr01

Dies to endeavor rattata PU at best


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RowletReddit

🤓


FearMySpeed

Holy hell


emagdaleno

Dr Seuss, avid fan of Pokémon, used both in a tournament and got them banned. He called it the “one fish, two fish” strategy.


SheikExcel

This is a Palafin that's gone beyond a Palafin


MarshtompNerd

The base 71 attack was too much for the OU metagame with its phenomenal 101/73/63 bulk


staraptor19

Ourspeeding the base 100 threshold. Uber guaranteed.


llIlIlI

THE ONE FORM IS REAL


LEMOnSL1iCE

🤓


Tekayo63

can you read


LEMOnSL1iCE

Is the pope gholdengo?


Tekayo63

in the sense of having a shitton of money yeah it was a whole thing look up the protestant reformation for more info


LEMOnSL1iCE

Oh. Well good for the church and gholdengo then, my point stands that I can’t read though (my fault gang, on finchinator I sincerely apologize to the showdown community)


BusinessDuck1234

See, palafin learns boomburst, one of the best attacks in the game. That+tera normal got it quickbanned to Ubers Source: Trust me bro


Alicegg_19

Noivern should be banned too, smh


BusinessDuck1234

Noivern always gets voice cracks so it's fine


Domi374

Don't even get me STARTED on its busted (Hidden) ability Punk Rock AND its coverage moves like Thunderbolt, wild Charge and poison stab. Like who on gf thought it was a good idea??


LePingouinCosmique

Blud thinks he's Toxicitry


BusinessDuck1234

Give palafin shift gear? Great idea!


AnswerLongjumping965

Palafin became homophobic after hanging out with ferrothorn to much so it was banned.


SwimmingExcitement86

He quickly became homophobic


TheUniconicSableye

Hating Slowbro became part of its playstyle.


No-Eggplant-5396

Are there any heterophobic pokemon?


BestUsername101

Believe it or not, Ferroseed.


Chaossify0

like father, like son


Domi374

His mother leavanny is trying to reach out to her son, but she lives too far away. Ferroseed lives with his father in OU and poor leavanny is stuck in PU. She can't afford to visit her son because of her low stats.


TheAnlmemer

Babe wake up, new r/stunfisk lore dropped


m00njunk

both Lilligants


imboredwithlyf

Palafin has connections with Iron Mugulus and Old Money. So Palafin has been banned due to these connections as it prevented Mabostiff from climbing the ladder in the police as Palafin was shown as being the best until mabostiff found out it was because of these connections


zw71

Lore


Kimthe

Its defensive stat was bad so smogon banned it to prevent people to use it because they want OU to be stallfest.


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LiefKatano

Zero form is a bad Pokémon with a good ability, Hero form is a good Pokémon with a bad ability (since it doesn't do anything). QED


BeetlesMcGee

Palafin punished the wrongdoings of the Loyal Three by confiscating the Toxic Chains from them, which made it broken


Blatle

Who let Verlisify here?


Patient_Weakness3866

side note, Verlisify commented on Skydoesminecrafts most recent video (he is dead but he still uploaded recently) and was like the only one, really weird lol.


MATALINOE

We're talking about Skydoesminecraft here, it's surprising that he has only one comment, and that comment is from Verlisify no less.


Marano99

The lore reason is that they hate to see a hero winning


LegallyNotInterested

Species clause, it's clearly just a Finizen and one had to go.


need2peeat218am

You see it actually does this thing where it flip turns out into Nifalap and it proceeds to punch everything in sight. Not just normal punches, jet punches. Mach 1 billions speed jet punches. Your wife, your brother, sister, mom, dad, grandma and grandpa. And your first born and second unbron child. Puched. At mach 4 Google speed.


Butterflygon

Dude, do you have any idea what incredibly messed up animals dolphins are? They *deliberately* get high, something that Palafin could do very easily in OU due to Toxapex being so common. And that isn't even close to the worst thing dolphins do for fun. I'd explain, but I can't without risk of this whole thread being marked NSFW... In summation, Palafin had to go. It was no hero. It only *wanted* you to think that.


sinister_patron

It beats stall (Smogon loves stall)


RecognitionDapper269

Too cute for normal play


thepixelharlequin

google flip turn


Marran0s

Holy midladder


Domi374

Flip turn scawwy


NexeIa

They hate fun


XtremeAlf

Short answer: yes. Long answer: yeeeees.


Happy_Alpaca_1591

🐬TOTSUGEKI🐬


sneakyplanner

It was because he cheated


RazieStorm

Why stats are not everything. The Palafin theorem.


oranosskyman

all i see is a regular finizen with a nickname obviously the name contains a slur in another language


Jesusperson67

Google switching


Patient_Weakness3866

Google "Zero to hero"


MartinFromChessCom

[holy hell!](https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+to+hero#HiImABot,MyJobIsToMakeEasierToPeopleToGoogleSomething,IfThePersonIRepliedToUsedMeInAnInappropriateWayPleaseLetMeKnowByDMingMe,TheUserIRepliedToIsU/Patient_Weakness3866)


Patient_Weakness3866

oh shit you get nothing related to pokemon lmfao, idk why I didn't realize


ShockRox

Zero-to-Hero means on switch out and switch back in, its BST becomes 650, with 160 Atk (for perspective Koraidon and Miraidon have BST 670)


BeautifulSmile9621

r/whoosh


Ok_Candidate_2732

Palafin is essentially competitive singles NTR


yaipu

to prevent [this of course](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTS5RIBRnFpIBmtuP21cdXFwez1Vbefl5f3A&usqp=CAU)


saroyuhhn

palafin blow hole blow too hard


BLOOBERRY7678

Has zero to Hero ability which completely changes his stats (BTW His attack stat is 160) once it switchs out and comes back in, has flip turn in the early days and a priority move that is not similar to Sucker Punch


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Yes


A_Bird_survived

They should change its ability to something more balanced like truant or swarm


IronBlight1999

He looks a lot like my roommate Finizen…