I'm just gonna c+p what I pasted in the other thread, 'cos it pretty much applies here:



How people can state Mega Metagross needs to go just baffles me. This is an EXCELLENT pokemon, but no more - yes, it is difficult to counter, but it has a number of checks and it has to use more than four slots to get through all of them. It also has no recovery, and suffers from the resurgance of spikes that has been seen recently.



At some point, we're just going to have to accept that the metagame has got more powerful, rather than move from suspect test to suspect test until we can finally say "stall is viable!!"



Stall is an incredible playstyle now, and has always been one of the most consistent when played well. If we were to hammer any 'mon now it might be MegaSableye; however I loathe this happening.



The problem we have now is that there are no OBVIOUS suspects. Everyone can see from the discussions in the other thread that people are 50/50, with more involved discussions going on about re-testing than bans. We're trying to find 'mons to ban for the sake of it more than anything else (this point is beautifully illustrated above in someone nominating Lando-T due to its 31% usage).



I see the meta now as pretty balanced, with nothing too strong that can't be handled. We have excellent pokemon that can define certain playstyles, but each has flaws that keep them on the right side of that broken line.



The only reason I can see to try and swing the banhammer at the minute is "to avoid the meta getting stale". I feel like a lot of people are just getting on the suspect happy bandwagon for the sake of it, due to nostalgia "for the good old days" before the power creep, instead of adjusting to and enjoying what we have, now that we've removed the obviously broken 'mons.



tl;dr I'm happy with where the meta's at right now.