A lot of people are jumping on the idea that Scizor is the sole thing keeping threats like Mega Altaria, Latias and Terrakion from getting out of control, and using that to boost the argument that the current metagame is inherently unhealthy. I think there are some issues with that point, though. Scizor is NOT the sole check to those threats by a long-shot (nor is it even the best check in some cases). What sets Scizor apart is that it provides an excellent offensive check to top threats while also being an insanely splashable 'mon that offers other useful aspects to a team. You're not putting Scizor on your team because it's the only way to deal with Alt and Terrak. You're putting it on your team because it's really good and fulfills multiple roles in a single slot, and the fact that it's on your team means you don't need to dedicate the remaining teamslots to trying to find hard counters to those 'mons. I don't think Scizor is required to go on a team to deal with these threats, but instead that the omnipresence of Scizor, with its >40% usage, is an inherent limiting factor to these 'mons. Take Terrakion, which might hold the title of the most difficult Pokemon to switch into in all of UU. The reason Terrakion isn't overwhelming despite its incredible wallbreaking prowess and above-average Speed tier is that almost every team will have built in Terrakion checks without even trying, just by virtue of how popular Sciz and Alt and Lati are. It makes what would otherwise be a slam-dunk choice on most teams into a much riskier pick, one that is still effective at breaking bulkier teams but that can end up being a liability in many matchups. That's a good thing in my book, as it provides more nuance both to teambuilding and to playing.



That's what I mean when I say that Scizor eases teambuilding. It's not really "broken checking broken" and "Scizor is the only thing keeping Altaria and Latias and Terrakion at bay," but rather that Scizor gives teams the freedom to relax and not worry as much about stacking defensive counterplay to these (and other) big threats. I think there's almost no doubt that Scizor leaving will make teambuilding considerably worse, and rather than denying that point, almost everyone I've seen that supports a Scizor ban's suggested "fix" to that issue is to ban several other Pokemon too. I do think that if that's the direction the community feels is best, we can pull that off, but I really worry that playing whack-a-mole with the tier's top threats is going to fundamentally shift things in a direction more akin to what we saw in late ORAS. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up to you, but personally it's not really where I want to see the tier go.



Re: the New Meta tour and the freedom in teambuilding it provides, well yeah, of course such a dramatic change means you're going to be able to make a bunch of new teams that would never be viable in the current meta. From what I've seen from the tour, though, I strongly suspect that that meta will eventually settle too.