The main one I've used is Raikou with sleep talk, rest, crunch, and thunderbolt. It is obviously good but it isn't THAT good. The reason no one else thought it was cheap is because it isn't. i cheat so hard the rules change around my cheating so that i'm not even cheating. if we did a flat comparison between 'sleep trap' and 'sleep ptrap' now it'd be much closer to a split decision. but clearly the idea was good and so people accepted it, and it was a lot easier to argue on equal footing as to why it's justified rather than trying to ratify a sweeping change. if we bring up 'sleep trap' now, nobody would be like 'yeah that's random as fuck', because i basically lied and my guides got popular and people took it as fact. for 5 years i'd been arguing and lying that it had always been a controversial clause. when po started, i made the initial set of gsc tiers i also made the initial ruleset where i casually tried to solidify the clause. basically, it's funny that people use arbitrary to classify the hp legend ban, when there's actually CONCRETE evidence for it having existed, whereas i've shadily gotten away with amending the gsc ruleset for the past 7 years or whatever. look at how difficult it is to get faster internet in the us - the initial 768kbps definition for dsl is totally arbitrary, look how retardedly hard it is to change that. look at how hard it is to amend the constitution.

the requirements to keeping something the same is much lower than the requirements for change, and that's ok, that's how life is. sleep trap vs sleep perish trap is really just a typo away from each other, and they're both really easy to justify IF we play the history card. but sleep trap had sort of a ring to it when you say it. ask vil, floppy, g80, karrot, mr.e, havoc or whoevers left from that era, sleep trap wasn't a thing at all. at first it was to see if i could get away with it, this was al the way back in 2006 or 2007 mind you, to see if i could get the metagame to change because it was something I felt was cheap, literally nobody else felt this way. but that whole bit about it 'having been banned in plenty of tournaments' or 'vets being split between it and just a sleep perish trap ban' is anecdotal evidence, aka i made it all up. getting trap spored by smeargle is every bit as retarded. to me a jynx running nightmare/ib over psong is every bit as good. through gsc history, i was actually the only person against sleep trapping as a whole. After realizing that a consensus to ban it was never actually reached with the old players who actually played in the meta where this strategy was allowed, and then subsequently testing this strategy by playing games against myself, I have come to the conclusion that is completely, arbitrarily banned.įor people confused about what I'm talking about a consensus never being reached by players of the old meta, here is an admission by Borat he posted on Smogon. Trapping a poke, sleeping it, then killing it with perish song sounds cheap, let it stay banned.' The status quo was all I knew and like everyone else my opinion was made on ignorance.

I glanced at it like everyone else did and thought 'hmmm.

Pokemon perish song