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Blaziken and Mega Blaziken can switch in easily to attack Mawile without even trying. I've done it before and a Flamethrower will usually take it out in one hit.
Mawile can't be switched into, except for things like defensive Chandelure, no. But I don't think it's necessarily ban worthy because of many things;-> The amount of people who say they haven't had any trouble with it is absurd. Whilst personal experiences aren't usually considered, when it's this many it clearly isn't unhealthy.This isn't true or even an argument. Check the Smogon thread, tons of people have trouble with Mawile, especially stall/defensive teams, which Mawile runs through easily.-> It can't switch in itself, very little struggles to not OHKO Mawile or cripple it in some other way.It comes in on defensive Pokemon and Subs or SDs on the switch.-> While many things are 2HKOd, Mawile's low speed means it has to fully rely on forcing switches to deal damage.Or just Sucker Punch, which forces a 50/50 of Sucker Punch or Focus Punch/Play Rough/Iron head.-> It has a lot of checks, which generally make it manageable.So does Blaziken.Whilst none of those are massive reasons for it not to be banned, together they show that it's not that bad. Just because little can switch in doesn't make it inherently overpowered, much like Spriters example of Nidoking which is nowhere near overpowered but is still very difficult to switch into.I strongly disagree.Mawile struggles a fair bit at dealing with Hyper Offense, which doesn't have an Earthquake fair away at any time, too.Heavy offense is built around fast, powerful, frail sweepers. Sucker Punch generally deals well with these Pokemon unless they resist it. Add Stealth Rock and MMaw deals very well with heavy offense, especially given partners like Lando-T or Rotom-W that deal with common EQers. Everything has type weaknesses, this isn't an argument for it not being broken or else Ho-Oh would be OU.I don't think this ban is clear cut either way, but I would be in favour of keeping it for now, as it's clearly not the biggest problem and maybe the removal of the bigger problems would better highlight whether it is ban worthy or not. In other words, smogon screwed up the order as usual.Edit: Also, nice work on the article, it's good as usual ^^Thanks bud xD