I also believe Assist is completely unhealthy. As xJownage appropriately brought up Assist, I encourage others to discuss it. The council is currently figuring out ways to go about this apparent dilemma.

While I don't personally feel that it's completely broken, the fact that it requires dedicated counters leads me to believe that it is indeed ban-worthy. It's also extremely frustrating when you speculate the opposer to have Contrary, but it has something else, cruelly destroying your main counter. The variance alone is enough to drive someone crazy. Just imagine how the gen 5 BH metagame's healthiness would fare if there was an EV limit! The sheer variance, as well as Contrary's great power would pierce through the opposer as if the individual was paper! I wouldn't like to use gen 5 BH for the sake of comparision, but I think it's reasonable in this case.

So what does everyone think? Is Assist broken or not? Share your thoughts and we, the council, will try to sort this out.