SBPC Machoke Vote Reasoning

Machoke Vote: Ban.

Machoke is an incredibly polarizing threat in the ORAS NFE metagame that causes quite literally every team to build around it in extremely specific ways. Each of its sets in my opinion causes an extremely tight lock on teambuilding in its own specific way.

Dynamic Punch:
This set is genuinely uncompetitive, even aside from it being on Machoke. No Guard allows Machoke to have a powerful never missing STAB with guaranteed confusion. Unlike Gen 7, Confusion has a 50% chance to have the affected pokemon hit itself. This turns every turn into a literal coinflip while confusion lasts, rewarding players who can luck their way through traditional checks.

Guts Boosted Attacker:
Turning every single viable metagame pokemon into a 2hko, and access to knock off to help break down checks such as Hippopotas and Tangela, this set trades some of Machoke's incredible bulk for immediate smashing power.

Eviolite Attacker:
Unlike the aforementioned set, this set trades instant power and a boosted facade for bulk, and is just as hard to switch into with its incredible coverage. With gen 7 checks like Mareanie not being in ORAS, this frees up Machoke's fourth moveslot to run priority in Bullet Punch, or boosting power in Bulk Up.

These sets on their own are all incredible, but all three being considered makes Machoke near impossible to build for, and will typically mean you will be forced to use one yourself, lest you put yourself at a major disadvantage by not doing so. For this and all the above reasons, I feel that Machoke is far too much for ORAS NFE, and should be banned.