Simbo Machoke Vote Reasoning

Machoke: Ban

I think Machoke deserves to be banned in ORAS NFE for 3 reasons.

1) No defensive counterplay and switchins are reliable because of Dynamic Punch and 50% confusion. If you switch into it, there's a 50% chance the Machoke can stay in and attempt to exploit confusion or, if it does switch, there's a 50% chance you lose all momentum and either can't exploit that turn or lose your healing turn and potentially lose your ability to check Machoke later in the game. Confusion chance is far too high to make defensive counterplay reliable. On top of this, Machoke has one of the best attack stats in the tier and access to Knock Off, Bulk Up and good coverage moves to exploit its coinflip confusions. It's very difficult to defensively counter and nearly all defensive checks are at the mercy of RNG to even somewhat check it.

2) Machoke, even when fully investing in Attack and either Speed/HP, is bulky enough to tank hits easily from defensive Pokemon and exploit confusion. From an offensive standpoint, its bulk is good enough to avoid being OHKOed by even strong super effective STAB attacks, which makes it far harder to revenge kill and offensively check. Pokemon that can 2HKO Machoke and tank a hit are at the mercy of RNG and only have a 50% chance to actually beat it.

3) Machoke, in my eyes, comfortably fits most bulletpoints in the Broken category of Tiering Policy and Dynamic Punch comfortably fits the 'reduces skillful play irrelevant' aspect of the Uncompetitive category. In addition, both its Toxic Orb Guts attacker and Eviolite Guts attacker sets further add to its versatility to the point where it is almost impossible to check in builder and in practice.