>>24560343Because it's cheap, and something you can do little about statistically. No one enjoys that, and it's actually worse than OHKO moves because even with OHKO the user is generally fucking themselves up there. Now granted, pokemon has a lot of luck based shit, but nothing gives you such a massive advantage like evasion which setting up is generally highly in the user's favor and is available to a lot of pokemon where a lot of counters are not. I don't like agreeing with smogonfags but they have a point.
I've personally always been in favor of evasion only being +- 1 or 2 stages instead of 6, that way it doesn't give an absurd advantage, nor does any evasion based move or ability need to be removed or tweaked to compensate and it would be a fair strategy at that point more in line with other luck based mechanics. It would generally just be a niche counter specifically for low accuracy moves, which aren't all too common in the grand scheme of things anyway.
