Why was Aegislash banned from Competitive battling?

I heard that Aegislash has been banned from competitive battling, is this true? Or has he just been banned from certain tournaments or whatever. If so why was he banned? I was guessing because of Stance Change but I don’t know.

Thanks-MightyMudkip :)

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He was not banned from competitive play, he was banned from OU to Ubers, the tier of the most powerful Pokemon. However it was only banned by a competitive community named Smogon, a community known to be the center of competitive play, because of its great impact on it, however it is technically not official. Many people play by smogon rules but when not playing on Pokemon Showdown, you technically do not need to follow them if you do not want to do so.

The OU tier leader brought up the following points as to why it had to go:

OU Tier Leader,Aldaron

On Pokemon Showdown, every person to qualify for the reqs (usually good ladderers) was given the power to vote for its ban. It ended up in Aegislash’s disadvantage so it got booted out of the OU tier, but not out of competitive play as it can still be used in Ubers.

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It was voted upon by Smogon>It barely got the Super Majority, too. It might still be here had some of us tried to actually get reqs Q_Q

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Basically, Aegislash:- was a great stall & wall breaker- could run mix sets and therefore mean that there was no safe switch in and not rendered useless with Will-O-Wisp- has great typing- has STAB priority- while not possessing an exactly thrilling movepool, has all the moves it needs to be effective, much like Excadrill- is abrilliant Fairy counter in the current metagame- has great ability and aprioritymove that allows it to go offense/ defensive at will, unlike, e.g. Meloetta, who doesn’t get priority with Relic Song and is blocked by ghosts

And that’s why it was banished to Ubers, where it’ll be used solely as the anti-Xerneas.