LF Mr. Cloyster. Well about the starmie situation, even though starmie kind of beats gengar if it has psychic, starmie rarely runs enough speed to outpace gengars now and gengar has a useful stab shadow ball to ohko starmies. Also starmie was crippled a lot more by pursuit than gengar, just because gengar can will o wisp and pain split off damage. Anyways I don't really see a spikes ban happening ever because the move isn't uncompetitive and skarmory/cloyster/forretress aren't OP either