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I see where you are coming from, as my post was more opinionated and less polarized than the other posts, however I do disagree with you in that Throh certainly is easy to use a "gluemon". Carracosta fits an entirely different role than Throh as a stealth rocker and normal/flying resist/or even shell smasher.I find it hard to buy this argument. I don't get why Machoke and Pancham are concerns; are we going to ban Regice so that Vanilluxe doesn't get outclassed? I don't think all the sets are identical either; even if they were I'd argue that being one-dimensional is a minus point and not something to ban over.
I don't find Throh fitting in that easily with minimal teambuilding tbh. To be honest it's difficult to judge this with Sneasel in the tier forcing us all to run one of Throh / Poliwrath / Costa, but like you yourself said it's not always possible to just throh it into your team because of the opportunity cost of not using Poliwrath which has a nice water typing, Carracosta which has sr, etc
The only part of that argument I find somewhat convincing is when you state that bulky mons would get more opportunities. I would like to clarify why that is a case for a ban though, because bulky mons can easily be paired with teammates that take on Throh such as Pelipper or Arbok, while wearing it down by chipping away at it, which isn't much different from another mon that is just as hard to switch into like Ninetales or Leafeon.
(still on the fence over Throh)
Throhs niche over Poliwrath would be to take any dark or non SE special attack and force a switch by threatening a Knock off/ Storm throw/ Ice punch which can't be hampered by status, whereas Poliwrath has more special weaknesses in grass and electric and mainly switches in on Dark types such Sneasel and Pawniard and is also hampered by status.
The reason I said I don't use it at the end is because I have a Wrath and Roselia core which allows me to take those Electric/Grass attacks that make Poliwrath a less effective gluemon than Throh. I realize it was a pretty short quip at the end, but that is why I use Wrath.