Martin
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
Lol I'm sorry but these arguments are so idiotic Virizain. Your argument seems to be centered around it outclassing a virtually unviable Pheromosa set and using that as your reasoning for saying it has "no opportunity cost" despite the fact that you are not only severely limiting your teambuilding options for the sake of running a Pokemon which not only can't do fuck all to what is literally the most used Pokémon in the tier (Landorus-T), but also one which can't be used alongside either of two of the most fundamental glues/wallbreakers for offensive teams, Mega Scizor and Mega Metagross.
Furthermore, to take the statements "oh but it's recieved indirect buffs X, Y and Z this gen" in a vacuum like you seem to be doing makes quite literally no fucking sense; sure, it can abuse more fairies, but it doesn't change the fact that these fairies are almost invariably paired with things which it has no way of ever realistically breaking; talking about the mega speed buff doesn't say fuck all because it says nothing about how it's affected by the meta environment; parrot on about how Pheromosa is one of its best partners all you want, it doesn't either explain how these buffs affect it's viability in the context of the metagame it's being used in; to put it as simply as possible, meta conditions are not favorable to Mega Beedrill, and they're only going to get less favorable as more and more megas get released and the opportunity cost of using it goes up and up from a point which is already WAY too high to justify using it... well, ever. Who gives a fuck if it's not using up a z move slot, it's using up a mega slot--something which is way less expendable than a Z move slot.
It isn't doing jack shit until Landorus-T is dead, all U-turning around is conducive to is wearing itself down on with SR (which it takes 25% from every time), Spikes and Helmet damage, it lacks any way of breaking a huge array of other Pokemon which can punish its U-turns even if by some miracle you manage to kill Lando-T while Beedrill is still alive, and as such it is just dead weight for the vast majority of the match versus any competently built team. Mega Beedrill's bad, and this argument is dragging on to the point of being physically painful to read.
Furthermore, to take the statements "oh but it's recieved indirect buffs X, Y and Z this gen" in a vacuum like you seem to be doing makes quite literally no fucking sense; sure, it can abuse more fairies, but it doesn't change the fact that these fairies are almost invariably paired with things which it has no way of ever realistically breaking; talking about the mega speed buff doesn't say fuck all because it says nothing about how it's affected by the meta environment; parrot on about how Pheromosa is one of its best partners all you want, it doesn't either explain how these buffs affect it's viability in the context of the metagame it's being used in; to put it as simply as possible, meta conditions are not favorable to Mega Beedrill, and they're only going to get less favorable as more and more megas get released and the opportunity cost of using it goes up and up from a point which is already WAY too high to justify using it... well, ever. Who gives a fuck if it's not using up a z move slot, it's using up a mega slot--something which is way less expendable than a Z move slot.
It isn't doing jack shit until Landorus-T is dead, all U-turning around is conducive to is wearing itself down on with SR (which it takes 25% from every time), Spikes and Helmet damage, it lacks any way of breaking a huge array of other Pokemon which can punish its U-turns even if by some miracle you manage to kill Lando-T while Beedrill is still alive, and as such it is just dead weight for the vast majority of the match versus any competently built team. Mega Beedrill's bad, and this argument is dragging on to the point of being physically painful to read.