I am very, very, very, very, very skeptical of both Binding Band and Grip Claw. There's a tremendous amount of pokemon with partial trapping moves, from Whirlpool to Magma Storm, and yet I cannot think of a single example across any gen where these items are main-set viable.
I am also of the same opinion for the "hit by attack of type X, get boost Y" items, eg Cell Battery, Snowball, because there's 17 ways to be attacked that do literally nothing. Weakness Policy is also arguably quite narrow but at the very least it has a lot more activation conditions due to mons typically being weak to more than one typing.
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I'd also like to raise the possibility of ending this stage with a Top 3 set of items after a vote, and going into ability with them in mind. There's some items that are definitely pro-concept in that they're definitely underused, and definitely harmful to the CAP process because they constrain ability or moves too heavily. Wide Lens, Scope Lens are the two biggest ones because of how heavily they constrain moves and ability respectively.
I am also of the same opinion for the "hit by attack of type X, get boost Y" items, eg Cell Battery, Snowball, because there's 17 ways to be attacked that do literally nothing. Weakness Policy is also arguably quite narrow but at the very least it has a lot more activation conditions due to mons typically being weak to more than one typing.
EDIT:
I'd also like to raise the possibility of ending this stage with a Top 3 set of items after a vote, and going into ability with them in mind. There's some items that are definitely pro-concept in that they're definitely underused, and definitely harmful to the CAP process because they constrain ability or moves too heavily. Wide Lens, Scope Lens are the two biggest ones because of how heavily they constrain moves and ability respectively.
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