@KzTxL7:
I wouldn't say ghosts are Overpowered. More like Gengar and Aegislash are overpowered but they have their checks and counters as well. Fighting was also one of the big offensive attacking types last gen as well.
The typing is overpowered because there's no resists(fighting/dark), and they can't be trapped. It has the greatest advantage over all other types. However, there aren't a lot of ghosts currently to absolutely abuse that, so the metagame isn't destroyed because of it.
@Toraish:
It has to exchange those defenses for its attacks if it wants to do anything else than just sit there and be a pain in the ass. Yes, it's probably going to leave a dent in your fighting force if it does go for an offensive move, but you just send in something that takes advantage of its minimal defenses while it's hovering around in Blade forme and revenge kill it.
You can't. That's the point of kings shield, not to "protect/attack lower", but to bring those defenses back up.
@Toraish:
And you don't really counter it with physical moves anyway, you will almost always use a Special Sweeper to get rid of it. Something like a Greninja or a Dark Pulse Ttar. Hydreigon is also a huge pain in the ass, as are Talonflame and Blaziken who will outrun King's Shield in most cases despite facing the potential threat.
It gets both defense/special defense to 150. King shield is priority 6, which actually overrides gale wing. And unfortunately a flare blitz with talon flame does not 1 hko aegislash.
@Toraish:
The more people play against it, the more predictable it becomes. And it's fairly easy to combat. I'm with most of Smogon's OU-people who say that it will be incredibly popular in the beginning but will fall out of grace quickly when people start realizing that it's not really as perfect as it seems.
King shield is to put it in a bulky state to turn that 1 hko to a 2-3 hit ko depending on the damage, or rather, to increase it's longevity.
@Toraish:
In fact, it seems right now that the most effective way to run Aegislash at all is to get a mixed set without King's Shield and just overpower everything to break down the opposing team's walls.
The point of aegislash is to attack, but when you can't 1 hko, to go bulky and move last so that you benefit from the defenses. Shadow sneak makes it so it doesn't have to take damage, but to something like togekiss, that's going to do jack. So you use iron head and eat whatever it throws at you. I'm pretty sure I've seen aegislash survive a +1 EQ from my jolly dragonite, that's pretty threatening.