Cow Mangler
-Removes the skill of managing your reserve ammo and the downside of minimal sentry damage is rarely an issue in 6s. The charge shot is also ridiculous since it sets targets on fire and deals mini crit damage.
If you're charging the charge shot, you're basically a free kill to anyone who sees you, so you deserve the charge shot.
Loch-n-Load
-One-shots 125 hp classes at the cost of your secondary weapon. The Direct Hit is at the cost of the Soldier's primary weapon. The Soldier gives up splash damage but Demo still has the Sticky Launcher. So you can't compare the Loch-n-Load to the Direct Hit.
Loch n load one shots classes, but so does sniper rifle, direct hit, loose cannon, knives, kritz, any 2-hit combo with pyro, and ambassador in most cases. If stickies are so good of a weapon, than why aren't the booties banned as well? Because pipes are a pretty amazing side weapon, and taking them away to replace them with a 2 shot one-hitter that will blow you up in close combat is a pretty big disadvantage.
Brass Beast
-Mobility doesn't matter that much when you're defending the point. The extra damage counts for something.
Mobility means everything in this game. You can't jump to the point with brass beast like you can with minigun, you have to stand directly on point or close enough to get spammed hard.
Holiday Punch
-You can stun ubered players with the Holiday Punch. Even highlander banned this garbage.
Stun ubered players if you get behind them as the slowest class in the game, and it only really effects them once unless they're dumb. They deserve to get stunned if this happens to them.
Southern Hospitality
-Bleed effect is annoying even though it would rarely come up.
How is it annoying exactly? Chip damage? Tribalman's shiv and all pyro weapons are allowed.
Solemn Vow
-Let's you read the enemy medic's uber accurately if you can look at them. Removes the skill of tracking small uber advantages.
You have to put your medic out of harms way to check, and the skill of tracking uber advantages is extremely easy to grasp especially if your team is competent and calls.
Cleaner's Carbine
-Free crits if you get a clean up kill.
The downside is the smg, though. Also there's no free crits if you have to work harder to get it.
Diamondback
-This gives you a free crit for every kill you get. They changed it from buildings sapped to kills. Pretty dumb.
Did not know this, thought it was just buildings. Keep banned.