For miscible pair of polyisoprene (PI) and poly(p-tertbutylstyrene) (PtBS), the component molecular weights, composition, and temperature were tuned to prepare PI/PtBS blends in the pseudomonodisperse state where the component PI and PtBS chains had the same terminal relaxation time, τ 1 . These pseudomonodisperse blends had the linear viscoelastic moduli indistinguishable from the moduli of entangled monodisperse bulk homopolymers of particular molecular weights, and satisfied the time-strain separability in their nonlinear stress relaxation behavior under large step strains. The damping function h(γ) of those blends was close to h DE (γ) calculated from the Doi−Edwards model and classified to be the so-called type-A damping function, even though the major component (PI) in the blends had a large entanglement number per chain (N ≥ 50). Highly entangled monodisperse homopolymers having similarly large N are known to exhibit the so-called type-C damping characterized by h(γ) ≪ h DE (γ), and this damping behavior was indeed confirmed for high-M bulk PI utilized as the blend component. Thus, the nonlinear damping behavior was different for the pseudomonodisperse PI/PtBS blends and high-M bulk PI, despite the similarity in the entanglement number N for PI therein. This difference was discussed within the molecular scenario of Marrucci and Grizzuti in relation to the topological hindrance for PI segments due to PtBS segments having a much larger friction. This hindrance retarded the Rouse equilibration of the PI backbone in the blends, which possibly provided the highly entangled PI with a slow contour length fluctuation mechanism that competed with reptation. Such a competing mechanism smears the elastic instability underlying the type-C damping as suggested from the Marrucci−Grizzuti scenario, which possibly allowed the pseudomonodisperse PI/PtBS blends containing highly entangled PI to exhibit the type-A damping. Furthermore, the type-A damping was observed also for a chemically homogeneous, highly entangled PI/PI blend being free from the topological hindrance for PI segments. In this PI/PI blends, the partial constraint release of the high-M component, activated by the relaxation of the low-M component, appeared to compete with reptation of the high-M component thereby smearing the instability and suppressing the type-C damping. Thus, the smearing of instability could be a rather universal feature occurring irrespective of the detail of the competing mechanisms.