Except MRay wasn't uncompetitive, just broken as fuck, and yet it's been banned. Meaning that since we've banned something that was perfectly competitive, I'm forced to turn to turn to AG, which is utter trash. And I actually liked having MRay around. I could've sworn I more or less said as much in my previous posts.
I don't see any merit to AG beyond the shallow novelty of using otherwise banned strategies, and that'd wear off quickly I imagine.
The line between broken and uncompetitive is a pretty obscure and arbitrary one. This was one of matters discussed in the process of reaching this decision.
Evasion is uncompetitive in the sense that it enables a luck-reliant strategy that can win games. Nonetheless, it's permissible because it's generally not effective enough to justify (hence chaos' first point about unreasonably increasing volatility, which did not happen with evasion). Uncompetitiveness alone does not necessarily warrant a ban.
Moreover, according to your principles, the sleep clause should be revoked. The ability to put multiple Pokemon to sleep is not in any way more or less competitive than the ability to put one Pokemon to sleep. Both players have control, and can play Rest + Sleep Talk users or Insomnia Pokemon in response. It's merely overpowered, unreasonably centralizing and outright unfun competitively, and this is widely regarded as ample justification to maintain the sleep clause in Ubers as in other tiers. Based on these exact criteria, Mega Rayquaza was also banned.
People seem to have a lot to say about the "spirit of Ubers" and maintaining its integrity. Remarkably, whenever any ban in the tier is taken under serious consideration, a lot of people that I never see in the Ubers room or on the forums discussing Ubers otherwise suddenly seem to have a lot to say on the matter. It strikes me as bizarre, however, to think of the spirit of the tier to be anything other than the attitude that most its players bring to it, and the overwhelming support with which this decision has been met suggests to me that this spirit was in no way tarnished, and that to do otherwise would in fact be to impose a dated ideal of the spirit of Ubers upon a playerbase that largely no longer holds this ideal.
