Alright, I can already tell this has the potential to get ugly. Frankly, I'm not the best player in the world by ANY stretch of the imagination, so someone can probably counter these arguments better than me, especially since it's past midnight here and I don't even know why I'm still awake. So, I'll cherry pick a few things and leave it at that for now.
What a useful post you have
Thank you, kind sir. :P
completely ignoring Ice Beam aka every water types coverage move of choice,
And which OU-viable water type that routinely runs Ice Beam is going to be able to OHKO Giratina? No, I'm asking that as a serious question. I'd really like to know.
Knock Off always hitting with max power cause you can't knock off the item (meaning that hey, things that run knock off for coverage or utility now also hit really fucking hard), Fairy being Fairy and like really, not running a fairy already?
Uh, that's not how Knock Off works. Knock Off only gets the damage bonus if the item CAN be removed. And, if you read my whole post, you'll notice that I admit that there are a number of Fairies capable of taking it on.
Cause clearly Gira can handle lot of HP chipping with its extremely great recovery of rest and its ability to outspeed so much things, which is one of the things what hinders it back.
First off, Giratina doesn't take damage from any kind of Spikes, so that helps it already. Plus, Rest actually can be a pretty good recovery move when combined with Sleep Talk and Calm Mind. Would the name for that set be CroGira?
It was comparement with uber being dropped to OU, Gira shares similiar trait; Its very low used in Ubers due of its other forms superiority and having a very abuseable flaw. Like kyurem-b having no proper physical move, Gira has trouble using its good move pool with its item limitation, while as kyurem-b can use item that works for its favor of its move pool allowing it to patch up with pure power.
But really, do these roles really work at out in the game as you think they do? Do you think it can really excell at em? You lack out on coverage quite a bit when you cannot get proper item boost when attacking as you only get proper boost on your stabs, and without proper recovery, lot of these roles you listed out are pretty questionable on "excelling" at. It can do em good due of its stats, but I will still question excelling at em, sub CM will be pretty hard with lack or leftovers, and walling in general will be pretty hard without proper recovery. Crocune style sleep talk however is something I give to you, that Gira-O can pull out so well its scary.
I was gonna have a longer reply to this section, but after misspelling "quote" as "quatoe" three consecutive times when trying to make the quote tags, I'm not sure that's a really good idea right now. So, what I will say is, with most Pokemon, those arguments would be correct, but when you have well over 400 HP even without investment and decent defenses, it becomes significantly easier to run sets without recovery. I won't say that it's not something that needs to be taken into consideration, and I may have gotten a
bit carried away with some of it, but I think it can still be very good in most of those roles. If you can provide replays or other evidence to prove me wrong, I'll certainly concede the point.
EDIT: Also, are you sure about that info about Gira-O's usage in Ubers? Because I just checked the Ubers viability ranking thread and it says that Gira-O is A Rank, while Gira-A is C+ Rank. That doesn't explicitly talk about usage, but it raises a few questions. Like, for example,
why consider one of the (supposedly) more viable Pokemon in the tier for unbaning instead of something less viable? I mean, I know each tier is different, so what's low tier in Ubers could conceivable be better in OU than something high tier in Ubers would be, but this just seems kind of fishy to me.
I might be wrong with the balance team boon, or not, it is something up to see on the future, the thing still is; We can't tell if it will be over centralizing or not this early on.
I'm mostly in favour of Gira-O to OU cause it could be intresting to see how it plays out and cause the thing is seriously limbo stuck.
I agree that the meta is limbo stuck, and it's definitely becoming annoying for me, but I don't think this is the best way to fix it. I have no idea what is, so I can't help much there, but something tells me this suspect test is ultimately not gonna accomplish much either.
Also seriously cut the passive aggresiveness, it makes your debate annoying to look at.
My apologies, I was actually going for just-plain regular aggressiveness. :P
ginganinja
One-liner posts are prohibited in this thread. Now you have to give yourself an infraction. :)