The thing about rain, is that the OU council has obviously dug themselves a hole too deep to salvage. Delete this post if you want, I'm stating what's obvious to anyone who has a brain. Rain affects EVERYTHING, and if rain is banned a lot of other bans will soon follow(sun being the most obvious while sand being plausible as well). It will just through the metagame off balance and even after the whole weather crisis is salvaged, we're likely to face an issue with dragon spam and possibly reboot kyurem-b to ubers. That's not even mentioning all the analyses that need to be seriously updated after the bans take place. In short, we're on crunch time, and right now the best thing to do is to weaken rain as much as possible without making any tremendous changes that will require gen 5 to start from scratch. Even now, we only have 8 months left, that's enough time for 1 or two more suspect tests. Right now, all we can do is try and make the most out of gen 5 and try not to repeat the same mistakes in gen 6(I.E. ban the effector, which is weather for gen 5). The one thing that really needs to be examined is the banning process. There needs to be a concrete basis, otherwise, we will end up with a shit metagame like gen 5 ou, regardless of who's voting.
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