I am statisfyed.
Alderon's Proposal prevented the destruction of 2 playstyles [Rain Offense without SS, and Rain Stall].
It also prevented at least 3 pokemon being made Uber, when they would not be anywhere near otherwise. And when I say at least, you can make a case for an awful lot of the SS pokemon.
Omastar: Shell Smash. Base 115 Sp.Attack and Base 125 Defense. Basically, able to easily set up a Shell Smash, and with the Rain Boost and Swift Swim... yeah.
Kabutops: One of the 'Broken Trio'
Quilfish: Not broken
Mantine: Not an offensive threat
Kingdra: Do I even need to go there?
Ludicolo: 'Broken Trio'
Huntail: Base 104 Attack and Shell Smash. And Baton Pass.
Gorebyss: Special Version of Huntail
Relicanth: Thankfully, cannot have Rock Head and SS at the same time. Otherwise... HEAD SMASH.
Luvdisc: Not even viable
Floatzel: Base 105 Attack, 115 Speed, Taunt, and Bulk Up, as well as a respectable physical movepool. Could be broken when it outspeeds EVERYTHING, and has Double-STAB.
Lumeinion: Not broken
Seismitoad: STAB Earthquakes from something that outspeeds everything is hardly nice. Bulky too.
Golduck: Not really broken
Poliwrath: Hypnosis + Belly Drum, anyone? Unstoppable force, except for maybe Jellicent or Mach Punches.
Armaldo: Bulk, Swords Dance, and, most importantly, provides additional coverage to the SS'ers. Not broken, but sure helps out the others.
Carracosta: Shell Smash
Beartic: Not broken.
So, if SS+ Drizzle was allowed, we would probobly have to ban:
Kingdra, Ludicolo, Kabutops, Omastar, Floatzel, Huntail, Poliwrath, Gorebyss, and Carracosta.
9 pokemon.
Who would otherwise be viable in lower teirs, and some are viable for other tactics anyway [Ludicolo in Rain stall teams, due to Rain Dish and Leech Seed]
Bear in mind, some of the questionable ones may also be broken. Ludicolo cannot set up, after all. Seismetoad could be broken, but I'm being conservative here.
I'd much rather ban Swift Swim and Drizzle being used together, than slow down the whole suspect testing process, and ban up to 9 pokemon who are otherwise fine. This banning would probobly take at least 3 periods too, as after the first trio are banned, the next trio will step up [Gorebyss, Poliwrath and Carracosta, probobly], followed by the final trio.
Let's face it, any water type who has any real form of competative viability in the first place, with Swift Swim, is broken by it. It takes stuff of Seaking's teir to not be broken. And Seaking is awful.
Also, at the above poster, Swift Swim is not broken in limited rain. There is nothing about just using Rain Dance, and having a limited sweeping time, that was broken in 4th gen, let alone 5th, where more weather runs rampant.
This leads me onto my point to Sajak. Blaziken was broken by being Blaziken. Kingdra, Ludicolo, and Kabutops were broken by the existabce of ANOTHER pokemon, Drizzle-Politoad. So, aside from the situation not being comparable due to this fact, which would you ban, up to 9 pokemon, or Politoad, ruining two other playstyles?
I said that Drizzle + Swift Swim is not broken in Gen V any more than it was in Gen IV (where it wasn't banned), and i stand by it.
I have looked at the advantage for Rain HO teams, and it doesn't exist within the first 9 turns, which is basically when Rain HO does its damage. Only after 9 turns does it save you a turn that you would have used for Rain Dance.
Rain Stall gets a nice boost, but that was never broken, and frankly i think we really don't need to discuss the brokenness of Rain Stall; we all know it's not.
It was broken in Gen 4...
Kyogre was banned, preveting the style from being used in OU, but, when CAP wanted to test weather abilities, to see if Drought would be acceptable for Pyoak, they allowed a Lv 1 Groundon into OU. They also did this with Kyogre, to test to see if Drizzle was acceptable.
They decided it Uber under Support. On Lv 1 Kygore.
Sure, this was not a 'true' suspect test, but seeing how many well-respected Smogon staff run CAP, I think it's a fair statement to say that Drizzle WAS broken in Gen 4.