hey everyone,
I know the tier looks like a madhouse now, so we're gonna add more fuel to the fire! In all seriousness, Hogg and I have been discussing that with the drops for this month, that the tier is practically going to feel like UU Beta again. As such the UU Council held a vote to give certain mons a trial run during this chaotic metagame for the upcoming period of time. We are exploring the UUBL Pokemon and giving them what is essentially a test; we'll free them for a period of time and then have another council vote to determine if they're still banworthy or not, while also voting for any potentially broken drops that just entered the tier for the first time.
I know a lot of peoples first thoughts when seeing the drops are "when ban", but we want to explore the possibility that the, so to speak, "power level" of UU could simply just go up with these drops, and make some UUBL Pokemon be okay for the tier again. This is not a sure thing nor are we committed to dropping anything, but we want to ensure that we're exploring the possibility. We realize this may not be an ideal solution, but we believe the best time to explore these drops are while the tier is at its most powerful, not after we have a wave of bans. There is no perfect solution to tiering with DLC happening; it's going to mess up our tier a lot, and there's nothing we can do about it. We simply are looking to handling things the best way we can. I'd like to explore the possibility of having the fewest bans possible, which is what this is striving to achieve. If these Pokemon end up being broken as sin, as they very easily could be, then they'll just get banned again in the coming days.
One last thing I'd like to reiterate before getting into it: this is a vote to test the Pokemon down. We are not voting here to permanently unban the Pokemon. If the UU Council reaches a majority on a Pokemon here, it will be released and we will hold a vote once we deem it necessary in the coming days, alongside any potentially broken Pokemon that just dropped. Again, this is not a vote to permanently free it. Onto the votes!
With this,
Crawdaunt, Gengar, and Obstagoon will be
LEGAL IN UU, at least for the time being. Tagging
Marty and
The Immortal, if you could make the change on PS as soon as possible it would be greatly appreciated! If you're curious as to the reasoning for why these Pokemon were banned in the first place, check out
this post.
The metagame has developed a lot since these three were initially banned; in fact, it's been six and a half months since they were banned. We have a lot of new Pokemon, a lot of new top threats, and a lot of metagame changes that could potentially lessen these three's impact on the tier. I won't be writing an in depth reasoning for each as to why things may change, when I will regardless of the outcome in the coming days when they are voted on again, but I will write something brief. The metagame has gotten significantly more offensive than it was at the time these three were banned; balance as a playstyle is questionable, the tier is faster and stronger than it was before. Crawdaunt's breaking prowess is unmatched, but with the tier contentiously getting faster and stronger, it faces competition and cannot break like it used to. Incineroar, Blissey, and Porygon2 now are legal and top tier Pokemon, making Gengar's Ghost-type STAB far less insane than it was when it was banned. The speed Obstagoon has is no longer a premier speed tier thanks to things like Cobalion and Keldeo dropping. All of these are potential reasonings as to why these Pokemon may not be as broken as they once were, but we'll find out about that in the coming days.
This tier is going to be chaotic for a while. Weighing the difference between acting too fast and waiting too long is something we'll have to figure out, but we do intend to take action and fix any issue this tier may have. For now, enjoy the madhouse with all of these drops, and these three unbans!