So can I take it that you approve of the implementation of a third tier to fit between the current OU and UU which accomodates all the current BL Pokemon and possibly a few others?
Yes ... isn't that what I said?
If what is more or less BL as it is now can be made into a balanced second tier to OU, with most current UU Pokemon literally 'underused' within this second tier, and therefore able to form a third tier as the almost exact equivalent of UU as it is now, can you give me one reason why that is not worth pursuing?
I'm not disagreeing that this is not worth pursuing, I'm simply not thrilled with the proposed method of achieving this ...
Like evolutia, I feel that creating a metagame with "BL and below" is perhaps a little unecessary, as it's fairly obvious that a significant portion of what is currently deemed "UU" clearly won't be able to compete.
Therefore, at least for me, it makes more sense that the BL faux tier provide the foci for testing, with the emphasis being on disputed pokemon being moved up to help create a balanced environment, either from what is currently UU to "BL", or BL to OU.
That way any testing need not radically disrupt the UU metagame as it currently stands, for those who don't necessaily want to be forced to play under this new system whilst testing goes on ... possibly for months.
As regards the naming of tiers, my personal preference would be for the term "NU" to fade away, it's neither really all that representative, and at present the concept of an NU metagame is pretty much dead anyways.
That way the new UU tier could remain UU, and the new mid-tier could either stay BL (or if there is a strong desire to continue with xU theme it could become Moderately Used), which would also help ease disruption a little.
I hope this made sense, I'm not that well at the moment so you'll have to forgive me if I've missed something really obvious ...