EviGaro
RU Leader
Isn't this exactly what UU did last gen though? After every lower tier banned Veil, UU declined and opted to ban Ninetales-Alola instead. It wasn't confusing in the slightest, the pokemon was the issue in UU, not the playstyle. UU / RU having to ban the abusers while NU / PU have to ban the playstyle due to too much going on isn't confusing, it's literally how the transitive system is supposed to work. To paraphrase Hogg in why transitivity is so important, it's too make sure a lower tiers team isn't "illegal" in an higher tier. If NU decides to ban Drought, it doesn't actively shake our system because higher tiers have different resources and issues and if it can solve them more easily, then of course it should take that route.This is doesn't make sense to me. What resources do we have that every other tier doesn't? Is NU/PU given a pass to ban abilities at will cause it doesn't affect RU? We all follow the same tiering philosophy and it's confusing when half of the lower tiers banned Drought and the other half banned the abusers.
I find it interesting that the subject is brought back by UU due to another tier though. The position against a sweeping Drought ban was never that UU should not in any situation pull the trigger, what we wanted was that UU actually shows that simply banning a Pokemon doesn't solve the problem. So far, discussion on Drought in UU has sharply declined with the Venusaur ban. That to me is what should matter going forward, if that traction keeps up, and not if another tier with far less resources to handle it the way we both can decides it has to take more sweeping actions.