Hi all. While we have plans to conduct a big council slate at the end of this week, rozes and myself have put together a small list of quickbans to get the ball rolling on shaping the new tier. As always, please note that anything we or the council ban within the next couple of weeks is subject to be retested at a later date if deemed appropriate.
Reuniclus has been banned from NU due to it's combination of fantastic bulk, reliable recovery, perfect coverage, and insane ability in Magic Guard which allowed it to break past virtually all of it's checks and any team. It's unanimously agreed upon that Reuniclus is far too strong of a Pokemon for NU to handle.
Obstagoon has also been banned from NU because of it's insane wallbreaking potential. With perfect coverage, great bulk, and the ability to skyrocket its Attack stat with Guts, Obstagoon has virtually no counters in the NU tier, and is far too quick for the power level it possesses. It can effectively break past any playstyle, and thus has no place in the NU metagame.
Aurora Veil: Finally, we've decided to eliminate Auroral Veil from the tier because of how easily it enables a gigantic portion of the tier into becoming unstoppable behemoths. Aurora Veil teams have been greatly buffed by the return of Vanilluxe (and Abomasnow to a much lesser extent), and have absolutely no issues in setting up Veil multiple times throughout a match in order to facilitate a playstyle that is so dynamic and threatening in nature, it lacks any realistically consistent counterplay. Even attempting to prepare for Veil teams compromises your builds to such an extent that you're effectively opening yourself up to vulnerability against an even wider array of playstyles and threats in the metagame. The problem with Veil ultimately does not lie upon any singular win condition or threatening partner under Aurora Veil, but rather the nature of the archetype as a whole, therefore it has no place in the NU metagame and has been banned.
(Tagging Marty and The Immortal to implement these bans, thank you!)
As stated above, the council will be conducting a slate later this week, you can expect the results of these to be revealed by Sunday night. Until then, enjoy playing and post your thoughts on what you feel are the most problematic Pokemon in the tier as of now, as well as what you find balanced and enjoy seeing!
Reuniclus has been banned from NU due to it's combination of fantastic bulk, reliable recovery, perfect coverage, and insane ability in Magic Guard which allowed it to break past virtually all of it's checks and any team. It's unanimously agreed upon that Reuniclus is far too strong of a Pokemon for NU to handle. Obstagoon has also been banned from NU because of it's insane wallbreaking potential. With perfect coverage, great bulk, and the ability to skyrocket its Attack stat with Guts, Obstagoon has virtually no counters in the NU tier, and is far too quick for the power level it possesses. It can effectively break past any playstyle, and thus has no place in the NU metagame.Aurora Veil: Finally, we've decided to eliminate Auroral Veil from the tier because of how easily it enables a gigantic portion of the tier into becoming unstoppable behemoths. Aurora Veil teams have been greatly buffed by the return of Vanilluxe (and Abomasnow to a much lesser extent), and have absolutely no issues in setting up Veil multiple times throughout a match in order to facilitate a playstyle that is so dynamic and threatening in nature, it lacks any realistically consistent counterplay. Even attempting to prepare for Veil teams compromises your builds to such an extent that you're effectively opening yourself up to vulnerability against an even wider array of playstyles and threats in the metagame. The problem with Veil ultimately does not lie upon any singular win condition or threatening partner under Aurora Veil, but rather the nature of the archetype as a whole, therefore it has no place in the NU metagame and has been banned.
(Tagging Marty and The Immortal to implement these bans, thank you!)
As stated above, the council will be conducting a slate later this week, you can expect the results of these to be revealed by Sunday night. Until then, enjoy playing and post your thoughts on what you feel are the most problematic Pokemon in the tier as of now, as well as what you find balanced and enjoy seeing!
Any given Lucario set has its counterplay, but being prepared for every Lucario requires either some very niche picks (you can always* offensively check it with Gurdurr Mach Punch, for instance) or devoting half your team to it. NP, SD, any Choice Item, a bazillion different priority options all make this a very potent critter indeed. 
I'm not sold on this being busted, but I agree with Rabia's post.
I'll play a bit of devil's advocate for this thing here; Terrain Expanding Force certainly hits hard, but there are some fairly common walls that it has to contend with, like Cresselia, Umbreon, Bronzong. Its bulk is kinda meh to the point where it can be neutrally checked by basically anything faster than it. Sure, it has Trick, but I will always hammer the point that Trick is a fairly high-risk move and you generally only get to attempt the Trick once. Even if it lands the Trick target, that just means that it's easier for the rest of your team to deal with afterwards (if your team falls apart from one Trick maybe that's a you problem). 
Dan Brought.
What is this thing even doing here? Use it while it lasts. Possibly the best special Tank in the tier, with solid physical and special moves. 
This mon can do basically anything. Set hazards? Check. Spread Status? Check. Absorb Status? Check. Pivot, special sweeper, Choice user (with Trick), insane special coverage, cleric, 
I like to meme around with ID/CM/Body Press/Moonblast, but I feel like this mon has plenty of options to explore. Great bulk, solid offenses to back it up. Kinda slow.
flygon i dont see it as broken as the aforementioned pokemon, but it can still be a pokemon, which can turn out annoying, especially with its solid typing and good speed tier, along decent offensive stats, i personally feel, that its dragon dance-set can be annoying to face - i view this set as the most problematic one for the tier, whereas defog-support sets could end up fine.
Finally, a mon to surpass Primeape and Passimian. With Regenerator this mon becomes a crazy good late game cleaner and annoying pivot. Along with a better speed tier and attack it's kinda insane. Scarf fighting types are always a useful in NU so this mon will rise in prominence eventually or it'll just rise in usage. LO Reckless could be a fun wallbreaker mon as well.
Now I know why it rose after it was given Poltergeist. SR + 3 Attacks is pretty good. Always guaranteed to get rocks or at least some damage to the opp if played right. Only real downside is its speed tier and when it can switch in. RP sets sound good on paper too.
Another mon that I grown quite fond as of late. The defensive set is probably its best set atm(Wilo/Morning Sun/Flamethrower/Teleport). It can put a burn on most rockers and weaken them down. Can switch in on a good chunk of phys attackers as well thanks to intimidate. You can also try toxic as well. Will become real solid in the future.
AV is fantastic. Provides a lot of support being a T-Spike Absorber and alright offensive presence thanks to it having fire coverage. Good mon for the tier.
These two mons enjoy HDBs alot. They provide good speed control with also good offensive stats and movepools to work with.
Already mentioned a good bit above and I have nothing really to add. Good wall and wallbreaker. Great for fit for the tier imo. 
: This is just disgusting to face, raichuA by its own is an amazing pokemon with great speed tier, nice coverage and good base SpA added to a boosting move to NP; but if we sum all of this which is already amazing and add electric terrain to the formula we get an unstoppable sweeper and breaker, which is pretty unhealthy.
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would fix the sun problem. Limiting turns of sun makes it hard for sun sweepers such as shiftry to shine because you are using 2 turns just to switch shiftry in (which in a lot of situations is hard to make it happen due to shiftry bad defensive typing and frail defensive stats) and another to boosts, usually to make this happen you sack something but rn that's worth it because thanks to heat rock you get 2 extra turns so the number of kills you get on the moment are balanced out for the sack you just made, but if we get heat rock out of the formula, its hard to make it worth and it would be more balanced.
: Okey so this is one pokemon that i've used a lot and despite that i missed aprox. 70% of my head smash (not joking i missed 7 in a row in one game) i can tell this pokemon is/will be unhealthy for the metagame, it has coverage to run through all the counters it can have and its stabs just makes the cherry on top of the cake. Maybe the slate on this weekend is not the moment to ban it as there are other pokemons/matters that deserve more faster actions from the council imo but it still doesnt have a safe way to handle it.
: I'm surprised no one has talked yet about the moon. This mon is ANNOYING, i'm not saying its broken or anything but god, its just so hard to play around it and to kill. It's fat and hits kinda hard for a non invested pokemon. Just wanted to show my hate to cresselia here tho, the pokemon is fine and its a good addition to the actual metagame.
: I still can't believe we have the duck here lol, this just claims every time, all 3 sets (scarf, specs and double dance) are top menaces that are just bs to face. Having to sack one mon every time it comes in makes it hard to justify for little Z duck to give some fairness or healthyiness to the tier (hint: it's broken).
: I've been a vocal hater of the shark, i just can't see how this is balanced and not broken at all. Both physical and special can easily clean games with very little chip on its common checks. And having to guess which set are you facing to switch one thing or another makes it just impossible to not end up losing to it.
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i forgot this was a thing but it’s probably too good of a breaker. Lol i totally forgot abt it due to the 10 brokens listed above but this can just mow thru teams; only reason i havent seen it be more of a problem is bc when i used it i ran into nothing but HO. despite the lower speed tier than the brokens above it’s still probably banworthy.
and this isn't including Ninetales option to go offensive and really just abusing fire coverage in general. They may not be as powerful as the primary abusers, but only the foolish would dismiss them.
