MikeDawg
Banned deucer.
Just for the record, I was not villainizing the mentioned items. I was bringing them up simply to outline the rather radical changes that gamefreak has made to serve as a basis for why smogon should also become more radical. They were simply the most relevent inceptions that had come to mind, and I in no way intended for it to function as an "all of these things are bad" statement (though I can certainly see where that was assumed (via "this may be for the worse"), but I did indeed intend that statement as an open hypothesis: that one of these large changes may or may not have something to do with the arguably poor meta.Remember that makes a metagame "ideal" is largely subjective. I personally STRONGLY disagree with basically ALL the subjective sentiments expressed in the OP-- SR, U-Turn, Weather, etc. are all awesome and give BW something distinct and new from other gens. BW is its own distinct strategy game as worthy and entertaining (or more entertaining!) than any older one competitively. My opinion.
Hm... I see. I feel as if one feasible step in the right direction would be the continuation of the aforementioned informal "How do you feel about x in the meta." Keeping the userbase distant from the process but still technically involved and have the capacity to have some form of influence seems a healthy medium, assuming the council does indeed take the discussions into consideration, that is.It could...but you would need more detail as to how you would want this to work. As it stands, the suspect council are in charge of OU tiering, and under their care the OU tier has (in my opinion) never really found itself in a slippery slope situation. The offshoot of this is that (from this thread), people have felt the council (or the suspect test process) is 2 conservative and we need to change that. So I guess on the one hand you can have the council continue doing what they do, and avoid the snowball, but then you have people pushing for tests on moves, combinations, abilities etc etc which is sorta against the status quo. Like im just saying as it stands you cannot have the slippery slope with the OU council and the suspect test process as it currently stands, but on other hand your not getting Scald banned with the OU council and suspect test process as it stands either.