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council has already discussed that we can’t just ban sand force since it’s pretty incoherent for tiering policy just to preserve a pokemon. this won’t be an option unfortunately.
it feels that there are several folks across the board, myself included, that view the metagame presently as undesirable. as soulwind noted, there is an incongruence between offensive and defensive strategies. we are forced into balanced structures to be consistent -- god knows i've tried to...
latios and sd excadrill are the most broken elements of the tier. i don't think any of us have the wherewithal to solve the bw balancing conundrum if we really decide to pluck out all the broken elements.
i view thundurus a similar vein to volcarona: consistently oppressive, can hugely swing...