Well, now that the Suspect Tour has, shall we say, ended-never-to-be-thought-of-again, we're pleased to announce that
Tapu Lele is now
Banned. Tagging
urkerab I guess, since that's where STABmons is currently hosted.
The council unanimously voted ban, and there were no dissenting opinions voiced when I asked people from the tour if they wanted it banned (bar a few who voted no as a means of abstention). There wasn't a super formal process here, since we voted and then decided to have a tour and then just talked about it in chat a lot, but I'm very confident that the vast majority of people agree with this decision. We will work on formalizing the suspect tour process a bit if people want that.
From what I saw in the suspect tour, there was much less of a focus on Celesteela and Magnezone/Tapu Koko, Lele's premier check and partners. I also saw less Kartana. The teams tended to be a bit less threat-spam HO, and closer to the balance end of the offense spectrum than they were on ladder. Overall the metagame looked similar to mid-XY with fast paced games and lots of strong and fast threats but also kinda solid defensive cores (all of which got broken). Hopefully other people who saw/played more games than I did can chime in more on this. I would say the current metagame is far from balanced and we'll look into other problematic pokemon, like Kartana, in the future. More games need to be played with Lele gone before anything else gets suspected though.
As an addendum, "Comaphasing" is completely stupid and something that should and will be banned soon. We haven't talked about what to do with it, but feel free to chime in on the ban komala vs ban [something complex] debate.