Since the main argument going around here seems to be what the general player base would think of this, would anyone mind if I put up a poll in uncharted territory to get some opinions on this? (or if someone else wants to put it up that's fine).
Another tangentially related issue that I think needs to be addressed is the philosophy of why we ban pokemon. Do we ban pokemon only because we believe that they are too powerful relative to the other pokemon in the metagame, or do we ban pokemon because we prefer to play in the metagame without them? This is an issue that was very muddied through all of gen 4 tiering. Measures such as mandatory paragraph submissions on the characteristics of uber and the characteristics of uber themselves as well as suspect exp would suggest that our goal was to make sure that things were only voted uber if they were 'overpowered'. Yet we continually had suspect tests where the suspect ladder consisted of the metagame without the suspect being tested. If your goal is to determine if something is overly powerful in a given metagame then playing in the metagame with that pokemon removed does not give you any relevant information. If we were voting to see if something fit the characteristics of uber then all the tests should have been conducted in a similar manner to the first shaymin-s test.
Another tangentially related issue that I think needs to be addressed is the philosophy of why we ban pokemon. Do we ban pokemon only because we believe that they are too powerful relative to the other pokemon in the metagame, or do we ban pokemon because we prefer to play in the metagame without them? This is an issue that was very muddied through all of gen 4 tiering. Measures such as mandatory paragraph submissions on the characteristics of uber and the characteristics of uber themselves as well as suspect exp would suggest that our goal was to make sure that things were only voted uber if they were 'overpowered'. Yet we continually had suspect tests where the suspect ladder consisted of the metagame without the suspect being tested. If your goal is to determine if something is overly powerful in a given metagame then playing in the metagame with that pokemon removed does not give you any relevant information. If we were voting to see if something fit the characteristics of uber then all the tests should have been conducted in a similar manner to the first shaymin-s test.