>>19777156So much this. I remember when koko first sent down the banhammer on Manaphy et al and things were fine. He actually started off saying that he'd try not to ban anything. Then, about a week later, he changed his mind and started the ban-heavy council-based system that UU is right now.
I think a lot of people were mad, maybe rightfully. UU is so different from all the other tiers in the way that it works. Instead of saying, "is this broken", they ask "is this potentially, more than likely, broken? does it make the game less fun?" those are subjective questions, but the council's answers have made UU much more balanced than other tiers.
I've actually also really enjoyed the testing system they've used. Everything gets re-tested in a meta where there aren't other broken things so that broken things don't check broken things.
but god, imagine the daily shitstorm threads we'd be getting if OU were ran like UU
