UU bans Azumarill, Thundurus-I, Drizzle, and begins Victini suspect test

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http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/underused-tiering.3592197/

"After the beta stage is over, the UU council will consist of 12 members. Nine seats are taken up by the tier leaders and their most trusted contributors, and three additional rotating seats are filled by other members of the community. These rotating members of council are selected by the tier leaders and will be reselected after every suspect round. These spots are filled by people with good contributions to recent suspect test discussions, a high level of general activity, and good playing ability. All council voters must participate in the discussion for the suspect tests they vote in."

So no, the UU council is not a collection of power tripping fat nerds.

"This process will be repeated until UU is out of its beta stage, and by this time, everything that is potentially broken should be banned. From then on, suspects will be reintroduced to the tier individually via suspect ladders, and a suspect discussion thread will be opened to the general public. For each suspect, after an appropriate amount of time, the UU council will vote on whether or not to unban it. A 2/3 supermajority of "Unban" votes will be required to permanently reintroduce the suspect to the UU tier. More quickbans can happen throughout the process if potentially broken Pokemon drop down from OU or if other UU threats are later found to be broken.

The purpose of this is to create a stable, healthy metagame in the shortest possible time frame. Once this metagame is achieved, we begin to introduce potentially broken elements one at a time into the tier to see if they are truly broken or not. By using a council-only system instead of a public system, we reduce the amount of time needed to get through all the suspects and ensure that the metagame is stable at any time bar the current suspect. Once the tier is deemed stable enough to not need constant quickbans and subsequent suspect tests, we can proceed with public suspect tests."

TL;DR: The objective of these bans are not to ban things that are broken, but what is potentially broken, which enables UU to get into a state where it can unban things one at a time into a non broken meta.

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