Not a highly substantive post incoming but I wanted to echo a few thoughts from earlier in the thread.Overall I think the tier is enjoyable and one that I can see myself investing genuine time and effort into. On one hand I can appreciate the value Dexit had on Gen 8 OU, forcing stale mons out of the spotlight and allowing the new ones to shine in the most-played tier. However, unlike in past gens I think the new gen 8 mons are good enough to see usage on their own merit (see: Darmanitan-Galar, Corviknight, Dragapult at #1 usage in OU!) so weaving them into this tier is refreshing to see. The beginning of any new generation is always chaotic, so I think once we have the right mechanics solidified on ladder and Dynamax gets resolved one way or another we'll see the tier develop with greater consistency.Some brief thoughts on bans, unbans & potential retests: : No question the TLs did the right thing here, not much more to say. I don't think Icicle Spear is that great of a move to push it over the edge, but when paired with Dynamax + DD + full offensive EV spreads + the overall context of the meta it's not worth keeping right now.: I don't think we need to reach the question of whether Clangorous Soul + Clangorous Soulblaze is broken since I am fairly sure they were never meant to exist in the same competitive format together to begin with. I think some type of limiting clause is absolutely necessary here. +2 in all stats with a STAB nuke for the cost of 33% HP is goofy.: I am very interested to see what happens with this mon months from now when the tier settles. Right now the meta is less kind to Meta than in the past - it has to deal with Aegislash, Dugtrio, fast offensive checks like Dragapult and Cinderace, a high usage of Mega Scizor and Cursola on stall and its usual checks in Ferro/Skarm/Tang/Rotom-W on every squad, etc. I think it has far less freedom to switch up coverage than ever before and that you deviate from Mash + EQ + Tpunch at your own peril, but I guess time will tell. Having to run EQ also makes it more susceptible to being RKed by Ditto which is omnipresent. Perhaps other meta trends / bans will open up more doors for this down the road.: In my heart I would like to see this mon return, because I thought it was fine for the early part of SM OU, but I have doubts about whether its Z-move sets + newly acquired coverage would still be too overwhelming. I think Aegislash is a healthy presence for the tier right now and I do not want to see it forced onto more teams than it ought to be just for the sake of blanket checking this thing. If it is to be retested, I would advocate doing so in the future when common defensive cores + counterplay are less speculative.: I was disappointed to see this on the initial banlist. I'll reserve my commentary on it for a later time if it is retested but at this time I'll strongly advocate for that course of action and leave it at that.As for the new mons, Darmanitan-G is nuts on any well-built team and, of the many threats to stall and fatter teams, it is easily top 3. Stall has access to all the old goons and some new ones in this format which in all fairness is probably a good thing, since there's no shortage of options for breaking it atm. SpDef Corviknight is worth trying on balance/fatter builds if you haven't yet, and once new-toy syndrome wears off I think it'll become clear how good this thing is (among all its other sets).