I strongly prefer regular suspect testing over quickbanning whenever it's appropriate. As much as I hated both Heliolisk and Mega Steelix, especially towards the end, I still preferred the regular suspect test. But Sheer Force Feraligatr is a completely different story. Even without boosting, it has absurd power, but as soon as it boosts, its checks go down to a handful of Pokemon and its counters become none. As a Water-type with good bulk, it's really easy to set up Feraligatr too. Swords Dance shreds slower teams, and Dragon Dance manhandles offense. Even special Agility puts in a massive amount of work because it has Sheer Force Focus Blast to do tons to Water resists. If for some reason Feraligatr didn't get quickbanned, I can't imagine a single person voting for it to stay in NU. The quicker we get a more stable metagame, the quicker we can look into other potentially broken Pokemon or even just fucking relax and enjoy a good metagame. ORAS shook up NU more than any tier shift ever could, and then just as we finally get a more stable metagame, HA Johto starters shook things up even more.



Although I doubt it's necessary, I strongly urge the rest of the council to vote to ban Feraligatr.