Whaddup I'm here to quickly advocate for keeping both beam and polt, especially beam.
Gem
I understand why people are put off by giving out moves that are now exclusive but personally I don't subscribe to this idea. It sets a weird precedent but I think it's preferable to the alternative precedent where we continue to bend over backwards and make life harder for ourselves to accommodate Gamefreaks nonsensical whims. Gem with beam is one of the best caps in recent metas in terms of being both viable and non problematic, down entirely to the addition of meteor beam. This is obviously in what is now an old meta, but I think it is a reasonable assumption that gem will continue to be good in sv with beam. Gem is the platonic ideal for cap mons, a mon that is viable that needs neither buff nor nerfs, a mon that just works. And the reason it works is because it can make excellent use of a move that, as I understand it, is legal. There's a lot of work to be done on a bunch of other caps, why burden ourselves with fixing what isn't broken for the sake of a minor optics issue? Why risk killing/breaking a mon that's already fine? I just don't see the point.
Rev
Polt on rev is less clear cut as a case, as revs place in the meta is much less assured. That said I think it should keep polt on the same grounds; we should not be constantly kneecapping ourselves just because gamefreak chucked a toy out of their pram for reasons we can't fathom. Polt on rev has worked before we might as well give it a shot before we go to god knows what lengths to rework this mon in a meta that's probably gonna change dramatically in less than a few months. It'll probably still be bad but cest la vie, at least it'll be consistent with the decision to keep beam. If this gets cut I won't really mind but I'll still disagree with it on principle.
Gamefreaks intentions
Another point on this, this one a bit more speculative but still reasonable imo. Gamefreak cut a lot of moves but they didn't cut these, which presumably means they do plan to give them out at some point. Perhaps not, perhaps these moves upset their sensibilities for some god forsaken reason, perhaps Masuda got swept by a Nihilego on ladder and cut the move out of rage, perhaps these moves are effectively dead but they didn't cut them because the ice cream truck showed up, who fucking knows. Fuck Gamefreak and fuck their intentions. As far as I'm concerned, these moves are in the code, are legal and as such are fair game. Gamefreak is gonna fuck with our toolbox at every available opportunity so we might as well use the tools we have while we have them.
Other additions
If we do decide to cut these moves I strongly believe we should wait until home before making any decisions on these fellas unless we get info that home is forever away. We already know how working in temporary meta states can end up, s/o the maw.
Astro
Now to big lotl, which frankly I'm somewhat ambivalent on. I'd love trick on lotl so much but the justification is pretty shaky. Not so shaky that I have any strong disagreement with it, but shaky nonetheless. If we give it trick I'll be delighted, if not, astro will stay doin what it do.
The main reason I wanted to talk about astro is explosion. I think it's understandable to want include explosion on any slate for giving astro a move as, like trick, it's a move that probably shouldn't have been removed. That said, for the love of god don't actually slate it. Explosion saw fuck all use when it was removed, with its only use being on gimmick fire spin sets that as far as I can find, only ever existed in the land of theorymonning. This move got fuck all use when it was on this mon the first time and will see fuck all use if we give it back and I can guarantee that. Explosion gives us the worst of both worlds, as we will end up creating a potentially peculiar precedent by giving a very viable mon another competitive move for weird reasons while also not actually giving it anything of value. Trick is a good move, with potentially good meta ramifications by improving a scarfer that can revenge a lot of the more annoying offensive mons (*cough* pao *cough*).
TL:DR keep polt, definitely keep beam, slate trick, don't slate explosion, fuck Gamefreak
