You say this semi-jokingly, and yet the nature of bans throughout the entirety of SV has been kinda weird in that sense (a mostly good sense, mind you). The first 5 or so suspects ended in only one (Chien-Pao) getting the shaft, with largely every other ban in that timeframe taking QB action (side note: I bust a lung is spasmodic laughter at the idea that the council "hasn't abused their power", as if that isn't one of the only ways they've gotten tiering action done for time immemorial). As a counterbalance, there have been a lot more mentions of moves getting banned over mons getting banned, which I'm actually all for (and why I drew ire at Salt Cure lo these past couple of years). I said something similar to Finch in Discord DMs, which I will illuminate one of the contents of for your viewing convenience:
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Needless to say, this is why I'm an advocate of a Tera Blast suspect (iirc
658Greninja put the terms in
a post better worded than I could ever hope to construct) - but like I said to Finch in those DMs, the fact that such action has been forced on moves and not mons
more frequently this generation speaks to how our... frankly antiquated tiering policy, and the "muh artificial nerfs" argument that forestalled a G6 Kings Shield ban in place of Aegi's banishment from the tier (and
blunder admitting
in 4k to what might as well be election interference...), with one of the notable arguments against KS Ban (and I promise I'm not joking here...) that 'it'd artificially nerf
Smeargle'. Que? A mon that would give naria two shits when it's main sets at the time were Spore and Hazard Spam? And you don't think the loss of Shed Tail isn't similar in a 'I mean it could have ran this given it's weird role' kind of way? Sufficed to say, most if not all of this policy/argument(s) original mandate has been fundamentally expunged, and I don't want to hear any "slippery slope" counterarguments when A) this tier (and most others) has been a revolving door of around 20 or so different subjects, and B) we're talking *primarily* exclusive moves, or those to where the discrepancy between 'our most broken abusers' and mons that don't spare the move a passing glance is at it's most pronounced. Aegi was a 'broken abuser of KS' because it's was the way Stance Change worked. Smeargle... well, isn't.
As a semi-related aside: I draw ire at Salt Cure, because if by some event that Garganacl ends up back under fire for shifting metas and the like (I understand Kyurem's next suspect is all but a foregone conclusion, and I am a patient man, make no mistake), I would absolutely put Salt Cure under the microscope in place of the mon itself. There's two comparisons to be made here, the main one of which being past gen's blanket ban of Arena Trap (...stay with me here) in that it borderline invalidates certain types defensively - even Tera's of any role persuasion (offensive, defensive and the like) - and forces a state that invalidates mons that would generally afford being able to stay on the field, the only real difference is that one invalidates the switch, whereas the other forces it in a meta where hazard stack is so suffocated due to the ubiquity of Gholdengo. Hysterically enough, even Ghold' is a good example of a mon strangled by the lack of decision making that SC can bring to a game, and I've even seen a few instances of said mon running Covert Cloak just so they can do their jobs defensively thanks to it's typing. Now, forcing an item just so singular types and even frail-ish mons can actually do their jobs...
sound like a certain Shed Shell y'all know, or Bloodmoon forcing that weird 'Tera Ghost NG Weezing' set way back when? In that same spirit, SC is almost like a mini-Tera in a way, without the trigger discipline of knowing that the rest of your team can't access a defensive Tera type they're likely running as a precaution (and even that is assuming said TT isn't Water or Steel). And to put a final exclamation point on the comparison between SC and Arena Trap - if the tiering action itself was ever aimed at Garg later down the road (itself merely a decent-ish defensive stopgap with an anti-status niche and de-facto resist to one of the modern game's most spammable STAB types in Ghost, if we're talking
without SC) - who is to say that Eviolite Naclstack won't just step up to the plate to do something 90% similar? We saw the same thing happen with bloody Diglett of all mons (further limitations in tow), as did we (again) see Orthworm step up to the plate to fill Cyclizar's boots with Shed Tail shenanigans - all without the foresight of knowing Sceptile would have come back and just been Cyclizar 2.0 had we stuck to 'the totality of mons' as an argument (and before you say it: can it really be called Theorymonning when you see Sceptile is only 1 speed slower than Icke Bike over there, when all a lot of teams needed from behind a sub was one turn, and Orth's was that much slower than
both of the above?).
I'll admit this post was longer than I thought it'd be... but hey, thoughts be thoughts.
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ban, and why Gen 9 is so disliked overall. It doesn't fix the problem totally but it is a nice compromise. Banning Tera Blast would also make it possible to free both 
and 
, which I think are overall good additions to the tier. Regieleki is another viable spinner in a meta starved for hazard control and Volcarona checks 
quite well.
or 
ban just don't make sense rn)
, 
, and 
reaching the twenties in usage, and the mon with the highest tblast usage is 
at 69%) and that while it could reduce the general insanity of the tier, all it does is nerf a few good abusers (also known as an 
