It's mostly from your post about Pult, Gambit, and Zama's performance that i drew my (perhaps mistaken) conclusions.
From
smogon tiering policy framework
Broken - elements that are too good relative to the rest of the metagame such that "more skillful play" is almost always rendered irrelevant.
- These aren't necessarily completely uncompetitive because they don't take the determining factor out of the player's hands; both can use these elements and both probably have a fair chance to win. They are broken because they almost dictate / require usage, and a standard team without one of them facing a standard team with one of them would be at a drastic disadvantage.
- These also include elements whose only counters or checks are extraordinarily niche Pokemon that would put the team at a large disadvantage elsewhere.
Your reasoning for putting those 3 mons in the broken section as outlined here
doesn't really align with either criterion here. There are good standard teams that have these mons, and good standard teams that don't have them (though of course not having any of them gets more and more unlikely the more you throw into the list). These mons' counters, as you mentioned, have risen to high relevance and usage - definitely not the "niche counters that put the team at a large disadvantage elsewhere." A mon being able to outlast all its checks (pult) or mandating its counters' presence (zama, gambit) is just not what tiering policy and precedent mean by the word "broken."
In effect, I believe the chart's horizontal axis could much more accurately be labeled "Central Threats" "Background Cast of OU" rather than Balanced/Broken. It may seem overly semantic, but the word "broken" is so important in so many debates in this community that I truly want us to be careful with it.It's much easier to argue about whether a mon is broken if everyone involved at least somewhat agrees on what broken means. I agree that the chart is clearly not some sort of objective statement on tiering policy, but its structure DOES imply a zone for "broken but not banworthy" which is a definition of broken I have never heard of before in modern tiering. Oldgens of course have their own precedent like Gen 2 Snorlax.
I mean all this in the best way possible and am not trying to start drama pls forgiv