Banning swagger sounds retarded. I'd like a link to the reasoning because from the top of my head it sounds well, retarded. It doesn't shut you down completely but makes it a 50/50. Getting two layers of spikes off a swagger is, while very good, not game-breaking IMHO. EDIT: Ok I read it and it's more an annoyance ban than viability ban. That's retarded.

As for everything else though; evasion makes it a hax game, taking away prediction and replacing it with one that relies on luck. Mega Luc and Kanga are banned because you're guaranteed to sacrifice at least one mon to deal with it if they're played right regardless of team. Luc got extremespeed which is a huge deal to go along with it's power (read: 2hko errthing all day errday). Kanga has retarded attack and an ability that breaks sub/sash/sturdy. Also GL switching in that ghost type because crunch will eat you alive with or without parental bond (even -1 EQ is a guaranteed 2hko after SR on mega banette.) They're beatable by revenge kills, sure, but pro-tip; switching is a thing. Which ironically brings me to Gengar. Gengar is OP based on a support characteristic and can dismantle your team easy and early. Sub-toxic checks and counters for your sweeper, sacrifice gengar, go to town. In fact I'd rather use my mevo slot for gengar than the other two. That's how good it is. Yeah, it can be killed by plenty of stuff, but that's not the problem; the problem is that it will destroy everything else without giving them a chance to switch out netting tons of free kills/cripples.

OU is a shitty metagame anyway though. I'm glad they're trying to trim it, because if you played BW you would get that facing rain stops being fun after fighting 20 near identical teams in a row and that's exactly what they're trying to avoid now. Sure it might get some controversy and I don't really play pokémon anymore anyway, but I don't think most bannings are inherently bad. Especially because they try to ban certain sets instead of entire pokémon.

Also I swear to god BW OU made me hate politoed.