What is up with the tiering for GSC/ADV in respect to OU/BL/UU? Is BL a tier in its own right, or no?
If you look at the new teambuilder, it lists all mons by their Smogon tier. (Thank you, Zarel!) But, as I was going through the old gen tiers, BL looks awkward in both of those gens. There are 24 GSC OU mons and 24 GSC BL mons: BL is large enough to be its own thing. But, it gets even more confusing in ADV. There are 27 OU mons in ADV and at least 49 in BL: BL is almost twice as wide as OU! (I say at least 49 BL because I wasn't sure how to handle Alakazam and Kadabra being in the same tier—I guessed that was a mistake like RBY Machoke being ranked higher than Machamp or RBY Matapod/Kakuna in UU rather than NU and so left it off of my counting.) Was it a tier on its own during the ADV days, or did UU seriously ban 50 mons? RBY shows the typical OU (18) / UU (34) / NU (30) spread with numbers that make sense. Whatever oddity there is starts in GSC, gets worse in ADV, and then abruptly stops in DPP, where there are only 11 BL mons.
So is it appropriate to ask for ADV BL matches? Does ADV BL "technically" align more closely with modern UU?