Since I'm not a veteran, I figured I might as well post here.
I saw a little bit of talk about the banning of 230 due to it's possible shifting of the metagame.
I'm completely against this idea.
It's common knowledge that attack rules the metagame, and in a sense, if it weren't for the risk associated with attack types RF/R2F/LRF would have completely dominated the tournament scene up until now.
Much like the sentiment found about 230 how it's either "you have it, or find a way to beat it", If you whacked anything onto an RF, the chances are you could have beaten any defence combo before RS/RSF/CS was released.
Now let's not even consider a top tier attack combo which destroys pretty much everything that comes in it's way.
However, unlike 230, until the rubber defence bottoms came out, there was simply no way of countering it. Wish for the best and hope for many wall saves.
But 230 does have weaknesses.
230 based defence combos are hard to defeat, I will be the first to admit, but it's definitely doable and somewhat consistent with the right 145 height combo.
230 based stamina combos can still be defeated by 145 height stamina combos.
Even with the realisation of the MF-L Earth Bull 230CS combo, I'm confident in saying that if I can achieve consistent results against MF Earth Bull 230RSF, then this too can be defeated with consistent results.
Stamina combos at the 145 height should be able to beat it as well.
What we're experiencing is a shifting back of the metagame to the higher height range, and a balancing of the metagame.
As long as there are consistent ways to defeat 230, which are still currently plentiful, then I believe it should not be banned.
I think we've all become too accustomed to 85.
Of course, I'm probably writing this up when there's no real intention to ban this anyway, but I thought I'd stick it out there anyway.