Elite Slayer in Reach, while being an "Elite-only" gametype isn't a simple Slayer, in custom Slayer itself was an uncommon occurence to me.The Reach case was (I guess) Bungie thinking things that are slightly better would make a major difference while I failed to see anything like that...The advantages, all those 'slightly better things' the Elites get don't make it worth the slightly bigger hitbox (shouldn't care) and the instant shield reload the Spartans have access by using the health pack (which is extremly good and saved me a lot of times on Firefight) . That wouldn't be too easy to pull out that trick on matchmaking while running from a losing encounter unless you want to hang around health packs.Going for the absolute balance isn't a good thing, not worth the lack of Elites.