I really don't think Doublade is suspect worthy in the slightest. It is obviously a top tier threat and you have to prepare for it but this doesn't male it centralizing and it's not like it is very hard to do so.Just looking at the current metagame, there is really only one poke that I could see as being possibly deserving of suspect tests.
Doublade, I feel, has very good reason to be suspect tested for the same reason as its older bro, aegislash: it's versatility. Doublade fulfills multiple roles in the current metagame, and does them all extremely well. It is a strong set up sweeper, an amazing spinblocker (can often set up on pokes that foresight it), a physically bulky wall, and a counter to a plethora of powerful pokes in the meta (coballion, virizion, aromatisse, cresselia just to name a few) while having relatively few solid counters to it (it can set up and beat a gligar that has been knocked off, and alo needs to get a burn or else it gets annihilated). For the above reasons, doublade is viable on literally any playstyle, whether it be HO, where it blocks spin, provides some needed bulk, and can become a late game spinner, or even in stall, where it provides good immunities, spinblocking, and often becomes the win condition late game. As such, doublade is not only extremely overcentralizing to the meta but also very limiting on teambuilding, where any good team must take careful preparations in order to deal with the omnipresent doublade.
I am not really saying that doublade is automatically banworthy or even automatically suspect test worthy, but as of now I see it as the biggest threat in the ru metagame, and extremely overcentralizing to the meta. Feel free to give your opinion or bash mine, because mine's really not set in stone at this point.
-CFB
Thanks to Doublade's low speed, bad Special Bulk, and reliance on a kinda weak priority move (and moves in general especially without a boosting item) any Pokemon with decent bulk and/or a Ghost resistance and almost any physical wall that uses special moves and is not weak to Ghost or Steel usually beats it 1v1 and those Pokemon are found in quite a ton of teamsof all kinds and playstyles like Meloetta, Sharpedo (special sets obliterate Doublade but physical sets needs a bit of prior damage :/), Moltres, Foul Play Amonguss bar flinches, Alomomola to some extent, Drapion, Knock Off Gligar, Druddigon, Jolteon if healthy, Clawitzer, Rotom-C, Weezing, based Cinccinos, Shiftry, and invested Spitiromb.
While Doublade seemingly checks a ton of Pokemon most of them can still hurt it for a ton of damage or at least have adapted while still maintaining effective sets. Special Cobalion is on the rise as a lure, Hitmonlee is running Sucker Punch more often to 2hko it on the switch, and Flamethrower Druddigon has seen some popularity to kill it (unless I'm the only one using it lol) not to mention that Knock Offs from random Pokemon it checks chunk it and make it way less effective. All these things coupled with lack of Leftovers and recovery moves make Doublade prone to be overwhelm even by the stuff it checks.
Great Mon but defo not suspect worth
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