Hello all, I was musing on some strategies to mess around with for this season of Tour and realized that there were probably going to be some Rude People spamming Baton Pass which made the prospect of playing in the first place a lot less fun.
I don't think anyone would argue that BP teams (both Gliscor pass and full chains) are brought for the sole purpose of cheesing the opponent. Whether they are ~broken~ or not is another story, but it's clear that they ruin games by taking them out of the players' hands. So I'm making a moleman-style proposition: in this season of Tour, test DPP without these trash BP strats similarly to BW being tested without Sun this past WCoP.
Sun was banned from WCoP for similar reasons to why I'd like BP gone. This isn't the only thing that I think makes this a good idea though, there's also the fact that this doesn't change the actual metagame whatsoever. BW underwent some changes with Sun/Stoutland becoming garbage and Excadrill dropping, but this doesn't change the DPP metagame in the slightest and only serves to help by eliminating retarded strategies (aids cancer heatah fajita etc). It's like eliminating SmashPass in BW. I mean Satan almighty, Shakeitup had the most points in DPP by spamming BP last season.
As for implementation, I think not allowing speed + other boosts to be passed would be fine. Full chain teams without a way to boost speed are utter garbage and this effectively renders glispass worthless while not cutting off any other viable strats.
Thanks
I don't think anyone would argue that BP teams (both Gliscor pass and full chains) are brought for the sole purpose of cheesing the opponent. Whether they are ~broken~ or not is another story, but it's clear that they ruin games by taking them out of the players' hands. So I'm making a moleman-style proposition: in this season of Tour, test DPP without these trash BP strats similarly to BW being tested without Sun this past WCoP.
Sun was banned from WCoP for similar reasons to why I'd like BP gone. This isn't the only thing that I think makes this a good idea though, there's also the fact that this doesn't change the actual metagame whatsoever. BW underwent some changes with Sun/Stoutland becoming garbage and Excadrill dropping, but this doesn't change the DPP metagame in the slightest and only serves to help by eliminating retarded strategies (aids cancer heatah fajita etc). It's like eliminating SmashPass in BW. I mean Satan almighty, Shakeitup had the most points in DPP by spamming BP last season.
As for implementation, I think not allowing speed + other boosts to be passed would be fine. Full chain teams without a way to boost speed are utter garbage and this effectively renders glispass worthless while not cutting off any other viable strats.
Thanks