Haha, only just saw this and had to comment..
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Originally Posted by Fat ForumAddict
GameFAQs recently had a thread complaining about a number of Smogonites on Shoddy refusing to accept anything other than the standard (such as shunning Substitute Weavile).
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My Weavile had Substitute for the Connection Tour due to the crazy ruleset. I'd open with a Naive Scarfed Azelf that, in the event of a lead +Spd Scarfed Gengar, could U-Turn to Weavile (disabling a potential Focus Sash) who would eat the Hypnosis with its Lum Berry (assuming it hit). The game then would hinge on whether or not the second Hypnosis hit (49% chance of them both hitting), and this implies that the Gengar was Scarfed as if it wasn't Weavile would go first.
A Weavile hiding behind a Substitute makes short work of Focus Sash Garchomp, any of the Latis, Gengar, and basically the entire metagame. Unfortunately for me, despite it being overused in all the other states, no-one in Perth used Gengar(aside from the guy who won Day One (whom I never got to fight). Oh well.