Jibaku
Who let marco in here????
(In other words, banning Moody in every Smogon-sponsored metagame by adding it to Evasion Clause)
Even Arceus trembles before Bidoof now...
The luck factor Moody creates is highly detrimental to the Ubers metagame; it takes a significant amount of skill out of the game and turns the entire match into a dice roll. A Pokemon that can sweep any team after one turn of set up undeniably broken. In addition, it's almost impossible to prepare for Moody teams because once a Pokemon gets that evasion boost and starts spamming Protect and Substitute all one can do is attack and hope for the best...
It’s incredibly easy to switch in any one of the five Pokemon with Moody and simply use Protect, Substitute, Protect, Substitute until you’ve garnered enough offensive boosts to sweep, or, more importantly, enough evasion boosts to laugh as the mighty Arceus tries in vain to break your Substitutes. Smeargle can even pass these boosts if something that threatens it comes in, after it augments them with any boosting move in the game. Even if you don’t get some good boosts with the the first Pokemon, you still have 4 more tries.
Aura Sphere and Thunder may be brought up, but the former is not widely distributed and the latter is weather dependent. If one would defend these moves as reasons to not ban Moody, then the Evasion Clause should be removed entirely; which is what I propose Moody be banned under.
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Here is a team firecape used to get 1.3k rating (#9 on leaderboard at the time) in around 2-3 hours. Try it for yourself... (this was pre-Smeargle release)
http://pastebin.com/ZuH9eAz9
(firecape and GreatSage helped me write this)
(A potential issue with this proposal is that it could end up banning Pokemon from Ubers in future generations, but I guess we'll rethink this once we get there)
Even Arceus trembles before Bidoof now...
The luck factor Moody creates is highly detrimental to the Ubers metagame; it takes a significant amount of skill out of the game and turns the entire match into a dice roll. A Pokemon that can sweep any team after one turn of set up undeniably broken. In addition, it's almost impossible to prepare for Moody teams because once a Pokemon gets that evasion boost and starts spamming Protect and Substitute all one can do is attack and hope for the best...
It’s incredibly easy to switch in any one of the five Pokemon with Moody and simply use Protect, Substitute, Protect, Substitute until you’ve garnered enough offensive boosts to sweep, or, more importantly, enough evasion boosts to laugh as the mighty Arceus tries in vain to break your Substitutes. Smeargle can even pass these boosts if something that threatens it comes in, after it augments them with any boosting move in the game. Even if you don’t get some good boosts with the the first Pokemon, you still have 4 more tries.
Aura Sphere and Thunder may be brought up, but the former is not widely distributed and the latter is weather dependent. If one would defend these moves as reasons to not ban Moody, then the Evasion Clause should be removed entirely; which is what I propose Moody be banned under.
.
Here is a team firecape used to get 1.3k rating (#9 on leaderboard at the time) in around 2-3 hours. Try it for yourself... (this was pre-Smeargle release)
http://pastebin.com/ZuH9eAz9
(firecape and GreatSage helped me write this)
(A potential issue with this proposal is that it could end up banning Pokemon from Ubers in future generations, but I guess we'll rethink this once we get there)