Two post in a row? Must be important
Light Screen,
Reflect and
Belly Drum are now restricted in Tradeabilities,
Mew enters the watchlist
And that´s all for now. With the Belly Drum restriction however,
Azumarill enters the meta! Banned since the start due to the combination of Choice Band Huge Power Belly Drum Aqua Jet while being very hard to kill thanks to Thick Fat and Sap Sipper, Azumarill didn´t even get the chance to be tested, but because it now has to choose if Belly Drum or CB, the blue rabbit is more easy to stop, and also has nice utility tools that the meta would greatly appreciate. The code is gonna be updated as soon as possible, see ya!




- Reflect and Light Screen are one of the, if not the strongest trademarks. While not all team compositions are broken by the screens, some teams just become impossible to break through being so easy to set. While things like Iron Defense and Amnesia are buffs that only correspond to one mon, Reflect and Light Screen automatically increases the defenses of all the team members with no cost attached to it. Because the stacked nature of this meta, you often would find impossible a way to check Hazards, Boosters and Screens at the same time without sacrificing much. While Infiltrator mons are not bad, none of them can break the combined defenses of the mons that not only are behind Screens but also boosting his normal defenses even further. Also Defog has become less of an option because of how limited his distribution is and how most of his users prefer to have another move as their Trademark or also not having enough space in his normal moveset to fit, for example, Corviknight, the most prominent Defog user has to choose between using it or using Iron Defense, Bulk Up or Screens, and because there other ways to control hazards and also the fact that the Taunt users (Trademark or not) are not uncommon, you would normally don´t want to use Corviknight for deffoging because it would limit severely his capacities for other roles, and like that, there are others that are just too difficult to put in a team like Scizor, Scyther, Kleavor, Noivern, etc. So with that, is restricted.
- Even with his one use nature, Belly Drum is still a move that boosts the user attack stat to +6, meaning that after a use, only Unaware mons (that are not that easy to fit because of how passive they normally are) can stop them. To make matters worse, the principal users (Cetitan, Poliwrath and Ursaluna) not only have ways to overcome his speeds problems (Slush Rush and Ice Shard, Swift Swim, Trick Room) they´re also capable to boost his damage even further (Sheer Force, Rain, Guts), even if not as ever present because of his 1 time use nature and the use of Haze, is something that needs to be highlighted that some teams can´t fit Haze and most that fit Haze are because the Belly Drum existence, also with Screens gone, there goes another method to try to stop the Drummers, so, with that, is restricted.
- Mew has the combination of Imprison and Transform, meaning that it can outright anulate anything, specially if it´s slower than him, making it very restrictive to play against and unwinnable for some matchups, this, adding the fact that it is the mon with most moveset flexibility available, with tools for trapping, pivoting, phazing, setting hazards, etc. Meaning that if you don´t have a method to Taunt it, you are on the losing side since the start of the battle, so, it enters to the watchlist.
And that´s all for now. With the Belly Drum restriction however,
