I agree 100% with testing Wobbuffet on shoddy. Considering how incredibly easy it is to deal huge amounts of damage in D/P, Wobby will have trouble netting more than one kill without becoming completely useless. The only gamebreaking functions it serves are encore trapping pokes for a free set-up; and encore trapping for free switches into dugtrio. Once dugtrio kills you get a free set up anyway; and BellyZard and SD Lucario, arguably the two best set-ups in the game, are easily dealt with by a number of commonly used pokes. Even if you must sacrifice two of your own team members to kill the Charizard or Lucario, Wobbuffet will almost certainly have become too weak to be useful at that point, so it's essentially an even trade.
Not to mention the fact that taunting Heatrans and Gyaras get free attacks off of Wobbuffet.
Again, I ask, how do you get Wobbuffet in on a Gyarados? Heatran doesn't normally run Taunt, so I'll give you that one. The opponent switches Wobbuffet in when he wants to. Unless Wobbuffet just killed something... Wobbuffet will never face Gyarados. And if Gyarados ever _does_ come in on Wobbuffet, all you gotta do is switch to a generic Gyarados Counter, and Wobbuffet will be fine.
I can see how people could easily freak out when they see a Wobbuffet, but all you have to do is calm down and predict. Wobbuffet can easily make the user lose the game if played wrong; all that needs to be done to beat it (or any other pokemon for that matter) is to make smart choices.
There is no prediction against a Wobbuffet. Optimal play of Wobbuffet requires the Wobbuffet user to base his decisions off a random number generator so that he isn't out-predicted.
Maybe in face-to-face play it would work as you can see the opponent's face and actually start a bluffing game. But this does not apply to online play at all.
Finally, this isn't a test. The Deoxys-S test was a test tournament.
That was a test, and now Deoxys is pending in the OU ladder environment as a result of that test. However, right now, by changing the ladder pokemon all of a sudden, you're essentially forcing the players to play with Wobbuffet without a test. The Ladder
is the game, tests should not be conducted in the game. Hell, you're risking people's ratings on
tests. This goes against every good virtue of a game.
People don't want to be testers, they want to play the game. I am not against a Wobbuffet test, but putting it on the ladder is just plain stupid. If you want a test, make a tournament. At least the tournament players get to decide whether or not they want to play with a Wobbuffet. Forcing
players to do
testing is never a good idea.
