Our next suspect will be Chlorophyll. We had a lot of great discussion about how best to address sun in the Metagame Discussion Thread, which you can read starting with this post. The options that we discussed were Bulbasaur, Heat Rock, and Chlorophyll. Of these, Bulbasaur was eliminated first because it had minority support from both the council and general public. From there, Chlorophyll was selected. Heat Rock and Chlorophyll had similar levels of support in the council and thread, and most members of the council favored one option but felt the other would be acceptable. Chlorophyll was selected because it addresses the primary issue of sun wholesale (Chlorophyll users) and does not significantly neuter other competitive archetypes of sun (Fire spam).
Vulpix must also be addressed, as part of the reasoning to ban Vulpix was its support role for sun teams. At this time, Vulpix will remain banned -- after the vote, the council will evaluate Vulpix and discuss suspecting it for an unban if necessary. This may not be immediate, as DLC will be dropped shortly after this suspect.
Chlorophyll is an ability that doubles the speed of a Pokemon while sun is active. LC's compressed Speed tiers make it virtually impossible to outrun Chlorophyll users while the sun is up, and the coverage available to each Chlorophyll Pokemon offers little room for outplaying someone using a sun team. The council believes that sun's limited pool of reliable answers and ability to dictate the pace of the game is worthy of suspecting, and may be too much for the tier to handle.
The voting requirements have been lowered from 80 to 78 GXE for this suspect.
The voting requirements are a minimum GXE of 78 with at least 50 games played. In addition, you may play 1 less game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 78 GXE, down to a minimum of 30 games at a GXE of 82. As always, needing more than 50 games to reach 78 GXE is fine.
| GXE | minimum games |
| 78 | 50 |
| 78.2 | 49 |
| 78.4 | 48 |
| 78.6 | 47 |
| 78.8 | 46 |
| 79 | 45 |
| 79.2 | 44 |
| 79.4 | 43 |
| 79.6 | 42 |
| 79.8 | 41 |
| 80 | 40 |
| 80.2 | 39 |
| 80.4 | 38 |
| 80.6 | 37 |
| 80.8 | 36 |
| 81 | 35 |
| 81.2 | 34 |
| 81.4 | 33 |
| 81.6 | 32 |
| 81.8 | 31 |
| 82 | 30 |
For this suspect test, we will be using the regular LC ladder, so you must create a new account that begins with LCCH to qualify. When you have reached the requirements, click here (not posted yet) to post your proof. The suspect period will end on June 15th, 11:59 PM EST.
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1. No one liners or uninformed posts.
2. No discussion on other potential suspects or the suspect process.
3. Be respectful.
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the best chloro sweeper, growth is the prime set
lacks fire coverage but notably can bop vullaby with moonblast
notable for Chlorophyll being its only ability
not typically a chloro sweeper
bad
the best manual sun setter
prankster sunny day
same, but worse
sunny day -> boom
scarf solar power fire blast is ridiculous to switch into
it's just such a bulky brave bird
flash fire and strong fire attacks, weak to trapping
neutral to grass, resists fire/poison, weak to trapping
weak to weather ball but helps stall sun turns via switches
bulky af
has fire coverage and bulk, fairly passive
extremely niche but nearly perfect counter to sun
weak to poison but provides hail
strong priority for revenging
