Suspect Bad 'n Boosted Suspect 3 - You've Got a Friend in Me

[Bobsican]

After an internal council vote, it has been agreed to suspect test Pawmot!​

Thanks to a potent spread of 140 / 115 / 140 / 140 / 120 / 105, Pawmot has been a raising concern for the Bad 'n Boosted metagame, enabling Pawmot to make the most of its wide utility movepool, featuring moves like Wish, Knock Off, Nuzzle, Volt Switch, and most notably Revival Blessing. As opponents are often unable to OHKO Pawmot, it can often find opportunities to use Revival Blessing to invalidate progress made by the other team, sometimes even going as far as using Rest + Sleep Talk for indefinite use of the move, with the flaws on paper of such set being mitigated by Pawmot's access to Natural Cure.

However, Pawmot's typing isn't particularly good offensively or defensively, being almost trivial to force out by foes like Flutter Mane, Sylveon, and Vibrava, while also being unable to force out foes like Kilowattrel, Gardevoir, and Clodsire. Pawmot's well-defined metagame role of a support Pokemon can also be taken advantage of by being used as setup fodder depending on its set, especially with its average-at-best base 105 Speed leaving it rather vulnerable to Taunt from opponents including Salazzle, Arceus-Ground, and Skarmory.

Requirements:

The instructions to participate in this test are as follows:

- Create a new account on PS. You do not have to follow any specific naming convention, but your suspect account must have never played a game in Bad 'n Boosted before this suspect test went up or you will not receive valid requirements (resetting W/L does not count for this - the account you use must never have played Bad 'n Boosted before the test, full stop).

- At any point on your new account, use the command /linksmogon on Pokemon Showdown! You will receive instructions on what to do once you run this command.

- Double check that you're listed as a voter here! If you aren't listed as a voter despite having valid requirements, please contact April, dhelmise, Giagantic or a member of OM staff.

- If you have any questions about this new process, feel free to PM me or post here!

The requirement to vote in this suspect test is a COIL value of 2900 with B=2. The deadline for getting requirements will be Tuesday, September 23rd. Good luck to all!

 

[Demon Queen]

Really, deltarun fans?

 

[Delibird Heart]

Already gave my opinion on this in the main bad n' boosted discussion thread but pawmot is an unhealthy presence for the tier imo, mostly cause of revival blessing. Stall can abuse it, and offense getting +2 free lives is also not fun to play against. BAN for me.

 

[Ziek_Freek]

suspect pretty uneventful, was watching a danganropa fan game thats all i can rlly remember tbh. ban pawmot pls though

ooooh im using my powers to convince u to quick ban frosmoth toooo ooooooh ‍‍‍‍‍

 

[Sandwiches42]

As much as I like Pawmot as a wish passer, or specs with volt switch...
Revival blessing is too much stress for me when using it and when playing against it, and can flip a game on its head too easily. Mons with that much bulk were not meant to revive. It also works with stall, and for giving set up sweepers another shot, aka buffing the 2 best playstyles (I think at least)... also sleep talk is crazy, just to rng spam it even more.
Ban Pawmot.
(lol frosmoth isn't even that good imo, ribombee sweep)
((also friend inside me????? tricky tony back at it again))