New Year, New Suspects, with Sleep being brought up in the Suspects and Bans thread as the next meta problem that we should take a look at. I am using this poll to gauge interest in what options we should have in the potential suspect test.
Recap on Sleep in BH:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...suspects-and-bans-thread.3588586/post-7990515
Based on my own personal thoughts as well as findings from the thread I have settled on the three following choices:
Sleep is a high impact mechanic that is being suspected. Thus, I will continue to use the new verification system introduced in previous polls to limit vote brigading or false positives/negatives. In addition, the cutoffs for this suspect will be slightly higher than have been before.
This poll will be open until Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (UTC -5).
This will leave scope for beginning a suspect hopefully by the following weekend, if needed.
Recap on Sleep in BH:
- From the dex:
Sleep prevents Pokémon from making a move for a random number of its turns. (Gen 5) Sleep now lasts 1-3 turns. (Gen 6) A Pokémon's sleep counter no longer resets to its original amount when switched out.
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...suspects-and-bans-thread.3588586/post-7990515
Based on my own personal thoughts as well as findings from the thread I have settled on the three following choices:
- Sleep Clause: Follow the precedent to reduce its power that has been seen in every other tier. The best limited approach start building towards more extreme measures, the ethos of smogon's ban process, not just my own.
- Specific Sleep Move Ban: Instead of banning all forms of sleep outright, this would involve doing a one-by-one ban process of each move (or a small pool of moves) to see potential impacts on the meta and then proceeding further. Another way to start with a limited approach and then build from there, while being less harsh than a total ban, but still having an avenue towards that goal if needed.
- No Action Required: Vote for this option if you feel that the tools provided by the BH meta at the moment are sufficient to counteract sleep in all its forms.
Sleep is a high impact mechanic that is being suspected. Thus, I will continue to use the new verification system introduced in previous polls to limit vote brigading or false positives/negatives. In addition, the cutoffs for this suspect will be slightly higher than have been before.
- Find any alt of yours that has a [Gen 7] Balanced Hackmons rank with either a win rate of 80% after at least 60 games (rounded down), or 85 GXE after 120 games. The number of games played has to be visible. In addition: I may require you to verify whether you really own the alt on PS.
- Post your vote for one of the 3 options above
PROVIDE AN IMAGE OF THE ALT WITH PROOF OF OWNERSHIP
example1 | example2 | example3
Failure to do so will invalidate your vote.
example1 | example2 | example3
Failure to do so will invalidate your vote.
This poll will be open until Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (UTC -5).
This will leave scope for beginning a suspect hopefully by the following weekend, if needed.
Final Verified Tally
Sleep Clause: 11 (+5 invalidated) | Specific Ban: 7 | No Action: 1
Sleep Clause: 11 (+5 invalidated) | Specific Ban: 7 | No Action: 1
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