Hi all,
Following the results of the recent BW Survey, the BW Council has elected to suspect test Reuniclus. While no other element broke a simple majority in terms of community opinion, Reuniclus had a resounding 80.2% community approval for a suspect.
In many ways, Reuniclus takes advantage of the best elements of this tier: it is immune to all passive damage, it is a fantastic Spikes partner, it has a versatility of sets, and it has very specific, and often narrow, counterplay. Partners such as Thunder Wave Latios can nullify its most common check, Chople Berry Tyranitar, priming Reuniclus for a sweep. On rain teams, Politoed is oftentimes mandated to run Encore to help keep Reuniclus at bay.
To quote my post in the aforementioned thread, "The discovery of Clefable being a legitimate defensive lynchpin has only bolstered the efficacy of Reuniclus (and other Magic Guard users at large). Clefable is able to soft pivot against a lot of annoying things that Reuniclus would have to otherwise (think: bulky waters, Ferrothorn, etc) allowing Reuniclus more breathing room to wreak havoc and do damage.
There are other moves which haven't even been tapped into at a high enough frequency—Signal Beam, for instance, provides similar coverage to Focus Blast with also a practically guaranteed victory in a Reuniclus ditto." Which is to say: as the metagame as progressed, the playerbase has optimized Reuniclus even further, making its executions potentially too powerful.
Anyone who has met any of the below thresholds is automatically qualified to vote from tournament placements.
1) 6+ games or 3+ wins in SPL XV
2) BW Cup VII top 8
3) Finals of BW Winter Seasonal
4) Overall 2023 BW Circuit top 16
A list of qualified voters can be seen below:
Fakes, SoulWind, Dark Eeveon, dice, sensei axew, Rewer, elodin, jisoo, watashi, Nalorium, Finchinator, mael, GaryTheGengar, Mako, Star, Garay Oak, Raiza, Feaniix, Quarante8, zaaya, 3d, Shoka, Rubyblood, Goootzinho, Garay Oak, Kristyl, marsandback, Sergi, Aliss
As always, we will be offering a ladder component for community members to have a chance to vote whom do not immediately qualify. You must create a new alt with the prefix BWR and achieve a rating of 1600+ and a GXE of 85+ simultaneously. Please do not continue to ladder on your account after you achieve the reqs as we may not be able to verify that you achieved them if your rating/GXE ends up dropping.
As a reminder, qualifying for a suspect via ladder is exclusive to that suspect only and does not carry over.
The deadline for posting ladder reqs is Monday, July 1st at 10:00 PM GMT -4, after which a voting thread will be created. This thread will remain open for discussion about this suspect ONLY, not other potential bans.