should point out that you forgot about focus punch, since when activated with last will, it's just a really powerful 150BP fighting type move, similar to the others here.
In OU, you really can't get an Entrainment off. In this meta however, dying equals Entrainment. As many people know this, they don't like to kill Durant and hold back. So Durant generally lasts longer and gets multiple Entrainments off. Also, OU Durant needs Eject Button to be intact to do anything useful, while here, Eject Button is just nice utility to do something without losing momentum, like pivoting or revenge killing stuff with physical moves as Last Will (Durant will likely survive a neutral physical move and get to low health, thanks to it's average physical bulk). This is at least my expirience from toying with it.
In OU, if you are fast enough and powerful enough, you don't need to be able to take a hit, so fast sweepers are common and thus Durant and Dugtrio are relatively slow. In Last Will, mons are forced to take a hit when they kill something, so there's more incentive to run bulky offense rather than fast and frail, and thus Durant and Dugtrio are relatively fast. And for the same reason, setup sweepers are not as common in Last Will as in OU, which results in Unaware being less common than in OU. Since both mons rely on having a speed advantage, the different speed tiers of the different metas makes a huge difference in viability. And while there are multiple viable Unaware mons in OU that can wall Dugtrio, there are very few viable mons in Last Will that can wall it. So basically it's more viable here than in OU because the mons that can beat it are more viable in OU than here.
You completely misread my posts. Look again, I never said Durant was viable. I merely suggested a set that is almost certainly superior to any other Truant Durant set in this meta, said what happens if it works (I said nothing about how likely it is to actually work), and gave reasons why it is more viable here than OU (which does not imply that it's actually viable here). Your post doesn't really respond to those points. Yes, there may be more mons that can't be trapped here than in OU, but that just means you shouldn't try to trap untrappable mons, which I might not have explicitly said but it should go without saying. I'll admit I didn't consider Z-moves, but I doubt that would be more of a problem here than OU. So you don't have a single good point against anything I've actually said. And by the way, I agree with you that it probably isn't viable, that's why I haven't tried it yet.
I don't think the server has been restarted since the last Last Will code update, so it's still using old mechanics.
The rules weren't changed, bugs were fixed. What you were doing before was abusing bugs (even if you didn't know it) because this meta wasn't coded properly.
There was never any consensus in this thread that it was a bug, nor any indication that it would be changed, even after I asked about it. If anything, the consensus seemed to be that the way choice items worked before was the way they were supposed to work. Call it a bug if you want, it's still a major change in the meta with no warning.
