While webs has been on the cusp of a suspect for some time now, in recent months it has risen to become arguably the most centralizing force in the metagame. Prominent abusers including Grookey, Scraggy, Nasty Plot Vullaby, and Woobat have a large portion of their checks hindered or shut down by web support, since they become drastically more difficult to revenge-kill offensively. Meanwhile, otherwise justifiable webs counterplay options such as fast immunities and removal are rare and, more importantly, tend to have poor matchups against the most common web abusers. Without a reasonable means to reliably handle minor variations to a build of Dewpider + hyper offensive threats, the meta has come to be dominated by this archetype, often resulting in those games being decided on team preview if a specific sweeper can’t be checked. While all of these web teams involve Dewpider, we do not believe Dewpider’s own perks to be a major draw to the webs archetype; other web setters would be able to support web sweepers nearly as well. Though these developments came before the DLC, we do not believe the meta shifts from the DLC have affected Sticky Web's strength significantly.
If Sticky Web ends up being banned, we are likely to revisit the Cutiefly ban, as one of the core strengths to the Pokemon was that it was a prominent webs setters. We are likely to suspect other things that are problematic in the metagame currently than revisit Cutiefly.
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 WEBLC to qualify. When you have reached the requirements, click here (not posted yet) to post your proof. Sticky Web will be legal on the ladder until the suspect is over. The suspect period will end on Sunday, November 8th, 11:59 PM EST.
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we have one web abuser. Know let’s have a look at who are the other abusers.
As Magnemite, Pawniard is a strong hitter that lack a bit of speed. In addition, its access to Defiant + Sucker Punch make Defog a really dangerous move. Your opponent is pretty much damned to choose between not removing the web and dealing with a +2 Pawniard. Lastly, Pawniard helps to deal with other web teams with Defiant (and so is really good even outside of web teams).
Scraggy role is basically to set up a dragon dance and then snowball thought the opponent team thanks to Moxie. Web helps him to outspeed faster Scarf users making him even more threatening.
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combo. Grookey is definitely a huge threat. Of course, it has a great priority, but web allows him to go for extremely strong Wood Hammers leaving your opponent team with big holes. He is often played with Grassy Seed Woobat who is an amazing cleaner thanks to Simple. Woobat also benefit a lot from web because it basically allows him to outspeed most of the tier and set up its Calm Mind more safely.
is a good mon overall, letting teams anti-lead opposing webs which I'll get to later. It has solid coverage with edgequake and flying STAB while also having roost to ignore it's defeatist being as game ending to it. Generally hits hard and can improve its max 17 speed not outpacing faster mons with the use of webs, so overall solid.
is very threatening with nasty plot and weak armor, with webs fixing one small weakness being it's speed tier being lower than 17's like fast mienfoo and even faster stuff like diglett, ponyta, etc. naturally without needing the weak armor boost. Not much more needs to be said, it's topping the usage stats monthly for a reason.
was probably the most annoying thing to face, as it can safely lead against Dewpider and click an attack into rapid spin to ignore the speed drop from icy wind and remove webs. Borderline requires an anti lead of your own because ghosts aren't exactly common to spinblock on webs. Hard to switch into usually as well, so just overall hard to deal with.
has rock blast, can always live hits due to sturdy or just boost its own speed with weak armor later on. If it gets more than 2 hits on a lead Dewpider webs are denied, it's overall not bad at this.
is able to wall a lot of common abusers like scraggy, vullaby, archen, etc. Paired with a steel resist, it's hard for webs teams to get sweeping with walls like this around.
+ defog. This combo is one of the few that threatens out Pawniard while having defog, and is a fairly safe way to remove webs while using defog instead of having to risk giving Pawniard a boost without being able to deal with it. It's tanky and can usually take on Magnemite as well while picking off Pokemon like Scraggy, defense dropped Vullaby, etc. and taking some hits here and there, solid to remove webs in the face of the team's anti defog measures.
