Hey everyone, the NatDex UU tiering council has decided to suspect test Victini!
Suspect Test Reasoning
Ever since its unban, Victini has been a controversial topic within the community. All of its sets were extremely potent, Choice Band and Choice Specs being the most popular choices the first couple of days. However, these sets were eventually deemed manageable enough due to the Choice-lock, meaning you can actually pivot around Victini's coverage very solidly. V-create also has a huge drawback, lowering Victini's Speed and both Defenses with one stage, meaning it's easy to revenge kill or Pursuit trap.
This all changed when the Z-Celebrate was quickly used, and to much success. Its near perfect coverage of Fire / Psychic / Grass hits pretty much everything in the tier and breaks through most of the tiers walls. Rotom-Wash, Gastrodon, and Slowking are all OHKO'd or 2HKO'd by Energy Ball. Fringe options such as Specially Defensive Whirlwind Mandibuzz, Specially Defense Toxic / Thunder Wave Porygon2 and random Grass-resist berries on Water types can check this set, but are hard to fit on most teams. Pokémon such as Incineroar have to hope Victini doesn't opt to run Focus Blast. The best current check is Galarian Slowking which, while eating every attack, has to fish for Sludge Bomb poisons to make fast progress vs Victini. Not to mention a random Choice Band V-create if you were expecting Z-Celebrate to come out will completely surprise the supposed 'check' and either takes significant damage or gets outright KO'd.
However, even Z-Celebrate Victini has its checks. Scarf Darkest Lariat Zarude is able to revenge +1 Victini after rocks damage, due to Darkest Lariat ignoring the Defense boost of Z-Celebrate. More Specially Defensive Slowking carrying Toxic or Thunder Wave can severely cripple Victini. Aforementioned Pokémon, such as Incineroar, Galarian Slowking and more niche Specially Defensive Pokémon such as Mandibuzz & Porygon2 can oftentimes fulfill the job. However, Victini still has the potential to break through all these checks with any other set that's not Z-Celebrate.
Suspect Test Information
- **This is new to National Dex UU suspect tests** Reading this is mandatory to participate in the suspect test. The voting requirements are a minimum GXE of 79 with at least 40 games played. In addition, you may play 1 less game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 79 GXE, down to a minimum of 20 games at a GXE of 83. Also, needing more than 40 games to reach 79 GXE will suffice.
GXE minimum games 79 40 79.2 39 79.4 38 79.6 37 79.8 36 80 35 80.2 34 80.4 33 80.6 32 80.8 31 81 30 81.2 29 81.4 28 81.6 27 81.8 26 82 25 82.2 24 82.4 23 82.6 22 82.8 21 83 20
- You must use a fresh account that begins with the given prefix for this suspect test. That prefix is NDUUVC. For example, I could signup and qualify with the name NDUUVC N_Mareanie.
- You may not impersonate or mock another user with your account name. If there is any slight hesitation, you're probably better off picking a different name. We reserve the right to null your voting requisites if you are found impersonating or mocking another user with your account name. Moderator discretion will be applied.
- If you are found trying to manipulate voting requisites in any way, you will be met with a harsh infraction. Manipulating voting requisites ranges from faking your screenshot to asking another user to forfeit.
- The Pokemon that's being suspect tested, Victini, will be allowed on the National Dex UU ladder for the next two weeks so that we can properly assess its position in the metagame.
- This suspect test will go on for two weeks. It will last until January the 18th at 11:59 PM GMT+1.
