Stratos
Banned deucer.
It's my pleasure to announce the second official suspect test of ORAS doubles! This may be coming slightly out of left field, but this time we will be testing Dark Void.
After the contentious gravity+sleep ban, the council was discussing the role of sleep in the metagame. Simply put, we thought the metagame, and sleep's role in the metagame, would be a lot better if the move weren't so inextricably tied to the Grass type. 100 accuracy non-powder sleep had been shown to be broken, but hypnosis and co are too inaccurate to see sustained use on their own. With some convincing from Zach, who has experience with Dark Void in the VGC metagame, we decided to test this 80 accuracy sleep move and see if it could be the happy medium we're looking for. At the very least it's better than another Kangaskhan suspect.
The test will run for three weeks. Requirements come in two parts: ladder reqs and posting reqs. There are two parallel ladders, one with Dark Void and one without, and you must achieve a COIL of at least 2200 on both ladders to make the ladder reqs. I'll post the alt confirmation thread when I can be bothered. The posting reqs mean that you have to contribute in some way to this thread's discussion about Dark Void to vote. Please make sure to actually read the arguments others present for and against its brokenness and respond accordingly, or introduce new points; do not simply rehash an opinion. A sheer volume of people saying one thing or another will change nobody's opinion so make sure you're actually doing something to make people think. These reqs are subjective, meaning that the leadership can decide that you didn't meet them, even if you posted, if your posts aren't up to par. That means your post needs to make legitimate points (no "it's not broken if you can use it too") and show good metagame knowledge.
ANTAR SEZ: The B value for this test is 16.0. To figure out how many battles you'll need to have in order to achieve reqs, first determine your GXE (shown on the ladder and when you type /rating) and plug that into the following formula:
N=16.0/log2(40*GXE/2200)
(Google calculator is awesome for this kind of thing).
Here are some sample values:
As a last note, please be respectful itt and keep the jokes somewhere else.
After the contentious gravity+sleep ban, the council was discussing the role of sleep in the metagame. Simply put, we thought the metagame, and sleep's role in the metagame, would be a lot better if the move weren't so inextricably tied to the Grass type. 100 accuracy non-powder sleep had been shown to be broken, but hypnosis and co are too inaccurate to see sustained use on their own. With some convincing from Zach, who has experience with Dark Void in the VGC metagame, we decided to test this 80 accuracy sleep move and see if it could be the happy medium we're looking for. At the very least it's better than another Kangaskhan suspect.
The test will run for three weeks. Requirements come in two parts: ladder reqs and posting reqs. There are two parallel ladders, one with Dark Void and one without, and you must achieve a COIL of at least 2200 on both ladders to make the ladder reqs. I'll post the alt confirmation thread when I can be bothered. The posting reqs mean that you have to contribute in some way to this thread's discussion about Dark Void to vote. Please make sure to actually read the arguments others present for and against its brokenness and respond accordingly, or introduce new points; do not simply rehash an opinion. A sheer volume of people saying one thing or another will change nobody's opinion so make sure you're actually doing something to make people think. These reqs are subjective, meaning that the leadership can decide that you didn't meet them, even if you posted, if your posts aren't up to par. That means your post needs to make legitimate points (no "it's not broken if you can use it too") and show good metagame knowledge.
ANTAR SEZ: The B value for this test is 16.0. To figure out how many battles you'll need to have in order to achieve reqs, first determine your GXE (shown on the ladder and when you type /rating) and plug that into the following formula:
N=16.0/log2(40*GXE/2200)
(Google calculator is awesome for this kind of thing).
Here are some sample values:
Code:
GXE N
100 19
90 23
85 26
80 30
75 36
72 42
70 46
65 67
61 108