Partners in Crime
Approved by Chloe. and The Immortal
(Special thanks to Snaquaza for coming up with the idea and letting me take over this meta!)
Welcome to this metagame! This is a metagame based on Doubles OU, but with a twist! The concept was that you "share" your moves and abilities with your partner. This means that you can use your partners moves (aka, eight moves will show up in the selection screen). Additionally, the ability of your current partner will affect you. Say you have a Heatran and a Cresselia in the field, both of them experience Flash Fire and Levitate effects, but if you switch out Cresselia for Nidoking, Heatran loses the Levitate effect and "gains" Sheer Force instead. This means that you can get powerful combinations, but you need to be both skilled at teambuilding and at playing. You need to make sure your team can benefit from each other and has good synergy during teambuilding, however you need to plan ahead while playing to make sure you can get the combinations you want on the field together, so you can sweep.
Banlist: Standard Doubles OU Banlist, Huge Power, Kangaskhanite, Mawilite, Medichamite, Pure Power, Wonder Guard, Normalize.
Unbanlist: Nothing as of now.
Clauses: Pokemon, Standard Doubles, Team Preview.
FAQ
What happens if Gastro Acid, Skill Swap, Entrainment or any similar move is used?
Since you don't actually have your partner's ability, your normal abilities will be taken into account. This means that the partner's ability is totally unaffected.
What about Trace?
It just copies the ability of one of the opponents.
What if the two Pokemon have the same ability?
The ability won't stack, and thus nothing special will happen.
What happens if both Pokemon know the same move?
It will only appear once.
How do Transform and Imposter work?
Due to an issue with coding, both of these were banned.
How do Mimic, Mirror Move, etc. work?
They will copy the move regardless of whether the original Pokemon or partner used it.
What happens when abilities overlap? (eg. Refrigerate and Pixilate)
Effects are applied in a random order.
What happens when your partner switches out?
You may not use a move of your partner when it switches out. Whether you use the ability of the partner depends on whether it takes effect before or after switching. Turn order is determined before switching, so if your partner has Prankster, it will take effect, but if it has Tough Claws it will (likely, unless you're using Pursuit) be after switching, so it won't work. It works similarly with the new partner switching in.
What happens with abilities that work upon switching in?
They'll only take effect on a partner if a Pokemon with one of these abilities (Intimidate, Sand Stream, etc.) in on the field and a new partner switches in.
What happens when your partner faints?
After your partner faints, it's abilities will be nullified, but you can still use its move if you chose to use a move of your partner that particular turn. Afterwards you can't use its moves anymore.
What happens when you only have one Pokemon left?
Then you'll only have one ability in effect and only be able to use your own moves.
Is this playable anywhere?
Yep! It's playable on rom so go check it out!
Strategy Ideas
A lot of users have been excited about this Pokemon! It now doubles the defense of your partner as well! However, watch out since it's pretty easy to remove Furfrou with special attacks, in addition to two Pokemon being able to massacre your team at once. Still, could be a powerful pivot!
Landorus-I has a great ability in Sheer Force, which could be very beneficial in this metagame since many Pokemon have moves that can be powered up by it, allowing it assist a lot of Pokemon. It may not be that good in standard doubles, but it'll definitely be more useful here!
In general, immunity abilities have become even better, since you can protect your partner with them as well. Predict an Earthquake? Switch in Cresselia and neither 'mon will be hit. Think that Camerupt is going to use Eruption, go Heatran!
Kyurem-Black could be a threat because it has another great ability to support its partner. Mold Breaker and its clones will help against the many immunity abilities, in addition to ignoring standard ones like Unaware.
Of course, there are many more good strategies and there are even combinations of abilities that could be great when you play well and are able to combine them reliably! Luckily there's a lot to discuss, so go ahead and have fun.
Approved by Chloe. and The Immortal
(Special thanks to Snaquaza for coming up with the idea and letting me take over this meta!)
Banner by AmirAlexander !!!
Welcome to this metagame! This is a metagame based on Doubles OU, but with a twist! The concept was that you "share" your moves and abilities with your partner. This means that you can use your partners moves (aka, eight moves will show up in the selection screen). Additionally, the ability of your current partner will affect you. Say you have a Heatran and a Cresselia in the field, both of them experience Flash Fire and Levitate effects, but if you switch out Cresselia for Nidoking, Heatran loses the Levitate effect and "gains" Sheer Force instead. This means that you can get powerful combinations, but you need to be both skilled at teambuilding and at playing. You need to make sure your team can benefit from each other and has good synergy during teambuilding, however you need to plan ahead while playing to make sure you can get the combinations you want on the field together, so you can sweep.
Banlist: Standard Doubles OU Banlist, Huge Power, Kangaskhanite, Mawilite, Medichamite, Pure Power, Wonder Guard, Normalize.
Unbanlist: Nothing as of now.
Clauses: Pokemon, Standard Doubles, Team Preview.
FAQ
What happens if Gastro Acid, Skill Swap, Entrainment or any similar move is used?
Since you don't actually have your partner's ability, your normal abilities will be taken into account. This means that the partner's ability is totally unaffected.
What about Trace?
It just copies the ability of one of the opponents.
What if the two Pokemon have the same ability?
The ability won't stack, and thus nothing special will happen.
What happens if both Pokemon know the same move?
It will only appear once.
How do Transform and Imposter work?
Due to an issue with coding, both of these were banned.
How do Mimic, Mirror Move, etc. work?
They will copy the move regardless of whether the original Pokemon or partner used it.
What happens when abilities overlap? (eg. Refrigerate and Pixilate)
Effects are applied in a random order.
What happens when your partner switches out?
You may not use a move of your partner when it switches out. Whether you use the ability of the partner depends on whether it takes effect before or after switching. Turn order is determined before switching, so if your partner has Prankster, it will take effect, but if it has Tough Claws it will (likely, unless you're using Pursuit) be after switching, so it won't work. It works similarly with the new partner switching in.
What happens with abilities that work upon switching in?
They'll only take effect on a partner if a Pokemon with one of these abilities (Intimidate, Sand Stream, etc.) in on the field and a new partner switches in.
What happens when your partner faints?
After your partner faints, it's abilities will be nullified, but you can still use its move if you chose to use a move of your partner that particular turn. Afterwards you can't use its moves anymore.
What happens when you only have one Pokemon left?
Then you'll only have one ability in effect and only be able to use your own moves.
Is this playable anywhere?
Yep! It's playable on rom so go check it out!
Strategy Ideas
Landorus-I has a great ability in Sheer Force, which could be very beneficial in this metagame since many Pokemon have moves that can be powered up by it, allowing it assist a lot of Pokemon. It may not be that good in standard doubles, but it'll definitely be more useful here!
In general, immunity abilities have become even better, since you can protect your partner with them as well. Predict an Earthquake? Switch in Cresselia and neither 'mon will be hit. Think that Camerupt is going to use Eruption, go Heatran!
Kyurem-Black could be a threat because it has another great ability to support its partner. Mold Breaker and its clones will help against the many immunity abilities, in addition to ignoring standard ones like Unaware.
Of course, there are many more good strategies and there are even combinations of abilities that could be great when you play well and are able to combine them reliably! Luckily there's a lot to discuss, so go ahead and have fun.
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