Lol wow, who would've thought Fusion Bolt / Fusion Flare's secondary effects would ever see use! Only in Doubles does this cool shit happens! I'll need to give that a test drive ;d
Thanks, makiri, for your thoughtful post. I wish more VGC players would be more helpful like you. I do caution you from drawing any conclusions from Showdown's ladder, though, since most Double players know that it's more nooby than VGC's ladder (avg weight Doubles: 0.685; VGC: 0.741 as per Antar's usage stats).
NBridge is certainly a cool resource, but it's cluttered with irl events and other miscellaneous information that does not really interest us. Basically, it's quite difficult to navigate when one is looking for doubles strategies. The Beginnger's section definitely seems helpful for the newer players here, but I think most of us are well past that. I'll certainly give it a good read, though! Mind if I link those beginner articles to the OP?
What would be more beneficial, though, if you guys would invest some interest to our metagame even at a casual level, and offer some enlightening feedback. voodoo pimp, NixHex, PenguinX, Audiosurfer, and Exeggutor (anybody else I missed?) have done that, and we are truly grateful for them facilitating Smogon's understanding of the doubles format in general.
PS: Synre, thanks for your thoughtful response, but like I cautioned in this post ladder players =/= average Doubles players that know what they're doing -_-;;