The OU Tiering Council, in the process of achieving a balanced and desirable metagame, has decided to suspect test the strategy known as full Baton Pass chains.
At the end of the testing period, qualified players will be asked to choose one of the following options:
Rather than testing the move Baton Pass, that we believe has legit uses outside of full Baton Pass chains, we decided to suggest a complex ban in order to nerf the strategy.
Remember to abuse full Baton Pass chains as much as you can, in order to have an informed opinion on the topic.
Those who're interested into obtaining voting rights will be required to qualify on the OU (Suspect Test) ladder (which is being implemented right now), achieving a COIL rating of 2700 or more. However, do note that we reserve the right to change the requirements, according to the results of the first week of testing. The test will last approximately 2 weeks starting from when the ladder is up.
If you have any question regarding this suspect test, then feel free to private message one of: Aldaron, McMeghan, M Dragon, Nachos and myself. Don't ask questions in this thread.
After the overall positive experience of the last pre-suspect discussion thread, I'm going to post this thread in the general metagame discussion forum, to give everyone the opportunity to weigh in. However, if people start to flood the thread with dumb posts, I'll have to move it to Victory Road.
The same zero-tolerance policy applies here:
At the end of the testing period, qualified players will be asked to choose one of the following options:
- Do nothing and keep the metagame as it is;
- Forbid the use of the move Baton Pass on more than 3 Pokémon on the same team (complex ban);
- Ban the combination of the move Baton Pass in conjunction with the ability Magic Bounce and the ability Speed Boost (complex ban).
Rather than testing the move Baton Pass, that we believe has legit uses outside of full Baton Pass chains, we decided to suggest a complex ban in order to nerf the strategy.
Remember to abuse full Baton Pass chains as much as you can, in order to have an informed opinion on the topic.
Those who're interested into obtaining voting rights will be required to qualify on the OU (Suspect Test) ladder (which is being implemented right now), achieving a COIL rating of 2700 or more. However, do note that we reserve the right to change the requirements, according to the results of the first week of testing. The test will last approximately 2 weeks starting from when the ladder is up.
If you have any question regarding this suspect test, then feel free to private message one of: Aldaron, McMeghan, M Dragon, Nachos and myself. Don't ask questions in this thread.
After the overall positive experience of the last pre-suspect discussion thread, I'm going to post this thread in the general metagame discussion forum, to give everyone the opportunity to weigh in. However, if people start to flood the thread with dumb posts, I'll have to move it to Victory Road.
The same zero-tolerance policy applies here:
- Users who attempt to troll this thread will be immediately banned without any prior warning (this applies specifically to newly registered accounts);
- If you have no knowledge (or next to no knowledge) of the game at high level of play (be it the top of the ladder of official tournaments) then you're not supposed to post in this thread. I don't want to see one-liners or uninformed posts;
- You're required to make civil posts and accept criticism from those who disagree with you;
- You're absolutely not allowed to discuss or question the tiering process and its current implementation.