Electro Shot Suspect
With the release of DLC 2 Duraludon's new evolution, Archaludon was granted a brand-new move in Electro Shot which is in essence, an improved Meteor Beam that is not only 100% accurate but works instantaneously under rain. When granted to all Electrics, Electro Shot gave these Pokémon a potent tool to both pressure, or knock out, and setup simultaneously, not all that disimilar to Torch Song but massively more powerful due to it being 130 BP on top of the special attack gain occurring first. Users ranged from the native user Archaludon to Raging Bolt, and Thundurus-Therian but realistically, virtually any special electric could run this if the former two were banned, such as base Thundurus-incarnate, Sandy Shocks, Zapdos, Raikou, the list goes on and on... Rains effectiveness has thus only improved with its addition and unlike within the Tera STABmons metagame, defensive answers aren't necessarily gonna be able to tank both the Electro Shot itself on switchin or the boosted attacks, henceforth without being able to type change. Thus Electro Shot has been approved for a suspect as its potential gamebreaking power is likely not limited to a scant few abusers.
In contrast, some have argued the move could be dealt with as rain was previously dealt with, namely another Damp Rock ban, however, counterarguments to this state that the abusers only need 1 turn to both attack and setup. On top of this it is even harder to revenge kill these electrics due to Thunderclap having priority. Defensive answers include Pokémon such as Ting-Lu, Tyranitar, and Clodsire, of which Tyranitar is effective at punishing these Pokémon decently well, but often unable to stay in unless it is an uncommon offensively orientated (aka running Accel Rock) set due to coverage moves such as Focus Blast being common on Thundurus-Therian. Even though Pokémon such as Ting-Lu can absorb the initial Electro Shot a similar scenario occurs in which they have to pivot out of Thundurus-therian if defensive and can only reasonably handle it if specially defensive. Raging Bolt whilst seemingly easier to handle, is still an immensely powerful Pokémon capable of 2hko-ing defensive Ting-Lu with the boost of Electro Shot and Booster Energy whilst living whatever Ting-Lu can throw its way if healthy. Clodsire mandates being specially defensive but can handle most common sets by both Raging Bolt and Thundurus-Therian.
Taken as a whole, Electro Shot is something that could easily result in many bans before some semblance of balance is achieved, and with rain always being exceedingly fishy in nature, often decided at team preview we have decided to thus suspect it.
Requirements:
Requirements can be achieved by getting minimum 75 GXE in 25 games on the STABmons ladder. In order to participate in the suspect, you must create a fresh alt (creation date no earlier than 7/7/2024) with the prefix STBEST at the start of the name. When you have obtained the reqs, make sure to post proof of your alt's record (generally a screenshot) in this thread, and if you wish to do so, you can also share your thoughts on the test here.
Voting:
Once the suspect period is over, everyone who has obtained reqs will be tagged. The post will then outline a process of blind voting, which will be clarified once the time arrives. For now, follow the above "Requirements" subheading to ensure that you have posted your reqs correctly. You must post on this thread in order to be tagged in the voting thread, however you do not need to include your vote on this thread.
A super-majority of 60% restrict votes is required for Electro Shot to be restricted.
TL;DR
- Electro Shot will be allowed on ladder
- The minimum GXE requirement is 75 and the minimum game count is 25
- You must ladder on a newly-created alt using the prefix STBEST
- You must post your reqs in this thread, though the voting process will happen in a separate thread. You are not required to state your vote in this thread.
- The suspect test will conclude at 7/21/2024 at 11:59 PM GMT-5
- A restrict vote of 60% is required to restrict Electro Shot in STABmons.
Barraskewda that is the problem. While Electro Shot ins undeniably a good part, if it goes there isn't much that is still able to take on the combination of strong Electric-type + Barraskewda. Sure, 
Raging Bolt becomes slightly worse since it now can't reliably boost up as well, but 
Thundurus-T will still be hella strong, as it can just slot Nasty Plot and instead bruteforce through all of its checks . And for those that think "oh, but all the bulky Ground-types stop it right in its tracks right" I wanna show some things.
Clodsire, who both fold to Drill Run, forcing the opponent to take potentially game-losing risks just to not immediately die. Your safest bet is to try and run physical walls who resist Water, such as 
Rotom-Wash, 
Hydrapple, and 
Toxapex, who all invite bid bad Thundurus-T.
Tyranitar, but the meta hasn't really been kind to Tyranitar, and being forced to bring any one mon just to make a matchup secure seems very unhealthy to me. I say ban Damp Rock, as that will arguably gut rain as hard as it did before it got unbanned. Electro Shot isn't even broken on its own, as Power Herb + Electro Shot sets have definetly not seen enough success to warrant this, it's Rain that is enabling the move, and getting rid of the enabler should be the priority.
