MajorBowman
wouldst thou like to live fergaliciously?
The show is only gettin' started
The road is feelin' like a pothole
Sit down, stand up, head down, hands up, and
Pay your way in pain
You got to pray your way in shame
The disdain for Shadow Tag is largely rooted in the inflexibility it forces upon players during both teambuilding and battling. The prevalence of pivoting moves like U-Turn and Parting Shot skyrocketed as a means of combatting Shadow Tag as only a very small subset of DOU Pokemon were unaffected by Shadow Tag. While problematic in SM DOU (and the main reason behind the SM Gengarite ban), Gothitelle and Gothorita, the relevant Pokemon with access to Shadow Tag, gained access to Fake Out in Sword and Shield, making Shadow Tag that much more oppressive. There is somewhat of an opportunity cost to using Shadow Tag in that Gothitelle and Gothorita are lacking in many other areas; their base stats are unimpressive at best, and their movepools aren't particularly wide. However, they have access to just the right set of attacks and just enough stats to make them far more than ability bots. As such, there was hardly a team that couldn't abuse Shadow Tag in some way, and the DOU Council decided that the metagame would be better off without it in October.
Since Shadow Tag has existed in DOU since its inception, it might seem excessive to quickban it at a somewhat arbitrary time. For this reason, the Council believes that Shadow Tag deserves a full suspect test to fully evaluate whether it is or was an unhealthy element of the metagame. This test will be treated as a test to unban Shadow Tag, meaning that at least 60% of voters need to be in favor of dropping Shadow Tag back into DOU for it to happen.
Important: The laddering period will last for a total of nine days.
Laddering Period
Start: Friday, May 21st at 8:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-4)
End: Sunday, May 30th at 8:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-4)
All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! Doubles OU ladder on a fresh alt with a name of the form "DOUBO [name]". For example, I might register the name "DOUBO Bowman" to use on the suspect ladder.
To qualify to vote, you must achieve a minimum GXE of 80 with at least 50 games played. In addition, you may subtract 1 game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 80 GXE, down to a minimum of 30 games at a GXE of 84. As always, needing more than 50 games to reach 80 GXE is fine.
GXE | minimum games |
80 | 50 |
80.2 | 49 |
80.4 | 48 |
80.6 | 47 |
80.8 | 46 |
81 | 45 |
81.2 | 44 |
81.4 | 43 |
81.6 | 42 |
81.8 | 41 |
82 | 40 |
82.2 | 39 |
82.4 | 38 |
82.6 | 37 |
82.8 | 36 |
83 | 35 |
83.2 | 34 |
83.4 | 33 |
83.6 | 32 |
83.8 | 31 |
84 | 30 |
Shadow Tag will be legal during this suspect.
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