Actuarily
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Quarter piece, got war, and peace inside my DNA
I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle, though, ambition flow inside my DNA
I was born like this
Following the Flutter Mane suspect, the DOU Council has shifted focus to the clear next option for a suspect: Deoxys-Attack.
Deoxys-Attack embodies the role of a glass cannon more than any other pokemon. With its sky high offenses, 180 in both Attack and Special Attack, Deoxys-A is a rare threat that can utilize both phyiscal and special attacks effectively. Even though Deoxys-A has essentially no defenses, it’s able to use a focus sash to guarantee it survives at least one hit to be able to get off its attacks. Alongside those high offensive stats, Deoxys-A also outspeeds almost the entire unboosted metagame, (other than the uncommonly used Regieleki) allowing it to easily get off its powerful attacks. Typically priority attackers would be able to still beat a threat that has such low defenses, but Psychic Terrain is almost always used to compliment Deoxys-A as it is the best exploiter of the archetype. Not only does Psychic Terrain block priority attacks that could take out Deoxys-A before it attacks, but it also gives it something that most glass cannons don't have, a powerful spread attack in Expanding Force. This gives Deoxys-A the opportunity to KO both opposing Pokemon, preventing the opponent from being able to trade one of thier pokemon to be able to hit Deoxys-A back. Indedee-F also excellently supports Deoxys-A, being able to redirect opposing attacks as well as use Helping Hand to make Deoxys-A's attacks even more deadly. Beyond just Expanding Force, Deoxys-A also gets an incredibly strong single target attack in Psycho Boost, which allows it to have a strong attack to click outside of Psychic Terrain, and inside of it Psycho Boost is able to OHKO many bulky neutral targets. Typically opponents could just use Steel & Dark types to be able to survive Deoxys-A's onslaught of powerful psychic attacks, but Deoxys-A also gets great coverage moves like Superpower, which limits Pokemon like Kingambit, Chien-Pao, Tyranitar, and Chi-yu from being reliable checks.
That being said, there are Steels & Darks that are able to withstand Superpower and Deoxys-A's psychic attacks, either by a combination of good secondary typing, helpful abilities, or great bulk, such as Incineroar, Gholdengo, Archaludon, and Grimmsnarl. Psychic types like Cresselia, Hatterene, and Mew are able to resist all of Deoxys-A’s typical moves. Alongside this, Rillaboom is a favorite pick to help counter psychic terrain, as it can change the terrain and with its good bulk boosted by Assault Vest & priority moves in Grassy Glide & Fake Out, Rillaboom can switch in on Deoxys-Attack and threaten it. Furthermore, like all glass cannons, Deoxys-A is extremely susceptible to speed control, pokemon that have their speed boosted either by Choice Scarf or Booster Energy, or by weather attackers. Also Deoxys-A can be very difficult to position; it cannot switch in on basically any attacks without breaking its focus sash.
As usual, 60% of the vote must be in favor to ban Deoxys-Attack.
Important: For this suspect, there will be two ways to qualify. The first is the typical laddering period, where players must reach the minimum GXE. The second is by winning a live suspect tournament, to be held in the Smogon Doubles Room. You may compete in the suspect tournament on any account, and will need to post proof of you winning the suspect tournament on the voter ID thread.
There will be two live suspect tournaments:
Suspect Tournament Times
Saturday, March 2nd at 12:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-5)
Sunday, March 3rd at 4:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-5)
The laddering period will last for a total of nine days.
Laddering Period
Start: Friday, March 1st at 8:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-5)
End: Sunday, March 10th at 8:00 PM Eastern time (GMT-5)
All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! Doubles OU ladder on a fresh alt with the prefix DOUAD [name]. For example, I might register "DOUAD Actuarily” to ladder with. You must follow this format to qualify.
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 |
Deoxys-Attack will be legal during this suspect.
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