JabbaTheGriffin
Stormblessed
It's the time you've all been waiting for! The time has come to choose new BL Suspects based on Smogon's criteria for banning Pokemon from a metagame. As a reminder, these criteria are:
Offensive Characteristic
A Pokémon is BL if, in common battle conditions, it is capable of sweeping through a significant portion of teams in the metagame with little effort.
Defensive Characteristic
A Pokémon is BL if, in common battle conditions, it is able to wall and stall out a significant portion of the metagame.
Support Characteristic
A Pokémon is BL if, in common battle conditions, it can consistently set up a situation in which it makes it substantially easier for other pokemon to sweep.
- You can nominate as many suspects as possible, provided you give good reasoning. Please Bold the Pokemon you nominate as Suspects.
- While we will not be imposing a limitation on the number of Suspects you choose to nominate, we ask you to keep it to a reasonable number of nominations in your post.
- Use your own reasoning and not something like "I believe that Cherrim is BL because reachzero says so".
- You can't nominate against a Pokemon, that is, you can't say "I don't want Honchkrow to be a Suspect".
- Do not reply to other people's posts in this topic.
- Depending on the quality of your arguments, your vote might not be counted. However, votes will be evaluated on a less technical, more common-sense basis than in previous Suspect nominations.
- Only make one post. Edit all your Suspect nominations into that post.
- Any posts that aren't nominating suspects will be deleted.
- If you have any questions, please PM JabbaTheGriffin or reachzero.
- Votes will not be counted until after this thread is closed.
- While any and all users are open to nominations we ask for the sake of the integrity of the process that these votes be based on adequate experience and testing. Unlike previous tests, we will be utilizing Suspect Experience data (SEXP), so please do not attempt to nominate a Pokemon that you have not used or played against.
- Don't be afraid to nominate Pokemon that have already been nominated.
- It is an acceptable vote to bold vote "no Suspects". If you believe strongly that there are no Suspects in the current UU metagame, you may vote for no Pokemon to be Suspects.
- Nominations close June 16th