Other Tiers Doubles OU for DPP

Hello!
I am Dubloom and I had a thought( sorry if bad English, I am French.)
We all know about the more abundant Doubles tiers, BW, XY, USUM, and SS Doubles and VGC.
Out of these ones, DP Doubles OU goes underlooked.
While I asked the "Smogon Doubles" lobby about any replays, and a mod saw one. I don't have it one me anymore, so sorry.
Anyway, other than that one forum, their was not even a overview on the tier on the strategy dex.
This tier is basically lost to time, and I want to see if anyone else knows or wants to know anything about the tier: I have some teams already made.
I'm revive tier!
 

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Your description of the tier being lost of time is somewhat misleading. It never began to begin with!

Smogon only started the Doubles metagame in 5th Gen through Pokemon Showdown. Back in 4th Gen, we were using a different Pokemon battle simulator that couldn't support Doubles.

Doubles has much less suport than singles in Smogon. Throughout 5th Gen, the Double metagame was fighting for Doubles to get Smogon official metagame status, and it was never given its own forum. 6th Gen is where we received full Smogon official metagame status, and that has continued to 8th Gen. However, there was never enough of a playerbase or demand to extend that to UU, despite single metagames getting offical metagames all the way to NU. There is even less of a playerbase and demand for DP; this is honestly the first Smogon post I have seen about 4th Gen Doubles. The metagame is very, very underexplored!
 
Your description of the tier being lost of time is somewhat misleading. It never began to begin with!

Smogon only started the Doubles metagame in 5th Gen through Pokemon Showdown. Back in 4th Gen, we were using a different Pokemon battle simulator that couldn't support Doubles.

Doubles has much less suport than singles in Smogon. Throughout 5th Gen, the Double metagame was fighting for Doubles to get Smogon official metagame status, and it was never given its own forum. 6th Gen is where we received full Smogon official metagame status, and that has continued to 8th Gen. However, there was never enough of a playerbase or demand to extend that to UU, despite single metagames getting offical metagames all the way to NU. There is even less of a playerbase and demand for DP; this is honestly the first Smogon post I have seen about 4th Gen Doubles. The metagame is very, very underexplored!
For sure, DP, Doubles even, hasn't seen much play ever. I thank you for the retrospect, since I'm not as knowing with Doubles history.
However, I'll still keep this thread up, just in case more people see it and give their input too.
I'll post some samples here:
https://pokepast.es/46a86cb861adedb9
https://pokepast.es/1a4b2d3be4a40f26
https://pokepast.es/ca21710453b8e03c
https://pokepast.es/360ae3d94d432dae
https://pokepast.es/d0fae20555528113
Thanks for the information, Malice!
 
We tried it in the doubles community a few years ago, it wasn't great tbh. T wave being the best form of (non trick room) speed control results in a lot of hax, which is frustrating, and there were also some balance issues. I think we starting by banning self destruct, explosion, box cover legendaries, soul dew, and mew.
 
We tried it in the doubles community a few years ago, it wasn't great tbh. T wave being the best form of (non trick room) speed control results in a lot of hax, which is frustrating, and there were also some balance issues. I think we starting by banning self destruct, explosion, box cover legendaries, soul dew, and mew.
Noted, Cyber. I've have seen Mew and also thought it should be banned. 600BST with every move you need makes it a problem, defensive too.
With Soul Dew banned, Latios won't be as bad; forced to run LO or E Belt now(still dangerous). Watch out for the psychics!
 
I'm not sure what the policy for nercobumping is around here but would also like to say I'm interested into getting into Gen 4 doubles, but I can't get help with teambuilding elsewhere on the site, not even on showdown. It's appearntly just too niche.
 

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