hello im back again and wanna talk about my favorite thing in the world
baton pass
some of you maybe remember that i was one of the people that pushed for a speed pass suspect and was the first person to really spam chicken pass teams in tours / pass them around for things like the suspect ladder. after it was banned i assumed that hey, the tier can be healthy with such a skilless strat gone, but there are still a few problems.
there have been a few posts of things like cosmic power pass to stored power xatu / shell armor mons, and even things like nasty pass being brought to tour games again, and all this shows me is how stupid the move baton pass is. no matter how many times its been nerfed its just come back a little weaker, but still a very cheap and unviable strategy. the idea of passing boosts to something that shouldnt have them is just something that isnt meant to happen which is why i'm calling for the council to hold a council vote for the move itself, basically
banning baton pass.
lets go over some replays why dont we:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-nu-193322 - nu open semifinals game, sand1234 vs sacri'. sand decided to bring a team that he had been using on ladder which consisted of a mr.mime set i believe
Blast came up with. this replay shows how easy it is for mr.mime to get up boosts and then pass them to xatu creating an amazing win condition that can only really lose to crits.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-439186121 - just a game of my vs sand from the ladder, but shows how the team can function well vs an offensive build as well due to neat techs like salac xatu.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-432547197 - more of a joke build, but it really just shows how easy this strategy is to win with even if it isnt passed to a mon like xatu there is still a similar effect that most teams can't deal with.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-nu-195542 - it doesnt even have to be something like mr.mime, as shown by flcl a togepi can easily pass nasty plots of to teammates and put huge amounts of pressure on teams that make most matchups difficult to overcome.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-nu-195431 - just showing how quickly this can start to just put huge dents in opposing teams that are hard to come back from for most teams and players.
if i had more time i would find more replays, but i know players like
Shaneghoul have been using cosmic pass as well and can comment on it, but i really just want to see this broken move gone for good without any clauses. also please dont put this to another public test like there was before with speedpass, this is a very straightforward ban and if anyone in the community has a problem with it i would love to see discussion in this thread