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Approved by Memoric, MajorBowman, and Level 51
How it Works/Rules:
Each week I will nominate a viable pokemon in the DOU metagame and post a standard set, and challenge you all to find a new way to use it decently! Rounds will last a total of one week each, with five days allocated to posting sets, and the next 2 days set aside for voting! Winners will have there name and set posted in an archive for all to see how creative they are and such!
Submissions:
When you submit a set for this competition, please include an animated sprite, plus a showdown importable of the set in a hide tag marked with the name of the pokemon.
In addition to this I ask that you make another hidetag marked description with just that, a description of what the set does and just why its worth using over the standard set or different pokemon that may give it competition for a teamslot in its selected role. I ask of this from you all so as to ease archiving all winners and just to make the thread look more presentable! Thanks in advance!
Next Best Thing!
Hey everyone, welcome the Doubles OU Next Best Thing Thread. This will be a weekly competition run by myself, with the goal being to innovate cool new sets that deviate from the standard in some meaningful way to breathe new niches into otherwise standard pokemon!How it Works/Rules:
Each week I will nominate a viable pokemon in the DOU metagame and post a standard set, and challenge you all to find a new way to use it decently! Rounds will last a total of one week each, with five days allocated to posting sets, and the next 2 days set aside for voting! Winners will have there name and set posted in an archive for all to see how creative they are and such!
Submissions:
When you submit a set for this competition, please include an animated sprite, plus a showdown importable of the set in a hide tag marked with the name of the pokemon.
In addition to this I ask that you make another hidetag marked description with just that, a description of what the set does and just why its worth using over the standard set or different pokemon that may give it competition for a teamslot in its selected role. I ask of this from you all so as to ease archiving all winners and just to make the thread look more presentable! Thanks in advance!
Week 1(miltankmilk):
Hoopa-Unbound @ Psychium Z
Ability: Magician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Lonely Nature
- Hyperspace Fury
- Hyperspace Hole
- Ally Switch
- Protect
Ability: Magician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Lonely Nature
- Hyperspace Fury
- Hyperspace Hole
- Ally Switch
- Protect
Ally switch alone is a pretty cool move in Doubles and it just so happens that Z-ally switch gives you +2 speed. This fixes Hoopa's troubles of having a middling speed tier outspeeding scarfers and if you run hasty you can outspeed modest Kingdra in rain which is pretty cool. Ally switch is really neat on hoopa as you can bait u-turns or other single target physical attacks into a partner that can take out the threat to it, or you could protect a teammate from a threatening attack and let hoopa take it on. Not the most splashable set but its a lot of fun and it can clean teams late game as well as support a teammate.
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