This is something that has been bothering me for a while, and now I've seen a couple people using these kind of teams during STour Week 2. With BW Cup starting now and two more weeks of BW STour still to come, I believe this needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
There isn't too much to be said about this to be honestly, this "strategy" works exactly the same in BW as it does in XY/ORAS. Seeing that it was deemed uncompetitive in XY, it makes no sense to me for it to be allowed in BW. It reduces every game to coinflips and takes away any sort of player control, if you can't break out of confusion, tough luck. The only difference between BW and XY swagger/swagplay teams is that there's maybe couple more users available in XY OU (klefki and thundurus since it's banned in BW OU), but that doesn't mean anything really since the move itself was deemed uncompetitive.
I can't quite remember all the games this was used in, but I have dug up a few replays from STour:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143751
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143720
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143084
There isn't too much to be said about this to be honestly, this "strategy" works exactly the same in BW as it does in XY/ORAS. Seeing that it was deemed uncompetitive in XY, it makes no sense to me for it to be allowed in BW. It reduces every game to coinflips and takes away any sort of player control, if you can't break out of confusion, tough luck. The only difference between BW and XY swagger/swagplay teams is that there's maybe couple more users available in XY OU (klefki and thundurus since it's banned in BW OU), but that doesn't mean anything really since the move itself was deemed uncompetitive.
I can't quite remember all the games this was used in, but I have dug up a few replays from STour:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143751
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143720
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-143084
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