BW UU is a tier with a small, dedicated playerbase that has been enjoying it in unofficial team tournaments for as long as the tier's existed, but in recentish times a number of clauses have been introduced to unofficial UU team tournaments like UUPL, UUSD and UUWC. These clauses aim to limit strategies that were discovered to be either broken or cheesy/uncompetitive after the generation ended and could no longer be tiered. They are as follows:
- Baton Pass is banned from the tier outright. Officially, it takes the same Baton Pass clause used in BW OU - only one user of Baton Pass per team, and one may not pass Speed + another stat.
- Liepard and Riolu are banned from the tier. Officially, they are of course legal. This one will probably need a little more explanation for the uninitiated so here's a quick rundown:
In Gen 5, Liepard and Riolu (and technically Purrloin) have unique traits in Prankster Assist/Copycat, which allows them to use phasing moves with priority. This means that if the opponent does not have a way to outprioritise the Liepard or Riolu user (very difficult in Liepard's case due to its blazing Speed) or a Magic Bounce user, they will be stuck in an endless loop of having their Pokemon switched out over and over until they faint to hazard damage. Removing hazards in BW UU is notoriously difficult due to its poor spinners and Xatu not being the most reliable form of hazard control, so even Stealth Rock + a single Spike can end games when Liepard and Riolu are around.
Apologies on how empty this is, I'm trying not to give any personal opinions due to my generally low experience with this tier. Since I'm not really informed, I'm going to ping anyone who has played it in recent tournaments that can give their opinions much better than I can. I just wanted to get this thread up because nobody else had and it was pointed out to me that it really should be done instead of continuing to use unofficial bans for our team tournaments when we opened up this avenue.
Please note that the above is not a voter list, I just took names from documents and probably missed a few.
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- Baton Pass is banned from the tier outright. Officially, it takes the same Baton Pass clause used in BW OU - only one user of Baton Pass per team, and one may not pass Speed + another stat.
- Liepard and Riolu are banned from the tier. Officially, they are of course legal. This one will probably need a little more explanation for the uninitiated so here's a quick rundown:
In Gen 5, Liepard and Riolu (and technically Purrloin) have unique traits in Prankster Assist/Copycat, which allows them to use phasing moves with priority. This means that if the opponent does not have a way to outprioritise the Liepard or Riolu user (very difficult in Liepard's case due to its blazing Speed) or a Magic Bounce user, they will be stuck in an endless loop of having their Pokemon switched out over and over until they faint to hazard damage. Removing hazards in BW UU is notoriously difficult due to its poor spinners and Xatu not being the most reliable form of hazard control, so even Stealth Rock + a single Spike can end games when Liepard and Riolu are around.
Apologies on how empty this is, I'm trying not to give any personal opinions due to my generally low experience with this tier. Since I'm not really informed, I'm going to ping anyone who has played it in recent tournaments that can give their opinions much better than I can. I just wanted to get this thread up because nobody else had and it was pointed out to me that it really should be done instead of continuing to use unofficial bans for our team tournaments when we opened up this avenue.
Please note that the above is not a voter list, I just took names from documents and probably missed a few.
If you cannot access this thread due to being badgeless, feel free to PM me and I'll help you out. Alternatively, here's a reminder that this thread exists and will allow you to post here without needing a proxy. Thanks!