Espathra Baton Pass Gimmick in Doubles
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For context, I’m not a VGC player. I mainly play Smogon Doubles formats, and in Gen 9 Doubles OU Espathra was recently banned because of its ability to pass boosts to Gholdengo, making it faster than the entire metagame and immune to any attempts to slow it down between Good as Gold and its Ghost typing. Much to my delight, Gholdengo is not in the game right now, but there is also a noticeable lack of good Roar and Snarl users, in addition to possibly the most broken special attacker of all time with Floette.
Obviously this is more of a gimmick, and Espathra is noticeably worse in 4v4 because you cannot bring two supports AND more than one Baton Pass recipient (hence the offensive Sinistcha), but I’m still getting a ton of wins I absolutely should NOT be getting.
(Lumina Crash is likely better on Espathra I just like the nuke)
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