Necrozma-Dawn-Wings Suspect Following a unanimous vote, the Ubers UU council has voted to suspect Necrozma-Dawn-Wings
WHY:
It's been pretty clear that Necrozma-Dawn-wings has been a hot topic in the Ubers UU metagame. The reason why is pretty simple; it just doesn't have particularly many defensive answers. Thanks to its power Ghost STAB in Moongeist Beam and with Terastallization which gives it Fairy STAB , leaving pretty much only Bulky Normal Types and Kingambit as truly solid checks. Add on to this that Necrozma-Dawn Wings has incredible natural bulk paired with what is effectively Mold Breaker immune Filter, and you end up with a terrifying attacker that also has a very strong defensive presence.
Necrozma-Dawn-Wings also has a decent amount of set variety that can mix up what checks it. Calm Mind, Moonlight with 2 attacks is the most common set, but Specs can be slotted in to nuke things like Kingambit & other steels like Magearna with Earth Power, Rillaboom & Arceus-Grass and the aformentioned Steel types with Heat Wave. Alternatively, its Power Herb + Meteor Beam set boasts equivalent instant power, but without the drawback of the Choice Lock, meaning if it can be Scared out once then it loses alot of its power, however these slot in Trick Room for Speed Control and run the standard 2A combo of Moongeist Beam + Tera Blast Tera Fairy, making is a nightmare to check defensively. This is all to say that Necronzma-Dawn-Wings isn't just one set that is overwhelming; it can mix up what it's running to essentially invalidate some of its checks.
This isn't to say that Necrozma-Dawn-Wings is all powerful; it has checks but they're pretty sparse. Arceus-Dark is the go-to, as it offers a Ghost resist without being ruined by the most common coverage options (Ground & Fire), and the fact that is has a natural type advtange means that Necrozma-Dawn-Wings cannot do much without Terastallizing. Other Dark types, such as Kingambit and Tyranitar, can soft-check it as Necrozma-Dawn-Wings cannot usually switchin to these or setup in front of these, as they tend to shut down anything Necrozma-Dawn-Wings tries to do with Dark STAB and Thunder Wave Status. Necrozma-Dawn-Wings is also very slow, and cannot boost its Physical Defense, meaning it is somewhat exploitable in at least some aspect, leading to clear counterplay.
The voting requirements are a minimum GXE of 75 with at least 40 games played. In addition, you may play 1 less game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 75 GXE, down to a minimum of 25 games at a GXE of 78. As always, needing more than 40 games to 75 GXE is fine.
| GXE | minimum games |
| 75 | 40 |
| 75.2 | 39 |
| 75.4 | 38 |
| 75.6 | 37 |
| 75.8 | 36 |
| 76 | 35 |
| 76.2 | 34 |
| 76.4 | 33 |
| 76.6 | 32 |
| 76.8 | 31 |
| 77 | 30 |
| 77.2 | 29 |
| 77.4 | 28 |
| 77.6 | 27 |
| 77.8 | 26 |
| 78 | 25 |
HOW:
During a Suspect test, each player must climb the ladder until they've acquired the GXE necessary to participate in the voting. Primarily, everyone that participates needs to make an alt account following these guidelines:
Every game must be played on the official Pokemon Showdown! server and on a new alt (created on or after today, January 15th 2024) beginning with "UUBNDW". Having the prefix at the start is mandatory; for example, "UUBNDW goat" would be allowed, but "The UUBNDW Account" would not.
To qualify for voting, the alt must achieve at least 78 GXE and 25 games played. For every game below this, the GXE requirement falls by 0.2%, bottoming out at 75% GXE at 40 games played. See the table above for a full list.
Necrozma Dawn-Wings will be allowed on the ladder during the suspect period.
The suspect will end on January 29th 2024 at 11:59 PM GMT+0.
It is mandatory to prove ownership of the alt account.
When posting your reqs, feel free to discuss whether you think Necrozma-Dawn-wings is banworthy or not (optional).
With all that being said, it's suspect time! The actual voting will take place in the Blind Voting Forum and will count towards the Tiering Contributor badge, so posting anything other than proof of reqs and discussion isn't necessary. Necrozma-DW needs a 60% suspect majority to be banned.
We will be running 4 suspect tours, where the winner and runner-up will qualify for reqs. These tours will be at 2 PM and 5 PM GMT-6 on The 19th and 20th of this week. There will be role pings for these tours in the UM Events/Ubers UU Discords when these tours are started. Good luck everyone!
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is arguably the best mon in the tier with the only real competition being 
is also incredible but ways to beat it that are considered much less are also very important. 
for example, can 2HKO 
can 2HKO with Flare Blitz which none of the common Tera types resist. These aren't counters but they are answers that are reliable which people are currently ignoring when it comes to beating 
and 
are weak to Moongeist Beam. Overall it's actually quite manageable with good teambuilding and careful play. 
which has historically been a problem otherwise. It is a super sturdy wall and spinblocker that has a 4x weakness to Dark to offset that power which makes it susceptible to the most common spinner being 
who always carries Knock Off. To the people who think that 
is in UU right now and it's worse there than here because the Trick Room enablers there suck at enabling it. 
and Last Respects, our two most recent bans, were banned because they were strong to a point where defensive counterplay can't keep up and broken couldn't check broken. 
to wall it reliably, and Last Respects pretty much required a Normal type/Tera. 
