>>24665089It's overpowered because if you allow evasion, it becomes overcentralizing. 99.8% of the Pokedex can learn Double Team through TM, so literally anything and everything can and WILL have it and you HAVE to be prepared for it - building your entire team to counter a single concept does not make a healthy meta. Sure, you can prepare your whole team to take on Double Team spamming opponents but the minute you come across people that aren't using it, you're fucked. And if their team is mixed up, you're fucked no matter what. It's not something you can prepare for because of how ridiculously widespread Double Team is. It provides far, far too much benefit for something that is so easily accessible.
Fixing the concept of Evasion is easy - Remove the Double Team TM and Evasion becomes far, far less OP. Now only a select few Pokemon can pack Evasion boosting (such as those with Minimize or those that learn Double Team naturally), and, outside of the gimmicky Baton Pass teams, those few Pokemon can very easily be countered by a standard setup that doesn't require an entire team's focus. Of course, GameFreak would then have to do something about the countless Pokemon that could learn Double Team beforehand which is just too much for their brilliant minds.
