>>16060621But the point is that, statistically, evasiveness-boosting is a pissshitty strategy in a meta dominated by 100 acc (not never-miss, just 100 acc) moves, because the numbers are flat out against you and you're wasting turns.
But what evasiveness DOES do, viably, is render moves with sub-100 accuracy far worse. A lot of the metagame relies on both OHKOs AND COVERAGE OPTIONS with lesser accuracy. If the only decent coverage a mon gets for dealing with rock-types is Focus Miss, it will simply run it in a no-evasion meta and know that it's statistically worth it.
BUT, when a mon with DT can counter this with a single turn of set-up which drastically reduces the move's usefulness, you're more likely to forego Focus Miss altogether and simply choose a better move and leave the coverage to a different mon.
People are wrong who think an evasion-legal meta involves every team running a DT-er; evasion has been UNBANNED IN UBERS FOR A GEN, AND NOBODY FUCKING RUNS IT. Why? It's shit. It is a losing strategy and not viable.
But what it CAN do is change the meta. Even if DT-spamming does not catch on, it changes the way you think about your moves and mons; you're less likely to opt for sub-100 higher BP moves, meaning less likely to bank on certain important OHKOs, and more likely to consider the viability of certain never-miss moves.... And I don't mean fucking swift or aerial ace, I mean running Toxic on a POISON TYPE instead of literally anything else, or opting to include a phazer due to the new roar/whirlwind mechanics, or running an otherwise-marginally-outclassed mon because Keen Eye ignores evasion, or running defog rather than rapid spin as hazard removal).
