>>18116901Firstly I'd like to say that these games will be best of three, and that we'll be sharing battle videos in the threads. As a matter of fact, battle videos are how wins and losses will be proven.
The point I'm making is that combination strategies like this will only work once .
That aside - as a VGC player, I've learned to read team preview very well, and I believe that a strategy like this is very obvious. If you don't have safeguard, wide/quick guards and taunt on your team, you're not ready for a competitive doubles meta anyway. My point here is that a competitive player with a strong team will easily read this strategy in the team preview and will adjust his leads to beat it, then suddenly the smeargle player is down by one pokemon early in the game because he was over-relying on his strategy.
Bringing in two pokemon that threaten the smeargle - a safeguard user and a taunt user, for example - will put kanga in a dilemma as to who to fake out. Or, having a partner with quick guard in play to defend the fake out so your pokemon can debilitate the smeargle suitably.
Finally, dark void smeargle, while being a good strategy, is inconsistent at best. Heat wave, draco meteor and toxic all miss at the worst times, who's to say about the accuracy of dark void?
That being said - I will consider banning dark void in this competition if there is a consensus that it is not good for the game. But I want to keep this meta as varied as possible, since the current and last couple of VGC seasons have been super hyper offensive. If there's anything that can slow it down, I'd rather leave it in.
