>>30495972They really aren't good enough. I dont want to bother with the calcs right now, but they barely scratch minimize users like Chansey.
The new one smart strike is actually almost usable, but It still doesn't 1 or 2 shot chansey and by the time it would kill, it can just pass the evasion onto a more defensive mon.
As for lock on and odor sleuth
Only pokemon that aren't total shitmons that learn lock on are:
Genesect:
Porygon Z
Maybe Magenzone
As for odor sleuth you have
Manectric
Mammoswine
Arcanine
And then those guys need to actually be able to kill the evasion spammer afterwards as it potentially boosts again, boosts a defensive stat, or BPs the boosts.
It's not like something like sneaky pebbles which can be avoided with fairly widespread moves or mitigated by proper teambuilding. It does predictable damage and removing them is strategic if you choose to do so.
Facing someone who starts spamming evasion, you have to basically get lucky right away or you're fucked. Smogon wanted to get rid of super luck based battles like that. Obviously there is always luck in pokemon but they wanted to
minimize it so it wouldn't ruin the strategy aspect. Plus, its just super unfun to play against.
