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We're back! Welcome to Partners in Crime. This is a doubles-based metagame with the twist that you share your ability and moves with your active partner. This means that you are able to use any of the moves available to both of your active Pokemon, i.e. up to 8 moves will appear on the move select screen. Additionally, this means both of your active Pokemon will have each others' ability in addition to their own. For example, if you had both Cresselia and Heatran on the field, both of them would share Flash Fire and Levitate. If you were to then switch Cresselia out for Landorus, Heatran would lose Levitate and gain Sheer Force allowing for some very potent combinations.
I'd also like to take the time to specially mention Instruct for all the work he has put into this. For the longest time we believed this format could never return, and that it would basically be broken forever. He has miraculously found a way around the prior issues, and even fixed things that were previously broken when it last worked.
Banlist:
Pokemon: Calyrex-Ice, Calyrex-Shadow, Dialga, Eternatus, Giratina, Giratina-Origin, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Jirachi, Kyogre, Kyurem-White, Lugia, Lunala, Magearna, Marshadow, Melmetal, Mewtwo, Necrozma-Dawn-Wings, Necrozma-Dusk-Mane, Palkia, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Solgaleo, Urshifu-Base, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zacian, Zacian-Crowned, Zamazenta, Zamazenta-Crowned, Zekrom
Abilities: Emergency Exit, Huge Power, Moody, Power Construct, Shadow Tag, Wimp Out, Wonder Guard
Moves: Bolt Beak, Fishious Rend, Shell Smash
Clauses: Standard Doubles, Dynamax Clause
Strategy:
One of the most obvious ways to have Pokemon synergise together is the use of immunity abilities (e.g. Levitate, Flash Fire, Lightning Rod) being able to remove certain weaknesses that would otherwise cripple a Pokemon. A core you can expect to see in Partners in Crime looks like this:
