almost forgot to vote
Vote:
BAN
Reasoning: Shadow Tag, solely as an ability, is inherently uncompetitive and I don't think many players would argue against this. That said, it wasn't until recently that I'd consider it broken. Previously, Mega Gengar was used as a check for stall(specifically sablenite blissey), but he was a one trick pony that arguably benefited more from holding Pidgeotite. However, with the rise of support Arceus, it also gave rise to Gothielle, which is where my issue lies. All things considered, Goth is subpar: her stats are underwhelming; she can't 1v1 a majority of the hyperoffensive meta; and she generally loses to anything with taunt. Yet despite her obvious flaws, she serves the purpose of countering stall
extraordinarily well, to the point of invalidation, while also being able to take on a decent amount of bulky offensive mons. For quite a while, I even stopped using my favorite shuckle set, just because she posed that big of a threat if she were to switch in. In my opinion, I feel that a suspect test just on Gothielle would've been more in order, as Mega Gengar/Wobbufett are manageable, however I'm not against a test on STag as a whole, which is why I'm voting
ban. I'm very interested however, if the majority vote were ban, if ubers/any of the other ubers based metas would follow suit with a test of their own.