What are some good baton passers and how do you counter them?

Swords dance, Nasty Plot, substitute, Tail Glow, Calm Mind, etc…

I need a list. Thaaaanks. I’ve asked this before but not for X/Y

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The new ones on the scene are:

ScolipedeBaton Passes Speed Boost, Substitute and Swords Dance.

SylveonBaton Passes Calm Mind and Substitute.

Mega-AbsolBaton Passes Swords Dance and immune to Taunt because of Magic Bounce.

Otherwise, everything else is pretty much the same. Ninjask, Jolteon, Vaporeon, Umbreon, Espeon, Volbeat, Blaziken, Venomoth, Togekiss, Celebi, Mew, Mr. Mime are all still in play, and also SmashPassers like Huntail and Gorebyss.

As for how to stop them, Taunt is the usual method, especially Prankster Taunt. Whirlwind & Roar will work as well, but Roar won’t against Mr. Mime because of Soundproof. Haze will also work.

Another way to do things is to set up some Rocks and phase ASAP so it’ll faint Ninjask.

a good baton passer that gets annoying is illumise and volbeat

these are annoying because they have the ability prankster which gives priority to status moves. put a focus sash on him. all you do is bring him out and do tail glow (raises special attack 2.5x!) and then baton pass and they both will go first becuz of prankster. if your opponent chooses not to hit you and set up himself and your at full health then do tail glow again and you will have 4x special attack already. then if you go into a Pokemon like alakazam or xerneas it will be a sweep.

to stop them. either use taunt or a move that forces them out or after you hit them and there at 1 hp and about to switch use extreme speed because extreme speed has 2x priority but prankster give 1x.