There really isn't any reason to not allow doubles. Doubles do increase that DG's respective strengths but it also means that one counter can normally take them both out. Unless of course both doubles went with completely different builds.

I've played against double tower rooks and unfortunately we didn't have anyone who could handle even one tower rook at the time. But if we had an ice TB or a good minion general we would of destroyed the other team hands down.

People just look at it wrongly. 2 Uncleans means 2 spits ZOMG! Ummmm oh wait TB's fireball does just as much which means a TB and a UB is just like having 2 UBs with respect to spit. 2 Reguluses normally mean 2 snipes which can be very bad, but it also means that their team just won't have what it takes to hold off an advance.

I've come across a couple triple regs in the demo. I actually found the triple snipe to be less of an issue than them outranging our towers about a minute into the match.

IT IS unbalanced, end of the story, if you dont understand why yourself you are not able to understand the explanation either

yea ddd888 you kinda need to back it up with a reason or explanation. I have been on both sides of doubles and triples and have had no problems. Nor did anyone else in any of those games. You might have to adjust your play style, but I tend to actually laugh if someone goes doubles or triples. It means that it'll be that much easier to handle each of them instead of having to prepare a rounded build to handle a bunch of different DGs.

Doubles is doable but if the host doesnt want randoms/doubles then dont do random or find another room. It may not be necessary but if thats the host rules then whats the point of fighting with him or her about it.

As for wether or not i think its a balance issue. Well it causes headaches, maybe not imbalanced but yes its not fun alot of the time.

Someone said double UBs with spit wasnt a big deal, thats 3000 damage, but wait, UB has an instant stun... whats that a second instant stun from his buddy... did i just get spit on twice again + ooze damage x2 and whatever they AA'd me down to... was i dead 6 seconds ago? Oh my teammate came over to help and got stun locked too he's dead aswell.

Dual Reg, i can handle the double snipe, its the 12 mines they can coordinate that can really screw a game up. Some maps its ok, but try it on crucible. You'll be absolutely demolishing them and then your teammates like oooh lets buy giants because that'll win the game... and doing this before taking out those towers down where they can mine they hell out of it and lvl up at a stunning pace.

So yea, some situations its fine some demigod combos can counter doubles well, some maps make it ok to beat them. But some arent, some cant, and some dont. But the same can be said about any combination of two demigods or any team of people with some degree of skill.

But im thinking more pantheon where you cant controll that and there its just luck of the draw and thats that.

I host quite a few games and i see doubles as non-problematic. Now i draw the line at triple something becuase thats wrong. And i won't let more than 1-2 people go random at once after a game with 2 UB's and 3 randoms turned into 5 UB's which is absolutely unbalanced. UB on his own is a little OP but 5 at once. The other team quit before 1 minute was up.

Now double reg in a 3vs3 game i won't allow but when it's 4vs4 or more then you can't help it. There is only 8 demigods at the moment.

Why does this keep coming up. There have been like 5 threads on this already, and in each one of them its been proven that doubles are not OP. Yet these threads keep appearing. 

Those who think that they are OP tend to invent imaginary force multipliers and ignore the fact that diverse DG combinations can achieve similar (often superior) results relative to doubled combinations by simply using their own versions of the same skills.   

This issue has been resolved. Dead horse is dead. 

Please show me a combination that can duplicate the effective range DOT of Spit x2, x3, x4, x5 while retaining the attacker's ability to retreat. Then please show me a combination that can duplicate the damage of Snipe x2, x3, x4, x5 over the maximum range of Snipe while retaining the attackers immunity from confrontation.

In any case, this topic has been discussed multiple times. Refer to the one of the other threads.

buy a couple of potions? keep a better eye on your hp? there are so many counters to it. its a lame strategy, but its far from OP...

there's no issue with double Beast. or any other double except Regulus.

if its stunlocks from Foul Grasp, wouldn't you be EVEN MORE concerned about Boulder Roll + Foul Grasp or Mass Charm + Foul Grasp or Frost Nova + Foul Grasp? 2 Beasts is a weaker stunlock than those other partners. Foul Grasp is a total non-issue for doubles.

and double nukes of any kind is a non-issue. every DG has a nuke. any 2 DGs can double nuke if they focus fire. Spit is no different than any other nuke. 

its just Regulus. co-ordinated double sniping is cheesy and has no counters. thats the only problematic skill in the entire game, with regards to doubles. 

doubles = no big deal, but host's call.

Spit's strength is it's overall damage. However, its weaknesses are that it has no special effects, offers little instant gratification, and has a chance to be removed and therefore prevented entirely.  

We can work out similar data for any other combination of 2-5 nukes, be they duplicated or diverse. The overall damage will be a bit less than mono-spit, but will offer other effects that in many cases will outshine mono-spit. Assuming level 4 skills: 

Spit x 2 = 3300 damage 

Spit + Penitence = 2618 damage (including Pen's effect on spit for the first 7s), plus 16% amplification of any other damage hitting the target, plus 16% snare of the target, plus a chance for an interrupt. 

Spit x 3 =  4950 damage

Spit + Penitence + Bite = 3517 damage, 16% damage amplification, 46% snare, interrupt, -700 armor, and 775 life restored to LE. 

And of course there are other factors to consider like the situational useful/unusefulness of harassing with ranged nukes, the possibility of effects being removed early by Heal 3, the influence of health regeneration and especially priest minions, etc. All in all I'd say the data shows that in most cases a diverse array of nukes not only competes with mono-spit, but is clearly superior. 

Well you guys may disagree, but I think that priests pretty much fix the cheesiness of the most despised doubles.

This solution may be a bit extreme and I'm sure most people wouldn't agree, but I think it'd be interesting to remove the priest upgrade completely and make them roll out at rank 3 like archers do at rank 2.

It would pretty much remove issues with triple snipes, spits, etc. and it'd also balance out monks a bit, because seriously they're complete game changers as-is (though of coursse I'm sure lots of people prefer it that way).