Baton pass is so ass its not funny. As an example, Not long ago (maybe 30 minutes ago) I was on PBR random Battling a guy with a Baton pass team. He had Venonat, Politoed and Metagross, aagainst my Hippowdon, Scizor and Salamence. He has a freaking scarf lead venonat which hippy kindly takes down to 1 hp, activating sash and then he uses agility. Im like uh, okay..... So then He agilitys again, and I set up rocks. He then baton passes to a Politoed, and I recall Hippowdon and Send out Scizor. Then, te politoed uses Belly drum. Scizor uses Swords dance. Next turn, before he can BP to metagross, I stick him with a Life orb +2 STABBED 90 Base Power Bullet punch and OHKO him.o now Politoed is screwed and so are his chances of winning. I went on to win 3-0.
Baton pass can be severly ****ed up by priority or anything of the sort. DO NOT use it. EVER.