In competitive Pokémon battles, effective team building requires balancing offensive capabilities with recovery options and hazard management, as demonstrated when a player analyzes an opponent's team and identifies that all six Pokémon are weak to Spikes, recommending the addition of a recovery Pokémon like Claydol to improve team survivability.
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I want you people to know that as I was loading in this battle, that was like music to my ears cuz I heard the dishonorable lead. I heard that cry and I knew I was using one of the most cringe teams known to man. So, I'm safe for the time being.
I'm not, but I do actually have roar.
Rock slide Oh, that's going to be fine.
I don't know what is that going to be.
Flinch me? Yeah, exactly. Get out of my face. Starmie.
Hi.
Magneton. So, you have two trappers, a Starmie.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Okay.
What if we just send him I would bring in Blissey, but I see that you have a Dugtrio over there.
Uh I'm going to choose my Flygon.
Nice Thunder Wave. Oh, guys, I finally changed the moves on this thing. I took off Earthquake and HP but I put Flamethrower and Rest. Protect, Toxic. I don't know. This does sound pretty cancerous, I think it's a good idea.
I knew it. I knew it.
You know You know, I'm just realizing after the fact that's that's the guy. I still don't know how to say their name. Naked something. This the guy that brings Shedinja and of all the Pokémon he sent in on that Flamethrower was literally Shedinja. Did you have Ice Beam? Let's find out. What is Paul Allen's cards?
Oh, he actually might. No, he most likely does. If he went for Psychic he's probably carrying Ice Beam.
Uh all right, let's do the Blissey maneuver to be on the safe side. Yep, there it is. That did nine damage. Very impressive.
Ice Are you actually trying to What are you What are you up to right now?
Well, I took out your your ghost type.
Slaking is here to hurt somebody.
Probably using a Choice Band. You know what's funny? You know who resists fighting, normal, and ground? Uh this Pokémon right here.
Nice. Now, we're going to trap somebody in hopefully and see where this goes and then Perish Song them.
I got to give credit to whoever that dude was that's beaten me a million times. I've only beaten them like probably once.
It's either I've either beaten them one time one time or zero times. It's one of those three.
And I don't know how the hell they pilot this team. I'm getting Xbox at a time like this? [laughter] I'm fighting for my life.
I don't know how Misdreavus is going to stand up to these Thunderbolts.
Oh, he went for Thunder Wave. Come on, don't get All right, nice. All we got to do is uh Rest.
Okay, we should be in the clear. Just got to tank one more and then we'll bring in Blissey here to be cringe and try to wake up my Misdreavus and Magneton just dies. You know Oh, he went for Screech and he missed. Nice.
Beat by Oh, you know what I just realized? I have a Skarmory.
You think they're going to go for Shadow Ball?
I'm going to bring in Skarmory.
They're This has happened before and somebody explained this before one time in the comments and I don't remember I I I have no clue of how that happens.
But yeah, they have their Slaking hit the field and was loafing around not taking this battle very seriously.
You know what the crazy thing is? You literally put me to sleep and I'm I'm not afraid at all cuz I'm Blissey.
Dugtrio Oh, wait.
Oh, now that is a problem. He's subbed.
Yeah, here's the thing, man. I know you don't have a Choice Band, so that Earthquake Yeah, it's I dude, I'm literally asleep on the job and I'm not even sweating it unless you crit me, then I'm going to be mad. Yeah, I've been asleep max turns and I'm still going to be all right unless you crit me.
Yep, that is a guaranteed wake up. Now, we're going to heal for a lot.
Now, he's going to try and flinch me to death. Desperate times, man. And I'm I'm I guess I'm stuck. I have no choice but to go for Seismic Toss.
And we'll go for Soft-Boiled here. He went for a sub. He got his little berry.
Oh, yeah, I guess I should have done the thing first. Oh, yeah, he's going to kill me. Well played. Well played.
Nice try, Professor.
My bad. He got a He got a min-max roll those past two turns.
Is David going to die here?
Yeah, I am. We had a lot of fun, but I am going to die here. This guy's going to outspeed me and kill me.
Yeah, well, we got We have some options here.
Um wolf Oh, Flygon's faster. I could just hit him with a raw dog Flamethrower and that should do like 40% maybe. I mean, I am a Flygon, so you got to got to go easy on me. That's a Starmie.
I don't think you have I got a crit, too. That's kind of funny.
I just now noticed the Starmie doesn't even have Leftovers, huh?
What do you know?
Jirachi.
All right, Fire Punch.
Ice Beam has been rising in terms of uh the rankings of for moves that I absolutely despise and hate.
It's It's just such a despicable move.
If that's Okay, the Starmie did switch out. So, now if I bring in my um Okay, there there's literally no way that you're one-shotting my Okay, that's what you wanted to do.
Bring in Flygon here. If I can get up a layer of spikes before Starmie comes in, it's done. He went for Sunny Day.
Protect.
He's playing very good right now. So, I I Although I'm kind of in the driver's seat, man. I don't mean to brag.
Yeah, I definitely should have went for a layer of spikes cuz I was faster. Oh, well, I don't actually know. No, I think he is faster than my Skarmory.
Uh no, I don't know.
So, this guy is playing like a maniac.
Going crazy right now.
Okay, I'm going to choose to let my Flygon get put to sleep here.
I mean, I guess I could skillfully dodge it. Starmie will die to a Flamethrower cuz you literally gave me the sun.
Slaking's not going to enjoy it too much and I can just protect on Slaking, so I think I'm in a good spot here.
Did not miss. Okay, so we'll bring in I will choose Zapdos actually cuz I was expecting that Hidden Power Fire would have ruined my steel types there.
And now I'm faster, so all I've got to do is put you to Oh, yeah, put you to sleep. I'll poison you.
Nice.
And then bring in Sk Skarmory.
Now, going for spikes. I learned my lesson. Yeah, okay, so Starmie's dead.
That's good enough for me. Protect.
Zapdos.
This Exeggutor is actually going crazy right now.
All right, let's hit him with a Toxic.
Okay, let his Starmie die. No problem.
He's going to bring in Slaking obviously, who's dying from ligma.
And I guess I'm cool with that.
Sure. Skarmory looks good. Your Hyper Beam did a lot of damage to me.
I'll just go for another layer of spikes cuz why the hell not?
Protect cuz why the hell not?
Hyper Beam. He is finally dead. I have vanquished the Slaking.
And all that's left is this guy. He does not have ligma, so we do have to fix that problem. And he can't put me to sleep either, so I'm going to go for that. It did connect and that is just going to ensure that I win. There's literally It is 0% chance he wins. He would have No, he Yeah, he doesn't even have Rest. He cannot win. Let's see how my Flygon holds up against these Solar Beams.
Wow. That did way more than I thought it would.
He actually would have took my Flygon with Solar Beam.
Nice crit, by the way.
Huh.
You know, the last video I recorded was also against a Exeggutor.
Hm.
I think what this dude needs for this kind of team is that Starmie needs like more recovery cuz if Shedinja steps on on spike, it dies.
I I think Stormy's good offensively, but what that team needs is like to keep the boys alive cuz all his teammates are weak to spikes, all six of them.
Not two, not half of them, all of them are weak to spikes.
So, I mean, hell, put a Claydol on or something. That That's what I'd recommend. I have no idea what I'm doing. Don't listen to me. Bye.
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