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Watching streams of tournaments like on twitch.tv/pokemon is a good way to get familiar with the metagame and the commentary can give some insight as to what the teams are doing or why the players make the decisions they do.
There's also youtube channels like cybertronVGC who are also great at...
thanks for everything dawg, I always just kinda expected smogon vgc to kinda slowly die off eventually but I'm really happy you and the others managed to regrow it so well!
When photon geyser is used as the base for max mindstorm, does the resulting attack keep photon geyser's attack or SpA switching behaviour, or will it always be a 130 BP special attack?