Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between 'big-brained' plays and cheese strats haha. Usually, once you see the strat it doesn't feel very smart or crazy anymore.
Like, in my White mono-Grass run I swept N (after saccing everything else to get rid of Fusion Flare PP) and Ghetsis with SubSeed Coil Serperior because his Cofagrigus has a weird flag that overrides typical good trainer AI so it spams Toxic until either its target is poisoned or it takes damage, even against a Substitute. It's clear that the intention was for it to face your Zekrom/Reshiram, which can only know damaging moves in that battle if you choose to add it to your team.
Any challenge run of SMUSUM makes you feel super smart because strategising around the Totem Pokemon is always a fun time (even if it often boils down to 'spam Charm or Baby-Doll Eyes').
Less 'big-brain' and more 'fun synergy that made me feel like an anime character', but it was neat when I realised I could make my Platinum mono-Steel team a Trick Room Rain team thanks to a surprisingly large amount of synergy:
Like, in my White mono-Grass run I swept N (after saccing everything else to get rid of Fusion Flare PP) and Ghetsis with SubSeed Coil Serperior because his Cofagrigus has a weird flag that overrides typical good trainer AI so it spams Toxic until either its target is poisoned or it takes damage, even against a Substitute. It's clear that the intention was for it to face your Zekrom/Reshiram, which can only know damaging moves in that battle if you choose to add it to your team.
Any challenge run of SMUSUM makes you feel super smart because strategising around the Totem Pokemon is always a fun time (even if it often boils down to 'spam Charm or Baby-Doll Eyes').
Less 'big-brain' and more 'fun synergy that made me feel like an anime character', but it was neat when I realised I could make my Platinum mono-Steel team a Trick Room Rain team thanks to a surprisingly large amount of synergy:
- Steel-types appreciate having Fire attacks weakened
- all my team members besides Lucario were slow
- Bronzong can learn Rain Dance via the Move Reminder and Magnezone can learn it via TM
- Probopass and Magnezone can both learn Thunder
- Empoleon functions super well as an ace in this setup because it becomes an absolute monster under both TR and Rain
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