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It was close, but I had to vote for Darkie over Plus. While Plus had some random things I would have prefered (me first, tickle), I prefered not having some stuff like Stone Edge, Baton Pass, and Cross Chop.
Deck Knight, I believe he has the better movepool, though darkie's is great. Too bad both put punches over fangs. The others who did include fangs were not quite as appealing, so I chose this anyway.
I actually kind of like shadow force as a move to scout for normal types. And this was really a long ass thread so I only read about 2/3 of it, and Vividsketch's was p. good so I votes