Game:

Pokémon Stadium (1999)

Duration: 6:57

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Here are the team of Pokémon in this video, which was decided by the random number generator.
P1 Team: Squirtle, Cubone, Clefable, Oddish, Parasect, Poliwag
CPU Team: Haunter, Marowak, Nidorino, Staryu, Exeggcute, Persian

Then, I will list the moves for each Pokémon in battle, starting with my team.
Squirtle: Surf, Blizzard, Body Slam, Dig
Cubone: Earthquake, Submission, Blizzard, Strength
Clefable: Sing, Tri Attack, Minimize, Ice Beam
Oddish: Petal Dance, Toxic, Mega Drain, Double-Edge
Parasect: Spore, Take Down, Dig, SolarBeam
Poliwag: Body Slam, Blizzard, Surf, Amnesia

The CPU's team of Pokémon and moves.
Haunter: Mega Drain, Psychic, Explosion, Confuse Ray
Marowak: Bonemerang, Thrash, Fire Blast, Focus Energy
Nidorino: Double-Edge, Horn Drill, Focus Energy, Thunder
Staryu: Hydro Pump, Recover, Thunderbolt, Psychic
Exeggcute: Psychic, Explosion, Leech Seed, Toxic
Persian: Slash, BubbleBeam, Mimic, Growl

This battle was where I realized how good Poliwag is as a Rental Pokémon, despite being a Pokémon that isn't fully evolved, or in this case, a Pokémon that isn't even an evolved Pokémon. What sets Poliwag apart from most others is that it has the move Amnesia, and back then, Amnesia boosted the Pokémon's Special stat by two stages, and Poliwag has a good Speed stat to put that to work in getting in a lot of damage on opponents with Surf and Blizzard, while Body Slam is there to inflict paralysis on the opponent. I did check out a video about a Rental Pokémon Tournament, and one of the players used a Poliwag because of Amnesia.
I wasn't expecting to see both Exeggcute and then Haunter use Explosion on consecutive turns, and I switched in Parasect as I needed something that can at least take an Explosion, while I did have Clefable which had a good amount of HP, I wasn't sure whether or not I needed Clefable or Parasect more in this battle.
There were some that I had to watch out for, like Persian's Slash, and I did have some Pokémon like Squirtle and Cubone which had good Defense for taking Slash that well and dealing some damage to Persian in return, and every Pokémon on the team did have a way to deal super effective damage against Marowak, as the ones that weren't a Water or Grass-type did have an Ice-type move of some sort, and on the CPU side, Staryu did have moves that deal super effective damage against most of my Pokémon, the only exceptions were Parasect and Clefable, as they were the ones that take neutral damage from Staryu's attacks.

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