Pokemon Sun - 0 Exp Part 11: Ya Boi

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Published on February 28, 2017 6:12:57 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GUAyKTnxU

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Pokémon Sun and Moon (2016)

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The first of the three maingame battles against ya boi Guzma, one of the game's antagonists and part of what makes a playthrough of the games quite humorous. It's not like irony was entirely missing from the depiction of the evil team in past Pokemon games, Team Rocket being the first good example, but it seems to me that Team Skull is especially loaded with humour.

Guzma is the bug-type specialist. As a character of storyline importance, you'd think he could use more numerous and powerful Pokemon, but until the last battle he's got only two.

Golisopod is a brand new one, with an ability that's comparable to the sandbag abilities of Slaking, Archeops and Regigigas. I'd argue its ability is even worse (better than Regigigas' I guess?) than theirs, as staying in and taking a hit and then continuing to dish out crazy damage or attacking with halved offence is preferred to being unceremoniously switched out, possibly before you can even do anything.

Ariados is an oldie, but by no means goodie - through the addition of different priority moves and a buff to Fell Stinger, it has some very low odds of sweeping your team if you're unprepared. They probably should've given it a bigger base stat buff than just +10 to sp. def.

Both of these mons have easily exploitable weaknesses. Golisopod will not do anything if it fails to use First Impression, the most powerful priority move of the game, on the 1st turn and you outspeed and deal more than 50% damage to it. Minior in offensive form can achieve just that with Acrobatics - the AI doesn't always make use of this, but it's weak enough to be First Impression'd to its death, but this is an issue all too easily resolved by putting Protect in Minior's set.

Ariados relies on Sucker Punch as its go-to-move most of the time, and as we all know, the move fails when you're not actually hitting its user in any way. I exploit this by having Skarmory Swords Dance up to respectable firepower and then sweep all that remains of Guzma. Skarmory's defensive typing generally kinda trivialises Guzma, but a lot of the time there's no faster way to beating Guzma so we use what we can get our hands on.

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