Game:

Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

Duration: 7:25

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I used: Noivern, Galvantula, and Gourgeist
My Opponent used: Seismitoad, Grimmsnarl, and Porygon-Z
Stadium: Wyndon
Battle BGM: Hop 2

I like my opponent's full Shiny Pokémon team, and he has some really interesting choices for this fight, and now with nicknames turned on, I can tell if any Shiny Pokémon used are hacked or not, and from what I can tell, they do have the Japanese names, but it's not easy to tell if he bred for his team legitimately or if he used some sort of modifier, like PokéSav back in Gen 4 where you can modify competitive Pokémon into the game, and that is kind of considered cheating, because my method of making a competitive team is breeding for good IVs and a suitable Nature, and then EV Training the Pokémon in certain stats that would help the Pokémon out, so I am not one of these Pokémon that likes to hack to get a good team.
I might as well go over the battle, and I liked the strategy with Seismitoad, it was more of a defensive set with Toxic and Scald, because I don't see too many people use Seismitoad defensively, Grimmsnarl had the usual set of using Trick to give a Lagging Tail to make the opponent go last, and set up Light Screen and use Spirit Break to take less damage from Special Attacks, and Porygon-Z is a good last Pokémon.
I did use a Noivern in one of my online battles, but it was in a different team for Double Battles, and this is the same Noivern that I used then, except she is adjusted to work in Single Battles, so she has Flamethrower and U-turn. Her high Speed stat and with the Life Orb, she can get in some good damage with moves like Draco Meteor and Air Slash, and I did go with Air Slash over Hurricane because of the flinch chance, because Hurricane has 70 Accuracy, but then again Air Slash has 95 Accuracy, so I find it to be more reliable. Galvantula was used in the previous battle, and I do put his Sticky Web to good use, and his Compound Eyes allowing him to fire off Thunder with 91 Accuracy.
This is a Super Size Gourgeist that I am using, and I looked into what possible sets to go with, so I decided to go with a Weakness Policy set that can work when Dynamaxed, and she has Grassy Glide for priority once Dynamax wears off and I have used Max Overgrowth to create Grassy Terrain, and she has Frisk for her Ability, and that pairs up well with the new Poltergeist move, but I was surprised to see my one had Phantom Force instead of Poltergeist, but anyway, while Poltergeist is a powerful Ghost-type move, and this is a great upgrade to Ghost-types overall, because the best move we had was Phantom Force, and that was a 2 turn move, but they have seen more use for stalling out Dynamax, and the weaker Shadow Claw was the best for some Pokémon, and it had a power of 70, which was kind of average if it was the best Ghost-type move on the Physical side then, but with Poltergeist having 110 power, that changed everything for Physical Ghost-type attackers, but the downside is this move only works if the target is holding an item, so even noob players that don't use items have a way to deal with a Poltergeist user.

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