Pokémon Sword & Shield Online Battle 120

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Published on December 8, 2020 10:00:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v9hW0sxVw

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

Duration: 7:43

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I used: Sharpedo, Armaldo, and Blaziken
My Opponent used: Dracovish, Zeraora, and bullseye (Dragapult)
Stadium: Battle Tower
Battle BGM: Trainer

It is back to the Battle Tower for online battles, after how long it has been since this stadium has ever appeared in any of my Pokémon online battles, but anyway, my opponent has a lot of Dragon-type Pokémon on his team, and a few Legendary Pokémon. He does have the Shiny Zeraora that is obtained from Pokémon HOME, and he does have a good team of Pokémon for this battle, as both Dracovish and Dragapult are some of the most popular Pokémon in the competitive scene, and even in online battles.
I test out Sharpedo for this fight, and I went with Waterfall over Liquidation because of the flinch chance, because Sharpedo is not something that should last a long time in battle, he cannot take a hit, so that was the reason behind the Focus Sash, and he has Speed Boost, so he can outspeed many opponents after a boost. He has Destiny Bond to catch opponents off guard, and I can use it if Sharpedo is low on HP and I want to remove one of my opponent's biggest threats, and he does have Close Combat for type coverage, the Defense drops don't matter to it, because Sharpedo is very frail to begin with. I use Armaldo in this fight again, and he is a decent team member, although I might use him in one of my next few battles and he could end up doing very well in one of them, but this was Sharpedo's fight, not giving away who the winner of that fight was.
I am using Blaziken in this fight, and I did recently check Smogon and Blaziken dropped to UU, after being banned to the Uber tier since Gen 5 because of Speed Boost. While Blaziken does get access to moves like Swords Dance and Baton Pass, those can make Blaziken sweep foes or give those boosts to a teammate to make them destroy foes. As a Fire/Fighting-type, which did start a trend that happened three generations in a row where the Fire-type starter would become part Fighting-type, although Blaziken was the original Fire/Fighting-type, it did face competition with Infernape in Gen 4, as Infernape had higher Speed and can be used as a Mixed Attacker, and while Blaziken got Speed Boost in Gen 5, which ultimately led to Blaziken's ban, Infernape was still a top-tier Fire/Fighting-type attacker. While Emboar did have the same type combo, it had good HP, but was much slower, so Emboar had a tough time keeping up with Blaziken and Infernape in the competitive scene, and specially when Blaziken got a Mega Evolution in Gen 6.
For my set with Blaziken, he has Close Combat, which was a good improvement, because previously, High Jump Kick was the best Fighting-type move for Blaziken, but then again Close Combat is 10 points weaker than High Jump Kick, but with 100% Accuracy, making it more reliable, and he has Detect so that he can avoid an attack and have Speed Boost activate, and Thunder Punch is there for coverage, Blaziken does get so many Physical moves, like Earthquake, Stone Edge, and Brave Bird, but it can be hard to fit in all those moves when you can only have up to four moves on one Pokémon.

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