Pokémon Sword & Shield Online Battle 133
4I used: Obstagoon, Electivire, and Nidoking
My Opponent used: Carbink, Lapras, and Armaldo
Stadium: Circhester (Sword)
Battle BGM: Klara
We get a stadium that isn't even the Standard one, I tend to get tired of seeing it when there are over 10 different stadiums that can appear for online battles, and this is one thing I really like about Sword & Shield online battles is your League Card affecting what stadium you get.
As for my opponent's team, I like my opponent's choice of using Pokémon that come close to seeing no use in online battles, and I get that Lapras does see common use in online battles, but according to the tiers on Smogon, Lapras is in the lowest tier, this is because Dynamax is banned in competitive battling, and the main reason why Lapras is used in online battles is because of G-Max Resonance when Gigantamaxed, I doubt that a future season of Ranked Battles will ever ban Dynamax, because that would change the entire online battle format, because before the Crown Tundra released, there was a season that banned the top 10 most used Pokémon in Battle Stadium.'
I put another team to the test, and even though I have used Obstagoon on a past team before, I decided to give him another chance, this is a Guts Obstagoon, and the strategy is to start with Obstruct to prevent damage so the Flame Orb can activate, and then get in some huge damage with Facade and Knock Off, specially after the Defense drop from Obstruct.
My Nidoking has Sheer Force for his Ability, and with a Life Orb, he will not take recoil from the Life Orb, and he has some powerful Special moves, like Sludge Wave, Earth Power, Ice Beam, and Flamethrower, and even though Fire Blast is more powerful, I went with Flamethrower for the Accuracy. Even though Nidoking does technically have a higher Attack stat, most of the moves Nidoking can make use of with Sheer Force are Special Attacks, and this is a Pokémon you can do many things with, the best a Physical Nidoking set could do is use moves like Poison Jab and Earthquake, and it does get some nice coverage moves, like the Elemental Punches, Rock Slide, Megahorn, Iron Tail, Superpower, and a few other moves, but not many of Nidoking's Physical moves can make use of Sheer Force.
I did use an Electivire way back in the days of Pokémon Battle Revolution, but the Electivire I had back then was the one you get from Pokémon Battle Revolution that came with some good Physical moves, so this Electivire has almost the exact same moves, but with some differences. Since Gen 5, Electivire got access to Wild Charge, giving it a more powerful Electric-type move, and for my Electivire, she has Brick Break instead of Cross Chop, as Brick Break has more Accuracy and can shatter Light Screen and Reflect, and by the way, in a game that added Close Combat as a TR and gave it to some good Physical Attackers, Electivire did not get Close Combat. The item choice was tough, while a Choice Band would be preferred, I went with the Expert Belt so she can get in some powerful hits with super effective damage. While it was an OU Pokémon back in Gen 4, more powerful Pokémon were being introduced, and that dropped Electivire down a bunch of tiers to the lowest, and while its Speed was decent enough, it wasn't as high as the top-tier attackers.
I did like my opponent's choice of using Carbink and Armaldo, as they are both low-tier Pokémon, I wasn't sure if my opponent's Carbink had any attacking moves, because Carbink isn't really a Pokémon that is known for attacking, it has good Defense and Special Defense, although its type combo gives it a huge weakness to Steel.
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