Game:

Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

Duration: 8:27

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I used: Indeedee, Arcanine, Sylveon, and Gyarados
My Opponent used: White Kyurem, Zekrom, Appletun, and Hawlucha
Stadium: Motostoke
Battle BGM: Eternatus 3

My opponent has a team that contains some Legendary Pokémon, and some weird choices like Appletun and Hawlucha, but it is not a fully Shiny team, as the Appletun on my opponent's team was not Shiny.
I did also see that most of my opponent's team had a massive weakness to Fairy, and since I had both Sylveon and Mimikyu on the team, this does show that having a team of Legendary Pokémon and not having an answer to Fairy-type opponents, I know my opponent has Melmetal on the team, but I was surprised that my opponent didn't use Melmetal, because if I was playing in my opponent's perspective, I would not have picked Appletun and instead used Melmetal, although I did like the strategy with White Kyurem's Fusion Flare and Zekrom's Fusion Bolt, as it does become a 200 power move if both moves are used on the same turn, so this does make those moves very powerful, and this is coming right from White Kyurem's base 170 Special Attack and Zekrom's base 150 Attack.
I did make good use of my Arcanine and Indeedee lead, because when my opponent leads with Physical attackers, I would have Arcanine use Will-O-Wisp while Indeedee uses Follow Me, or if my opponent has any Special attackers, I would use Snarl instead.
Another thing to note is that Normal-type moves with Pixilate while Dynamaxed, as my Sylveon has Pixilate, it will instead use Max Starfall instead of Max Strike, and the Misty Terrain from Max Starfall is good, as Sylveon does have good Special Defense, and the Misty Terrain does prevent status conditions and weakens damage from Dragon-type moves, while it does seem strange, as Sylveon is already immune to Dragon-type moves, it's good for Double Battles, specially if you have a teammate that has a weakness to Dragon-type moves.
Speaking of Kyurem, I have read about Black Kyurem being banned in competitive battling, and the reason why Black Kyurem wasn't banned in previous games despite having a very high Attack stat and a high base stat total is that Black Kyurem did not have a reliable Physical Ice-type move, the best it got was Freeze Shock, and that was a two-turn move, so Black Kyurem had to be used as a mixed attacker with moves like Ice Beam, Fusion Bolt, and Earth Power. The reason behind the ban is that Black Kyurem can now learn Dragon Dance and Icicle Spear, although Icicle Spear isn't too powerful, it does at least give Black Kyurem a reliable Physical Ice-type move.

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