Game:

Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

Duration: 9:16

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I used: Trevenant, Celesteela, and Pangoro
My Opponent used: Uxie, Articuno, and Lycanroc (Midnight Form)
Stadium: Master Dojo
Battle BGM: Battle Tower

It is really good to see my opponent giving some Pokémon that rarely ever get used online for this battle, and even though my opponent did have Rillaboom and Tapu Fini, both of which have been in the top 10 most used Pokémon at some point during Sword & Shield online battles in terms of rankings, but it was good to see Uxie and Articuno being used, because you hardly ever come across players using them, specially the Kantonian Articuno, as the Galarian Form is better in most ways. I don't ever come across Articuno that often in my online battles, or any Articuno if the Galarian Form counts, because out of the Legendary Birds, the one that is used the most is Zapdos, and out of the Galarian Legendary Birds, Moltres is used more often than the others, I haven't seen too many players using Kantonian Moltres in online battles, not that I have come across in my online battles.
I decided to try and give Trevenant another chance, and it was a good thing my opponent started off with Uxie, although I was not even expecting the held item it had or even use Baton Pass, I always forget that they made Baton Pass a TR in this game, I guess it's because I never use Baton Pass in online battles.
My opponent did have a good strategy with Articuno that made good use of Dynamax after the use of the Weakness Policy and Baton Pass, which I didn't expect to see that item being used on Uxie of all Pokémon, because Uxie is a defensive Pokémon that isn't best used for attacking, but my opponent was able to put it to good use.
While I did like how well my opponent used Articuno, it doesn't have a very wide movepool, because usually Freeze-Dry and Hurricane are some good STAB options, Freeze-Dry so that it has a way to deal super effective damage against Water-type Pokémon, while Ice Beam can be good for its main Ice-type move. I have looked up what moves Articuno can get, and it doesn't get that much in terms of coverage, it could get Water Pulse through TM or Move Tutor in previous generations, Bubble Beam could only be learned in Gen 1, and because Articuno had Pressure, it couldn't have been from a Gen 1 game, because a Pokémon that is transferred from the Virtual Console releases of Red & Blue will always have their Hidden Ability, the reason is because Machamp with No Guard and Fissure would be too overpowered. There is Extrasensory, which can only be learned by Articuno in Pokémon XD as an exclusive move, and Ominous Wind which is a Tutor move in Gen 4, but as Ominous Wind is not in the Gen 8 games, it cannot be used in this game.
I find Celesteela to be really useful against opponents when they Dynamax, because I can use Max Airstream to get some boosts in Speed, and I have Flamethrower for Max Flare to change the weather to sun, and so I can remove the hail from Articuno's Max Hailstorm. It was good to see my opponent using the Midnight Form Lycanroc, because this is a Pokémon that is rarely ever used, because I remember around the release of the Isle of Armor, which I can't believe it's been a year since then, the Dusk Form Lycanroc was the most used out of the three Lycanroc forms, but it wasn't too common.

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