Pokémon Sword & Shield Online Battle 274

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Published on October 11, 2021 9:00:32 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ombXWDdX4Ko

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

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I used: Clefairy, Sceptile, Inteleon, and Solgaleo
My Opponent used: Xerneas, Wash Rotom, Decidueye, and Galarian Zapdos
Stadium: Hammerlocke
Battle BGM: Eternatus 1

They did announce the rules for the next season of Battle Stadium, and for that one, it will keep the same rules where it will only allow one Restricted Legendary Pokémon, but this time, Dynamax is allowed. I do wonder once Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl come out if they will ever give Sword & Shield an update which will bring back the missing Pokémon from those games.
I did see that my opponent has a really good team, even though there were three Fighting-type Pokémon on the team, so I wouldn't say it's the most balanced team, but my opponent did have Xerneas which at least made up for it, as Xerneas is really powerful once it has set up with Geomancy, I did like that my opponent also had Decidueye and Galarian Zapdos, because I don't tend to see Galarian Zapdos too often, it's usually the Kantonian variant of Zapdos that sees more use, but with Galarian Zapdos, it does have Defiant to make it a powerful threat, and it does have Max Airstream, but the difference is that Galarian Zapdos is a Physical Attacker, so Max Airstream would come from Brave Bird.
As with the team I am using, Sceptile and Inteleon are meant to work with one another, as they both have the Pledge moves, which I will explain a bit about later, but I did give Energy Ball to Sceptile, and I have Snipe Shot on Inteleon so that they have a reliable STAB move, while the Pledge moves have base 80 power, they tend to work best when two different Pledge moves are used on the same turn. I have Clefairy, which has Friend Guard to decrease damage on the ally side, and she has Follow Me to redirect moves, and I gave her Icy Wind as a way to decrease the Speed of the opposing Pokémon, and Moonblast is there for a single target move. I do remember back in Gen 6 VGC Tournaments where Eviolite Clefairy with Friend Guard is one of the best users of Follow Me, and in Gen 7, it was also an important Pokémon on teams that used Eevee's exclusive Z-Move of Extreme Evoboost, which Eevee would Baton Pass onto another Pokémon so they can sweep.
I do bring another Restricted Legendary Pokémon, and this is not Ranked Battles, otherwise Dynamax would not be allowed until next season, but anyway, I went with Solgaleo for my Restricted Legendary Pokémon. It has Sunsteel Strike for a powerful Steel-type move, it has 100 power and it ignores certain Abilities, like Sturdy. It has Psychic Fangs for a good Psychic-type Physical move, and Rock Slide to hit both targets, and I have a Weakness Policy on Solgaleo, which makes it a very good Dynamax user, and I did consider having Bulldoze on Sceptile to activate the Weakness Policy, but for Sceptile's moves, I gave it Quick Guard to block priority moves from the opponent's side, it is a useful move for stopping moves like Fake Out, as that is a move that is used a lot in Double Battles.

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