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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

Duration: 7:14

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I used: Aurorus, Escavalier, and Galarian Moltres
My Opponent used: Necrozma (Dusk Mane), icey (Black Kyurem), and Calyrex
Stadium: Standard
Battle BGM: Legend 2

Before going over this battle, they revealed more info on the Shiny Zacian and Shiny Zamazenta distribution, and it is the one where you have to get the code from your local game store, I hate those kind of events, and this is the reason why I still don't have Marshadow yet, because you have to visit your local game store to get the code, I am glad they made the Zarude and Shiny Celebi distribution through the Pokémon newsletter on Pokémon.com, so that was one good thing they did. As for more information, you get Shiny Zacian in Shield, and Shiny Zamazenta in Sword, they do come with their respective items, Rusted Sword for Zacian, and Rusted Shield for Zamazenta.
Now for this battle, and my opponent does not have a full team, while it is not required to have six Pokémon on your team, three is the minimum amount of Pokémon to have on your team to do online battles, but I recommend having six Pokémon so that you have options if you are in a bad match-up.
My opponent has a full team of Legendary Pokémon, but I wouldn't call that player the most skilled with Legendary Pokémon, I did like the lead of Dusk Mane Necrozma as an option against my Aurorus, but I do have a Focus Sash to ensure that Aurorus survives at least one hit before setting up Stealth Rock. As for EVs, I did invest in some Speed EVs on my Aurorus so that he can outspeed certain Pokémon, as Aurorus isn't really that fast to begin with, if only he was able to learn Rock Polish in this game, then it would make Aurorus at least usable.
I test out Escavalier in this battle, as she does have good match-ups against a lot of my opponent's Pokémon, and Galarian Moltres is there to deal with Lunala if my opponent ended up using it. I was surprised to see base Calyrex used by my opponent, because Calyrex is a weaker Celebi in terms of stats, it has base 100 HP, and the rest of its stats are base 80 in every stat, and it doesn't help that its type combo of Psychic/Grass gives it a lot of weaknesses. If my opponent had Shadow Rider Calyrex, it wouldn't help balance out weaknesses, as it has the same type combo as Lunala, and it wouldn't do well against my Galarian Moltres, even if Lunala did have Moonblast, because that would activate Moltres's Weakness Policy.
It was good to see Black Kyurem being used, and I did read about Black Kyurem getting Dragon Dance and Icicle Spear, which was what resulted in it getting banned in Smogon, because before them, Black Kyurem was a good Mixed Attacker, it could fit in Ice Beam as a way to deal with Pokémon with a higher Defense stat, but with my opponent, there were some strange move options on most of the Pokémon used in that battle. Escavalier is the same as before, she has Drill Run as a coverage option against Steel, Electric, and Fire-type opponents, I did have Close Combat on her, but decided on Drill Run so that I don't have to deal with the loss in Defense and Special Defense from Close Combat, and I have Knock Off as an option against Ghost-type opponents.

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