Pokémon Sword & Shield - The "Hax" in Haxorus - Feb 5 22 A

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Published on February 7, 2022 8:00:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHp_IVrUesg

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

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Pokémon HOME compatibility is still only with Pokémon Sword and Shield, so for now, the next team will remain under wraps. I'm guessing said compatibility will open up later this month (February 2022), as they promised "Early 2022" and Pokémon Day is at the tail end of February. There is no guarantee that more Pokémon will be made available alongside that, but I can still hope.

Type: Single Battle
Opponent: keega (599)
Stadium: Wyndon Stadium
Music: Marnie 2
My Pokémon: Greedent, Aromatisse, Haxorus
Opponent's Pokémon: Qwilfish (Johtonian), Lapras, Incineroar

Series 12 begins with this video, and accordingly, so does Season 27. To bring the rules closer to how they were for VGCs last generation, Series 12 allows two Restricted Pokémon per team, which is good news for people who want to use them...and bad news for people who would prefer not to use them, like me. (In case you didn't know, Restricted Pokémon are Legendary Pokémon with high stats ordinarily deemed overpowered for normal Pokémon battling, like Mewtwo, Zacian, Reshiram, and the like.)

My style revolves around lesser-seen Pokémon, and my teams do not change composition once the Pokémon in them are finalized. Hence, I won't be using any Restricted Pokémon out of principle, which puts me at a distinct disadvantage, more so than I've ever been this generation. This is particularly because there are no limitations on if you want to select them both for every battle. It's more pronounced for single battles because you're only selecting 3 Pokémon, meaning two-thirds of someone's Pokémon may be Restricted Pokémon.

This week, we'll go back to Single Battles, and using the very first single battling team this generation, the Haxorus Team. Interestingly, I was pitted against someone who also used no Restricted Pokémon in their team. I won't take this as a sign of things to come, however. I do fully expect the majority of people on Ranked to pack their teams with two Restricted Pokémon, then use them both on me.

That being said, my own personal style revolves around me guessing my opponent's moves correctly. In this case, I expected Dusclops to show up on the front lines to set Trick Room. That's why I chose Greedent to begin, as he's the one best able to function under Trick Room due to having a base Speed of just 20 (which is slower than Slowpoke). I don't know if keega figured I'd do this or just out of pure dumb luck; keega begins with not Dusclops, but Roserade, a Pokémon with an entirely different function on the team. This one opens Sleep Powder, then deals damage. This Roserade is designed to removing keega's adversaries who can function under Trick Room.

You'll also see that the Haxorus Team has slightly different moves; this was done in response to the proliferation of Japanese players using Eternatus to do Toxic stalling. The Pokémon remain the same, but I did some changes to moves and hold items and such in order to keep up with the metagame.

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