Pokémon Sword & Shield - When You Wish Upon a Starfall - Jan 14 21 C
17I realize I haven't put up those "The (Pokémon) Team Is Ready for Rental!" videos in a great long while. It's mostly because I realized there wouldn't be much point inputting them up if I update and modify these teams every now and then, because anyone who'd attempt to rent them would get an outdated version of the team before long.
Type: Single Battle
Opponent: Cache (9)
Stadium: Default Stadium
Music: Hop
My Pokémon: Haxorus, Eiscue, Aromatisse
Opponent's Pokémon: Dragapult, Urshifu (Rapid Strike), Raikou
Might be a strange thought that Urshifu is the Pokémon on Cache's team with the lowest base stat total, at 550. Arcanine is at 555 while Raikou is at 580, with Dragapult, Metagross, and Garchomp each at 600, putting their average base stat total at about 581. (Did you know Florges has a higher base stat total than Urshifu? The two Pokémon have yet to meet in the same game, but Florges has a total of a whopping 552. On the other hand, Florges's stat distribution is rather weird, with a low Defense and below-average Speed. AZ's Floette, in fact, also has a higher base stat total than Urshifu at 551, though it's impossible to legitimately obtain her.)
By contrast, I think the Haxorus Team is the team of mine with the lowest average base stat total, at 472. Haxorus stands at a hefty 540, but everyone else is between 440 and 472. It's not the base stat totals that determine a Pokémon's usefulness, however. More important is how you can use those Pokémon, and if you've seen the many videos featuring this team, you'll know that these guys can hang with the biggest and baddest of them.
Case in point: I kept control of this match from beginning to end, because even the toughest of all Pokémon have their vulnerabilities, which Pokémon with inferior stats might be able to poke at. Well, that and Trick Room turns low Speed stats into assets and high Speed stats into liabilities.
The fact that this Urshifu is Rapid Strike leads me to believe this team was created out of recommendations from somebody else, whether asked for or seeked out. Early on, the consensus among competitive players is that Rapid Strike is the way to go due to having fewer weaknesses and the valuable Water-type, but over time, Single Strike was found to be more useful, despite having a x4 weakness to Fairy moves, due to higher consistency and being better able to defend against Ghost and Psychic Pokémon, two types that would ordinarily give Fighting-types a lot of trouble. All of Cache's other Pokémon are mainstays in the competitive scene in Pokémon Showdown (though Raikou sees less use than the others) but not necessarily Ranked Sword & Shield.
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