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I will admit that I certainly got ahead of myself saying that Dusknoir was the ONLY viable spinblocker. In fact, Dusknoir has been underperforming and I have been looking at other options. The resttalk spiritomb set looks awesome and I really like how it lols at Starmie/Gengar with pursuit...
Yeah, I usually relied on protect to save me from status inducing leads, but as you said I'm immediately on the defensive from the get go. I never thought about switching leads but this makes a ton of sense. Thanks a ton, Faladran.
What's going on guys? I've always wanted to take part in competitive battling but the learning curve always seemed to be too steep for me. Team building is even harder when you have no experience to base it on. This attempt is the result of hours of article and analysis reading and hopefully you...