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(on the other hand who the hell uses quintessential lol. i have it on my mind cuz I learned that word in a foreign english-teaching institute that I went to for a month so it's kinda stuck in my head forever but dam, never thought I'd see it on smogon out of all places.)
otherwise it was pretty rad