Quantum Tesseract
Lazy Fuck
Shedinja is a mediocre pokemon, there isn't any denying that. I think, however, that you aren't understanding what it does, and focus on what it doesn't do.Yeah he describes it pretty well but Shedinja was already a pretty awful pokemon. Its gimmick sounds great on paper but with how many common types it's weak to (rock, flying, dark, etc) not to mention stealth cocks just go to town on its haunted ass. That combined with the aforementioned susceptibility to pursuit and sand and you suddenly realize that Shedinja team would do a hell of a lot betrer without it. Just get it up out, it's pretty misleading to show it as a viable mon to new players, even if it is listed as one of the shittiest ones in the tier.
First off, shedinja (especially when paired with dugtrio) is an amazing pp staller and momentum thief. Bring it in on something it walls, and fire off a slow BP, from their,t ehy can either switch and cede you momentum, or stay in and cede you PP as you switch into dugtrio, trap them for a turn as you bring shed back in, rinse, and repeat. between BP and switching, you have and effective 128 bp, so they are unlikely to outlast you. Shedinja also beats a number of top metagame picks, most notably walling the godly thunderwave clefable and keldeo, but going on to include mons such as mega lopunny, scizor (unless they decide on Koff), latios, manaphy, mega medicham, mega gardevoir- dozens of extraordinary threatening mons can just be blanket walled no matter how much hax or times you do so. Many of the most common mons that threaten stall are completely walled. Even horrifically powerful cores are flat out no selled, which is an incredible boon. It's certainly not the most amazing of mons, but you are really underselling it.
Shedinja to stay in D, but not go any higher.
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