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You can spam recover with Pex and sack nothing assuming he stays in, or you can go Wailord and sack it instead. You dropped 42% on Dracovish the turn it came in and it was due to tank 12% next turn. It might be a calc but it's probably dead. And even if it's not dead it's low enough to where...
The main reason these teams are lopsided is because he rolled some good Dynamax abusers and from the looks of it you didn't roll any at all. Based on when he quit I'm willing to bet most of his team just couldn't touch Pex.
When I look at this replay it shows more of the issues dynamax creates...
Admittedly, I do have some issues with parts this towards the middle. Not for your position necessarily. Some of this just doesn't help address the question at hand, in my opionion. But we may also have different notions of what the question actually is.
Right, they're still important to...
I would appreciate the level of detail you delve into some other comments here applied to some of my own. It's very clear that you care about this, and are willing to explain your thought process/beliefs. I understand that you are largely forced to generalize due to the nature of this comment...
... and under ordinary circumstances this increase in boosting mons would be fine. Because they're dedicating a moveslot and turn to the boosting move, and not every set is going to be the boosting set. And there's totally different mechanics around how a boosting mon needs to be played when it...
There are degrees of magnitude at play though. Dynamax enables far more pokemon than ever before to become a setup sweeper. In fact, you don't even need a setup move to be a setup sweeper thanks to Dynamax. In previous gens, many matches were played where neither team rolled a setup sweeper...
Had to stop playing for a bit due to IRL stuff, but figured I'd leave my two (three?) cents as a former frequent visitor to top 50, though I'm definitely a bit washed up at this point. I've read this entire thread, and I'm going to try not to harp on the points for and against that have already...