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My time zone is GMT -6 (I think), your message was at 3:30 AM for me. Your last activity was like 9:27 am for me, I can try to wake up early someday (not tomorrow unfortunately).
it works, but nowhere near as well. with toxic spieks you can just keep setting up and healing and dont need to attack. without it you're walled by stuff like torkoal, alomomola, etc :/
also i really just like toxic spieks in general in this meta