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HO is still the way to go imo. We'll see if latios and manaphy change that, but I doubt it. Toxic isn't very widely distributed in this format, and there's lots of viable defoggers. Maybe there's something, as an avid stall player I'm experimenting a bit today, but the lack of passive damage...