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The most recent set of seven had Waitress Kaila with Blaziken-5 lead and Gentleman Jerrell with Scizor-6, both leads that are some of the most difficult to play around and on teams that require some finesse after dealing with the lead to stay alive. Still on Shuckle/Breloom/Suicune. Also hit...

Milotic's good at just sitting there. Good general-purpose set seems like HP and Defense investment with Scald, Ice Beam, Recover and filler. Flame Orb to let it absorb status and abuse Marvel Scale. Haze or Dragon Tail can prevent opponents from setting up in your face. Bulldoze and Tickle...

You need to be very careful about using moves without 100% accuracy, or at least be able to put yourself in positions where misses aren't too costly. Using Stone Edge means a wasted turn 20% of the time in ideal conditions, which is even worse when the opponent has Bright Powder or Evasion...

Streak ends at 138. Ace Trainer Cortney with the Porygon-Z-2 lead got an early freeze on Shuckle after a Power Split, smacked it until Shuckle died, got a critical hit Thunderbolt on Suicune before it could set up well with Calm Mind, left Breloom at 20 HP after an Ice Beam, then woke up ASAP...

Just a quick check-in. Had a harrowing run-in with Aldo's lead Dragon Dance Feraligatr; sometimes you just hope they'll stop boosting, especially when you need Rock Tomb to hit consistently. Either way, I'm still trucking along. Considering Swords Dance over Bulk Up on Breloom, since it would...

Do you find yourself using Aerial Ace on Garchomp much? I know Evasion and Bright Powder are obnoxious, but I suspect you'd get more value out of other options. Substitute is pretty standard to help deal with status and to give yourself general insurance, and Rock Tomb gives you speed control...

I was frustrated after losing at 69 yesterday morning and spent a lot of time playing in the last 24 hours after a few edits... This is a nice milestone to check in on: This is still Shuckle/Suicune/Breloom. I've made a few adjustments since my initial post. Impasse (Shuckle) @ Custap Berry...

Ended up dropping Cresselia after a few runs. Got into situations I wasn't crazy about and I think that Suicune is likely more reliable overall. I'm realizing that boosting Steel-types in general are kind of annoying for the team. Swords Dance Scizors are already difficult to hold back with...

loool, lost immediately after switching this morning at 81 wins, but it was primarily from misplays against Dragon Tamer Alonso. I didn't keep Shuckle alive to Power Split against Scizor-2, and Scizor in general is a bigger problem without the Steel resist from Suicune. Could've made it work...

That makes a lot of sense. I've been using Suicune as strong filler I already had lying around from another team, but Cress makes a lot of sense. Having the 'Mon backing up Breloom not be weak to the Grass-types Breloom can't put to sleep would take some stress off. My primary worry situations...

I've spent a lot of my Tower time up to this point trying different variations of a lead crippler strategy and wanted to bring one particular 'Mon up because of how much it manages to get done... Shuckle. It gets an incredible amount of utility options, many of which weren't around in Gen 4...

A streak will reset if you lose your battle, run from the battle (which is ultimately the same as losing), or reset the game while you're in the middle of a Tower challenge. It can't be preserved through a loss/quit, and the only way to keep your streak through that would be by tampering with...

If you have something of your own with Calm Mind/Rest that can stomach Suicune's attacks, you could get to +6 and stall out its damaging moves with CM/Rest spam, since it's not likely to use Calm Mind at +6 until it's out of attacking moves, it won't use Rest at full health, and you get three...

I thought Custap Berry was unavailable in BDSP so far. Where do you find it in-game?

Are the 60 SpAtk EVs for any specific OHKOs at +6, or did you pull the EV spread from the Sw/Sh Calm Mind set? I wonder the latter because it lists 60 Speed EVs there instead of 60 SpAtk EVs but otherwise looks the same. Over there, the Speed EVs were for outspeeding Corviknight, but that's not...