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Basically the goal is to think offensively and construct a core that could break stall. This could mean many things. A super strong breaker, hazards + a great knock off user, a series of pokemon that force chip on one-another's defensive answers, etc. Basically make sure the start of your team is geared toward having a stallbreaking core, and the rest is focused on supporting that core

The idea of course, is that if you can break stall you can break anything. This is somewhat of an oversimplification but typically you want to build as I described above

That makes sense. What would the next step be in the case of building around a powerful breaker?

Adding pivots typically, to get the breaker in

What criteria is the pivot supposed to follow? Like if I start with a specs ival what would I be looking at to find a pivot?