xx Finally, more abstractly, this team lacks redundancy, and instead is saddled with dependency chains: Raikou depends on Cloyster who depends on Misdreavus, and if that chain is broken, it becomes very difficult to make anything happen. Even though I tried to make "parallel" paths with Misdreavus Ptrap and Egg & Cloyster Explosions, in practice the team's only consistent ways to make progress flowed from having & keeping Spikes (c.f. the discussion about Egg's role on the team in the presence of an opposing Skarmory). ---> basically the team is bad