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What changes did you make rn

removed spikes from ferro, gave it rocks, made tran magma+tox with tect. and a lil speed, though now that I think about it the speed isn't necessary....
I know it's not a spike stack anymore, this just seemed a lil more easy for me to get into this team with
I might change back later

It doesnt need to be a spikestack

I think the thundurus matchup is ass

the best counter is glis who falls at the sight of hp ice

Also do we really need calm mind

Ik that was the purpose but i think mega alas atleast 2hkos everything so ig more coverage is better?

Idk

tran isn't too bad, getting para'd sucks, but fb does only about half and magma ruins it especially if you have rocks up

I think shadow ball over cm is too good
I just got goobed by a mmeta b/c I didn't have sball

Yeah against megameta best you can do is magma storm on heatran

Which gets smacked by the uncommon eq

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen6ou-2435215603
I did not play this one well and some hax made this not super fair for the opponent, but this is what it could look like. You want to make switches that make progress while preventing progress for your opp, you have a lot of resistance and recovery in your mons that needs to be leveraged when making trades to gain progress. you aren't making progress quickly so you need to make good trades to get things in range of your finishers. twave on key targets is vital. And use all your tools, don't forget iron barbs as an offensive weapon. it can block spins on low health excas and finish low targets like the LO crawdaunt in this replay. Spikes do vibe with this play style a little bit the issue I think is getting time to put them down. I was really reserved on going zam vs gallade, but there definitely were missed opportunities with the encore locking it into sd. I was too spooked by shadow sneak too much I spose. I don't have anymore time right now, but I might get another decent replay later tonight.

Thanks man

Hey man

Hows you doin

Been alright, I gave your team a few more runs, not any worthwhile replays. There was a pretty close game, but I kinda threw. As far as thundurus being a nuisance, with good positioning tran and zam can deal with it. it's not as simple as "I switch in and threaten it immediately". Prankster encore is pretty underrated as a way to block twave if you have enough health to tank a hit. and spdef tran can take a focus Blast to trade a magma storm for huge DMG. are either of these solutions 100%, no, but you can protect zam's HP. I 'm debating adding a smidge of speed to tran to make sure crawdaunt has to eat a trade with tran if it wants to KO it, but i'm not sure if we NEED to do this with ferro hanging out in the back.

Wow youve been at work

Btw is you “throwing” anything to do with the team

No, it's just me being a bad player