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Background
As an academic at an early stage of my career I have the tendency to be more theoretical than practical. However, I hope this may help me to contribute in a unique way. Today I wish to propose a view point known as "option value" and infer its relevance to the game. I imagine many...
Introduction
In an attempt to further expand wrap teams I have developed another concept - amnesia. I believe wrap and amnesia can be combined into a single team with some nice synergy for the following reasons:
1. Amnesiabro (Tobybro) helps to lure in fast mons notably Starmie to paralyze...
Ever since I played competitive RBY I loved using wrap. I know wrap has a bad reputation for being low skill, luck driven and just plain annoying for everyone. However, nothing could stop me from embarking on a quest to find a strong viable wrap team. I have had some success in creating one...
I had talked in detail about the creation of a toxic+wrap/clamp team which will destroy any traditional team centered around Chansey, Exeggutor and Snorlax. This post describes the step by step specific strategies. It will be updated progressively to cover more possibilities later but for now I...
Introduction
This is a team centered around three wrappers/clamper - Victreebel, Dragonite and Cloyster which take the place of Exeggutor, Chansey and Snorlax in a standard team. The team is built around four distinctive but related themes:
a) The use of toxic on slow and bulky pokemon so that...