Well, after watching this, it can be said, that it is your opponent fault for not noticing that it is useless to thunder wave everything since you can heal up with Wish + Healbell combination. Would have been smarter to switch into Landorus predicting earth power of Heatran and hope to get a chance to take out Sylveon.
Wow, that's such a bad playing on your opponent's side it's not even an example. Did he forget that he could switch pokemons?
Your opponent kind of sucked, but you did also get pretty lucky with Sylveon and Heatran repeatedly getting through the ParaFusion. You barely got haxxed considering how often he was able to get both statuses on you.
Yeah just to get on the bandwagon, this game doesnt show an effective to shut down to klefki just a game where his shenanigans didnt work. There really is no reiable way to break through parafusion other than luck. Which is why he is so awesome/hated
And this is precisely why SwagKey is overhyped. It is not as good as people say it is, because you are relying on luck to win. You're hoping the opponent will stay in, hit themselves with confusion or get full para and you hitting them with Foul Play. SwagKey is starting to feel like that set that a scrub throws at a more skilled player after getting thoroughly outplayed and says "here, I know you outplayed me, so I'm going to just throw this at you and throw caution to the wind. I might get a win out of this, but if I don't, I was going to lose anyway".
I would say the one place where SwagKey and parafusion/paraflinch in general is a viable strategy is when it's designed to run down an opponent's team in order to open up a sweep for a final cleaner. Get ParaFlinch Jirachi, Togekiss and Swagkey on a team, wear down your opponent as they struggle to kill you, then maul them with MLuc or MPinsir. Yes, you're still technically relying on luck, but there is a win condition built in rather than just "everything else died so I'm going to annoy you with SwagKey and hope I still win".
Yeah, SwagKey is nor a sweeper neither a win condition, it's a great supporter. Use it early/mid battle to lay out Spikes, spread Paralysis, an play along the rest of your team. Mid/late game you'll have your opponent's team ready to be sweeped.
What else would you expect them to do? Switch, take Spikes damage, and get confused again? Rotom-W was their Klefki counter. Of the things on their team, Rotom-W handles Klefki best. The only thing switching would accomplish was racking up passive damage and risking paralysis on another Pokemon.
I see an umbreon on his team who resists dark, has healing/ can heal allies as well as having the ability to give klefki paralysis back due to synchronize. Infact umbreon is a much stronger answer to klefki than rotom-w, but the key to beating klefki lies in having 2 answers for it instead of just 1, and its also worth noting most of the best pokes to deal with klefki are defensive ones instead of trying to take it down with your fast frail sweeper.
Most Magic Coat users fail to stop Klefki for much the same reasons the Magic Bouncers do: they either take too much from Foul Play and / or they cannot do enough damage back. You also can't even switch in Magic Coat users into Klefki like Magic Bouncers can. A Taunter that doesn't mind paralysis (Gliscor) would be a better; even though it won't stop the first Prankstered attack, it will stop the subsequent ones instead of having to spam / predict Magic Coat every turn (especially if Klefki has Substitute).
Since every single Rotom-W seems to be running Trick nowadays, I'm not so sure about running Iron Ball. Scarf seems to cover more terrain (although not stopping Rotom-W).
They do? Because in my experiences Choice Rotom-W is wholly
why did no-one think of this?
