Yeahhh, not really sure this qualifies for the thread because the only reason you won was multiple hax (will-o-miss, crit earthquake) and you were really making some weird decisions, at least in the beginning.
I am Unrelenting and I definitely played pretty loosely at the end of that battle. Throughout the entire beginning of the game I was scouting out your sets and weakening your Xerneas checks and planned to set up Xerneas on a Resting Palkia. I definitely should have gone to Giratina right away rather than allow you to set up like that, but I really didn't expect that Groudon set at all, even though I've used it myself.
I used Surf on the Palkia switchin because I wanted it to switch in and stay in and wanted to induce a Rest because as I mentioned I was planning on sweeping with Xerneas. If I had Thundered there then he would have had to go to Groudon and it would have taken longer to sweep. Sometimes the best prediction is to set up what you want to happen rather than punish what you expect to happen. Sacrificing Ogre was probably not necessary but I thought I had the game more or less in the bag at that point and it was Toxiced and getting weak so I didn't have any intention of sweeping with it. The correct play that game was not to attack with Scizor but to immediately switch to Giratina but I didn't switch directly into 'don because I didn't want to risk being outsped and 2hkod by a crit EQ or something. I should have factored in the possibility of that set. I thought I was playing it safe but I guess not.
build a better team that can handle offensive threats
That doesn't help me at all. I can only prepare for so much. Ideally my kyogre would have been able to KO the shuckle so I wouldn't even have to worry about the sticky web.
That's not really an excuse, even offensive teams like yours can prepare for most major threats in the game but, not predicting something as gimmicky as Shuckle to have those kind of sets is a mistake that a lot of new players make (which I'm asuming you are). So you'll learn more if you keep playing etc...
kk, Ill keep shuckle and trick room palkia in mind next time. rofl. The jank though.
Trick Room Palkia is actually decent pick, because many Ubers are 90 base speed based and pretty much none of them bother with -speed natures and 0 IVs in speed, so you'll 'outspeed' technically all of them. It's also the only way palkia can 'boost' his speed, so it's 100% viable set. It's also nothing new, it was used before in Gen 5. While it's not as common as other sets, but it's something which you need to watch out for ;).
