The Twin Pillars (Post Battle Discussion)

[Paiopa]

Using a team consisting of mostly UU pokemon against your OU army made this match that much more challenging for me. I'm surprised with how things went this battle. You used your team more effectively but still made some mistakes. First of all, you should have concentrated both your attacks on my weakened pokemon. I think you underestimated her bulkiness lol. She's 4x resistant against ice attacks so yeah that would have helped you. The other mistake you made was trying to toxic my pokemon when I had safeguard up. You have to watch out for things like that. It was definitely a tough battle though and you came very close. See you next week.

[Matt42]

Yeah, the thing with Toxic was a misclick :/ And My strategy was shut down after you used Avalanche on Stride and that was my only strategy! All the other pokes on my team were just put on there randomly. I am going to take a long time to think up a real doulble battle strategy and not just use my single battles team.

[pikaluva13]

Originally Posted by Matt42

Yeah, the thing with Toxic was a misclick :/ And My strategy was shut down after you used Avalanche on Stride and that was my only strategy! All the other pokes on my team were just put on there randomly. I am going to take a long time to think up a real doulble battle strategy and not just use my single battles team.

*pops up*
Actually, using your singles team isn't that bad of an idea. I just did some research with my team and looked at what combinations *could* work with my pokemon. Like (Paiopa noticed, not me), i had used a physical and special pokemon together as the leads, and they were great at weakening his team. Then, as one of them fainted, i went to another combo that my other lead had, and i kept going like that. I had tons of combos that sort of worked on paper, that i found out worked terribly, but also luck was a huge factor of our match. I got several crits in that helped me win the battle.

tl;dr Singles can help win doubles.

[Paiopa]

Pikaluva13 nailed it right to the point. The thing about double battles is most people over think things with their teams. Just because you use certain pokemon in singles doesn't mean they won't work well in doubles. It's like a dance. You choose two partners and one follows the other's lead. You do have to make sure both partners are in synch otherwise the dance number gets ruined. Make sense lol?

[Trombones13]

*imagines his doubles plan is probably too over-thought* @_@