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You came here to see carnage and reap the rewards of revenge. And you weren't talking about some ghost Pokémon or pile of jewels... you just wanted to see some cool stuff! So why would you sneak around doing side jobs when you were watching a perfectly good squash match right here?
You take out a notepad and start trying to eye Carl's team. Koshmar is right, the team setup does seem to be "Sword and Shield", at least, from what you can tell of the two Pokémon he's using right now. For all you know he's got 4 Pokémon set up for a Belly drum team.
You notice a few things off the bat. The first is the stuff that Koshmar brought up. Talonflame isn't simply charging through and hitting several people with one big attack, instead he's weaving through the forces, and simply maximizing how many people get hit with his attack, and repeating it.
In theory Carl could simply just plow through with a single Brave Bird, or rapidly attack with Air cutter or something, but instead each single Acrobatic (which is by no means a weak move) was being used to sweep foes... and dodge attacks!
This wasn't simply a masterful use of Acrobatics, or some well laid plan... Carl had taught Talonflame a even stronger form of Acrobatics, one that maximized its power... Which might have implied Jules did something similar...
And... as you focus... you can see how attacks deflect off Talonflame, not in a straight block like how Gremlin does... but in a slope. The Starmie has a unique shaped Reflect that didn't simply absorb impact, but deflected it...
Maybe you could teach Gremlin ways to adjust his own reflect? Or maximize Sandman's Scorching Sands... Or Jabberwocky's Fury Cutter? Or something!
You don't have to just focus on levels and trickery...
And as you finish taking notes... the Red door flies open. Carl advancing among the heap of unconcious foes.
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