>>44111496>Not every strategy is fool-proof, which is exactly the reason a Pokemon that takes 55% damage from literally all of the most common spread moves in the meta like Inteleon is deadweight. Period. Togekiss will not save you from Rillaboom because the enemy will not have -just- specifically Rillaboom in the back patiently letting you redirect it, because like you said that is not how a team works. Specially not when out of 6 monsters you are always choosing only 4 to bring and why would you waste that slot on something that is not strong enough to OHKO most important threats but is fragile enough to get murdered by support monsters?Firstly, you concede that Togekiss wouldn't just be there to divert Rillaboom and the opponent wouldn't just take it, but you can't even CONCEIVE the fact that Inteleon would also have the proper support to work, and not get mogged by spread moves ( of which its only threatened with a nearly OHKO by Alakazam, which is again a coinflip) with proper play and retaliation. And, again, Inteleon OHKO's PLENTY with its reliable crits, and it KOs even MORE under Rain (you still haven't responded to this after I blew it out of the water fyi). And hat support monsters does Inteleon get BTFO by? The standard support Togekiss doesn't even two hit with Dazzling Gleams if you spec in correctly and Indeedee murders MUCH more than Inteleon with Expanding Force on its support sets. the difference here is that Inteleon can ignore its attempts to Follow ME and distract from the partner.
>That is about the end of it. Your imaginary world where everyone plays sub-optimally and reacts only to you is the only place where Inteleon isn't shit, but that is not the real world,Just like that world where everyone can run every way to deal with Inteleon concurrently, while the person playing Inteleon can't play around its weaknesses, and going through screens and redirection isn't a valuable niche, doesn't exist.
