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>lead with ampharos, enemy leads with tyrantrum
>stay unmega, expecting to survive a dragon claw
>survive a head smash instead- what the hell did he not EV train?
>set up agility
>go mega and kill with dragon pulse
>next he sends out blaziken
>well gee I wonder what he's gonna do
>both of us select our moves right away
>he megas and protects, I agility again
>mfw
>thunderbolt blaziken next turn for the kill
>and then the greninja after that
A light breeze could have killed my ampharos after eating that head smash, all he had to do was not choose the obvious option.
As much as I like the prediction-based meta XY has so far with smogonsword and ultra mega chicken (sure beats weather wars and 100% clean sweeps), it is kind of lame when it's just a binary system where you either react to the protect/king's shield or you don't.