>>20446941Bottom half was probably more successful overall, and was probably an exercise in awareness for the opponent. I'd lead with zoroark and whimsicott. Here's the thing that people should've noticed though: there was no intimidate (or hyper cutter) message when I sent out the not-mawile. (I know it has sheer force but who uses that?) I still rused a ton of people with it though.
Tailwind on whimsicott ended up being more useful than I initially anticipated, letting zoroark outspeed stuff like kingdra in rain (which led to a situation where I got a night daze accuracy drop on it, making hydro pump miss 3 times in a row) and also helped mmaw clean up a lot better.
I kinda wished I replaced safeguard on whimsicott with moonblast, dazzling gleam, or helping hand though. I mean I'm sure it prevented a scald burn somewhere along the lines but otherwise there were quite a few turns where it just sat there doing nothing.
There were other times though where whimsicott was basically controlling the entire battle though. Mawile is a huge status magnet but the threat of an encore led to the opponents not wanting to use any of them. Encoring fake outs, protects, dragon dances, etc was always great, especially when the battle was down to 2v2 and they couldn't switch out, letting me encore+taunt their status moves and forcing them to struggle.
Overall I came in the high 1500s with a score of something like 18-12. I wasn't expecting to do well at all but I had fun and that's what mattered.
Some videos of this team:
A33G-WWWW-WWW9-2933
Z6TG-WWWW-WWW9-2939
WQHG-WWWW-WWW9-293E
