>>23157343So you may think. It's not like I swap for 5 turns in a row. That'd just be silly and a recipe for a quick loss. The idea is to play predictably, be unpredictable, then do something that the opponent would never expect you to do because its "too obvious."
Have you ever let a pokemon stay in on something like the obvious 4x super effective hit? And you do so because the swap is so obvious that you know the opponent won't go for it because they think, "Ok they clearly can't stay in on this, So I'm gonna do something different." You predict that and pull a status move/ get free damage on them.
Or, your in the opponents mind-set now and you realize, "Ok the swap is so obvious that my opponent's gonna be bold and stay in predicting me not to take the bait. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and make the safe play, predicting them to make the bold play, and knock this pokemon out."
That's where the swap/double/if not sometimes triple swap can come in handy. You want to make the opponent question your mindset. And then base your next move based On, or against, the opponents logic.
Did I lose you yet?
