>>49847154it's very simple, really:
if you have at least one mon that can soak at least two hits and/or outspeed to get two kills, you win ez.
if your team is entirely built out of mons that deal shitloads of damage but can't sponge hits on the revenge switch in, you basically trade stocks back and forth until he wins by default because you can't possibly win a stock trade match 6-8.
if your team happened to have the winning criteria on it the first time you go in, congratulations, it was a walk in the park.
if you didn't... you were absolutely fucked with no recourse.
if your answer to this is "who builds a team without a tank", well, pla very strongly incentivizes glass cannon play since you're guaranteed to win every other fight due to no one packing a team of 6. literally no one. it's teams of 5 max the whole game and then volo rolls up with a team of 8 out of fucking nowhere.
you can coast through this entire game, like most pokemon games, on pure braindead hyper offense. but if you're not hilariously overleveled volo is going to absolutely shatter that strat.
