>>52121339Yeah you can. Look at the Sinnoh League—every one of Ash’s matches there involved accounting for some strategy that his opponent thrust upon him—Nando and Tobias using sleep, Conway’s Trick Room, Paul using Toxic Spikes, Counter Shield, and Snow Veil. And then Tobias had the asspull of another legendary. There are ways to do it.
You could build up an antagonist over the course of a tournament arc by having all of his/her opponents make a little bit more progress against their team, and then the protagonist has to put all of the info together to somehow beat them in the finals.
