>>52612367not really, if that pokemon is unusable outside of that specific counter and it isn't even a reliable one.
if espathra is out for even one turn and the other guy sees you don't get speed boost, he's gonna know it's opportunist and then he's not gonna go for dondozo.
and if he goes for dondozo while espathra isn't out, it's again useless because it has to be on the field when the boosts are applied to receive them.
so you have to hard switch espathra in the same turn that the other guy goes for it, or it's useless.
all of this is completely pointless when murkrow shuts it down just as hard while not being complete dead weight.
