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What's a skill you think only really develops by playing actual people?

Mod_Ginger
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in General Pokémon Organized Play Discussion #1

There are things you can study forever, but then you sit across from another person and suddenly the battle feels completely different. What did competition teach you?

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  • Hades0918
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    #2

    The need for Speed

    I can see people use Tailwand

    NPCs in games do it

    But I've always been like "just make your Pokémon fast and you don't need that"

    And then I actually made a Tailwind Team and I'm like "WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS SOONER!?"

  • ItzMeHung
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    #3

    Oh Umbreon

  • Voltareon2012
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    #4

    Literally everything because I pretty much always just brute force my way through the games…

  • Prince_Ludwig
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    Switching. Especially because in-game, people use Switch over Set by default, so they never have to think about manually switching out their Pokémon when their opponent sends something out.

  • Dragonfly102024
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    #6

    Competition taught me to expect the unexpected... or to at least try to be ready for it.

    Also to try to have a song in my head to keep me focused, not distracted, not nervous, determined and level headed.

  • Mod_Nova
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    #7

    Definitely sportsmanship. It's a lot easier to handle a loss when it's a bot compared to a real person, and I think it can be very helpful to have that exposure early on.

  • Acornyo
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    Both predicting plays and the power of non-damaging moves. I used to just press buttons, hoping to out-DPS my enemy and then get frustrated when I lost, but over time I've realized that these other attacks do in fact exist for a reason, and can be a gamechanger. I also learned over time that although there are a lot of different plays one could do, there are always a few that are the most likely to happen, so you should always be alert.

    My favorite moment was predicting a switch-in for rain and an Electro-Shot with my Appletun and used Sunny Day (my ace up my sleeve) and this play ended up winning the game (for reference my only other Pokemon was Mega Camerupt and this was a rain team).

  • DoubleCure
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    #9

    Time management and card search tricks.

  • Eremas
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    mod_Nova made the top 1% quote.

    so I won't repeat it. But here are three things. Reorganizing priorities correctly, the spirit of Sportsmanship, and most important is playing the game out because you don't know if someone is going to perform a invasion robbery and choose your opponent.

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