Whats the best answer to this opening?
▲ 130 r/stunfisk

Whats the best answer to this opening?

Boosted sweeper + trick room support. Its a common lead in terms of roles i believe. In the past gen it used to be flutter mane + giraf. Ive always had trouble with it cuz solving one counter usually puts you behind on the other

- you cant fake out the speedy one and going for tailwind/weather + attack can be answered with trick room and a free switch into a slow sweeper like torkoal or hatt

- going for taunt on indeede (asuming im leading a non prankster taunt pokemon) could get you hit by expanding force(if its m-indeedee) or energy ball(which has happened) and sneasler still has a free hit of dire claw which could sleep OR rock slide. Ignoring sneasler/flutter mane (or whatever takes this role) for more than 1 turn tends to go terrible

In my case i went for reflect+earthquake and sneasler rolled sleep on dire claw, while indeede went for helping hand.

Edit: Im asking about the dynamics beyond this exact screenshot

u/SapphireSalamander — 8 days ago