We being set up

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Belly Drum…

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  • Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Context please 👉👈

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Swords dance is a move in Pokemon where your opponent does no damage, but doubles their attack power, allowing them to deal twice as much damage every subsequent turn so long as that Pokemon stays in the battle. A small decrease in damage dealt now in exchange for more damage dealt later.

    Most children play Pokemon with a simple goal to attack every turn, and don’t pay attention to what non-attacking moves do, and they view all such moves as a waste of a turn, represented by the bored spongebob. Adults playing Pokemon better understand strategy, and realize that the opponent becomes much more threatening after using swords dance.

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To add, it’s even worse if you know sweepers and how fast they can decimate your team; they usually have protection to one shot KO and decent speed.

      Except there’s perhaps a third bored looking Spongebob with the counter ready to go, as you should always be ready to counter a Swords Dance sweeper.

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    • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But most of the stat rising or lowering moves are quite tame. Doubling the attack power seems almost OP? It’s like that grain of rice that doubles every chess field story OP

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    • grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you!

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Swords dance is a move that doesn’t do damage but makes the pokemon deal attack double. Most of the time as a young pokemon player you’d disregard these kinds of setup moves as you’d just cram 4 attacking moves on everyone.

    On competitive pokemon getting set up on is very dangerous and could lead to you losing the whole fight.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To expand on this, most stat-raising moves in Pokémon are a complete waste of time.

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    • grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you!

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