Team:Roswell, Claudia, Titania, Skadi, MIPS, Fantastic Mr. Fox Strategy: Ford is sending Roswell out first, mainly to set up a Trick Room. That's her first order of business because three of the six Pokémon he's brought are slow as heck and in this kind of battle going first can do a lot for you. Roswell can then Thunderbolt Zira into next week with her disgustingly high special attack. With Trick Room in effect she's also faster than Terra, and since Gardevoir is now weak to Psychic Roswell should have no trouble taking it out (finally a good time to use Synchronoise!) -- though if she does, she also knows Recover and can Protect in a pinch.
This is mostly so she can survive through Terra in order to reset the Trick Room before she goes down, allowing Skadi to come in and go faster than Firion. Skadi's going to be setting up Stealth Rocks, banking on her high HP to take at least one hit so she can use the next turn to Stone Edge. If Stone Edge hits, great! If it misses, Ford will have Skadi use her lower power but higher accuracy Rock and Ice attacks instead. When Firion falls and Longjing comes in it will ideally take some nice damage from the rocks, and hopefully be right about when the Trick Room's running out. Skadi's going to keep going with her Rock-type attacks against it for as long as she can, and when she faints Claudia is going to come in. She has plenty of Flying moves to deal with Longjing if she needs to, though in an ideal world she won't have to make an appearance until Ice-bro shows up. When it does she'll be ready to meet it with plenty of Poison moves plus the ability to Roost or Leech Life to regain health.
Which leaves Bavarois. As usual, Ford brought the Ninetales, and he'll be setting up a Sunny Day right off the bat and then hitting that Goodra with some extra-powerful Fire moves that are further boosted by his Charcoal. He'll also be trying to use the bright light in combination with the mirrors to make it more difficult for Bavarois to see what it's doing and hopefully give Mr. Fox another leg up.
This is of course assuming everything goes as well as it possibly can for him. In case everything doesn't go as well as it possibly can, in the back are Titania and MIPS. Titania has a good host of Bug, Steel and Normal moves with some others thrown in for flavor, and if she has to come out and use her Sturdy ability to fire off an Explosion to deal with an opponent who's proving particularly pesky she will. Ford might employ her against Firion and Longjing if either of them give him serious trouble. MIPS meanwhile has a widely-varied list of moves and can take a hit and give a lot back if Ford needs a moment to rethink strategy or potion someone up. He won't be bringing a huge amount of restorative items and he won't use them unless he's really in a tight spot, though. He likes to play things pretty close to the wire.
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Strategy: Ford is sending Roswell out first, mainly to set up a Trick Room. That's her first order of business because three of the six Pokémon he's brought are slow as heck and in this kind of battle going first can do a lot for you. Roswell can then Thunderbolt Zira into next week with her disgustingly high special attack. With Trick Room in effect she's also faster than Terra, and since Gardevoir is now weak to Psychic Roswell should have no trouble taking it out (finally a good time to use Synchronoise!) -- though if she does, she also knows Recover and can Protect in a pinch.
This is mostly so she can survive through Terra in order to reset the Trick Room before she goes down, allowing Skadi to come in and go faster than Firion. Skadi's going to be setting up Stealth Rocks, banking on her high HP to take at least one hit so she can use the next turn to Stone Edge. If Stone Edge hits, great! If it misses, Ford will have Skadi use her lower power but higher accuracy Rock and Ice attacks instead. When Firion falls and Longjing comes in it will ideally take some nice damage from the rocks, and hopefully be right about when the Trick Room's running out. Skadi's going to keep going with her Rock-type attacks against it for as long as she can, and when she faints Claudia is going to come in. She has plenty of Flying moves to deal with Longjing if she needs to, though in an ideal world she won't have to make an appearance until Ice-bro shows up. When it does she'll be ready to meet it with plenty of Poison moves plus the ability to Roost or Leech Life to regain health.
Which leaves Bavarois. As usual, Ford brought the Ninetales, and he'll be setting up a Sunny Day right off the bat and then hitting that Goodra with some extra-powerful Fire moves that are further boosted by his Charcoal. He'll also be trying to use the bright light in combination with the mirrors to make it more difficult for Bavarois to see what it's doing and hopefully give Mr. Fox another leg up.
This is of course assuming everything goes as well as it possibly can for him. In case everything doesn't go as well as it possibly can, in the back are Titania and MIPS. Titania has a good host of Bug, Steel and Normal moves with some others thrown in for flavor, and if she has to come out and use her Sturdy ability to fire off an Explosion to deal with an opponent who's proving particularly pesky she will. Ford might employ her against Firion and Longjing if either of them give him serious trouble. MIPS meanwhile has a widely-varied list of moves and can take a hit and give a lot back if Ford needs a moment to rethink strategy or potion someone up. He won't be bringing a huge amount of restorative items and he won't use them unless he's really in a tight spot, though. He likes to play things pretty close to the wire.