If you just want to stomp the game I think things are easiest with Squirtle and friends by far, since you can build it into a Rain Dance deck later and have something that's out of any of the CPU trainers' league, whereas Charizard and Venusaur aren't as competitively powerful(though Pokemon Center cheese with Venusaur is pretty entertaining...), but you can really get away with doing a decent version of whatever you feel like running so I'd just go with whatever you think sounds fun
Spells like Scooch can change the result to 0 or 7, for example
The problem is that there is simply no easy replacement
First Place: Iron Thorns Pokmon: 4 4 Iron Thorns ex TWM 77 Trainer: 45 4 Arven OBF 186 3 Professor's Research SVI 189 3 Judge SVI 176 3 Boss's Orders PAL 172 2 Colress's Tenacity SFA 57 1 Iono PAL 185 1 Penny SVI 183 1 Giovanni's Charisma MEW 161 4 Pokgear 3.0 SVI 186 4 Crushing Hammer SVI 168 4 Pokmon Catcher SVI 187 2 Techno Radar PAR 180 2 Canceling Cologne ASR 136 1 Prime Catcher TEF 157 1 Earthen Vessel PAR 163 1 Energy Loto ASR 140 1 Lost Vacuum LOR 162 3 Future Booster Energy Capsule TEF 149 1 Technical Machine: Turbo Energize PAR 179 3 Lost City LOR 161 Energy: 11 7 Lightning Energy SVE 4 4 Double Turbo Energy BRS 151 Fernando Cifuentes managed to win worlds with Iron Thorns
Rather than challenging your opponent directly, the game plan is to get more value from your board than your opponent can from theirs, faster - while also using tricks to disrupt them and Bodyguards to protect your more important characters
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