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Characteristics of good safe swaps are: | Characteristics of good safe swaps are: | ||
* soft counters the lead you're swapping out of | * soft counters the lead you're swapping out of, pressuring them to swap out too | ||
* cannot be hard countered and has "neutral" matchups against the meta | * cannot be hard countered and has "neutral" matchups against the meta | ||
* can win shield or switch advantage with a slight energy lead | * can win shield or switch advantage with a slight energy lead | ||
* can be used to catch charged moves that hurt your lead | * can be used to catch charged moves that hurt your lead | ||
* is spammy enough to stall the clock with charged moves so it can switch out with energy before getting KO'd | * is spammy enough to stall the clock with charged moves so it can switch out with energy before getting KO'd | ||
* can bait out a hard counter to your closer | |||
* if it loses, it lowers the opponent's HP enough to be farmed down by fast moves (optionally applying debuffs) | * if it loses, it lowers the opponent's HP enough to be farmed down by fast moves (optionally applying debuffs) | ||
A good safe swap threatens the lead of your opponent and | A good safe swap threatens the lead of your opponent and pressures them to swap out. As they swap out, your safe swap is able to gain a few turns of energy advantage. The slower your opponent swaps out, the more farm you get. | ||
Examples of safe swaps: | Examples of safe swaps: | ||
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** Trevenant | ** Trevenant | ||
** Shadow Nidoqueen | ** Shadow Nidoqueen | ||
* Ultra League | * Ultra League | ||
** Shadow Walrein | ** Shadow Walrein | ||
Latest revision as of 11:46, 30 August 2022
Also known as "safe switch", the Safe Swap is a pokemon you can safely swap to when you have a bad lead.
Characteristics of good safe swaps are:
- soft counters the lead you're swapping out of, pressuring them to swap out too
- cannot be hard countered and has "neutral" matchups against the meta
- can win shield or switch advantage with a slight energy lead
- can be used to catch charged moves that hurt your lead
- is spammy enough to stall the clock with charged moves so it can switch out with energy before getting KO'd
- can bait out a hard counter to your closer
- if it loses, it lowers the opponent's HP enough to be farmed down by fast moves (optionally applying debuffs)
A good safe swap threatens the lead of your opponent and pressures them to swap out. As they swap out, your safe swap is able to gain a few turns of energy advantage. The slower your opponent swaps out, the more farm you get.
Examples of safe swaps:
- Great League
- Sableye
- Trevenant
- Shadow Nidoqueen
- Ultra League
- Shadow Walrein
- Shadow Drapion
- Trevenant
- Registeel
- Talonflame
- Master League
- Lugia
- Dialga
