The High-Ladder OU Stall Experience

shoutouts the agency

Stall is fun. Fun to play and especially fun to smash. You've got to be a lot more methodical than with offense, mostly because your team of one or two breakers needs to handle six walls, with at least one of them serving as a hard counter. To win, you need to be applying as much pressure on anything that can take a hit from a breaker. Heatran spamming Lava Plume, sacrificing Greninja to get up spikes and other plays may seem like bad decisions, but the burns, chip and hazard damage go a long way in weakening the opponent's team even if nothing faints. It's very, very easy to overextend against stall, that risky play may seem great, but if your breaker gets burned by scald or takes too much chip to be able to come back in, it's game over, even if you managed to get a KO or two. Conditioning, safe reads, spreading damage and patience is how you beat stall, and if a sweep attempt isn't working, call it off! Had I stayed in on Quagsire after Zen Headbutt missed, I could've eaten a 30% scald burn that would've ended the game then and there. The safe option, bring in Tapu Fini to set up status-blocking Misty Terrain, and then the much bulkier Golisopod to take one and recover with banded Leech Life ultimately preserved Medicham and got some decent damage off that was instrumental for taking down Quagsire later, instead of maybe doing some damage now, guarantee the win later.

stall vs stall is absolute satan tho

This was at the mid 1700's on the ladder, and is the first time i've seen a stall player not play like ass and still lose. Replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ge...
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Music Used:
Battle! Trainer - Pokémon Sun and Moon Soundtrack
Battle! Guzma - Pokémon Sun and Moon Soundtrack
Route 228 (Day) - Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack
Battle! Trainer - Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack
Floaroma Town (Day) - Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack
Victory! Trainer - Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack