PVP Analysis: Goomy Community Day | Thunder Punch Goodra | Pokemon GO Battle League 

So what you are saying to me is as a Skarmory player, never shield and they give me two shields trying to win a 2 shield scenario i won't be playing into. Got you

​@@omarholder9036yes. Don't go 2 shields vs Goodra as skarmony. Best case you get 1 shield. Thing is. Goodra will be at 50 % hp. But this is a good thing because Goodra now breaks the skarmony and wishcash core. You best wishcash you beat skarmony which was not possible before. And this was the intention. Now the skarmony wishcash core needs to loose switch against Goodra and this could be huge if you have for example lanturn. Like lanturn lead with goodra looks really scary. Because even if you lead wishcash into the lanturn you are forced to bring skarmony into goodra safe swap. Sure you have 2 shield advantage but you can bet your donkeys that lanturn lead players will have counter to mud boys. This means Goodra at 50% and full lanturn fights Vs the last Mon of wishcash skarmony. Let's say anihalpe. Ape would drop down to red if it doesn't shield the aqua tail. So drops down to 60% and shield is even. Now. Lanturn comes in who wins the 1on1 shield even against double shadowball from ape and also wins the zero shield. In the end? Your wishcash counter like serpior fights against wishcash which is easy peasy. So lanturn + Goodra + grass against wish? Auto win vs skarmony wishcash core almost. Nothing you can really do even if it favors the alignment

@@omarholder9036 omfg I wrote like 20 sentences but it didn't got posted haha. Long story short. Goodra + lanturn now makes the perfect core against wishcash skarmony. You lead lanturn and have the bad luck of wishcash lead? Well swap Goodra. Now the enemy almost needs to swap in skarmony to evade the devestating matchup. But then you flip the matchup. Staying in with wishcash and soften it up? Missalignr the time. And skarmony +wishcash + ape looses hard vs lanturn+Goodra and serpioror. I tried it. You win easy as yoh always will get your grass on wishcash

@@omarholder9036or just ye olde full send the brave bird and dip if they shield. I think Goodra’s still good though because most average players will stay in thinking they can win any shield scenario not realizing that dragon breath is so broken that it pressures enough even when single resisted.

As a safe swap, thunder punch loses you more scenarios....assuming you dont plan on shielding a safe swap

Thanks for the heads up

@@DanOttawaPOGO no problem

Nah, thunder punch is better In GL. UL you're better off using power whip.

@@Just-J2 sure, I’ll just ignore my firsthand experience. Sure.

@@rocknorris9508 yes, you should. If you look at the stats, power whip performs better and is the recommended move. Just because it works for you doesn’t mean it works for everyone - you could be in a low Elo, or just getting lucky with the matchups.

Also having a shot at beating Altaria in the one-shield is a big deal imo

Better rank for sure

It wouldn't be a bait move then... Annihilape depends on baiting with night slash and booming with shadow ball

Use rain lure module