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"Hypermodern" leads

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 So if you read my UPL dump you'll find that I experimented with a new lead concept, which is to use something that totally loses to Deo-S and deliberately bait them into Taunting or Tricking into Giratina-O which basically lets you T2 Deo-S vs Gira-O lead MU but your actual lead covers different things (since Gira-O lead is kind of sad). The idea came from Zayele who ran a slow as balls Lum Deo-S and at the time I thought it was blasphemy, but looking back on it, it's kind of smart and spawned this whole idea. Note this only works if the Deo-S lead is highly compelled to click Taunt or Trick - if their default move to just click hazards then it doesn't work because you're just handing them free turns to set up more hazards (means Ogre leads are not saved by this maneuvre). Any lead that can do Payback+priority shenanigans aren't saved either (so no Qwilfish/Cloyster leads). Note you should also run standard mixed Giratina-O with Shadow Sneak so you can beat said ...