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Kingler12345
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scalding slowbro on turn 5 is unlikely to be a winning play long term. the slowbro is already toxic'd and has revealed that it is not holding leftovers, with a team running cryo and guzzlord with the only other fighting resist being a likely spdef vileplume, it's safe to assume you could be playing a physdef variant of bro, and its safe to assume that z is within the range of sets you'd run on this type of team (no other obvious z-user, although guzz and cryo are possible, passimian is unlikely to be anything other than scarf due to the teams lower than average base speed) and any team that can run z slowbro is capable of running block. as you can see this play ending up costing mans the game, and frankly the risk is too high too be taking this line on turn 5. you're obviously in a bad spot needing to switch something into a likely scald, with accelgor and torterra being okay options that struggle to do much short term and will require you to double for position, but hey they do not immediately lose you the game too and thats kinda nice.