A key aspect to winning a Pokémon match is to out-predict your opponent. You expect him to use a certain move, but he may predict that you expect that and may make another move, but you expect him to expect you to expect him to... it can make your head spin eventually. Of course, being able to predict what your opponent is going to have their Pokémon do requires a knowledge of what different species are capable of doing, and what the most popular strategies are.
Sometimes, and I'm seeing this a lot more recently, people will show up with movesets or Pokémon that seem to defy logic. These guys very often walk away with a victory because they play outside of trends seen in popular battling and make their opponents unable to predict what they're going to do.
I no longer laugh when I see Pokémon like Grumpig or Butterfree sitting on someone's team before a match. Being cocky like that has cost me too many battles, you just never know what people have up their sleeves.
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