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Sneasler's Coaching: Buff Teammates Even Through Protect

Doubles Support Tactic

Essential decision pivot for your next match.

Actionable Insight: Strategic Takeaway

Leverage Sneasler's Coaching with physically offensive partners to gain offensive and defensive boosts, even on turns your partner uses Protect to mitigate damage or scout. This maintains momentum and sets up future plays.

Imagine boosting your powerful physical attacker's stats while they safely Protect. Sneasler's Coaching makes this strategic play a consistent reality in Doubles battles.

Master the interaction between stat boosts and Protect.

Mechanics Behind Sneasler's Coaching

Sneasler can utilize Coaching to provide a significant Attack and Defense boost to a target ally. Critically, this stat enhancement bypasses a teammate's Protect, allowing your physical attackers, like Kingambit, Mega Feraligatr, or Basculegion, to become more resilient and powerful without exposing them to immediate threats. This unique interaction means you don't lose a turn of stat-boosting momentum when a teammate needs to play defensively, enabling more aggressive follow-up turns and sustained pressure.

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Essential Tactical Takeaways

  1. Coaching provides +1 Attack and +1 Defense to an ally.

  2. The stat boosts from Coaching apply even if the ally uses Protect.

  3. Benefits physically offensive partners such as Kingambit, Mega Feraligatr, and Basculegion.

  4. Maintains offensive momentum while enabling defensive plays.

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Knowledge claims supporting this insight

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  1. 01SYNERGY

    Sneasler's Coaching provides attack and defense boosts

    Sneasler can run Coaching to give its partner an Attack and Defense boost, even through Protect, which significantly benefits physical attackers like Kingambit and Mega Feraligatr, making them very resilient.

  2. 02MOVE_COMBO

    Coaching for Physical Teammate Buffs

    Sneasler can use Coaching to buff physically offensive teammates such as Kingambit or Basculegion, providing a stat boost even when the teammate uses Protect.

    IfWhen paired with physically offensive teammates

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