Jack of All | Master of None

In 1973, the CIA’s ‘Manual of Trickery and Deception’ was supposed to be destroyed- but it never was. A surviving copy was discovered in 2007, so we now know that the CIA hired a magician and had him teach the agents sleight of hand. Aside from magic tricks, he also taught them a secret language based entirely on different patterns for tying shoelaces. Source Source 2 Source 3

Park Se Jun. One of the best players in the world. He used a Pachirisu with Nuzzle (a move with 100% paralysis chance), Super Fang (cuts target’s HP in half) and Follow Me (a move that redirects attacks AWAY from allied pokemon), and equipped with a recently-buffed Sitrus Berry. And he turned the metagame on its head, because nobody in the championships had prepared for anything outside their incredibly restrictive expectations. Their strategies and planning were completely tripped up by an electric squirrel. Battling his Pachirisu in incredibly tight synergy with the rest of his team, Park Se Jun swept the finals and became World Champion of 2014 Doubles.

Pachirisu is completely decimated, right?

It’s not. There’s, like, this moment of stunned disbelief as the hosts watch the electric squirrel’s HP drop into the red- and stay there. Cue the shit-flippage, because it was that fucking awesome. That’s right, Pachirisu, a Pokemon that was, before that moment, barely competitively viable, had out-tanked the strongest dragon-type move from one of the strongest dragon-type Pokemon. Millions of people crunched the numbers afterwards and we still flip shit about it because it actually, viably works.

And then, to top it all off, Pachirisu’s Sitrus Berry activates and gives it back 1/3 of its health, meaning it barely got a scratch in the grand scheme of things and secured Se Jun’s victory. That little rodent that most people looked at and called a lowbrow Pikachu managed to singlehandedly dismantle the entire win condition of a team of pseudo-legendaries just by taking that one hit. At that single moment, an early-game base Pokemon with no evolution had more control over the flow of battle than all three pseudo-legendaries on the field, combined.

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