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by dragontamer 2818 days ago
It really depends on what I'm predicting. U-Turn on Lando wins a surprising number of options:

* Beats Koko Volt-Switch: Lando is immune, so Koko fails to switchout.

* Beats the Koko Uturn: Lando is slower, as the 2nd U-Turner you capture the switching momentum.

* Beats the Koko Thunderbolt: Its prediction-on-top-of-predictions going on here, but this happens sometimes.

* Beats the Koko Hard-Switch: Hey, maybe they thought your Lando was scarf'd so they hard switch out.

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* Loses to HP-ice: This is the "obvious move" for Koko to do, and will happen more often than not. But as you go up the ranks, people start going for 2nd tier or 3rd tier mind-games, and you see fewer and fewer "obvious moves", especially in the early game where momentum is such a big deal.

It really depends where you are on the ladder: how stupid or aggressive you think your opponent is and all that.