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Teaching Alakazam  What in your opinion, is the best combination
of defense, bulky offense, and fast sweepers in a complete team
of 6? Do you like to have a mix, or do you exclusively go for
one or the other?   Generally, it depends on the type of team
when deciding how much defense and offense are used in a team
(since obviously stall and hyper offense have all and no defense
respectively). However, it's arguable that the metagame of
Platinum is completely dominated by bulky offense. This is
mainly because of 3 factors. First, the metagame is filled with
fantastic bulky offensive attackers, such as Tyranitar and its
100/110/100 defenses, Metagross with its 80/130/90 defenses and
great typing, Gyarados and its Intimidate, great typing, and
95/79/100 defense, etc. Second, fast offense has basically been
shut down for the most part by Scizor and its powerful Bullet
Punch, which picks off formerly efficient attackers with ease,
such as Gengar, Azelf, an