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After watching "Spheal sweeps Saphira" video, I've noticed something truly pelicular... And not in a good way...
In her Gym Battle team... 4 OUT OF 6 POKEMON ARE X4 WEAK TO ICE!!! AND ONLY ONE OF THE REMAINING TWO ISN'T WEAK TO, BUT GETS ANNIHILATED BY ROCKS!
The only thing that saves her is the Field, which halfs the damage taken from Ice attacks. But if you change or destroy it, and have strong and fast Ice type like Weavile, Ninetales or Choice Scarf Mamoswine, or simply a powerful Pokemon with powerful Ice attack, Saphira's gonna get smashed like raw, undercooked salmon served to Gordon Ramsay.
And if you also bring Stealth Rock... Basically that makes her battle an even bigger joke that Luna could have ever been.
Seriously, her team is perhaps one of the worst in terms of type-and-role balance of all major Trainers... AND SHE'S THE LAST GYM LEADER! 3 Dragon-Flying, 1 Dragon-Ground, 1 Dragon, and 1 Fire-Flying/Fire-Dragon, and all are Fast Sweepers. You don't need to be Wolfe Glick to figure out something's wrong... To think we were laughing at Hardy for having terribly unbalanced team.
Maybe that's just me, but I think devs thought that players wouldn't get out of the way to create a special strategies to defeat her... But after revealing the 99,2% win rate on Dragon's Den, they've practically dug their own (and Saphira's) grave.
I ain't team-creating expert, and I'm not trying to sound like one, but... You can't ignore that Saphira's Gym team can make her either the most challenging opponent thus far... or a total pushover.