seki108

*never did much

so many mistakes when I type this late

The bronzong's less about immediate threat, and more about the constant reminder that this tanky bell can very, very easily set Trick Room back up the moment it times out, making your break from that madness cut that much shorter. That said... metagross' immediate danger is certainly worth paying more attention to if the TR is freshly established, seeing as it's a bloody pseudo and bronzong itself is a bit lacking in offensive presence... But I don't think the AI in general is capable of reading those sorts of Doubles situations yet.

The Gem does get used up for the first attack- that's not the issue. The issue is that the Gem only adds +30% damage, while the no-item bonus on Acrobatics is a flat double (+100%). There's a sizable enough gap in numbers there to make the assumption I did, I believe.

If it actually used TR when something else was on the field, it would have definitely been a bigger thread.  Sadly for it, it didn't use it in any match (much less the final one).  Oranguru just wouldn't faint until almost the end, so like in V9 it essentially turned from a 2-on-2 match to  a 1-on-1 match.

Oh, I misunderstood what you meant in the post before.  Another case of the A.I. not seeing the bigger picture/ the non-immediate effects.  Can't type or read as well this late apparently.