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Vivillon is awesome. I was playing Randoms and was having a LOT of trouble midgame with a Gourgeist (which is pretty pathetic now that I think about it) so I switched to Vivillon. I've never used Vivillon before, but it swept all 6 Pokemon on my opponent's team. THIS is what I call power...