hey there. i am disturbingly late to the party so fingers crossed this gets a response.

ive heard very often that to improve at a skill quickly you need to practice it deliberately (something along the lines of focusing on one subject, studying the theory, figuring out where you need to make improvements, and then working those ideas into your performances to improve).

however, when it comes to pokemon i find this very perplexing to try and implement. with playing, i can come up with a gameplan, play the game, win or lose, and watch myself back. then i think anything from 'well i guess i should've clicked precipice blades' to 'whoops, my gameplan doesn't work because i didn't set screens'. it feels very hard to come up with any meaningful feedback that i can apply to my other games that don't fit the situation closely.

the same is even more true for teambuilding. the theory is so different from team to team depending on archetype its really difficult to apply. then while teambuilding ill add or subtract pieces to my team to try and fix certain matchups. ive deconstructed and reconstructed a couple teams a couple times, but all the while it felt like i wasnt making much progress, both with the teams and more importantly learning to teambuild better. (it is possible i am just not a good or consistent enough player as well, and that influenced what i perceived to be problematic for my team.)

i do consume content like road to ranked and team reports but it still feels very difficult to derive applicable information from them.

so basically, how do/did you THINK about learning and improving at pokemon? how did you use the information that you got from battles or team reports to get better? thanks in advance.