About Mighty's role in our victory

(Read this if you want to know in detail why I think Mighty is an underdog, and have a little background on him since we caught him. Skip at the end to read why he helped winning against Wallace, and get a plausible take on the final battle in respect to the good cop / bad cop lore for him and Birdcop. )

I wish I could have made a summary comic strip with this, but I can't draw very well.. Oh well..

But yeah, after seeing all those waves of praise and people calling Annie the underdog of the run, I think Mighty does deserve praise too. Of couse, I'm not diminishing Annie's role in it all.. He didn't take out nearly 3 E4 members all by itself, but, that fact kinda contributed in making him an underdog. (skip to the end for an explanation why he was important in our win against Wallace)

Ever since we caught him, people saw him as useless, and kept making fun of him, neglecting him, or sacking him off on purpose until the very end. He also was never very lucky, given he'd get hit critically an astounding number of time, and would really often get the worst hax..
Not to mention, many operations to move him in the party and etc were abandoned because of trolling or bots, or because he was deemed useless..

Yet even through all this he kept surprising the few of us that still somewhat believed in him. At level 33, he almost took out one of Phoebe's Dusclops, which was lvl 48, all by himself, using only bite, even after the full restore.
Until we roared it out by accident, or trolling, just before the final blow..

Then those of us that saw the potential here pushed to have him fight the Dusclops on the E4 to gain experience. And took a lot of convincing, because most people were still saying Mighty was a waste of time.
At lvl 35, we finally took out another Dusclops, and then another at lvl 36, gaining some good exp in the process.

Things seemed to look up from the point. However, we accidentally deleted bite when mighty leveled up to lvl 37.. Bite was the only move that could hit ghosts that mighty knew at the time. We replaced it with take down, a fairly bad, inaccurate and recoil damage inducing normal type attack..

People gave up on him again at that point..

Until, we finally realized that, using our best pokemons on Phoebe was a reason why we were losing all the time. Given Phoebe's pokemon have abilities and moves that can waste our precious PPs really quickly, and deal some serious damage before going down !

However, it was relatively short lived, given it was really hard to train Mighty with his moveset and with the wild pokemons available to grind him with. That is, until some people got us to mount an expedition to get the Shadow Ball TM !

The shadow ball tm allowed mighty to gain exp at the E4 once again !
Even though at that point many people still thought it was a waste of time to train him.

After several runs, and having some serious issues at switching Mighty in, he finally grew in level, until he approached the crucial lvl 46..

We had to push for hours to get us to move down shadow ball, to be sure not to overwrite it and have a backup on our ghost buster. But democracy after democracy, we missed good occasions of doing this, but people were too busy arguing about "politics" than listening.. So we resorted to making him faint in battle, so he wouldn't get exp until we switched his move order..

When we finally did switch his move order, we went to victory road to get the one level up he needed and teach him crunch safely. People were very skeptical and telling us we'd never level him up in victory road. But we did, and in the process beat Mighty's old nemesis in victory road, a golbat, using strength and/or take down and 2hko-ed it ! He got his exp and learned crunch flawlessly !

But then, we kept overshooting him when switching pokemons on Phoebe.. So, for several runs people sacked him off on much stronger pokemons. He had learned crunch, but even then nobody could let him prove himself.

Until, an incident that could have went very badly showed just how useful Mighty could be. Some people activated democracy during the fight, and switched in Mighty, and thus bypassed the trolls and over spam. And Mighty took out nearly half of Phoebe's team before going down.

But still, after this, we still were unable to properly switch him in..

(read from here if you don't care about background)

Until, on our last attempt, we switched him very late during the fight against Phoebe, and it actually did some awesome work and survived with a little less than half its hps..
And finally, when the fight against Wallace came, we were convinced Mighty would be just death fodder at this point, but he dodged Wailord's blizzard for several turns in a row, and chipped at it for several turns, activating its full restore, and then bringing it back to the last quarter of its health bar, until blizzard finally hit ! And then M4 took over, and we know the rest !

This might not seem like much, but wasting a full restore, and lowering wailord into the 1hko for M4 helped change the tide of this battle. The full restore a little less though.

As someone pointed out in one of the E4 victory posts comments around here, it helped ensure that Rollout would hit Milotic at full power, on its fifth use, and 1hko it ! Something which was hard to achieve for us ! If we'd have had to buildup our rollout power again against Milotic, we'd have seriously worn down M4 for the rest of the battle, and wasted many rollout PP. Not to mention all our other pokemon were all weak to Gyrados and Wiscash's earthquake and surf attacks.
M4 does deserve credits for not missing the rollout once in all this time, and doing most of the work though !

On the lore side of things I guess it goes without saying that, in the last battle, he did this absolutely unexpected feat for Birdcop, his buddy cop. He finally showed her he could be strong and accomplish something ! This is however, only if we consider the good cop and bad cop lore element some people have come up with, which I really like !
It was a very fitting moment ! XD

But yeah, he far exceeded our expectations, even though everyone thought he was useless and kept making fun of him, and neglecting him until the very last few runs.. A true underdog, or should I say underdoge :P (I really don't like the doge meme anymore btw XD)