This is on of the first strategies i'm writing, therefore dis article may 
really suck.  So here goes nothing.


Since raindance and haymaker have been invented.  many people have started 
using them.  I was looking at these decks one day on the Pojo.  Almost all 
the Raindance pokemon's weakness are lighting (except the Poliwrath family).  
Most Haymaker uses Electabuzz which have a weakness of fighting.  So I have 
found a deck that would defeat most Raindance and Haymaker.  Using the 
combination of lighting and fighting pokemon in a deck would control a game 
VS. Raindance or Haymaker.

Some haymaker i found uses hitmonchan, scyther, or pinsir.  In that case you 
can change the fighting pokemon to psychic or fire pokemon instead.  The Pros 
to use fire pokemon is that if the opponent uses Raindance and you send out a 
fire pkmn is that he can change your pkmn to a lighting pkmn can KO him/her

So the deck that would defeat raindance and haymaker is a lighting (must) and 
fighting, psychic, or fire (anyone of these three is good) deck with also 
some colorless pkmn for resistence to fighting or psychic.  Also add lots of 
good trainer that protects you from these decks.  The good ones to put down 
is:
Vs. Haymaker
E.R.
S.E.R.
GOW
Bill (must)
Lass ( to make the opponent discard the Plus Power and GOW)

Vs. raindance
E.R (could use to waste all the water energy)
S.E.R. (same thing as E.R.)
GOW ( to kill Blastoise so no more Raindance)
Imposter Oak. (When they are powering warturtle use it to get rid of a 
blastoise if it is in their hand)

The other trainers could have many different combination.

Signing off, Jeff
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