PDL3 - A Pokémon Draft League Retrospective (Part 1: The Draft)

I recently took part in a Pokémon Draft League with some friends and was able to take the title home, so I wanted to write a bit about the drafting process and prep that I did. For the uninitiated, a draft league involves drafting (wow, big shock) the ten Pokémon we want for our team in snake fashion, and then playing a match a week against each other — we played in the Regulation M-B VGC format (that's doubles). We had two pools of eight (I was placed in Pool B) with the top 4 from each pool entering playoffs for the crown. It was a fun time (if a bit stressful week to week!) The DraftSo let's talk about the draft! The draft board divides all the Pokémon available in the format into point tiers — the more powerful 'mons are worth more points, and we had a budget of 100 points to draft exactly 10 'mons. I came into the draft with an idea of which strategy I wanted to go for, but wanted to draft flexibly enough to be able to pivot if the picks I wanted got sniped early. I was drawn as…