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This is something that is more on the anecdotal side, but in the (fairly limited) Showdown content out there, I haven’t really seen anybody talking about the number of players per team to utilize and how that differentiates lineups. I went digging a bit, and found out that 34.6% of Showdown optimals have 3 players from each side, 47.7% have 4 from one team and 2 from the other, while 18% are 5 and 1 onslaught lineups. What’s interesting to me here is 3 and 3 seems like the best overall construction (even though 4 . . .