Comparing Murabito E’s Super Sparring teams with the damage calculator

Event rules and comparison settings

• Each battle lasts 180 seconds. The Ground-weak battle has one opponent; Ice and Fire have three. The starting sync buff is 0.
• Damage from attackers without the Villain theme is reduced by 80%. Supporting pairs may have any theme. Off-type attacks also deal damage.
• Pairs are not reused across the three battles. The video focuses on reward, low-rarity and general-pool pairs while keeping difficult inputs and the use of EX-related items to a minimum.
• The main comparison considers 32 candidates per battle plus the original team, drawn from 212 pairs after excluding past event rewards, Lodge pairs and limited scouts. It is not an exhaustive search of every combination.
• For this comparison, initially 5★ general-pool pairs are limited to two across all three battles. Newly added initially 5★ general-pool or BP pairs use move level 1. No additional EX upgrades, Superawakening or skill gear are used.
• Ghetsis and Gladion use the confirmed level of 140; the other pairs are evaluated at level 150. Barry’s and Bede’s actual levels, and every pair’s potential and standard gear, remain unconfirmed. All pairs are assumed to be 5★ with 20/20 potential.
• The original trios and alternative candidates had their grids and rotations reoptimized with the same search breadth. The grid energy limit of 60 is a comparison assumption; not every tile from the video was transcribed.
• Ghetsis’s Support EX role is unconfirmed, so it is disabled in the main table. A separate table also compares it enabled. Giovanni’s Field EX role is enabled.
• Critical Strike 2 is included for Courtney, Ghetsis and Giovanni. The optional one-count sync countdown reduction on entry for Colress and Dana is not assumed. Standard gear bonuses are not included.
• The original Ground team uses Courtney, Colress and Dana at move levels 5/5/1, respectively.
• The original Ice team uses Janine, Gladion and Ghetsis at move levels 5/3/5, respectively.
• The original Fire team uses Giovanni, Barry and Bede at move levels 5/5/5, respectively.
• The alternative Ice team uses Ghetsis, Kabu and Korrina, all at move level 5.

The two-pair limit for initially 5★ general-pool pairs is a condition of this comparison, based on the number used in the video. The video itself does not impose a strict numerical limit. Acquisition categories alone do not establish whether a reader owns a pair or has the required exchange resources.

Check the video’s notes (0:13) / Official event rules

Varying Ghetsis’s unconfirmed Support EX role

This is a separate comparison in which the same candidates were reoptimized again with the role disabled and enabled. These figures are kept separate from the main table because the number of optimization passes differs.

In-game scores from the video

These are the in-game scores displayed in the video, rather than this article’s calculated values. They reflect factors including the enemies’ Defense and Sp. Def and the actual timing of inputs.

The table above shows the tool’s cumulative damage indices; this table shows the in-game scores displayed in the video.

What this comparison found

A coarse search that did not retain the original team underestimated the video’s Ground lineup. When its three pairs were retained and their grids and rotations reoptimized with the same search breadth, this trio produced a higher index than the alternatives. Practical examples from videos should remain in the candidate pool for comparison.