Although guidebooks on pokemon officially consider the myriad of dual-scalchop techniques used by Dewott to be identical to each other, and trainers teach their pokemon only a few counters with broad application, this approach owes more to simplicity than reality. In truth, it is impossible to prepare for every Dewott school of fighting at once, and few pokemon teams will battle a large enough number of Dewott in their lifetime to make preparing to fight each of them individually a worthwhile use of their time.
Although their fighting styles are today grouped into schools based upon which lineage of Samurott teaches them, Dewott are often forced to invent their own tactics in battles, especially as their masters have evolved into a quadrupedal form before taking any pupils, and very few wind up using their twin scalchops quite in the same way as their predecessors.
In the Sengoku era, the ways in which Dewott fought were of great interest, because of the countless wars of that age. Samurai seeking an edge on their opponents would not only try to learn to fight with two weapons, but spent long periods of time attempting to learn from Dewott how to do so effectively; some would even go so far as to trade their swords for iron fans, reasoning that Dewott's advantage came from the shape of their weapon. Yet much to their frustration, then as now few Dewott battled the same way, and therefore these warriors were forced to copy not one, but many styles in search of the most effective tactic – and few learned from the same schools of Dewott.
The tactics used for defending against Dewott today date from the wars of that era, and have often served today to obscure the many different ways that the Dewott battle.
