Skin is best
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The Knight of Skin makes things so much easier for everything else.
I've been winning consistently with Knight of Skin for preparations, Knight of Flames for lowering tolerance, and Page of Lures. Yes, the consistent use of Watchfulness helps. But Skin + any king that makes decent progress or page that makes decent progress + any third card that provides utility seems to work well.
This is also fantastically useful for grinding any stat not yet at 200, while still having decent EPA.