Have never played VGC or even owned a Pokemon game since original Diamond but I sure have binged everything you've put out in the last ~9 months recently. Also really cool to see a super wholesome community around your channel, def not the norm in my experience lol, cheers.
“If we don’t miss Gunk Shot, I win!!” After that very fun 10 seconds of contemplation, realization, and then hoping for the linchpin, I really wish you had a soundboard with a button for something like the Wario laugh when you just narrate your demise.
Amazing gameplay bro! Really appreciate your efforts to climb ladder & give commentary for a long time.Also love seeing Tyranitar getting back to meta. Newly subbed!
love your vids and ik this isn't even close to relevant but you've been DEVOURING looks since the change to a middle part! 10 to a 10 ofc. And 10/10 gameplay and commentary per usual.
Lowkey makes me really happy to see a team like this doing well. I started with Shield and I didn’t have online. But I did Battle Tower RELIGIOUSLY and my go-to’s were Dillon the Excadrill and Rex the Tyranitar. They were so fun to use, the two are my little guys. That easily cemented Excadrill as my favorite Steel-type and T-Tar as my favorite Psuedo-Legendary.
Japanese Sand had always been one of my favorite archetypes, so it's really cool seeing it do well again against all odds. Real ones remember your Bulu team
Dude I've been cooking up something very similar to this and I'm stoked that someone figured it out. I had the same thought! "Excadrill just counters Raging Bolt and hits most common Reg F pokemon for super effective damage. Why not put tera stellar on it and sweep?" so sick. One of my favorite archetypes ever and even though it's low power right now I love seeing it succeed in some way.
That Dragonite set is very very common in japanese teams. You can find almost anything on the last slot: I've seen Haze, Encore, Extremespeed and Tailwind, but there are options like Roost, TWave, even Leer lol. Also, it's often Multiscale instead of Inner Focus.
Don't know if anyone pointed this out, but could not help but notice that the Okidogi on the Pokepaste is Tera Poison, but the one used on the team is Tera Flying.
I just built a ttar drill sand team, so this timing is perfect! I’ve got mandibuzz, prim, klefki, and sinistcha as the others, but this gives me some insight into how to play. Thanks, Aaron!!
Amazing to use this team with all the hail teams going around now. Tyranitar being slower than Ninetales helps you control the weather and leads to interesting mind games.
I was so happy when raging bolt first came into the format. Perfect counter to water urshifu that was a menace since HOME. Now Raging Bolt has become such a bulky nuisance, it’s good to see cool niche teams like this to counter it. And the timing for this team is perfect since Articuno was resurrected in the snow.
For everyone who wants to play this team on showdown, be aware, that the Tera Type on Ogerpon is wrong and you should change it to flying :) And thank you for this video, the team is very fun to play!
Was looking for a way to play corviknight in the meta, thanks a lot for this team. Just wonder what kind of matchup this had against the Ursalunas, but it seems very efficient !
My underrated pick right now is still Kantoian Weezing. Its seen some high profle creators like Wolfey sing its praises but he is still extremely underrated.
QOTD: Dedenne is always my go-to mon, it's been my favorite since XY. Nuzzle/Electroweb are great for speed control, and it can be surprisingly tanky with Sitrus Berry/Cheek Pouch. My opponents tend to target around it since they don't see it as a threat, so it can stick around on the field for awhile.
The Corviknight's nature might have been changed in game. So the Wiki berry would have been fine for the original nature, which is what matters in-game for taste.
@@Entropy32767 yeah that was my guess too. In the japanese team report the nature was impish, same for showdown but i don't think we saw the in-game stats of corviknight. But i will just stick with this explanation, thank you.
Quick note: The paste in the description has a Wiki Berry, which confuses if it's a minus SpA nature, which the Corviknight seems to be, so I'm not sure that's particularly ideal? Also, the Okidogi is Tera Poison instead of Flying
If I had to guess, the Corviknight might’ve had a Nature mint to what it currently has. If I remember correctly, the confuse berries work based off of the original nature, not the minted one?
Sorry if I missed this being explained, but did the team creator explain why Poison was the Tera type chosen for the Amoongus? I tried translating the team report and all I saw was something along the lines of "you should probably change this Tera type"
I speak Japanese, he doesn’t mention on the team report (or at least in the Amoongus section) why he chose Tera poison, and he said he thinks a different Tera type would be better. He also said he uses it mostly for the TatsuDozo matchup, which makes the Tera choice even more confusing tbh
@Endershock1678 I interpreted it mostly as "yeah I just didn't bother to give it a good Tera lol" which is understandable if it was just meant to be a quickly thrown together fun team for the Global Challenge.
Isn’t wiki berry kinda hurtful for corviknight tho? since it’ll confuse if your a -SpA nature and he’s using impish, i get the healing but i think a mago, aguav or iappa better would be good to heal without confusing
Not sure how underrated it is atm since I haven't played in a little bit, but Glimmora's one of my favourite picks because I think people don't expect it to deal as much damage as it can do. I feel like whenever I used they just ignore it until it's taken out 2 or 3 pokemon, throw in getting Meteor Beam and it's just such a fun pokemon.
It’s straight up one of the most popular special attackers atm and I believe is on the single most popular team comp right now in all of Reg F, which is Tailwind Special Offense with Flutter Mane and Chi Yu according to Labmaus.
QOTD: It’s not THAT underrated, but I think Gouging Fire is really good with the howl set. Of course, it struggles because you have to choose between Booster Energy and losing to Incineroar or Clear Amulet and losing to Lando, but with a few howls, your team can go off. I also think Primerina is pretty underrated, because it can deal water damage ignoring Ogerpon’s follow me, and has a good matchup into both Urshifu forms, but it is a hard life out there when the most popular Pokémon is grass and your fairy competition is Flutter Mane.
Wow that banded +4 terrakion 1 shotted ttar and corvi! You could've taunted whims that turn1 to limit the prankster moves to 1 but there was no way corvi survived that. My reaction was the same to yours actually as its not even a critical hit. That was real damage right there 😅
Berry confusion isnt tied to nature it's tied so a preference like doesnt like bitter or whatever. While those tend to match up with natures if you change the nature with a mint they still keep their old preference. In short the original nature wasnt confused by wiki berry.
I’d consider dropping Draco on Salamence in favor of Fire Blast. It covers your weakness to Corviknight and the only Mons who resist both flying/fire are universally weak to ground, which is the primary offensive type for this team.
@@sapnupuas__not exactly. It’s called Conceding, Conceding is just straight up admitting Defeat. It happens in TCG’s all the time. This being a Turn Based RPG is the same thing. If an opponent knows they’ve lost they’ll Quit. If it was a Rage quit it would’ve continued the turn then disconnected
@@DrkNabbit5230 no, you can concede whenever you want and it says the battle was cancelled. The disconnect means they broke off from the internet or closed their game and there was a time last gen when you could get away with avoiding a loss by handling it right; my understanding currently is a disconnect of any kind results in a loss so I don't get why it happens so frequently
Use a combination of Taunt Corviknight and Clear Smog Amoonguss to disrupt it while using the attackers to KO everything around Kommo-O. Not an ray matchup though
Im surprised i haven't seen more Salamence sets designed to take Surging Strikes. Obv its a volatile meta for Mence but it'll eat them better than Torn
It was a very popular anti meta pick in Reg E, but rn, Urshifu Water isn’t very popular, Ogerpon and Raging Bolt is better for the job anyways, Tailwind in general is kinda weak, and relying on special flying stab is uh… not great.
bro are you sure salamence should be poison tera type instead of steal? cause steal can resist all of salamence original weaknesses whereas poison only resists fairy, please clarify soon man also why 0 attack iv salamence, also you using wiki berry with impish corviknight, won't that confuse it???
Have started watching your content again after a few years break from vgc. Just want to say I love your current look! Also thanks for the awesome content 😂
Don't you love it when Aaron "Cybertron" Zheng climbs the online VGC Reg F ladder and provides live commentary as he goes?
Yes, yes I DO love it when Aaron "Cybertron" Zheng climbs the online VGC Reg F ladder and provides live commentary as he goes 😃
It’s literally my favorite thing
Cyber cyber tron.. Cybertron Zheng!!
Imma fan
such a hottie
Have never played VGC or even owned a Pokemon game since original Diamond but I sure have binged everything you've put out in the last ~9 months recently. Also really cool to see a super wholesome community around your channel, def not the norm in my experience lol, cheers.
The VGC community is super friendly. You should try it one day
@@jackiedan2450 If I ever buy a switch I think I will, all the best!
@@OminousToastI’ve played pokemon since DP. started playing my first vgc games today and it’s honestly so much fun. you should definitely try it!
Aaron's ability to will the worst possible scenarios into existence will never cease to amuse me. Keep it up! LOL
The double protect into all those flinches with a crit on top was hilarious. You can't even be mad if you lose in that situation.
“If we don’t miss Gunk Shot, I win!!”
After that very fun 10 seconds of contemplation, realization, and then hoping for the linchpin, I really wish you had a soundboard with a button for something like the Wario laugh when you just narrate your demise.
Amazing gameplay bro! Really appreciate your efforts to climb ladder & give commentary for a long time.Also love seeing Tyranitar getting back to meta. Newly subbed!
welcome to the family! PS good to see more Indians haha
I am literally here to watch Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng climb the online regulation F VGC ladder and provide live commentary as he goes.
I really appreciate that you always put the rental codes and pokepastes, super accessible! Thank you
Excellent timing as usual sir. Also excited to watch because Tyranitar is my favorite pseudolegendary.
@@MB26535imo the most unique pseudo is metagross.
All Hail Tyranitar
same
love your vids and ik this isn't even close to relevant but you've been DEVOURING looks since the change to a middle part! 10 to a 10 ofc. And 10/10 gameplay and commentary per usual.
everyone shut up! it’s aaron cybertron zheng and he’s climbing the online ladder and providing live commentary as he goes!
As he gooes
"If I don't miss gunk shot I win"
I knew exactly what was going to happen
The caster's curse hits him even when not casting X)
That triple flinch into crit had a 0.1% change of happening
Lowkey makes me really happy to see a team like this doing well. I started with Shield and I didn’t have online. But I did Battle Tower RELIGIOUSLY and my go-to’s were Dillon the Excadrill and Rex the Tyranitar. They were so fun to use, the two are my little guys. That easily cemented Excadrill as my favorite Steel-type and T-Tar as my favorite Psuedo-Legendary.
Japanese Sand had always been one of my favorite archetypes, so it's really cool seeing it do well again against all odds. Real ones remember your Bulu team
with they would bring them back.
read that sentence without context
Dude I've been cooking up something very similar to this and I'm stoked that someone figured it out. I had the same thought! "Excadrill just counters Raging Bolt and hits most common Reg F pokemon for super effective damage. Why not put tera stellar on it and sweep?" so sick. One of my favorite archetypes ever and even though it's low power right now I love seeing it succeed in some way.
Indeedee Hatterne vs Excadril Ttair was the showdown of the century
Most Gen 8 thing I’ve seen since Gen 8
i love when cyberteon uploads! you learn so much and he’s just the best!
That Dragonite set is very very common in japanese teams. You can find almost anything on the last slot: I've seen Haze, Encore, Extremespeed and Tailwind, but there are options like Roost, TWave, even Leer lol. Also, it's often Multiscale instead of Inner Focus.
Ggs, played you using this team, I was the wartortle/registeel guy, absolute heater of a match.
22:37 why is raging bolts head bobbing like that www
I really like this team. I started playing pokemon 3 months ago. With a couple of your videos i managed to get to max rank. Keep up the good work 🎉
You had me at sand and okidogi
1:13:38 "Congratulations ya played yourself"
Can't believe Aaron went up against the Anti Aaron in game 8. It's a battle between the unluckiest and the luckiest Pokémon player.
Don't know if anyone pointed this out, but could not help but notice that the Okidogi on the Pokepaste is Tera Poison, but the one used on the team is Tera Flying.
Oh my god, I just realized you did the thing I mentioned in a previous comment lol. Awesome!
I just built a ttar drill sand team, so this timing is perfect! I’ve got mandibuzz, prim, klefki, and sinistcha as the others, but this gives me some insight into how to play. Thanks, Aaron!!
I loved that giggle when the corv got double flinched by iron head.
Keep on the good work Aaron❤
Amazing to use this team with all the hail teams going around now. Tyranitar being slower than Ninetales helps you control the weather and leads to interesting mind games.
That Serene Grace Dragonite was insane lol
My daughter just won her first MSS using this team! ❤
Congratulations!!!! So happy to hear that
I was so happy when raging bolt first came into the format. Perfect counter to water urshifu that was a menace since HOME. Now Raging Bolt has become such a bulky nuisance, it’s good to see cool niche teams like this to counter it. And the timing for this team is perfect since Articuno was resurrected in the snow.
For everyone who wants to play this team on showdown, be aware, that the Tera Type on Ogerpon is wrong and you should change it to flying :)
And thank you for this video, the team is very fun to play!
I don’t know if this is something about the way I team build but I have never had a bad matchup against a sand team
My favourite underrated pick right now is excadrill, i actually made a sand team with it but i might build another one similar to this one
As I’m watching the video and playing some ladder, this team pops up as my next opponent. Thanks for showing me how to beat this haha
oh wow we got a long one today! Can't wait to watch. GG
Was looking for a way to play corviknight in the meta, thanks a lot for this team. Just wonder what kind of matchup this had against the Ursalunas, but it seems very efficient !
As corvs strongest solider im always happy to see a team using him
The sheer amount of It’s so over/We’re so back in game 5 was incredible
My underrated pick right now is still Kantoian Weezing. Its seen some high profle creators like Wolfey sing its praises but he is still extremely underrated.
I love watch these more off-meta teams :D
I LOVE seeing sand in the modern meta! Turns out if you don't experience even the most timeworn strats for a while, they feel fresh again.
I felt like ranking up this season with a rental. Went 4-0 with this team and got to master quick. Very good team
My favorite is when "Cybertron" Zheng thinks he's going to lose but is then surprised that he wins.
Hey Aaron. Just dropping a comment 😋
I love when you start doing the weird teams 👍
To you and anyone else that reads this, have a great day!
i love the raging bolt nodding its head to watch corv lol
This team has to be one of the most balanced teams I've ever seen built
QOTD: Dedenne is always my go-to mon, it's been my favorite since XY. Nuzzle/Electroweb are great for speed control, and it can be surprisingly tanky with Sitrus Berry/Cheek Pouch. My opponents tend to target around it since they don't see it as a threat, so it can stick around on the field for awhile.
Shouldn't the wiki berry on corviknight confuse it with its impish nature, or am i missing something?
I was using this team and ran into that exact problem on Showdown but it didn't happen in the video
The Corviknight's nature might have been changed in game. So the Wiki berry would have been fine for the original nature, which is what matters in-game for taste.
@@Entropy32767 yeah that was my guess too. In the japanese team report the nature was impish, same for showdown but i don't think we saw the in-game stats of corviknight. But i will just stick with this explanation, thank you.
Quick note: The paste in the description has a Wiki Berry, which confuses if it's a minus SpA nature, which the Corviknight seems to be, so I'm not sure that's particularly ideal?
Also, the Okidogi is Tera Poison instead of Flying
If I had to guess, the Corviknight might’ve had a Nature mint to what it currently has. If I remember correctly, the confuse berries work based off of the original nature, not the minted one?
Sorry if I missed this being explained, but did the team creator explain why Poison was the Tera type chosen for the Amoongus? I tried translating the team report and all I saw was something along the lines of "you should probably change this Tera type"
I speak Japanese, he doesn’t mention on the team report (or at least in the Amoongus section) why he chose Tera poison, and he said he thinks a different Tera type would be better.
He also said he uses it mostly for the TatsuDozo matchup, which makes the Tera choice even more confusing tbh
@Endershock1678 I interpreted it mostly as "yeah I just didn't bother to give it a good Tera lol" which is understandable if it was just meant to be a quickly thrown together fun team for the Global Challenge.
Isn’t wiki berry kinda hurtful for corviknight tho? since it’ll confuse if your a -SpA nature and he’s using impish, i get the healing but i think a mago, aguav or iappa better would be good to heal without confusing
22:30 watching the raging bolt head bob bc of corv was funny to see
Not sure how underrated it is atm since I haven't played in a little bit, but Glimmora's one of my favourite picks because I think people don't expect it to deal as much damage as it can do. I feel like whenever I used they just ignore it until it's taken out 2 or 3 pokemon, throw in getting Meteor Beam and it's just such a fun pokemon.
It’s straight up one of the most popular special attackers atm and I believe is on the single most popular team comp right now in all of Reg F, which is Tailwind Special Offense with Flutter Mane and Chi Yu according to Labmaus.
Ah that's pretty nice to hear! All the more reason to hop back in
can somebody plz explain wiki berry on the corv?
The corviknight is dragon on the hatena blog post. I think theres an error with the team share. Not sure if they changed it or what
QOTD: It’s not THAT underrated, but I think Gouging Fire is really good with the howl set. Of course, it struggles because you have to choose between Booster Energy and losing to Incineroar or Clear Amulet and losing to Lando, but with a few howls, your team can go off.
I also think Primerina is pretty underrated, because it can deal water damage ignoring Ogerpon’s follow me, and has a good matchup into both Urshifu forms, but it is a hard life out there when the most popular Pokémon is grass and your fairy competition is Flutter Mane.
Someone needs to do the math of the double protect and bazillion flinches plus crit from the dragonite. That was insane.
Wow that banded +4 terrakion 1 shotted ttar and corvi! You could've taunted whims that turn1 to limit the prankster moves to 1 but there was no way corvi survived that. My reaction was the same to yours actually as its not even a critical hit. That was real damage right there 😅
Does a Careful Nature work too? It's already naturally bulky and I'm also considering running Bulk Up.
love to see any of the poison trio being used, they’re so unique
always love to see a team with Tyranitar
1:26:30 I think I see a faint glare, kinda looks like rotom-wash, barely fought of that bad luck
Good to see drill tar still popping off seeing as sandstorm not that good in singles
wich pokemon can i replace salamence?
Yeeeeeees, more of DAT DAWG! Cannot get enough of Okidogi.
Why does wiikii berry not confuse corvi when its a -spA nature?
Berry confusion isnt tied to nature it's tied so a preference like doesnt like bitter or whatever. While those tend to match up with natures if you change the nature with a mint they still keep their old preference.
In short the original nature wasnt confused by wiki berry.
Does missing earthquake on your own teammate power up high horsepower on the next turn against an enemy? Pretty cool tech if it’s a thing!
“Babe wake up new Aaron Cybertron Zheng just dropped”
I want a Pokémon Anime about a protagonist called Zheron Aang climbing the competitive ladder. And I‘m not even a guy who watches Anime …
Favorite underrated pick right now, Munkidori!
Honestly atp amoongus is hard countered by whim that ogrepon seems like a must to get around the beat up strat
We're so Tyrani-back.
my favorite underrated pick atm is tyranitar probably, sometimes it slots into teams so well
I’d consider dropping Draco on Salamence in favor of Fire Blast. It covers your weakness to Corviknight and the only Mons who resist both flying/fire are universally weak to ground, which is the primary offensive type for this team.
What's with the disconnects? I see it too when playing; can they actually avoid a loss sometimes? I thought no...
Rage quit haha
@@sapnupuas__not exactly. It’s called Conceding, Conceding is just straight up admitting Defeat. It happens in TCG’s all the time. This being a Turn Based RPG is the same thing. If an opponent knows they’ve lost they’ll Quit. If it was a Rage quit it would’ve continued the turn then disconnected
@@DrkNabbit5230 no, you can concede whenever you want and it says the battle was cancelled. The disconnect means they broke off from the internet or closed their game and there was a time last gen when you could get away with avoiding a loss by handling it right; my understanding currently is a disconnect of any kind results in a loss so I don't get why it happens so frequently
How does Stellar Tera work?
How would you play this team into kommo-o with iron defense? I struggle a lot with that matchup once kommo gets +2 defense
Use a combination of Taunt Corviknight and Clear Smog Amoonguss to disrupt it while using the attackers to KO everything around Kommo-O. Not an ray matchup though
Im surprised i haven't seen more Salamence sets designed to take Surging Strikes. Obv its a volatile meta for Mence but it'll eat them better than Torn
It was a very popular anti meta pick in Reg E, but rn, Urshifu Water isn’t very popular, Ogerpon and Raging Bolt is better for the job anyways, Tailwind in general is kinda weak, and relying on special flying stab is uh… not great.
Aaron Cyberton Zheng always doing his best when making these videos
bro are you sure salamence should be poison tera type instead of steal? cause steal can resist all of salamence original weaknesses whereas poison only resists fairy, please clarify soon man also why 0 attack iv salamence, also you using wiki berry with impish corviknight, won't that confuse it???
At the end of game 4 would Earthquake brave bird not have KOed the torkoal? Why the stomping tantrum choice instead?
Love the cut, aaron. You look like a new man ❤
Game 5 was nuts
Game 6 I expected you to Rage Powder the Beat Up
excited to watch every video keep it up🫶🏼
I gotta get me one of them Serene Grace Dragonites
Is anyone else confused by the Wiki Berry+The Impish nature which will cause you to get confused if you use the berry
Aaron K-Pop Zheng
Peep the brows.
Cool team and games
Have started watching your content again after a few years break from vgc. Just want to say I love your current look! Also thanks for the awesome content 😂
Jooo what was that game 8 late rng like wooow
1:0055 It is just Rock slith.
Wow the game really said SHE should have won, Holy hell tripple flinch + crit
Aaron was an American Pokémon hero. Now he is Korean pokemon hero
I'm a simple man I see Ttar Excadrill and press like
Love me some Excadrill.
Hax test on that Dragonite please