@@1stCallipostle dynamax moves are only slightly stronger than their regular forms and dmax is way more useful for defense than offense, not mention bullshit like max airstream moxie. Singles is much better without it
What an absurd thing to say. Dynamaxing is literally the most oppressively anti-competitive mechanic the game has ever had. It's also much stronger for defense than offense
@@PKMN649 It helps level the playing field in this particular edge case The buffs and debuffs you can get out of it that you don't normally have As well as the up in power being important while they're still setting up Could be really useful in busting through this sort of thing. Also How can a universal mechanic be uncompetitive, this I still fail to understand almost as much as the stupid decision to remove Hidden Power
Gen 5 Sigilyph is the real origin for this, as far back as I can remember. It's first major set was Magic Guard, Flame/Toxic Orb, Cosmic Power/Stored Power/Roost/Psycho Shift, though as RU developed you also saw a lot of other sets, like more offensive Tinted Lens sets. But that first set was definitely what first brought Sigilyph to prominence.
Wolfe glick was just taking about Crits recently. It’s funny how much crits actually matter in both casua and competitive play even though it isn’t popular. Great informative video man 👍🏼
If You've played the Digimon World DS Games,Esp.Dawn/Dusk,Crit rates are Boosted by Friendship,Much Like the Affection Hax In Later Gens!Chronomon Used Holy Flare!Chronomon Landed A Critical Hit,Wishing to Be Praised!ARCEUS DIED!Koh Defeated Red/Gold/Ash/Ethan!Digimon DS Games FTW!
@@azurabbit12 crits should be a thing unless Pokemon have a different mechanic in battles. I like how TemTem changed the formate like that. They removed accuracy and crits. So now all moves always connect and always do the damage/effect. The offset to this is that your mons now have stamina and when you go over that you take damage and can't attack the next turn. TemTem has it's flaws but it's still fun.
7:32 It was indeed super spamed by Team China in UUWCP last year, but the strat was created before that tour. In CPL (Chinese Premier League) that set was already a thing. I can confirm it as someone who actually lost to that set in CPL lmao.
@@FreezaiPokemon That why i said all but mew. Since to phase mew you would have to use dragon tail. Also i guess xatu/natu cant be phased either since magic bounce also bounce back phase i think. But some of the other ones should be able to be phased out unless there are just no good phasers in their tier.
@@XenithShadow phasing has limits, though, and defense-boosting moves usually have a lot of PP. Your team would need to be able to shut down the sweeper after the opponent has already whittled your team to the point they think they can setup for a sweep, and you need to have saved your Pokémon with a phasing move until this point in time. Phasing might be a viable shift in the meta game, but I have a feeling that phasing these sweepers is going to go the same way as rapid spinning to clear stealth rocks before the defog rework - just not worth the effort. I think Pokémon running something like scope lens, super luck, and high crit-rate moves are a more likely shift in the meta, since such a Pokémon would function normally against teams without this kind of sweeper, while also retaining an advantage against this specific kind of setup
@@sideways5153 I actually built a phasing team (it's not super competitive, just fun) that includes things like Red Card on Mew to force a switch. Whirlwind Skarmory and Curse, Dragon Tail Tyranitar also make an appearance. Dragon Tail can't be taunted, and neither can Circle Throw
@@sideways5153 Pretty prior to defog rework pretty much all teams had a ghost type to block rapid spinners and a rapid spinner to clear rock's and spikes from your side of the fiend. The more likely reasoning phasing got weaker is that defog exists and generally if your running a phasing pokemon it's to take advantage of stealth rocks and spikes which are not particuarly viable since a defogger will just clear them losing you a bunch of iniative. Its certainly possible that high crit is a more effective method for dealing with defensive set up sweeper due to the defense ignoring.
Here in ZU where I play, we have to deal with Alcremie which uses that strategy. It has Aroma veil so it's immune to Taunt and encore and has plenty of viable boosting sets. It usually goes either calm mind plus acid armor or just calm mind to have one extra move slot for a coverage option. For healing options it can use either ChestoResto or recover plus aromatherapy. And as attacking options it usually goes either stored power, dazzling gleam, draining kiss or if it can also mystical fire depending on what sets it uses. It's really the mon I hate playing against the most in ZU
@@javihernandez2755 yeah you're right. I have more troubles with its dual dance set cause you can't revenge kill it too well without Crit. And I thought at least with that set it kinda goes hand in hand with the strategy covered in this video
@@1stCallipostle yeah, I think it doesn't really deserve that. It's a really good mon with many great sets, it's just the competition that let it drop down here
Actually fun fact: When landing a crit, the user ignores negative attack stat changes, and it also ignores the opponent's positive defesnse stat changes
Oh, I used to use a super gimmicky version of a Crit-me-not sweeper around gen 6/7. Sableye @ Sablenite Ability: Prankster EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Bold Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Will-O-Wisp - Calm Mind - Snarl - Recover Switch in on a physical threat and neutralize with will-o. Start boosting with calm mind. Hit all mons with snarl and lower their SpA making you more likely to survive. Recover as needed. Gen 7 really fandangled me with the Prankster dark type stuff, but mega sab means that you can now get a defense boost and bounce back toxic when you suspect it. You win slowly and despise crits.
I remember this shit and I hated it so I always ran some super duper strong shit to kill it before it gets started, like specs hoopa or mega diancie lol. They also used dark pulse, hex, and shadow ball sometimes
While Latias doesn't usually run defense boosting moves aside from CM, it's actually decent as a SP sweeper because of it's access to reflect type and it's good speed.
ZU has some crit me not sweepers in it as well. Alcreamie has a crit me not set of Acid Armor, Calm Mind, Rest, Stored Power/Dazzling Gleam. Best part is that Aroma Veil autimatically blocks taunt. Dubwool has a similar set with cotton guard rest talk body press, however it has no spdef boosting move so it's incredibly vulnerable on the special side.
I think the best way to beat this strategy overall, which isn't mentioned in this video, is tricking these mons a choice item. Especially in OU you have a ton of common choice scarf users that learn trick AND mons like clefable or slowking-galar even occasionally run trick-scarf. Scarf fini is such a good anti-cheese mon in general and really helps here.
The problem is you only get one shot to do it, and if the opponent predicts the Trick they can switch out and get the scarf on another team member. At which point will be hard to regain a choice item on the trick pokemon in order to try again.
@@thestalost8486 but that still forces the mon out which gives you another chance at stopping it when it tries again later PLUS since these defense-boosters take many turns to become threating it is little risk for you to take a few turns doubling back out of your scarfer to see if your opp will scout for trick, or just attacking with it to make them think you aren't trick since it is doubtful the mew or registeel or whatever will be able to hit you hard until they are at least +3
I really want to see more conditional crit effects. Like if abilities like Blaze and Torrent were “Crit when HP is 1/3 or lower”, Synchronoise could be “crits when sharing type”, etc. Moves could also be conditional with crits like “crits if faster”, “crits in misty terrain”, or an item to be immune to crit effects. Feel like there is a lot of design space and having more reliable crit conditions could remove the frustrations behind some of the luck.
They didn't know about it for awhile in the generation either. I think they found it after about 6 months. Similarly, they didn't know about the terrain nerfs in gen 8 for a couple months. I think Serebii Joe was the first to find it and test it out. He told Wolfe Glicke Bekir the changes were implemented in Showdown.
I loved using torkoal in gen 7 ZU using a similar strategy (curse, amnesia, rest) because of it's ability shell armor that prevents critical hits. the only downside is that it has very few physical moves to rely on, but fortunately it learned flame wheel which also has alot of PPs (since generation 8 it can also use flame charge to boost it's speed or heat crash/body press as a stronger attack)
Ideas for videos: what if there were more double type moves (flying press etc). What is the best type combo/ the hardest to switch in what if Pokemon could only use stab moves (and status move of the same type). What Pokemon would be most affected? What if there was an item, that gave you another type (Heatran + flying stone = fire/steel/flying), would that be balanced? What would be the best type combos?
also that item would be SO broken lol, imagine fairy reuniclus/mew, steel clefable, steel or water landorus, it sounds fun and I think it’s been an OM on showdown before
This is the same reason I use regigigas doesnt get curse but bulk investment plus leftovers rest and I usually run like knock off drain punch. Toxic can be swapped with one of those or facade thing tanks a majority of the stuff you can throw at it. Even some fighting type moves and now it gets protect and I'm pretty sure sleep talk as well thunder wave wide guard and so on.
The first time I saw this strat was when I was watching a Pokeaimd video and he was up against an unkillable Mew who swept him. I also saw a recent video where Blunder got swept by a Corvinight who did the same start
You and wolfeyvgc both brought up some good points about crits in the last couple of days. Very interesting to get insight from pros like yourselves! Also, congrats on the sponsor, even if it is RSL 😂
congrats on the sponsor! Such a thorough video, too. I barely scratch 1200 on the anything goes ladder, and part of it is a mix of OU/Uber teams stomping me, and these critmenot sweepers. They are SO tricky to deal with when I'm just trying to be creative with my teams/strategies. But that's what you get when you play anything goes
3:35 I’m looking at this matchup and I can’t help but think, if only the guy chose Sacred Sword over Close Combat. This is why I prefer Sacred Sword, it goes through any defence or evasion if it’s AG
0:09 game freak should not be praised for nerfing critical hits, the gen 6 and gen 7 nerfs to critical hits was unessary and made annoying crit me not sweepers viable which is a bad thing
Another fun one I used to use was Sigilyph. Cosmic power, stored power, roost, psycho shift. Holding a flame orb, so you could absolutely cripple physical attackers. Like Mew and Reuniclus tho, it was weak to dark types (specifically Houndoom) and Taunt. Still, if you didn’t have a check, you’d just have to sit there and watch it go in
I always thought the chance of a crit was boosted in Gen 6, but it looks like that's only the case when you have +2 or greater with critical hit boosts. And honestly, I'd be fine with a higher chance to crit with the nerfed damage because it specifically stops boring strategies like this while not being as detrimental to bulky Pokemon just trying to switch in.
this was doable before but just very narrowly, you need shell armor or battle armor or something to prevent crits entirely and then stack defense and use stored power.
This is why I always have a Scope + Focus Energy Sniper Kingdra dropping Crit Draco’s, Scald’s, & Flash Cannon. It’s fun Sweeping in 7 moves when I see a Stall team
Another addition is Cofragrigus in PU can be a Body Press sweeper, but I'd say it's not that great due to lack of reliable recovery and how dangerous the other 2 Ghost types in the tier and the 2 high tier Dark Types are, along with Gallade running Knock Off for coverage and Druddigon with Taunt. Not a great option, though it exists. Though if I wanted a defensive booster in PU, I'd use Contrary Shuckle
I didn’t know about crit-me-not, but once in a random battle I swept someone with cotton guard/body press dubwool and they were FUMING. it was hilarious
2:46 Hawlucha being one of if not the only pokemon I’ve ever seen use the electric/psychic/fairy/grassy seed items, is just an attestment to how broken the unburden actually is. I mean it’s so simple to use, do you have a Koko put a Hawlucha with electric seed on your team, I personally use a Hawlucha on my OU team with both Zard Y and Terrain extender Koko, and assault vest Victini for STAB V-Create and electric terrain powered bolt strikes, last two mons are scarf Lando-T with only just enough speed to outrun a max speed Electrode, to increase it’s physical bulk, and a Protean Greninja with Waterium-Z to kill pokemon weak to water in sun, and hp fire to roast any 4x weak pokemon like Scizor of Ferrothorn. Not to mention 4 of my pokemon carry U-turn or Volt Switch, Koko carry both of them, and Lando, Greninja and Victini have U-Turn. Tldr; Hawlucha rounds out an electric terrain team well. And I just wanted to share my team since I love it so much.
@@sarasaland4709 it can also be used with specs or on rain teams so thunder is more accurate. Trap a pokemon with Thynder cage on those teams, then spam thunder
One way to deal with this is to react immediately with a strong wallbreaker while they are at still +1 defences and pray to ur damage calcs to 2hko at +1/+2
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I think another factor that helped these strategies to rise in gen 8 is the removal of z moves. The lack of a sudden powerboost definitely helps
I mean Gen 8 had a replacement mechanic that these buffs to defense were probably balanced around but y'know
That got banned
@@1stCallipostle dynamax moves are only slightly stronger than their regular forms and dmax is way more useful for defense than offense, not mention bullshit like max airstream moxie. Singles is much better without it
What an absurd thing to say. Dynamaxing is literally the most oppressively anti-competitive mechanic the game has ever had. It's also much stronger for defense than offense
@@PKMN649 It helps level the playing field in this particular edge case
The buffs and debuffs you can get out of it that you don't normally have
As well as the up in power being important while they're still setting up
Could be really useful in busting through this sort of thing.
Also
How can a universal mechanic be uncompetitive, this I still fail to understand almost as much as the stupid decision to remove Hidden Power
@@PKMN649 >I fail to understand
This much is apparent
Wait, so body press was introduced in gen 8.
AND THEY DIDN'T GAVE IT TO ZAMAZENTA, THE POKÉMON WHO'S WHOLE THING IS BEING A DEFENSIVE MONSTER?!
Mhm!
Because they probably feared how OP it would be.
But they gave Draco fisichious rend and strong jaw
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Yeah that's why zamazenta is really bad in ubers compared to zacian in AG
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My man getting a Raid sponsorship, he's a real youtuber now
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@@hi28 Hell yeah. It would be a dream getting paid to talk all things pokemon.
Happy for the bro.
@@hi28at the cost of your dignity?
Gen 5 Sigilyph is the real origin for this, as far back as I can remember. It's first major set was Magic Guard, Flame/Toxic Orb, Cosmic Power/Stored Power/Roost/Psycho Shift, though as RU developed you also saw a lot of other sets, like more offensive Tinted Lens sets. But that first set was definitely what first brought Sigilyph to prominence.
I remember that
I remember this from gen 6 as well
Pretty cool to know one of my favorite Mons started this strategy
Your forgetting reuniclus in gen 5 because recover acid armor calm mind is kinda insane
Randbats Sigilyph was a world of terror
Wolfe glick was just taking about Crits recently. It’s funny how much crits actually matter in both casua and competitive play even though it isn’t popular. Great informative video man 👍🏼
If You've played the Digimon World DS Games,Esp.Dawn/Dusk,Crit rates are Boosted by Friendship,Much Like the Affection Hax In Later Gens!Chronomon Used Holy Flare!Chronomon Landed A Critical Hit,Wishing to Be Praised!ARCEUS DIED!Koh Defeated Red/Gold/Ash/Ethan!Digimon DS Games FTW!
Wolfe took an L, crits shouldn't be a thing, there are ways to counter setup sweepers and it shouldn't be just "get lucky"
@@azurabbit12 boring
@@azurabbit12 crits should be a thing unless Pokemon have a different mechanic in battles. I like how TemTem changed the formate like that. They removed accuracy and crits. So now all moves always connect and always do the damage/effect. The offset to this is that your mons now have stamina and when you go over that you take damage and can't attack the next turn. TemTem has it's flaws but it's still fun.
@@huntergoshorn8015 Sorry what is TemTem?
7:32
It was indeed super spamed by Team China in UUWCP last year, but the strat was created before that tour. In CPL (Chinese Premier League) that set was already a thing. I can confirm it as someone who actually lost to that set in CPL lmao.
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Might also be related to no-one running phasing moves, as all but mew dont seem to have a way to avoid just getting whirlwind/roared out.
mew has taunt
@@FreezaiPokemon That why i said all but mew. Since to phase mew you would have to use dragon tail.
Also i guess xatu/natu cant be phased either since magic bounce also bounce back phase i think.
But some of the other ones should be able to be phased out unless there are just no good phasers in their tier.
@@XenithShadow phasing has limits, though, and defense-boosting moves usually have a lot of PP. Your team would need to be able to shut down the sweeper after the opponent has already whittled your team to the point they think they can setup for a sweep, and you need to have saved your Pokémon with a phasing move until this point in time.
Phasing might be a viable shift in the meta game, but I have a feeling that phasing these sweepers is going to go the same way as rapid spinning to clear stealth rocks before the defog rework - just not worth the effort.
I think Pokémon running something like scope lens, super luck, and high crit-rate moves are a more likely shift in the meta, since such a Pokémon would function normally against teams without this kind of sweeper, while also retaining an advantage against this specific kind of setup
@@sideways5153 I actually built a phasing team (it's not super competitive, just fun) that includes things like Red Card on Mew to force a switch. Whirlwind Skarmory and Curse, Dragon Tail Tyranitar also make an appearance. Dragon Tail can't be taunted, and neither can Circle Throw
@@sideways5153 Pretty prior to defog rework pretty much all teams had a ghost type to block rapid spinners and a rapid spinner to clear rock's and spikes from your side of the fiend.
The more likely reasoning phasing got weaker is that defog exists and generally if your running a phasing pokemon it's to take advantage of stealth rocks and spikes which are not particuarly viable since a defogger will just clear them losing you a bunch of iniative.
Its certainly possible that high crit is a more effective method for dealing with defensive set up sweeper due to the defense ignoring.
The true counter to defensive setup gamefreak probably intended: Timer Stall.
Here in ZU where I play, we have to deal with Alcremie which uses that strategy. It has Aroma veil so it's immune to Taunt and encore and has plenty of viable boosting sets. It usually goes either calm mind plus acid armor or just calm mind to have one extra move slot for a coverage option. For healing options it can use either ChestoResto or recover plus aromatherapy. And as attacking options it usually goes either stored power, dazzling gleam, draining kiss or if it can also mystical fire depending on what sets it uses. It's really the mon I hate playing against the most in ZU
It dropped all the way down there?
But that Alcremie, specially the non Acid Armor set sounds more like a standart bulky CM sweeper, as its actually buffing its SpA
@@javihernandez2755 yeah you're right. I have more troubles with its dual dance set cause you can't revenge kill it too well without Crit. And I thought at least with that set it kinda goes hand in hand with the strategy covered in this video
@@1stCallipostle yeah, I think it doesn't really deserve that. It's a really good mon with many great sets, it's just the competition that let it drop down here
I love this using this strategy on alcremie in zu it's really strong
Crits became even less frequent after gen 7 since the crit chance was tuned down to 1/24 but not mentioned until fans found out about it.
Actually fun fact: When landing a crit, the user ignores negative attack stat changes, and it also ignores the opponent's positive defesnse stat changes
I didnt know that ! I was so confused xD thank you
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Metagross is probably the most balanced of these. It can be offensive with meteor mash or set up and sweep.
Oh, I used to use a super gimmicky version of a Crit-me-not sweeper around gen 6/7.
Sableye @ Sablenite
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Will-O-Wisp
- Calm Mind
- Snarl
- Recover
Switch in on a physical threat and neutralize with will-o. Start boosting with calm mind. Hit all mons with snarl and lower their SpA making you more likely to survive. Recover as needed.
Gen 7 really fandangled me with the Prankster dark type stuff, but mega sab means that you can now get a defense boost and bounce back toxic when you suspect it.
You win slowly and despise crits.
This is literally Gen 7 ou god lmao, so good paired with gothitelle shadow tag got banned. They ask me why I love mega sableye
Also, always give sableye 4 speed evs. That way you outspeed gyro ball ferrothorn
I remember this shit and I hated it so I always ran some super duper strong shit to kill it before it gets started, like specs hoopa or mega diancie lol. They also used dark pulse, hex, and shadow ball sometimes
@@wawah1603 funny how 4 speed evs matters in that matchup
rip sigilyph, ignored despite doing this since gen 5
While Latias doesn't usually run defense boosting moves aside from CM, it's actually decent as a SP sweeper because of it's access to reflect type and it's good speed.
ZU has some crit me not sweepers in it as well. Alcreamie has a crit me not set of Acid Armor, Calm Mind, Rest, Stored Power/Dazzling Gleam. Best part is that Aroma Veil autimatically blocks taunt. Dubwool has a similar set with cotton guard rest talk body press, however it has no spdef boosting move so it's incredibly vulnerable on the special side.
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Sounds like it’s time to think about using moves like darkest lariat and secret sword
been using those especially sacred sword since there introduction got sick of stall tanks i couldn't kill.
Unaware Quagsire Earthquake go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@@RavenDarknyte zarude lariat
that cobalion woulda loved that against that one registeel lol, although depending on the sets of each it might’ve just still got rested on lol
@@J242D cobalion is weak as shit so itd probably just do like 50% and die to body press
I think the best way to beat this strategy overall, which isn't mentioned in this video, is tricking these mons a choice item.
Especially in OU you have a ton of common choice scarf users that learn trick AND mons like clefable or slowking-galar even occasionally run trick-scarf.
Scarf fini is such a good anti-cheese mon in general and really helps here.
The problem is you only get one shot to do it, and if the opponent predicts the Trick they can switch out and get the scarf on another team member. At which point will be hard to regain a choice item on the trick pokemon in order to try again.
@@thestalost8486 but that still forces the mon out which gives you another chance at stopping it when it tries again later
PLUS since these defense-boosters take many turns to become threating it is little risk for you to take a few turns doubling back out of your scarfer to see if your opp will scout for trick, or just attacking with it to make them think you aren't trick since it is doubtful the mew or registeel or whatever will be able to hit you hard until they are at least +3
Also infiltrator, oblivious, mole breaker, etc.
I really want to see more conditional crit effects. Like if abilities like Blaze and Torrent were “Crit when HP is 1/3 or lower”, Synchronoise could be “crits when sharing type”, etc.
Moves could also be conditional with crits like “crits if faster”, “crits in misty terrain”, or an item to be immune to crit effects.
Feel like there is a lot of design space and having more reliable crit conditions could remove the frustrations behind some of the luck.
I remember I used it with sigiliph. Cosmic power, psycho transfer, roost and stored power with flame orb
ah yes, The Blood Totem. Was wondering if anyone else remembered this set from gen 5/6.
I honestly didn’t know the crit chance dropped in Gen 7
funnily enough, that was found out much after the game came out
It was discovered only thanks to dataminers, since Game Freak hasn't mentioned the fact at all ever.
They didn't know about it for awhile in the generation either. I think they found it after about 6 months. Similarly, they didn't know about the terrain nerfs in gen 8 for a couple months. I think Serebii Joe was the first to find it and test it out. He told Wolfe Glicke Bekir the changes were implemented in Showdown.
That sponsor jumpscared me lmao
I’ve been using these kinds of sets for years - Unaware Quagsire with Stockpile, Recover, Rest and Scald
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These kinds of sets are why moves like Sacred Sword or Chip Away might be ideal depending on the team comp
>chip away
Every team is worse off with chip away. There is better counter play like trick, urshifu and phazing
@@tarunyadav3567 I was using it as an example
@@tarunyadav3567 that's another part of the problem. The moves which ignore stat boosts are all weak.
4:32 Gen 9: and I took that seriously
I loved using torkoal in gen 7 ZU using a similar strategy (curse, amnesia, rest) because of it's ability shell armor that prevents critical hits. the only downside is that it has very few physical moves to rely on, but fortunately it learned flame wheel which also has alot of PPs (since generation 8 it can also use flame charge to boost it's speed or heat crash/body press as a stronger attack)
Ideas for videos:
what if there were more double type moves (flying press etc). What is the best type combo/ the hardest to switch in
what if Pokemon could only use stab moves (and status move of the same type). What Pokemon would be most affected?
What if there was an item, that gave you another type (Heatran + flying stone = fire/steel/flying), would that be balanced? What would be the best type combos?
hardest to switch in is ghost/fighting, there's not a single mon that isn't hit at least neutrally by it, only normal/ghost is immune to it
@@jupardo true came here to say this, some honorable mentions include
ice/electric
ground/rock
normal/ghost
fairy (or fighting)/dark
also that item would be SO broken lol, imagine fairy reuniclus/mew, steel clefable, steel or water landorus, it sounds fun and I think it’s been an OM on showdown before
Y'all forgot Fairy/Ground. Too bad the only one with Fairy/Ground coverage is Arceus-Fairy and M-Diancie
I tried this in BDSP. Specially defensive resting curse snorlax. Worked great, but I'd always lose to a stray Crit or getting parahaxed
CurseLax has been wrecking foes for many generations. Super fun to use.
@@Guayabaman305 very. You tank everything except close combat, I love it xD
This is the same reason I use regigigas doesnt get curse but bulk investment plus leftovers rest and I usually run like knock off drain punch. Toxic can be swapped with one of those or facade thing tanks a majority of the stuff you can throw at it. Even some fighting type moves and now it gets protect and I'm pretty sure sleep talk as well thunder wave wide guard and so on.
Imagine if Zamazenta got body press, calm mind and stored power, it could probably have had some use in ubers
Imagine if Zamazenta got Body Press period.
@@autobotstarscream765 it would most likely be garbage still
The first time I saw this strat was when I was watching a Pokeaimd video and he was up against an unkillable Mew who swept him.
I also saw a recent video where Blunder got swept by a Corvinight who did the same start
You and wolfeyvgc both brought up some good points about crits in the last couple of days. Very interesting to get insight from pros like yourselves!
Also, congrats on the sponsor, even if it is RSL 😂
congrats on the sponsor! Such a thorough video, too. I barely scratch 1200 on the anything goes ladder, and part of it is a mix of OU/Uber teams stomping me, and these critmenot sweepers. They are SO tricky to deal with when I'm just trying to be creative with my teams/strategies. But that's what you get when you play anything goes
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3:35 I’m looking at this matchup and I can’t help but think, if only the guy chose Sacred Sword over Close Combat. This is why I prefer Sacred Sword, it goes through any defence or evasion if it’s AG
the most insane part of this video is that you used a new pyramid graphic to illustrate the different tiers, and it wasn't poorly cropped
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0:09 game freak should not be praised for nerfing critical hits, the gen 6 and gen 7 nerfs to critical hits was unessary and made annoying crit me not sweepers viable which is a bad thing
Congrats on the sponsor man! Keep the good videos coming and we'll keep watching
the sheer volume change from "crit-me-not sweeper" to "THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED-" gave me a damn heart attack
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This is a nice follow up to Wolfey's Crit video
WolfeVGC's video on the importance of crits fits this video so well it's crazy
I think we need to buff +1 critical hit rate to be a 1/6 chance instead of 1/8
Another fun one I used to use was Sigilyph. Cosmic power, stored power, roost, psycho shift. Holding a flame orb, so you could absolutely cripple physical attackers. Like Mew and Reuniclus tho, it was weak to dark types (specifically Houndoom) and Taunt. Still, if you didn’t have a check, you’d just have to sit there and watch it go in
9:58 it's even better in national dex because it gets stored power !
That dr doom custom avatar is so dope
I always thought the chance of a crit was boosted in Gen 6, but it looks like that's only the case when you have +2 or greater with critical hit boosts. And honestly, I'd be fine with a higher chance to crit with the nerfed damage because it specifically stops boring strategies like this while not being as detrimental to bulky Pokemon just trying to switch in.
I almost skipped through the ad and then it hit me that you got a sponsor, congrats!
Never would i of thought freezai would get sponsored by raid shadow legends
1v1 has Oblivious Slowbro, Oblivious Piloswine(Avalanche as the only move) and Licktung(with Oblivious and whirlpool)
Yo cool video, also i find it funny that Wolfey just uploaded today an entire video with a very similar topic
this was doable before but just very narrowly, you need shell armor or battle armor or something to prevent crits entirely and then stack defense and use stored power.
I was surprised to hear crits were changed to 1.5 damage in Gen 6. For some reason I thought that happened waaay sooner, like Gen 3
My mans new content format got him a Raid sponsorship, you get that bread homie good on you.
Raid add, nice to know that you are a real RUclips'er now
Z stockpile water spider with aqua ring was my go to in gen 7
This is why I always have a Scope + Focus Energy Sniper Kingdra dropping Crit Draco’s, Scald’s, & Flash Cannon. It’s fun Sweeping in 7 moves when I see a Stall team
Another addition is Cofragrigus in PU can be a Body Press sweeper, but I'd say it's not that great due to lack of reliable recovery and how dangerous the other 2 Ghost types in the tier and the 2 high tier Dark Types are, along with Gallade running Knock Off for coverage and Druddigon with Taunt. Not a great option, though it exists. Though if I wanted a defensive booster in PU, I'd use Contrary Shuckle
RIP the OG stored power user Sigilyph
Congrats on getting a sponsor!! Well deserved
I remember in Gen 4 I used a Registeel that was Amnesia, Curse, Metal Claw, and Rest. Quite fun
I love using topsy-turvy against this strat, it’s so fun seeing a bulky mon turn into paper
Back in gen 6 I used these strats with Sigilyph especially in doubles
hell yeah, my man Freezai securing that bag with the raid sponsor
nice to see you getting a sponsor! well deserved!
Fun fact, theres another move thats just store power but for dark/physical attackers, use power trip :)
I didn’t know about crit-me-not, but once in a random battle I swept someone with cotton guard/body press dubwool and they were FUMING. it was hilarious
"Chinese Registeel" yep, I'm definitely watching this video. Keep it up with the amazing content
cant wait for that LC tournament!
freezai when a big poketuber makes a new video: write that down write that down
One of my favorite sweepers in Gen 7 was a Pyukamyuka with Curse, Soak, Recover, and Toxic. It had to be so infuriating to deal with.
glad you finally are getting sponsers!!!
homie shouted out my favorite nuzlocker, love to see jt
I've got an idea for an ability: Fierce Horns. If a Pokémon with Fierce Horns attacks before its target moves, crits are twice as likely.
So I bought Sword on release date. I learned that crits are only 1/24 in Gen VIII a few minutes ago.
LMAO I haven’t seen a Raid ad in months. Not gonna download, but you get that Raid money 💰💰💰
In rand bats, the one Pokémon known for this is Sigilyph. Cosmic Power Magic Guard with Roost, SP, abs Heat Wave/ Psycho Shift for any dark types.
2:46 Hawlucha being one of if not the only pokemon I’ve ever seen use the electric/psychic/fairy/grassy seed items, is just an attestment to how broken the unburden actually is. I mean it’s so simple to use, do you have a Koko put a Hawlucha with electric seed on your team, I personally use a Hawlucha on my OU team with both Zard Y and Terrain extender Koko, and assault vest Victini for STAB V-Create and electric terrain powered bolt strikes, last two mons are scarf Lando-T with only just enough speed to outrun a max speed Electrode, to increase it’s physical bulk, and a Protean Greninja with Waterium-Z to kill pokemon weak to water in sun, and hp fire to roast any 4x weak pokemon like Scizor of Ferrothorn. Not to mention 4 of my pokemon carry U-turn or Volt Switch, Koko carry both of them, and Lando, Greninja and Victini have U-Turn.
Tldr; Hawlucha rounds out an electric terrain team well.
And I just wanted to share my team since I love it so much.
I like shell armor torkoal with amnesia, iron defense, rest, and withdraw in 1v1s
for ZU stall:
Shuckle @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 SpA
- Shell Smash
- Rest
- Power Split
- Infestation
My boy getting sponsored, moving up in the world !
Funny you bring this up. I did this just earlier today.
Amazing!
You should do a quick vid about how Smogon tournaments work before the LC Open starts, just in case some people have never been in one before
1v1 has always had these kind of strategies due to the lack of phasing, with of course Registeel being the main user
finally freezai is a real youtuber. the raid shadow legends sponsor
Seeing you get a sponsorship makes me very happy
Really goes to show Registeel truly is the coolest of the lot.
@@Magic_Ice It sets up screens and explodes. Fascinating.
@@sarasaland4709 it can also be used with specs or on rain teams so thunder is more accurate. Trap a pokemon with Thynder cage on those teams, then spam thunder
One way to deal with this is to react immediately with a strong wallbreaker while they are at still +1 defences and pray to ur damage calcs to 2hko at +1/+2
Hey good for you getting that raid sponsorship bag you deserve it
Lol brings back memories of beating mega Venusaur with my Amnesia Acid Armour Scald Recover Gastrodon in gen 6 when burns did 12%
Good times
Freezai's now a official youtubist after the first trial.
bro got the raid sponsor that's hugeeee congrats