I think that's a good portion of the point. You see no reason for them to use that Ability and are likely to throw an Electric move at it since it'll still hit for decent neutral damage, something Electric is often used for-only to get tripped up, which affords the Kilowattrel team a moment of opportunity. If only there were a bulkier Volt Absorber with a more commonly used other Ability in SV to do this with so that the recovery would actually matter.
It's the safest ability it has. Yes you have a decent amount of Intimidate users (as shown in the video) that can proc Competitive and you could use tailwind to proc Wind Power. But Wind Power only charges the next Electric move and Competitive could be lost by a switch out/haze/clear smog/ect. That 7% rate works in your favor as well. People could be worried about Competitive and won't even try to lower your stats. You'd be surprised on how many people try to use an Electric move on Kilowattrel. I used Volt Absorb on mine with Tera Water. Worked pretty well.
@@lemonadogirl4082 Explanations like this always ignore the opportunity cost of not having a great ability like Competitive. Especially in VGC where Intimidate is everywhere (including on the team featured in this video).
@@Sleeper800 That's part of what I'm referring to. All of the reasons _against_ using the Ability, including g the opportunity cost, lend credence to one's opponent's belief that it won't show up, which is what they're presumably trying to take advantage of. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good decision, but it's a line of thinking people do use.
Soo much creativity fit into one team - Skill Swap Intimidate for double Intimidates - Skill Swap Dancer onto opponents to make them KYS with Lunar Dance - Skill Swap Dancer onto your second Mon for spamming double Revelation Dances or double Feather Dances - Skill Swap Intimidate onto opponents to boost your own Competitive mon - Use Lunar Dance to restore the PP of Revival Blessing to get multiple revives per game - Mirror Herb + Dancer + BP to steal opposing boosts to pass to the team We really out here playing checkers while Weedle is playing chess
Stantler is such an underrated support mon. Skill Swap Intimidate to activate Defiant and Competitive is delicious, and swapping Dancer around the battlefield like that is truly inspired
I was wondering what the lunar dance gimmick was gonna be and skill swap dancer happened i immediately started giggling because finally someone found a use for cresselias suicidal tendencies
It felt so natural watching a battle with the Cassette Beasts music that I almost didn't realize it was playing. Nice touch transitioning to the victory tune during the end card.
Seeing that Skill Swap Lunar Dance combo, it's like "of course, it's so obvious, it's so simple of course" and yet and yet hot damn I can't believe what I'm seeing, that IQ is massive
incredible theorycrafting and teambuilding going into this, been playing this game for over a decade and you continue to blow me away with these strats weedle
This strat is amazing! It's so giga brain I love skill swap teams. Lunar Dance healing Pawmot's Revival Blessing PP so it can use Revival Blessing again all to give more power to Houndstone in addition to the regular Lunar Dance shenanigans of KOing your opponent's Pokemon.
The different KO sound effects for each mon are my favorite part of these vids (aside from the insane strats, like holy shit lunar dance skill swap dancer made me go insane actually)
The third chapter title had me gagged on several levels lmao really brings me back to a certain game's release... Anyways always great vids and looking forward to seeing in which ways you decide to simultaneously jank through and finess the smogon playerbase next
Love these types of videos! Skill Swap shenanigans are hard enough to follow even just as a spectator, being able to keep up with it in game, either as the one doing it or the one on the receiving end is impressive! Keep it up, love the unique battle variety. Or don't, I dunno, your life lol. Always gonna be keeping an eye open for more!
I just realised since lunar dance restores pp you can revival blessing cresselia theoretically until it runs out of lunar dance pp and even more if you dancer copy it yourself to restore cresselias own pp
dude i gotta steal this team this looks like so much fun! the skill swapping dancer so it died to lunar dance and then the skill swapping intimidate so you got the competitive AND adrenaline orb boost!? weedle you are truly a Gamer Mastermind holy shit keep it up
I been checking your page ever since all of the new “dance moves” were allowed in Reg D. I thought you would do H-lilligant things but this was unexpected. You’re so big brain it’s next level bro! And I can’t wait to see more!
You'll always be my favorite showdown channel because of the League references. Oh, and the janky combos that push the limits of what the battle system is capable of to its limits with your creativity.
THAT DANCER LUNAR DANCE WAS PEAK OMG
You can't even be bad at it, it's just too good
I'm fucking CACKLING at that
Gagged. Absolutely beautiful.
ON JAH, MY JAW DROPPED
Hoooooly fuck
The 7% usage rate of volt absorb is made even funnier by the fact he had ZERO electric weak mons and in fact has an immunity lol
I think that's a good portion of the point. You see no reason for them to use that Ability and are likely to throw an Electric move at it since it'll still hit for decent neutral damage, something Electric is often used for-only to get tripped up, which affords the Kilowattrel team a moment of opportunity. If only there were a bulkier Volt Absorber with a more commonly used other Ability in SV to do this with so that the recovery would actually matter.
It's the safest ability it has. Yes you have a decent amount of Intimidate users (as shown in the video) that can proc Competitive and you could use tailwind to proc Wind Power. But Wind Power only charges the next Electric move and Competitive could be lost by a switch out/haze/clear smog/ect. That 7% rate works in your favor as well. People could be worried about Competitive and won't even try to lower your stats. You'd be surprised on how many people try to use an Electric move on Kilowattrel.
I used Volt Absorb on mine with Tera Water. Worked pretty well.
@@lemonadogirl4082 Explanations like this always ignore the opportunity cost of not having a great ability like Competitive. Especially in VGC where Intimidate is everywhere (including on the team featured in this video).
@@Sleeper800 That's part of what I'm referring to. All of the reasons _against_ using the Ability, including g the opportunity cost, lend credence to one's opponent's belief that it won't show up, which is what they're presumably trying to take advantage of. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good decision, but it's a line of thinking people do use.
Ay maybe they just forgot lol, we’ve all queued up a battle with flame body talonflame at least once in our lives lol
ah i see... a temp video but against an actual person
Ever tried skill swapping shadow tag onto azurill?
Your creativity in creating these sets and techs are truly unmatched I fear.
Their creativity is so creative 😍
Weedle had us starving but now they watch us eat
I didn’t know that I was starving ‘till I tasted Weedle(s videos)
That lunar dance play made me audibly gasp. You might just be *the* most creative team builder in Pokemon
1:34 Goodra knows that the dance will kill her. It will lose them the battle.
But she must.
BECAUSE SHE *IS* THE DANCING QUEEN.
I’m fucking gasped when I saw the lunar dance. You never fail to impress us ❤
I did too, what the fuck
He really doesn't his strats are always so unique
@@0ijm3409fiwrekj weedle uses they/them pronouns
They’re fuckin incredible
The moment I gasped was when the Pawmot came in and I immediately realized that since Lunar Dance restores PP he just got Revival Blessing back
the fact they switched in gyarados after they saw galarticuno is so funny to me
especially switching a gyarados in on pawmot, an ELECTRIC TYPE lmao
100% that one was just on pure autopilot and then right after went "Oh shit" when they realized what they'd done fully.
Forcing the opponent to dance themselves to death was so funny 😂
Soo much creativity fit into one team
- Skill Swap Intimidate for double Intimidates
- Skill Swap Dancer onto opponents to make them KYS with Lunar Dance
- Skill Swap Dancer onto your second Mon for spamming double Revelation Dances or double Feather Dances
- Skill Swap Intimidate onto opponents to boost your own Competitive mon
- Use Lunar Dance to restore the PP of Revival Blessing to get multiple revives per game
- Mirror Herb + Dancer + BP to steal opposing boosts to pass to the team
We really out here playing checkers while Weedle is playing chess
And last respects because it gains power with every faint pokemon fainted, even if is revived
*5d chess
When I tell y'all my jaw DROPPED when I saw these clips on Twitter... I'm so glad it's being made into a video haha
Weedle has a twitter? smh im such a fake fan
Stantler is such an underrated support mon. Skill Swap Intimidate to activate Defiant and Competitive is delicious, and swapping Dancer around the battlefield like that is truly inspired
I was wondering what the lunar dance gimmick was gonna be and skill swap dancer happened i immediately started giggling because finally someone found a use for cresselias suicidal tendencies
The way this video will save your career 🙊🤭🤩
We are gonna need at least 5 revival blessing lunar dance loops to accomplish that
cant wait for 1 mil subs in 2 weeks after weedle loops revival blessing and lunar dance for a solid 20 times 🔥
Imagine thinking weedle had a career.
Weedle is living in a van down by the river 😔
@@skinnysnorlax1876 Weedle is the troll under the bridge asking you to solve their riddle
@@JovFlores that makes way too much sense lol
Making the opponent off itself with lunar dance is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen in showdown. Well done XD
The way I want other VGC players to feature your teams...
I love the creativity and fun that comes with it. This ate
that would be cute if other creators featured my teams, not this one though. Let this team d*e with this video
@@WeedleTwineedle Dancer Lunar Dance too peak to die. It's such a cool combo 😭.
Every time it went off, gagged
@@WeedleTwineedle is there anywhere I can find the team?
The Lunar Dance strat is so clever yet so evil I love it lol
also that Skill Swap/Competitive + Adrenaline Orb too
These sound effects are such a delicacy. No other content creator does it like you weedle
do you know where the intimidate sound bit is from?
Gotta love the LowTierCresselia telling Skeledirge to Lunar Dance himself NOW
It felt so natural watching a battle with the Cassette Beasts music that I almost didn't realize it was playing. Nice touch transitioning to the victory tune during the end card.
1:27 I literally screamed watching you take out Goodra!! This is why you’re my favorite Pokémon RUclipsr
That... was... INCREDIBLE! Great stuff as always Weedle! These strats are sooooooooooo crazy and good!
The way i CACKLED in the first battle when the strat was revealed 😭
audibly gasped when i saw the skill swap lunar dance ur an icon
This is by far your most genius team ever, and you’ve had a lot of really cool teams! But honestly this one has so many levels of brilliant, I can’t
Finally more Oricorio content bless you 🙏🏼
Seeing that Skill Swap Lunar Dance combo, it's like "of course, it's so obvious, it's so simple of course"
and yet
and yet hot damn I can't believe what I'm seeing, that IQ is massive
It's the lunar dance tech that gets me. I love it, Weedle. Youre amazing.
Your brain...I bow to you Themperor Weedle. Thank you for continuing to feed us some fantastic content!
I remember theory crafting with others in a comment section about this but, this video goes way harder than any of our ideas
i lost it at the double intimidate on G-Articuno followed by an instant forfeit
You're in another level. That Skill Swap + Lunar Dance strat blows my mind, my creativity could never
I lost my mind at the lunar dance. Utter genius
I’m moreso impressed by skill swapping intimidate to proc competitive and adrenaline orb
Thank you for the birthday upload, Themperor WeedleTwineedle.❤
EDIT: AND the Cassette Beasts soundtrack too, you really are the best Poketuber!
happy birthdayy
Oricorio amor y paz ✌️
Dropped everything I was doing just to watch this
Omg when you used lunar dance dancer I was literally like “OH, NOW THATS HOW YOU CLEAR A BITCH” 😭 slay
YOU COOKED SO GOOD WITH THIS SETTT WHEEEEWWWW LEWRD IM FULL
THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
This whole video had me GAGGED! Frok the Lunar dance Dancer in the first fight and even more when they read you with that volt absorb. Just WOW
4:28 the audio of LTG got me dying of laughter 💀💀💀💀
This level of tech is really making me wanna get back into playing doubles. Had to watch it a second time 😂
Ingenious strategy weed-man, truly.
incredible theorycrafting and teambuilding going into this, been playing this game for over a decade and you continue to blow me away with these strats weedle
Dancer Lunar Dance is the Weedle Twinneedlest combo I've ever seen
After all this time, he's still throwing shade with the move toxic. I absolutely love it.
Also yes the goodra play was 8brain, as everyone else said ❤
I wasn't expecting to hear the cassette beasts OST on here, that game has such a good soundtrack!!
holy wow that stantler put in work
Never knew about clear amulet or shelter until this video tbh
This strat is amazing! It's so giga brain I love skill swap teams. Lunar Dance healing Pawmot's Revival Blessing PP so it can use Revival Blessing again all to give more power to Houndstone in addition to the regular Lunar Dance shenanigans of KOing your opponent's Pokemon.
Pawmott achieved his ultimate form!
THE LUNAR DANCE TO KILL GOODRA? I GAGGED
I love Skill Swap shenanigans, this was yet again a delight to see.
Now we only need that Skill Swap support set on Meoscarada ; - ;
I love your content Weedle! You inspire me to make my own content!
The different KO sound effects for each mon are my favorite part of these vids (aside from the insane strats, like holy shit lunar dance skill swap dancer made me go insane actually)
Me: How many synergies can you have in your gimmick team?!
Weedle: Yes.
I laughed so hard at the Lunar Dance Dancer faint you’re a genius love your videos so creative
LMAO the lowtiergod sound effect was so perfect lol one of my favorites for sure. Great video as always, you never disappoint.
I need to see this team in action once more!! The way almost all pokemon complement each other is so good!! Keep the content up :D
SKILL SWAP DANCER LUNAR DANCE IS INSANE
Omg weedle’s playstyle is so aesthetically driven… like my mind feels hydrated and snatched after watching this
the stantler + articuno is really cool
6:56 ⭐️~Epic Pawmot Sweep~⭐️ SALTY Forfit 😂😂
I didn't even recognize the Cassette Beasts music until that guitar kicked in tbh. Great battle theme.
The reindeer scream when strangler died made me wake up everyone in the house… how are you this goddly-
Lunar Dance + Dancer! I yelled when I saw that lmao
I love that you build teams around skill swap. Allows for some fun big brain plays
Why is no one talking about that Galarian Articuno is just Mega Oricorio-Sensu
This was such a cool team, huge props! The entire team gelled really well, and you had several plays to go for. Was interesting to watch!
Your video and sound edits are always so funny. It greatly enhances the experience when it's not just a replay. Love your content!!
The third chapter title had me gagged on several levels lmao really brings me back to a certain game's release... Anyways always great vids and looking forward to seeing in which ways you decide to simultaneously jank through and finess the smogon playerbase next
Dancer really is such a fun ability to play around with but I never thought of using it with Skill Swap and Lunar Dance.
That Cassette Beasts song is an S-Tier psychobanger. I had no idea the music in that game was so good.
Oh my god dude. This team is so well built
I love that gen 9 Mons still done have models lmao
Love these types of videos! Skill Swap shenanigans are hard enough to follow even just as a spectator, being able to keep up with it in game, either as the one doing it or the one on the receiving end is impressive! Keep it up, love the unique battle variety. Or don't, I dunno, your life lol. Always gonna be keeping an eye open for more!
Every time I thought the strategy was over there was something else genius thrown out. Your team building is insane!
Weedle bout to get a strategy banned in OU
this one is truly one of your craziest strats yet! thanks for the great content weedle
Memes! [eats it like a horse with a salt cube]
I just realised since lunar dance restores pp you can revival blessing cresselia theoretically until it runs out of lunar dance pp and even more if you dancer copy it yourself to restore cresselias own pp
dude i gotta steal this team this looks like so much fun! the skill swapping dancer so it died to lunar dance and then the skill swapping intimidate so you got the competitive AND adrenaline orb boost!? weedle you are truly a Gamer Mastermind holy shit keep it up
I always love all your videos! I try to show my pokemon buddies when they say they haven't seen your stuff!
The skill swap/intimidate combo is giving late night PBR battles ❤️
Cresselia truly has become a low tier god with this one.
Me at the end of the video:
"NOOOO it can't be over, it was hilarious!"
Evil strat, many laughs to be found. Good stuff.
Yusss another vid from you. And as always thank you so much for linking the art
I been checking your page ever since all of the new “dance moves” were allowed in Reg D.
I thought you would do H-lilligant things but this was unexpected. You’re so big brain it’s next level bro! And I can’t wait to see more!
no one does it like you twineedle
Cassette Beasts music :o
Crazy strats and interesting battles as ever weedle, thank you babe
the thumbnail gonna make me act up
Laughing at the LTG soundbyte on the Skeledirge. Super creative video as always
You'll always be my favorite showdown channel because of the League references.
Oh, and the janky combos that push the limits of what the battle system is capable of to its limits with your creativity.
I audibly said “holy shit” when that Goodra dropped, amazing vid Weedle!!!
Here they are, the leakage countermeasures ✔️
Skill swap dancer to make the enemies commit seppuku was the funniest strat I've seen in a long time.
Thanks!
the triple tickle sound effects at 3:55 killed me omfg
Revival Blessing was/is such a hilarious mistake, but still it's not as hilarious as forcing your opponent to die to Lunar Dance in a dance-off.