Trainers running heavy slam in Duraludon and Archaludon is always a funny thing because of course you'd expect something so big and bulky would weigh a lot. Nope, 60kg/132lbs you can give it a piggy back ride
@@jamesaditya5254 Oh, it's terrible yah. I was more just realizing why they gave it the ability. I remember thinking originally, "This feels weird. Why?" Not realizing it was so light.
It makes no sense for to be running heavy slam, that only existed before so it could deal decent damage into flutter, flash cannon is pretty much better in every other scenario
Man watching Aaron and the rest of the beast coast gang gets me fired up. I’m always building new teams because of these guys. So much respect for you dawg.
Thank you for covering all these creative teams! It's made me understand how to start dipping my toes into teambuilding and im now having so much fun in reg H! Your content is amazing 🙂
Braviary definitely slept on! With Close Combat and Brave Bird, t's good into a HUGE number of common Pokémon like incineroar, rillaboom, annihilape, amoonguss, ursaluna, kingambit, tyranitar etc. It even gets shadow claw to deal with gholdengo or iron head for less common mons like glimmora and alolan ninetales. If you give it an expert belt, it can OHKO incin after a defiant boost w close combat, OR you can do fighting-tera for a CC boost and also gain a rock resistance. SO excited to see it featured in this video! :)
I would say that Milotic isn't used as much as it should be. Milotic has the potential to be the absolute answer to Incineroar. My Milotic that I've been running has Competitive, is holding an Adrenaline Orb (for those who don't know, the Adrenaline Orb's effect has been changed so that if you get intimidated your speed raises by 1 stage), and is Tera Ghost. There have been several battles I've been in where I get the Competitive and Orb boost immediately and because Milotic then outspeeds Incineroar the only thing it can do is Fakeout, so all you do is Tera Ghost and if you use a water move on Incineroar, you can take it out on the first turn. There is a move I think that a lot of people have ignored as well. I understand why people don't use it, but recently I've been getting a lot of use out of the move Fling. I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I've always ignored Fling is because it always seemed too unpredictable to be useful as its effect and power change depending on the item the pokemon that used it is holding. However, I was looking through the possible effects that different items can have with Fling and I noticed that the stat raising berries (Salac berry, Petaya berry, etc.) give it 20 base power and raise the respective stat it's associated with by one stage. To show you why I think this is amazing I'll show you parts of the team I've been using. Weavile holding a Salac Berry Ability: Pickpocket Some of its moves Fling, Facade, Archaludon Ability: Stamina Metagross holding a Weakness Policy Flapple holding a Sitrus Berry Ability: Ripen I think some of the strategy becomes immediately clear when you see the held item and ability they have but I think some of them still require explanation. The reason I gave Weavile Facade is because once you Fling the Salac berry onto another pokemon you can't use Fling anymore, but, with Pickpocket, I can steal an opposing pokemon's held item with Facade and then keep using Fling. Fling activates Archaludon's Stamina giving it a both a speed and defense boost in one turn. Fling is Dark type so it can acivate Metagross's Weakness policy and give it the speed and offensive boosts. (Also the only reason I picked Metagross over another Psychic or Ghost type pokemon is because the one I'm using is shiny and I wanted to show it off.) I know the Flapple seems weird but it's been one of the most reliable pokemon on my team. (I'm not going to explain why because I'm currently battling with this team.) These aren't the only uses for Fling on my team either. The other 2 pokemon I have can also benefit from the speed boost the Salac Berry gives and Fling can also do some decent damage if you steal something like an Assault Vest. There are also probably dozens of other things you could do with Fling that I'm not even aware of. Edit: I also feel like I should add that the reason I leave such long comments on competitive pokemon videos explaining my teams is because I'm really bad at pokemon, but I do genuinely think these teams have potential so I want to see other people who are better than I am try to use them and see if they have any success with them. So if you want to use these strategies or if these strategies gave you ideas for your own teams, then by all means, go ahead and use them and if you can let me know how it went.
QOTD: Sneasel! Inner focus, fast fake out, a lot of utility, taunt, knock off, icy wind, feint, weather moves A great enabler especially for special attackers 🤥 😭
QotD: AV Tera Dark Ceruledge. It definitely doesn't come to every matchup but it's great into Gholdengo, completely walls Indeedee/Armorouge/Torkoal cores, as well as Hisuian Typhlosian which seems like it's been picking up
The video come at a perfect time, thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying this new Regulation as well! ☺️ Always innovating bringing different cores and teams
QOTD: I think Vivillon is actually pretty good. With conpound eyes you basically never miss sleep powder, and it has pretty good speed. Tailwind and Rage powder if you have sash are also really nice support options.
Flamigo has been given me some great utility this reg. Fighting and Flying has been necessary damage type in every match and wide guard protection feels like a must have for certain compositions. Add the threat of OHKO close combat/bravebird, tailwind with wide guard and you’ve got a solid pokemon imo.
QotD; Mimikyu. He is such a reliable trick room setter thanks to it's ability. Also being able to set up swords dance is really valuable because normal types aren't too common to switch in to +2 shadow sneaks
QOTD: tbh I think Meowscarada is super slept on rn, it's one of the fastest pokemon in the format with strong grass stab and good coverage and priority
I think assault vest Arboliva can be a massive threat. A lot of hp and defense investment makes it incredibly bulky. Throw it on a Sun team with solar beam and weather ball. Constantly resets grassy terrain with seed sower, which can boost giga drain for added recovery. Its base SpAtt is good enough to hit hard without too much investment. 0 speed IV and EVs makes it under speed min speed ursaluna in TR, immune to amoongus spore. It can be really hard to take out
Something I really want in the next game is when a Pokemon is immune to a move the damage animation wouldn't play. Like Rotom shouldn't be getting hit by Earthquake so the animation should just not play into its slot. Same with flying types or ground types with Discharge.
QOTD: Malamar! Focus Sash with Topsy Turvy. It's not perfect for every match but if you can set it up with SuperPower it's a beast, and Topsy Turvy on a Volcarona trying to set up or Dondozo can let other teammates wreck havoc.
Magmar is a really nice pick right now. I`ve been using it in a H-Typhlosion team I`ve built a couple days back and it is so nice! It can set up the sun and use Follow me to aid the H-Typhlosion and with Will-o-Wisp it can bother the physical attackers that have been dominating the regulation, Dozo, Rilla, Palafin. The last move is much more flexible, you can run protect to keep the Magmar safe or Flamethrower to have some damaging utility but for me Clear smog is very good. It also walls Amoonguss with its ability "Vital spirit" which makes immune to Falling asleep.
White Herb unburden Sneasler is slept on. You are always the fasted fake out on the field. You body both incin and rillaboom. White herb gets consuemd to eat the intimidate and then you have unburden. Since you are so fast due to unburden you an afford to put some bulk into the mon as well so you don't get 1 shot. Great into archaludon since he is steel type and usually grass tera. The amount of times dire claw can you bail you out of bad game states is really useful as welll. Sneasler does good into: Archaludon, kingambit, inc, rillaboom, primarina, ursaluna, whimsicot, tryantar just to name a few. Biggest weakness is you get bodied by gholdengo so make sure your other mons can deal with gholdengo, also you can learn taunt which is super helpful. Edit: also close combat def and spdf drops get consumed by white herb. Meaning if you still haven't consumed it. You can have cc NOT reduce your stats and in fact also double your speed stat
@marcussmale2424 That also is good. I've settled on Rilla, Sneasler, Gholdengo, Talonflame, Incineroar and Empoleon. Apparently, Empoleon learns Haze from TM. Been really helpful against Dondozo
@Kasaaz Truthfully you don't need it that often but it is nice to be able to boost two stats without even moving. Plus I'd rather have extra speed then not, especially when Flutter Mane is legal again.
Anyone else notice that the Archaludon in Game 1 was weirdly not lined up with the rest of the mons like it normally would be? Like, it was to the right of Rotom across the field and was further back than Indeedee.
The current regulation is so fun! I feel like teams have never been so diverse, and I feel like people will be playing with this ruleset even after the regulation changes again
Qotd: Sneasler. Really fast, hits like a truck. I like a white herb set with unburden, that way you can either remove the herb with your own close combat or opposing intimidates.
In answer to the question, i am trying Sooooo hard to make sheer force life orb feraligatr work, with rain and helping hand support it can ko a top of top threats like the ursalunas and gholdengo
My craziest game was with a dozo as well. Didn't know how I was dealing it once Inteleon(haze) went down but the guy did order up and I had whimsi on the field. I encore'd it into order up and swapped in Clefable and just moonblasted it until it went down and kept it locked into order up lol.
For QOTD: I think Baxcalibur is awesome! With some spdef investment it lives just about anything you throw at it and can ohko a ton of the big players in the format.
I think people are sleeping on delphox. It doesn't hit quite as hard as gardevior, but it's also much much faster. The 104 base speed puts it in a really great speed tier this format. It won the nj regionals recently but I don't really see anyone talking about it still. A set of heat wave/expanding force/protect/tera blast with life orb still does respectable damage and with tera fighting you crush the dark types that will often give you trouble, even Ttar isn't safe if you can catch it before it teras. 252 SpA Life Orb Tera-Fighting Delphox Tera Blast vs. 4 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Tyranitar in Sand: 146-177 (82.9 - 100.5%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
Hisuian Zoroark in my opinion is slept on. He is one of the only Pokemon that can provide value without bringing him. if paired with another hyper voice/ shadow ball user, you have ur opponent questioning everything, without even bringing him.
QOTD: Hatterene, one of my all time favorite Pokemon, deals massive damage in trick room especially with the lower power level of this format. She was pretty underrated last season and think she'll be a huge threat this format if you're not careful
Babe wake up new Cybertron banger just dropped! also QOTD: I think Hisuian Zoroark is pretty underused still. Pairs really well with Ursaluna Blood Moon and Funny Giraffe for Hyper Voice mindgames. And completely hard walls the angry monkey + Maushold combo.
Ngl blaziken/infernape seem super strong on ladder into everything but aramarouge and rain, but offensive duo bloodmoon ursaluna can cover rain and TR, and as long as you have incineroar to beat armarouge consistently, it’s a great core
I am fan of a more offensive hsui Goodra with sap sipper and water terra. So many people forget it gets sap sipper and then its only real weakness is electric. I don't like the body press or heavy slqm versions though.
QOTD: Kommo-O, it won Sacramento and with weaker mons and stuff it has real potential and i feel like the Iron Press set is underused rn, with Bulletproof Tera Steel i wall Ghold and Peli, Soundproof i wall Primarina and Parting Shot, Overcoat Tera Steel i wall Amoonguss and naturally never take damage from Sand
QOTD: I'm gonna receive some words for this, but I'm all for Blaziken. Speed Boost is so awesome and it would have been good in reg F if people used it. As such, do you think a Blaziken showcase is in the future? He's my favorite mon and deserves some love
I do wish Sneasler had another ability, besides Unburden, that was good. You can go without Unburden speed because you're already faster than like 95% of the Meta.
Aaron providing me with as much information as possible just so I can go 0-9 at Sacramento
that’s the spirit! 💀
Manifesting 7-2 or better for you ✨
how’d it go
Find a partner that looks at you the way Aaron looks at Rotom
What good typing and levitate does to a mf
Will-o-Wisp syndrome
Rotom wash was my fav Mon of Gen 4
Oops it was a miss
Love when you climb the regulation H online ladder providing live commentary as you go.
Are we not talking about the Dozo lock into earthquake game? That was UNHINGED
that was a crazy battle!
With the mirror coat at the end? That was wild
Gotta hand it to them for not trying to run out the clock.
52:27 The dozo unintentionally getting locked into earthquake in front of levitate rotom was so HYPE! (and then almost dying to mirror coat lmfao)
Trainers running heavy slam in Duraludon and Archaludon is always a funny thing because of course you'd expect something so big and bulky would weigh a lot. Nope, 60kg/132lbs you can give it a piggy back ride
I guess that's why Duraludon has Heavy Metal as an option.
@@Kasaazfor a whopping 20 bp increase vs Gardevoir at the cost of not running Stamina lol
@@jamesaditya5254 Oh, it's terrible yah. I was more just realizing why they gave it the ability. I remember thinking originally, "This feels weird. Why?" Not realizing it was so light.
Iz cauze in da lore they're made of zuper light metal
It makes no sense for to be running heavy slam, that only existed before so it could deal decent damage into flutter, flash cannon is pretty much better in every other scenario
The tatsu with focus sash mirror coat is some really cool tech ngl. What a crazy game
1 Hour and 40min videos…I’m loving this long format. Keep em coming
It’s so sexy the way you climb the online regulation H VGC ladder in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and provide live commentary as you go
This team is like a combination of VGC 2014 and 2020, love it.
The Dondozo vs Rotom match was wild!
Man watching Aaron and the rest of the beast coast gang gets me fired up. I’m always building new teams because of these guys. So much respect for you dawg.
QOTD - Clodsire walls rain arch. Still working on building the team around it, but there's something there.
Good Haze user in singles
Does it though? Draco meteor and flash cannon still do good damage into it
How big was the relief when you saw the Rotom was choice specs and not running will-o-wisp?
😂😂
Wonderful birthday present for me today to open up RUclips and find an Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng video waiting for me!
Happy birthday 😊
@@CybertronVGC thank you so much!
Thank you for using my team!❤
With regards to Arch Heavy Slam, Arch is not as heavy as people think, since its preevo is based off aluminium after all.
More specifically duralumin, a lightweight alloy of aluminum, but yes, you are correct.
And whatever damage people are thinking of are likely basing that off of the duraludon having heavy metal
@@Twilightblade7what do you think?
I love having something on in the background while I play games.
Love the multiple back to back videos. Thank you for all your work
Man I love this format. Just so fun and refreshing. Loving these videos!
Been loving the consistent uploads lately, thank you for blessing us with the best VGC content on youtube day after day 🙌🏾
There seems to be no upper time limit to Aaron videos I’d watch. The longer they get, the more ai want to watch them
Honestly, its a highlight of my day seeing an upload from you!
Thank you for covering all these creative teams! It's made me understand how to start dipping my toes into teambuilding and im now having so much fun in reg H! Your content is amazing 🙂
I love the thought of Excadrill in this format but it really wants to click earthquake (like on this team) but Rillaboom is like #1 used
Multiple videos back to back is great keep up the good work awesome content as always !
bruh dat rotom trick vs dondo was clutch
Braviary definitely slept on! With Close Combat and Brave Bird, t's good into a HUGE number of common Pokémon like incineroar, rillaboom, annihilape, amoonguss, ursaluna, kingambit, tyranitar etc. It even gets shadow claw to deal with gholdengo or iron head for less common mons like glimmora and alolan ninetales. If you give it an expert belt, it can OHKO incin after a defiant boost w close combat, OR you can do fighting-tera for a CC boost and also gain a rock resistance. SO excited to see it featured in this video! :)
The last time I was this early Flutter mane wasn’t a thing yet.
I love how the great synergy between Excadrill and Rotom came out in game 1 turn 1
Everytime you post a video its like Christmas has come. Makes me so happy
Checking calcs after the battle is a great addition to these vids!
Game 4 was sick!!!!
Game 4 was absolutely insane!! Talk about luck on not doing the half damage you wanted to avoid the mirror coat KO. Wtaf!!! lol
I would say that Milotic isn't used as much as it should be. Milotic has the potential to be the absolute answer to Incineroar. My Milotic that I've been running has Competitive, is holding an Adrenaline Orb (for those who don't know, the Adrenaline Orb's effect has been changed so that if you get intimidated your speed raises by 1 stage), and is Tera Ghost. There have been several battles I've been in where I get the Competitive and Orb boost immediately and because Milotic then outspeeds Incineroar the only thing it can do is Fakeout, so all you do is Tera Ghost and if you use a water move on Incineroar, you can take it out on the first turn.
There is a move I think that a lot of people have ignored as well. I understand why people don't use it, but recently I've been getting a lot of use out of the move Fling. I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I've always ignored Fling is because it always seemed too unpredictable to be useful as its effect and power change depending on the item the pokemon that used it is holding. However, I was looking through the possible effects that different items can have with Fling and I noticed that the stat raising berries (Salac berry, Petaya berry, etc.) give it 20 base power and raise the respective stat it's associated with by one stage. To show you why I think this is amazing I'll show you parts of the team I've been using.
Weavile holding a Salac Berry
Ability: Pickpocket
Some of its moves
Fling, Facade,
Archaludon
Ability: Stamina
Metagross holding a Weakness Policy
Flapple holding a Sitrus Berry
Ability: Ripen
I think some of the strategy becomes immediately clear when you see the held item and ability they have but I think some of them still require explanation. The reason I gave Weavile Facade is because once you Fling the Salac berry onto another pokemon you can't use Fling anymore, but, with Pickpocket, I can steal an opposing pokemon's held item with Facade and then keep using Fling.
Fling activates Archaludon's Stamina giving it a both a speed and defense boost in one turn.
Fling is Dark type so it can acivate Metagross's Weakness policy and give it the speed and offensive boosts. (Also the only reason I picked Metagross over another Psychic or Ghost type pokemon is because the one I'm using is shiny and I wanted to show it off.)
I know the Flapple seems weird but it's been one of the most reliable pokemon on my team. (I'm not going to explain why because I'm currently battling with this team.)
These aren't the only uses for Fling on my team either. The other 2 pokemon I have can also benefit from the speed boost the Salac Berry gives and Fling can also do some decent damage if you steal something like an Assault Vest. There are also probably dozens of other things you could do with Fling that I'm not even aware of.
Edit: I also feel like I should add that the reason I leave such long comments on competitive pokemon videos explaining my teams is because I'm really bad at pokemon, but I do genuinely think these teams have potential so I want to see other people who are better than I am try to use them and see if they have any success with them. So if you want to use these strategies or if these strategies gave you ideas for your own teams, then by all means, go ahead and use them and if you can let me know how it went.
I refuse to believe this format is so down bad for electric types that people are using ROTOM MOW
I use Eelektross :)
It’s slim pickings for electric types with Hand, Bolt, and Miraidon gone. Genuinely it’s just stuff like Pawmot and Electabuzz.
Mow deserves its day in the sunlight too! 😂
Sand teams have a ton of variety right now, pretty cool!
These teams are so fun, I want a Reg-H Worlds.
Hey Aaron, i am Fausto from game 6, and yes, my meowscarada is band.
I was thinking to switch incineroar with a mirror herb p.tauros, thoughts? thanks
Braviary is my fave Pokemon! Love seeing it in action!
Literally cannot keep up with these videos. The production schedule is insane right now.
Archaludon is not heavy at all, so that’s why heavy slam didn’t deal much damage on Gardevoir.
Coolest team I've seen so far
QOTD: Sneasel! Inner focus, fast fake out, a lot of utility, taunt, knock off, icy wind, feint, weather moves
A great enabler especially for special attackers 🤥 😭
*Loving* this upload schedule Aaron
I've been waiting for years to see excadrill make a potential comeback!
love to see you use a treecko/tyrouge upper hand with tera normal espeed weakness policy dragonite
Stored power Espathra is criminally slept on!
QotD: AV Tera Dark Ceruledge. It definitely doesn't come to every matchup but it's great into Gholdengo, completely walls Indeedee/Armorouge/Torkoal cores, as well as Hisuian Typhlosian which seems like it's been picking up
The video come at a perfect time, thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying this new Regulation as well! ☺️
Always innovating bringing different cores and teams
QOTD: I think Vivillon is actually pretty good. With conpound eyes you basically never miss sleep powder, and it has pretty good speed. Tailwind and Rage powder if you have sash are also really nice support options.
game 4 was insane
Flamigo has been given me some great utility this reg. Fighting and Flying has been necessary damage type in every match and wide guard protection feels like a must have for certain compositions. Add the threat of OHKO close combat/bravebird, tailwind with wide guard and you’ve got a solid pokemon imo.
I actually think Kommo-o has so much potential this format, I think people just haven't found the right partners yet. Also, pop bomb maus go hard
QotD; Mimikyu. He is such a reliable trick room setter thanks to it's ability. Also being able to set up swords dance is really valuable because normal types aren't too common to switch in to +2 shadow sneaks
QOTD: tbh I think Meowscarada is super slept on rn, it's one of the fastest pokemon in the format with strong grass stab and good coverage and priority
There's a cheeky Braviary strat you can run right now. Sheer Force + Power Herb + Sky Attack for some insane alphastriking.
I think assault vest Arboliva can be a massive threat. A lot of hp and defense investment makes it incredibly bulky. Throw it on a Sun team with solar beam and weather ball. Constantly resets grassy terrain with seed sower, which can boost giga drain for added recovery. Its base SpAtt is good enough to hit hard without too much investment. 0 speed IV and EVs makes it under speed min speed ursaluna in TR, immune to amoongus spore. It can be really hard to take out
Something I really want in the next game is when a Pokemon is immune to a move the damage animation wouldn't play. Like Rotom shouldn't be getting hit by Earthquake so the animation should just not play into its slot. Same with flying types or ground types with Discharge.
I totally agree!!
They should make it an animation that it can't get hit!
QOTD: Malamar! Focus Sash with Topsy Turvy. It's not perfect for every match but if you can set it up with SuperPower it's a beast, and Topsy Turvy on a Volcarona trying to set up or Dondozo can let other teammates wreck havoc.
Magmar is a really nice pick right now. I`ve been using it in a H-Typhlosion team I`ve built a couple days back and it is so nice! It can set up the sun and use Follow me to aid the H-Typhlosion and with Will-o-Wisp it can bother the physical attackers that have been dominating the regulation, Dozo, Rilla, Palafin. The last move is much more flexible, you can run protect to keep the Magmar safe or Flamethrower to have some damaging utility but for me Clear smog is very good. It also walls Amoonguss with its ability "Vital spirit" which makes immune to Falling asleep.
White Herb unburden Sneasler is slept on. You are always the fasted fake out on the field. You body both incin and rillaboom. White herb gets consuemd to eat the intimidate and then you have unburden. Since you are so fast due to unburden you an afford to put some bulk into the mon as well so you don't get 1 shot. Great into archaludon since he is steel type and usually grass tera. The amount of times dire claw can you bail you out of bad game states is really useful as welll. Sneasler does good into: Archaludon, kingambit, inc, rillaboom, primarina, ursaluna, whimsicot, tryantar just to name a few. Biggest weakness is you get bodied by gholdengo so make sure your other mons can deal with gholdengo, also you can learn taunt which is super helpful.
Edit: also close combat def and spdf drops get consumed by white herb. Meaning if you still haven't consumed it. You can have cc NOT reduce your stats and in fact also double your speed stat
I like using this Pokémon with flying Terra Acrobatics to dumpster Amoonguss. It's really helpful
Ive been using sneasler the same way but with terrain setters like rillaboom or indeedee and seeds
@marcussmale2424 That also is good. I've settled on Rilla, Sneasler, Gholdengo, Talonflame, Incineroar and Empoleon. Apparently, Empoleon learns Haze from TM. Been really helpful against Dondozo
I don't know if you even really need the Unburden speed at the moment. It's just that Pressure and Poison Point aren't really good...
@Kasaaz Truthfully you don't need it that often but it is nice to be able to boost two stats without even moving. Plus I'd rather have extra speed then not, especially when Flutter Mane is legal again.
Anyone else notice that the Archaludon in Game 1 was weirdly not lined up with the rest of the mons like it normally would be? Like, it was to the right of Rotom across the field and was further back than Indeedee.
The current regulation is so fun! I feel like teams have never been so diverse, and I feel like people will be playing with this ruleset even after the regulation changes again
Qotd: Sneasler. Really fast, hits like a truck. I like a white herb set with unburden, that way you can either remove the herb with your own close combat or opposing intimidates.
56:40 I thought you were going to trick back the specs to discharge on totsu
You calling Rotom "Mowtom" now makes me want a Mowtom named Mowtown
In answer to the question, i am trying Sooooo hard to make sheer force life orb feraligatr work, with rain and helping hand support it can ko a top of top threats like the ursalunas and gholdengo
My craziest game was with a dozo as well. Didn't know how I was dealing it once Inteleon(haze) went down but the guy did order up and I had whimsi on the field. I encore'd it into order up and swapped in Clefable and just moonblasted it until it went down and kept it locked into order up lol.
This video convinced me because it was so well made! Is there any way I can stop watching it over and over again, oh I can't believe it
as i go gang
rising
note: dogs name is T-tar so everytime you said it she would look at me/the comp monitor
For QOTD: I think Baxcalibur is awesome! With some spdef investment it lives just about anything you throw at it and can ohko a ton of the big players in the format.
QOTD: Porygon 2 and Hisuian Samurott come to mind for me
wow. t-tar, excadrill, rotom-c, all reminds me of sword & shield
I think people are sleeping on delphox. It doesn't hit quite as hard as gardevior, but it's also much much faster. The 104 base speed puts it in a really great speed tier this format. It won the nj regionals recently but I don't really see anyone talking about it still. A set of heat wave/expanding force/protect/tera blast with life orb still does respectable damage and with tera fighting you crush the dark types that will often give you trouble, even Ttar isn't safe if you can catch it before it teras.
252 SpA Life Orb Tera-Fighting Delphox Tera Blast vs. 4 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Tyranitar in Sand: 146-177 (82.9 - 100.5%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
Hisuian Zoroark in my opinion is slept on. He is one of the only Pokemon that can provide value without bringing him. if paired with another hyper voice/ shadow ball user, you have ur opponent questioning everything, without even bringing him.
That Mirrocoat was crazy lmaoooo
QOTD: Hatterene, one of my all time favorite Pokemon, deals massive damage in trick room especially with the lower power level of this format. She was pretty underrated last season and think she'll be a huge threat this format if you're not careful
Babe wake up new Cybertron banger just dropped!
also QOTD: I think Hisuian Zoroark is pretty underused still. Pairs really well with Ursaluna Blood Moon and Funny Giraffe for Hyper Voice mindgames. And completely hard walls the angry monkey + Maushold combo.
god I love watching this format
the perm doing wonders for my boy cybertron
I ran a similar team at a local this weekend but had a very hard time positioning excadrill. Id love any tips
Does anyone know why fairy and psychic are an oppressive type combo, do they have a specific synergy?
Aaron "Cybertron" Zheng good video
Is covert cloak with defiant working against each other then? Maybe sheer force is better?
Qotd: hydrapple I think is good. I’m also curious about rotom-frost when paired with ninetails but I haven’t experimented w/ it
Oh my god game 4 was insane!
I was cooking and when I saw that mirror coat I almost dropped my hot pan lmfao
Oh sweet im also Running Braviary
Ngl blaziken/infernape seem super strong on ladder into everything but aramarouge and rain, but offensive duo bloodmoon ursaluna can cover rain and TR, and as long as you have incineroar to beat armarouge consistently, it’s a great core
I am fan of a more offensive hsui Goodra with sap sipper and water terra. So many people forget it gets sap sipper and then its only real weakness is electric. I don't like the body press or heavy slqm versions though.
QOTD: Kommo-O, it won Sacramento and with weaker mons and stuff it has real potential and i feel like the Iron Press set is underused rn, with Bulletproof Tera Steel i wall Ghold and Peli, Soundproof i wall Primarina and Parting Shot, Overcoat Tera Steel i wall Amoonguss and naturally never take damage from Sand
I think Hisuian Samurott is very good into a lot of the popular pokemon right now
QOTD: I'm gonna receive some words for this, but I'm all for Blaziken. Speed Boost is so awesome and it would have been good in reg F if people used it. As such, do you think a Blaziken showcase is in the future? He's my favorite mon and deserves some love
Hello, I am a fan of Mightyena. Is there any chance that rule h will play?
Question of the day: I’ve been playing with primarina + meowscarada and setting up swamp. My results are mixed but it’s certainly fun.
I do wish Sneasler had another ability, besides Unburden, that was good. You can go without Unburden speed because you're already faster than like 95% of the Meta.
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I think Chestnaught is being slept on. It's a very tanky pokemon and it's a great user of body press
palafin slept on idk how
Is this a Bearenstain Bears situation I swear I have always heard it called rotom-mow or rotom-grass, but never rotom-cut.