These low tiers feel like the mvp's of the team for me, like leading eviolite porygon2 and setting up trick room just creates an absolutely unstoppable force of a team, 165 attack is absurd, 184 un-intimidatable defense with body press is RIDICULOUS, and almost nothing is underspeeding those two, not to mention hatterene if you need a slow special attacker. I can't believe porygon2 wasn't taken earlier and I think avalugg will be a crazy tera captain.
The Beneral has assembled a great team for this season. I feel like I need to point out we don’t have any frogs on the team, but it’s strong nonetheless.
Covering 16/18 types with only double ice is impressive coverage. I am a bit nervous about earthquake again given no flying type - going to be relying heavily on Orthworm there (I dont see Serperior switching in, and neither the fighting nor bug types here resist ground).
Avalugg shrugs off EQ and Serperior is bulkier than you think! We are planning on a flying type through a free agent in a few weeks however, after someone made a drop.
As for complaints, I thought long and hard and there's only two: 1) Distinct lack of Frogs. I know Frogs are Mighty and thus their power was perhaps too high for the draft, but still 2) Cannot for the life of me guess who Bubby will possess on this team to be New Bubby
Great picks! My favorite pick is Rampardos because thats just insane. Good luck with the season! Hopefully you’ll win the whole thing with that amazing team combined with your battle skills.
Lets gooo, thanks to this channel I learn so much about comp battling. And got into Master Ball rank for the first time. Thanks for the great content!😄
Is there a place to see a breakdown of the draft as a whole for all teams involved? I'm interested in seeing how the different draft philosophies interacted
I love this draft overall the only thing i think it's missing is a mon with high special attack and middle of the road speed that works in webs and trick room and gives you a special offensive threat (particularly for trick room) because outside serperior froslass galvantula (2 of which are normally utility mons and serperior loves sub seed glare) you have no way to threaten with a special attacker in trick room. I think you could easily swap out avalug for a pokemon like abomasnow or idk if it was available but hoopa or maybe even torcoal if you were really desperate magneton could've been a decent breaker for trick room. Competitive milotic dragalge chandelure tatsuguri duraligon reuniculus just something to help rampardos in trick room could've been insanely good imo
Not only is my favorite team doing another league, but you got some of my favorite pokemon of all time. Blaziken is my #1 and Avalugg is maybe #5 most favorite for me with Galvantula not being too far off. I need to cheer even harder for this team this season!
i'm so hyped for the tentacruel pick its so good for a lower tier league. It has really high special bulk and also gets acid armor which i'm pretty sure boosts phy def so it gets bulky on both sides + passive leftover healing its gonna be annoying to deal with
The team is looking good but again like last season there are few glaring problems: 1. Earthquake is really free into this team. 2. There no answer to flying type Pokémon beyond the ice types. 3. I am bit iffy on hatterene being fairy types its only good for me in trick room.
Oh this is going to be great, I like playing in NU. It doesn't have to be all legendaries to be exciting. Krookodile and tentacruel are long term favourites I can't wait to see how they do
FAV MONS: #1--Froslass: My Froslass Snow was a DEMON back in 4th gen, mostly since Platinum let her get Dark Pulse which the Battle Frontier was not ready for her to have (had to delete it to transfer her to later gens). Fastest and best EV'd mon I had for ages. I had her kill SO many Fearow for their EVs. Anyway, top tier pick, so much added in recent years, always for this #2--Serperior: The only reason I finally got Gen 5 when it was new was The Snake Starter (for newer fans, Gen 5 was very controversial in its own day). It ended up having a ton of ghosties for me to love too, but Percy the Serperior was my Main Man, and he didn't even HAVE contrary! An even Serperior did but I forget if that was gen 5 or 6. With it? In a draft league? And all the newer tools? BOW DOWN #--Porygon2: Ooh boy have I loved this thing since the beginning, and Eviolite made it SO much nastier. I must admit part of that love is my habit of shoving Tri Attack on everything that could learn it (Tri Attack's animations peaked in Gens 2 and 3, sadly, when it was Physical) just for the random nasty effects on opponents. Seriously. I put that move on MEWTWO in Blue even with the way worse animation and lack of special effects. Rarely gave them good names, looking at my handful of pre-Legends Arceus ones, but I've gotten better. #4 Tentacruel: I did not learn the Joys of Tentacruel til Gen 6, very late for as old a fan as myself, I know, but BOY can it be nasty-fun to use when used right! Jellicent helped show me the value of the Water Walls and the poison hurting Fairy made it even better in Gen 6.
After the Porygon2 pick I thought to myself: ok, they have 2 Trick Room setters now, so I really hope they draft something slow that hits monstrously hard, like a Rampardos. Glad to see that Ben was on the same wavelength haha.
Yooo I did a low tier draft and tentacruel was INSANELY good for me, honestly close to the mvp for me the ability to have momentum with flip turn and to lay down some hazards and can rapid spin to remove them were great. I even cooked with a rapid spin life orb offensive set with really strong moves to pick up 5 ko’s and sweep the battle with it. Definitely an amazing pickup
Krookodile is my favorite fully evolved Pokemon! I'm so excited to see it as the first pick and am so excited to see it shine (also, my Krookodile is a terra dragon, lol).
This team is the stuff of nightmares, i would not wanna go anywhere near this. Porygon 2 is easily my favorite pick, just because it reminds me of gen 5 lugia with multiscale
We are back, baby! This team is definitely different, but we welcome all new pokemon. Out of this team, the pokemon I'm interested in seeing perform under the Beneral are Hatterene, Froslass, and Rampardos.
Sir Crocodile, Hancock, ???, ???, Sabo, Ju Peter/Bubby, Monet, Black Maria, Vegapunk, Ulti and Kuzan. Those would be my OP names for this team! And man am I excited to have Play More back in my feed ❤
Very solid team only 3 real “critiques” a little odd there’s no dragon, personally I think emboar (if allowed) would’ve been a much better choice than blaziken and in my experience rampardos has been super underwhelming but that might be a different story with low tier league tho both blaziken and rampardos are definitely very scary under the threat of sticky webs. Other than those 3 minor things the team is really solid, good speed tiers, majority of necessary typings and roles filled.
LOVE that this is a low tier league. Never seen this before and am very excited to see some underappreciated pokemon shine
True, most of these mons are underrated
im rooting for the guy named John Michael
Glad you agree Mikey 👍 Go Team Sky!
wrd
Could they draft Drowzee
In bald ben we trust🥶🥶
Oh baby! Here we go again!!!!!!!!
THREE CHEERS TO THE BENERAL, PM7, AND TYLER!!!
Hang on General. Your forgetting something & so is John. Who is the Bubby of this league?
Or is it all of them again?
The swamp just acquired an absurd level of defense with Avalugg, Orthworm, Porygon-2 and Tentacruel. Also, give Serperior the love it deserves
Serperior is my fav pokemon (well the Snivy evolution line)
Idc how bad it may be, its my fav
@@MoonlarkSpirits serperior is one of my faves and i used one to beat black version as a stall mon
He's back.. The Beneral, The Bald Wonder, oh Captain my Captain!
These low tiers feel like the mvp's of the team for me, like leading eviolite porygon2 and setting up trick room just creates an absolutely unstoppable force of a team, 165 attack is absurd, 184 un-intimidatable defense with body press is RIDICULOUS, and almost nothing is underspeeding those two, not to mention hatterene if you need a slow special attacker. I can't believe porygon2 wasn't taken earlier and I think avalugg will be a crazy tera captain.
Tyler and John making competitive Pokémon so much fun to watch
Petition to name every pokemon bubby. Maybe big bubby, little bubby, long bubby, fuzzy bubby.
I agree
I'd sign
spider bubby
Bub
Spider Bubbly, bring the thunder
The Beneral has assembled a great team for this season. I feel like I need to point out we don’t have any frogs on the team, but it’s strong nonetheless.
All the frogs are to high tier for this league they can't have any
Avalugg is frog-ish? But I admit it's a stretch.
Covering 16/18 types with only double ice is impressive coverage. I am a bit nervous about earthquake again given no flying type - going to be relying heavily on Orthworm there (I dont see Serperior switching in, and neither the fighting nor bug types here resist ground).
Avalugg shrugs off EQ and Serperior is bulkier than you think!
We are planning on a flying type through a free agent in a few weeks however, after someone made a drop.
@@GeneralTarheel Stoked to see what... Fearow? can do.
Fighting doesnt resist ground btw, just grass and bug :)
@devilgamer1998 Right I always get the ground and rock resist mixed up, ty
25:45 i love that john thinks avalugg is gen 5
As for complaints, I thought long and hard and there's only two:
1) Distinct lack of Frogs. I know Frogs are Mighty and thus their power was perhaps too high for the draft, but still
2) Cannot for the life of me guess who Bubby will possess on this team to be New Bubby
Such a cool team, looking forward to playing you this season! 🐉🖤
Every time someone said "trick room", somewhere in the world a frog ate a worm.
YESS play more is back! We trust in the beneral! I cannot wait to see you guys play again. I jumped in joy when I heard playmore is back
Great picks! My favorite pick is Rampardos because thats just insane. Good luck with the season! Hopefully you’ll win the whole thing with that amazing team combined with your battle skills.
16:05 HAHAHA WHOS CANDICE
Lets gooo, thanks to this channel I learn so much about comp battling. And got into Master Ball rank for the first time. Thanks for the great content!😄
Awesome team! I personally am really excited to see Orthworm.
I'm so excited!! Super fun to see a low tier league, i like trying out new draft rulesets
Blaziken is my all time favorite, so I’m really excited to see what it can do
Same here
Ah yes, my favourite Gen 5 Pokémon, Avalugg
Hey PM7 thank you for getting me into competitive
You make it sound full of fun 🎉🎉
Playmore, go for the dub
This team you have is actually terrifying. Like yeash........
Crazy how this is more fun then the NFL draft picks
I really adore this team, has many of my personal favorites, can't wait to see Play More crush the competition with them! >:3
Avalugg…
My favourite gen 5 Pokémon…
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Very diverse, exciting team. It seems like a strong fighting type may pose some problems for us but I’m sure Ben will have the counter-strats ready.
Is there a place to see a breakdown of the draft as a whole for all teams involved? I'm interested in seeing how the different draft philosophies interacted
I’m just chilling in hospital watching this video so thanks for the entertainment team!! Love ya work! ❤🎉
Looking forward to the season. Love the energy.
25:27
Gen 6: do I mean nothing to you
I love this draft overall the only thing i think it's missing is a mon with high special attack and middle of the road speed that works in webs and trick room and gives you a special offensive threat (particularly for trick room) because outside serperior froslass galvantula (2 of which are normally utility mons and serperior loves sub seed glare) you have no way to threaten with a special attacker in trick room. I think you could easily swap out avalug for a pokemon like abomasnow or idk if it was available but hoopa or maybe even torcoal if you were really desperate magneton could've been a decent breaker for trick room. Competitive milotic dragalge chandelure tatsuguri duraligon reuniculus just something to help rampardos in trick room could've been insanely good imo
I'm so hyped to have y'all in the league! Rampardos gaming
We back
Oh god no, if hoodlumcallum has to go up against playmore i don't know if i can do it
So excited for this season know for a fact we’re gonna take the W home!
Rampardos is my favorite Pokémon of all time so seeing it with big role is absolutely stellar to me.
LETS GO RAMPARDOSSSSSSS IM SO HAPPYYYYY
0:37 Did i just hear Fred say my leg🦵🏼 again
It feels like its been a while since the SPL. Excited for this new league!
Not only is my favorite team doing another league, but you got some of my favorite pokemon of all time. Blaziken is my #1 and Avalugg is maybe #5 most favorite for me with Galvantula not being too far off. I need to cheer even harder for this team this season!
When Ben said Chilly Ghost Frostlass, I thought he meant the Chili Ghost Skelidirge
I’ve been waiting all afternoon for this!
Can't wait to get back to the swamp!
Play more returns Happiness returns
Not even 10% through the video and my favorite Pokemon is already on the team? This is gonna be a great season
Super excited to see this team!! Looks like it will do great!!
i'm so hyped for the tentacruel pick its so good for a lower tier league. It has really high special bulk and also gets acid armor which i'm pretty sure boosts phy def so it gets bulky on both sides + passive leftover healing its gonna be annoying to deal with
The only type without representation is dragon and flying
Not me seeing starting May 8th thinking “damn that’s so far away” then realizing it’s next week 😅
Very excited for this lower power draft
The team is looking good but again like last season there are few glaring problems: 1. Earthquake is really free into this team. 2. There no answer to flying type Pokémon beyond the ice types. 3. I am bit iffy on hatterene being fairy types its only good for me in trick room.
I hereby nominate Orthworm to carry the title of “Bubby” this season
It's interesting that 8/11 picks are from gen 5 or earlier. Nice to see some old classics.
Avalugg? That's a bold strategy, especially since it's good for one thing and that's the Pokedex.
Oh this is going to be great, I like playing in NU. It doesn't have to be all legendaries to be exciting. Krookodile and tentacruel are long term favourites I can't wait to see how they do
Seeing Coach Ben without his hat and sunglasses still gives uncanny valley vibes
Diggin the new format though!
This is what I've wanted. I wanted a league like this!!
So excited for this. Some of my favourites have been picked.
WE ARE SO BACK
I am very excited for this team and can't wait to see lots of wins in the future. Serperior, Serperior, Serperior.
We making it out the swamp with this one, boys!
oh hell yeah lower tier sounds very fun, let's tear it up this season!
Fun team krook seems super good in this, good luck this season
FAV MONS:
#1--Froslass: My Froslass Snow was a DEMON back in 4th gen, mostly since Platinum let her get Dark Pulse which the Battle Frontier was not ready for her to have (had to delete it to transfer her to later gens). Fastest and best EV'd mon I had for ages. I had her kill SO many Fearow for their EVs. Anyway, top tier pick, so much added in recent years, always for this
#2--Serperior: The only reason I finally got Gen 5 when it was new was The Snake Starter (for newer fans, Gen 5 was very controversial in its own day). It ended up having a ton of ghosties for me to love too, but Percy the Serperior was my Main Man, and he didn't even HAVE contrary! An even Serperior did but I forget if that was gen 5 or 6. With it? In a draft league? And all the newer tools? BOW DOWN
#--Porygon2: Ooh boy have I loved this thing since the beginning, and Eviolite made it SO much nastier. I must admit part of that love is my habit of shoving Tri Attack on everything that could learn it (Tri Attack's animations peaked in Gens 2 and 3, sadly, when it was Physical) just for the random nasty effects on opponents. Seriously. I put that move on MEWTWO in Blue even with the way worse animation and lack of special effects. Rarely gave them good names, looking at my handful of pre-Legends Arceus ones, but I've gotten better.
#4 Tentacruel: I did not learn the Joys of Tentacruel til Gen 6, very late for as old a fan as myself, I know, but BOY can it be nasty-fun to use when used right! Jellicent helped show me the value of the Water Walls and the poison hurting Fairy made it even better in Gen 6.
Im sorry im late, but im always glad to see some play more action. I can't wait to watch this season.
I love lower tier draft games! It’s so friggin fun
After the Porygon2 pick I thought to myself: ok, they have 2 Trick Room setters now, so I really hope they draft something slow that hits monstrously hard, like a Rampardos. Glad to see that Ben was on the same wavelength haha.
Sitting here watching the draft, the only thing going through my mind is “hazards, hazards for days “
Ben clearly has a style, half the team mirrors the previous, lets see how well he can push this one now!
Hyped that someone's using froslass!
Dude, serperior can be such a scary pokemon, hopefully we see it pop off
Love the Threat Level Midnight poster. Go Play More!
Is that my boy galvantula I see in the thumbnail? Very excited for this season!
There is one question that remained unanswered: Who takes up the mantle of Bubby?
Nice type-spread Ben. 2 Ice-types as the only overlap.
Tentacruel! One of my favorites!
Tyler looks like a Swedish football player called kulusevski
I say this a lot, but the music choices are always so good!!! Makes a great video even better!
Play more is BACKKK
Yooo I did a low tier draft and tentacruel was INSANELY good for me, honestly close to the mvp for me the ability to have momentum with flip turn and to lay down some hazards and can rapid spin to remove them were great. I even cooked with a rapid spin life orb offensive set with really strong moves to pick up 5 ko’s and sweep the battle with it. Definitely an amazing pickup
Can't wait to see this season and what an amazing draft
Krookodile is my favorite fully evolved Pokemon! I'm so excited to see it as the first pick and am so excited to see it shine (also, my Krookodile is a terra dragon, lol).
I do miss the fact the previous season was a free draft but tiers is fun also! Cant wait to see how the team is used :)
Bubby and Beneral
Serperior is my absolute favorite pokemon! I cannot wait to see him in battle!
This team is the stuff of nightmares, i would not wanna go anywhere near this. Porygon 2 is easily my favorite pick, just because it reminds me of gen 5 lugia with multiscale
22:56 thats crazy 330 attack with headsmash
We are back, baby! This team is definitely different, but we welcome all new pokemon.
Out of this team, the pokemon I'm interested in seeing perform under the Beneral are Hatterene, Froslass, and Rampardos.
Rampardos the new bubby 100%
Will gets it
@@GeneralTarheel a reply from the man himself. Am I cool now?
Sir Crocodile, Hancock, ???, ???, Sabo, Ju Peter/Bubby, Monet, Black Maria, Vegapunk, Ulti and Kuzan. Those would be my OP names for this team! And man am I excited to have Play More back in my feed ❤
The Beneral is back in action LFG
Ah yes, Avalugg, the gen 5 pokemon
Can’t wait to see who carried the mantle of Bubby
Very solid team only 3 real “critiques” a little odd there’s no dragon, personally I think emboar (if allowed) would’ve been a much better choice than blaziken and in my experience rampardos has been super underwhelming but that might be a different story with low tier league tho both blaziken and rampardos are definitely very scary under the threat of sticky webs. Other than those 3 minor things the team is really solid, good speed tiers, majority of necessary typings and roles filled.
Whooo! Lets GO Play More!
We hail Bald Ben
Its funny John think avalugg is gen 5 but i may not know alot about competive but looks like a good draft team