QOTD: Rayquaza. The thing lived up to its status in the regular games but now its a shadow of itself. Worst thing is it was a paid event to get Dragon Ascent to make him viable only for Niantic to shoot him down. AND they introduced Scald buff same season replacing a debuff you could plan against vs a hard hitting move where luck could change a game
QOTD: EQ was a really bad nerf (all because of Zygarde complete) to shadow gliscor. The EQ damage now is essentially the same as it was back then for a normal gliscor but you still have the lower defence due to being shadow p.s: I was in the process of builiding an XL Ultra League Alomomola for fun but the psychic nerf ruined my plans
QOTD: Breaking Swipe Sceptile. My favorite Grass type finally got a meaningful buff in Breaking Swipe, but unfortunately got it at the same time as Steelix who had to be a dickhead and ruin everyone else's fun
I was cheated out of 3 wins for a 5-0 set because of getting that glitch 3 times in a row as I was farming down the opponents last 1 HP mon. Very frustrating bug
Didn't even get a single one with CP that can enter the great league while I tried with two accounts. How hard is it to just give us lower lvls so everyone can use it?
I bet it get icy Wind next season (would be a Niantic move) I bet in 2-3 seasons we have a scald clone for every type just to annoy everyone with 50% debuffs
I have 10 battles i recorded a month ago when I was low ace with porygon, porygon 2 and porygon z, if I submit them, do you think you will make a video out of them if they're good enough?
@@CallumOnToastI just watched them and some were against worse teams but most of them were against meta teams so i hope there are enough against good teams
I’ve had that freeze bug where i was about to win then I was frozen for the next 10 minutes so I restarted the app and it gave me the loss, I wasn’t in a party
Well it wasn’t my favorite to run but I caught a hoot hoot that evolve into a rank 1 noctowl GL at my home and I then wasted a week setting it up because I rarely play as it is or go out. The following season they nerfed sky attack.
Qotd: Shadow Quagman, not because its got nerfed directly but because Whiscash does what Quag did, but better. So mine is back to Stone Edge, nuking the occasional Talonflame
@@CallumOnToast that’s sick but i still need to get third move on my skarm, another question, is flash cannon okay on registeel or is he only good with zap cannon fb
@@en20drayt87 flash cannon might have some play since opponents won't expect it. You could run it for the time being if you don't want to use an elite TM.
Not that it was my favourite, but I have had a lot of luck getting all sorts of Noctowl IVs and was getting ready to learn to use it properly to build a climbing team with it, and then then nerfed Sky Attack and took it out of the meta 😔
QOTD: I don't think any of the pokemon I really like have been nerfed. I like Trevenent a lot but I never even used it until after it was nerfed. Same with Walrien.
QOTD: Meganium. It was never a top tier pick, but I appreciated its dual grass/ground coverage, offered from EQ, which could hit reasonably hard (even considering it’s a bulky pokemon). Unless some other grass types, it felt like it could easily wall a lot of the energy coming from opposing grass-weak pokemon (unlike say, a Trevenant or a shadow Venusaur, which I’ve used a lot). For the final mail in the coffin, grass counters are especially strong nowadays, so it has no place in the meta at all.
Yeah I know the coverage has a lot of holes (that’s why it was never top tier meta), but it was useful to have in certain situations-like against steels, fires, and poisons, which grass moves usually struggle to heavily damage/threaten. It gave it a very unique feel, even if it is easily walled by fliers, bugs (pure bugs, at least, which are very few), and opposing grasses.
Pure grass is poor, I’d agree (again, why it wasn’t top tier meta, despite its amazing bulk and moveset). The stats though made it amazing in neutral scenarios or in situations you want a grass to do well in, much like how you’d rather have a Serperior against an Azumarill than say, a Shadow Venu (ice beam seriously hurts it)
Qotd: without a doubt my shadow shiny politied I used to run with eq. I put ice beam on it just in protest because the nerf pissed me off😂 it’s still viable with eq but not nearly as good as before. Edit: damn I can’t decide now because I have a shiny lugia for great league as well but it’s not as good as the poli, not before or after the nerf. But that’s such a cool shiny i luckily was able to trade into the great league way back in the day!
While watching this video I ended up getting the weird lag cutoff and got a loss. Was an easy win for me with alignment, I was even up shields while they didn't have any and just needed to throw a move. I threw a return on my Sableye against a Pelipper (no shields and 40%) and I only did about 20% on an excellent. Shocked, I got to my dark pulse and fired it off. Only for it to get stuck on the charging screen and never reconnecting. Only to get the "Failed to recover previous match results" and I got a loss. Despite having a shield, two health mons and opponent was only 1 charge attack away and I threw 2. Guessing it's just very laggy at the moment with the Sinnoh tour. Not going to risk getting my sets in before midnight (soon) with the tour still on in America.
This is so annoying as someone who is still chasing expert I personally had 3 freezes and one complete game crash in absolute dominant matchups. I had 3 4-1 sets in a row which led to an 0-5 because they all occurred in the same set an absolutely destroyed my Elo. I was able to finish with a 4-1 so overall good day but man the 0-5 killed me due to the game instead of game play! 😤
Qotd: Not directly nerfed but indirect Alolan Marowak, since „every“ Pokémon has mud bomb and a lot has water moves it is not as useful as it was. I m tired of GBL, dropped my fights this season down to ~600fights… it not a fun to play anymore… it’s right now only play mid till end season for rank asap and leave (maybe take 3-4x stardust event, and Elite TMs(but missed 500wins anyway)) It is what it is… Im bored of built and switch moves around every season again and again 10-20tms just the tm system wants to… and if you have time the cup is bad or you always face the same 8 Pokémon over and over. My experience is that I top left or my opponent top left… you have 10+ fights which are honestly done before the battle start and maybe 2-3/day which are back/forth fun. Sure you can catch and count attacks the whole season but I’m tired and still reach legend with maybe 1Week counting(not because I’m so good, because my team killed the meta over 2-3days)
QOTD: I will complain about this for the 100th time. I built a rank 1 Haxorus for the GBL and it wasnt supper meta, but it got me a lot of decent wins, and then niantic gave Steelix breaking swipe.....and we all know how it goes from there.
@@CallumOnToast Yeah. I made a bunch of level one accounts and used the referal system to get green passes. I guess Niantic knew I was cheating so they gave me 2 1501 cp heatrans 🤷
Look at that wigglytuff against heatran quad resisted on the charm and it skill did half the heatrans health. Game needs seriously sorting out big time. 😢
QOTD: Bastidon. Took years to get a good one and get the regular candy, let alone XL. Finally got the chance to be toxic and then Poliwrath got counter and mud bois got the buff. Almost useless now with less fire types. There goes 2 years and 500k stardust for a rank 7 basti.
first time i battle with you.i'm very happy my account when you battle with me is thanh05022010 ,i leave the battle .bescause i don't have stone edge on my quasire so i leave the shield and leave the battle 😃
Never forget they have nurfed Shadow Swampert twice, and it's still the GOAT
I gotta wait for the next takeover to use my 4/15/14 (Rank 63). I'm so excited to use it.
twice is crazy that mon shits on me no water wtf i use
Earthquake nerf is one. What's the other?
@@ayooshq hydro cannon.
started playing gbl after a year break, whatd they nerf on hydro canno?@@mattiaskeinnn3317
QOTD: I loved Noctowl! It did feel broken sometimes but I've always loved that Pokemon for nostalgia reasons.
26:28 Hey that was me :), what an honour to play against you! Tbh when I saw your name I kinda freaked out lol, was really fun GG’s 😄
GGs 😊
QOTD: Rayquaza. The thing lived up to its status in the regular games but now its a shadow of itself. Worst thing is it was a paid event to get Dragon Ascent to make him viable only for Niantic to shoot him down. AND they introduced Scald buff same season replacing a debuff you could plan against vs a hard hitting move where luck could change a game
QOTD: EQ was a really bad nerf (all because of Zygarde complete) to shadow gliscor. The EQ damage now is essentially the same as it was back then for a normal gliscor but you still have the lower defence due to being shadow
p.s: I was in the process of builiding an XL Ultra League Alomomola for fun but the psychic nerf ruined my plans
QOTD: Breaking Swipe Sceptile. My favorite Grass type finally got a meaningful buff in Breaking Swipe, but unfortunately got it at the same time as Steelix who had to be a dickhead and ruin everyone else's fun
I was cheated out of 3 wins for a 5-0 set because of getting that glitch 3 times in a row as I was farming down the opponents last 1 HP mon. Very frustrating bug
Didn't even get a single one with CP that can enter the great league while I tried with two accounts. How hard is it to just give us lower lvls so everyone can use it?
QOTD:Walrien
Got his both move nurfed 😔
I bet it get icy Wind next season (would be a Niantic move)
I bet in 2-3 seasons we have a scald clone for every type just to annoy everyone with 50% debuffs
I done one trade for a giratina as its my favourite pokemon and really wanted to get one for great league and luckily I got a rank 32
Of course the showcased Rayquaza has Dragon Ascend for the Great League! That's a high quality label you've got there!
Callum, can you make a video on your Pokemon collection... Would like to watch...
I have 10 battles i recorded a month ago when I was low ace with porygon, porygon 2 and porygon z, if I submit them, do you think you will make a video out of them if they're good enough?
Are they 10 wins or just 10 battles? I'd be happy to shoutcast a triple Porygon team if there are enough wins to make it worth showcasing 🙂
@@CallumOnToastThere are nine wins, I think i'm gonna submit them today
@@CallumOnToastI just watched them and some were against worse teams but most of them were against meta teams so i hope there are enough against good teams
The sky was mad on that event, had to stop myself from wanting to lick my phonescreen. 😂
Qotd: shadow sceptile. Breaking swipe and frenzy plant were really good but nerfed so can't use much
Seeing the mighty king of dragons Rayquaza mudshot down by a catfish is something else
Don't understand wiscash, Rayquazza gets caught by masterballs while wiscash eats them
You mad lad! You did it! Time to get the popcorn out and get ready for this one 💪🏼
QotD:
Rayquaaza - ML
Walrein - UL
Trev - GL
Qotd: Quagsire, not directly nerfed but because scald got buffed on pokemon like whiscash, I don't use it as much.
Callum, how can one get notified about when you're going to organize a battle of spice contest?
It's every GO Battle Day/Event when you have more sets per day.
I’ve had that freeze bug where i was about to win then I was frozen for the next 10 minutes so I restarted the app and it gave me the loss, I wasn’t in a party
Well it wasn’t my favorite to run but I caught a hoot hoot that evolve into a rank 1 noctowl GL at my home and I then wasted a week setting it up because I rarely play as it is or go out. The following season they nerfed sky attack.
I wish I would've got more battles recorded with the cool event background
Qotd: Shadow Quagman, not because its got nerfed directly but because Whiscash does what Quag did, but better.
So mine is back to Stone Edge, nuking the occasional Talonflame
QOTD, not nerfed, but froslass was my favorite pokémon to use for sure. now with the fire type buffs and skarm buffs, it’s so hard to play
is steel wing more optimal now on skarmory???
Yes
@@CallumOnToast dam, i haven’t played in a while, what happened to make it that steel wing is better
@@en20drayt87 it now gains 2 more energy than in previous seasons, making it a poison jab clone.
@@CallumOnToast that’s sick but i still need to get third move on my skarm, another question,
is flash cannon okay on registeel or is he only good with zap
cannon fb
@@en20drayt87 flash cannon might have some play since opponents won't expect it. You could run it for the time being if you don't want to use an elite TM.
Not that it was my favourite, but I have had a lot of luck getting all sorts of Noctowl IVs and was getting ready to learn to use it properly to build a climbing team with it, and then then nerfed Sky Attack and took it out of the meta 😔
QOTD: I don't think any of the pokemon I really like have been nerfed. I like Trevenent a lot but I never even used it until after it was nerfed. Same with Walrien.
I don’t understand why giratina origin seems to be bulkier in the GL than in the UL
I guess because there isn't the other Giratina here that's super bulky to compare it to
@@CallumOnToast That’s a good point actually
QOTD: Meganium. It was never a top tier pick, but I appreciated its dual grass/ground coverage, offered from EQ, which could hit reasonably hard (even considering it’s a bulky pokemon). Unless some other grass types, it felt like it could easily wall a lot of the energy coming from opposing grass-weak pokemon (unlike say, a Trevenant or a shadow Venusaur, which I’ve used a lot). For the final mail in the coffin, grass counters are especially strong nowadays, so it has no place in the meta at all.
pure grass is a pretty bad typing and grass ground is walled by bug,grass and flying types which is very bad
The good old days when meganium was meta🥲
Yeah I know the coverage has a lot of holes (that’s why it was never top tier meta), but it was useful to have in certain situations-like against steels, fires, and poisons, which grass moves usually struggle to heavily damage/threaten. It gave it a very unique feel, even if it is easily walled by fliers, bugs (pure bugs, at least, which are very few), and opposing grasses.
Pure grass is poor, I’d agree (again, why it wasn’t top tier meta, despite its amazing bulk and moveset). The stats though made it amazing in neutral scenarios or in situations you want a grass to do well in, much like how you’d rather have a Serperior against an Azumarill than say, a Shadow Venu (ice beam seriously hurts it)
@@ryanboyle628 shadow venu does get hurt a lot in those matchups...what do you think of ultra league XL meganium?
i am so happy, i got a shiny giratina with 11/5/10 and 1500cp from a trade. Flexing in great league with it and wigglytuff in the lead and a poliwrath
Heliolisk! It was such a force for me in both GL and UL
About the game crashing, I had the same issue. Refreshing the game between battles solved it for me
What do you mean, refreshing the game? It happens so many times for me. I just hate it. I always lose because of it, if I close the app
@@rajatsharma6791 You have to go on advanced settings and click on refresh game data
Qotd: without a doubt my shadow shiny politied I used to run with eq. I put ice beam on it just in protest because the nerf pissed me off😂 it’s still viable with eq but not nearly as good as before.
Edit: damn I can’t decide now because I have a shiny lugia for great league as well but it’s not as good as the poli, not before or after the nerf. But that’s such a cool shiny i luckily was able to trade into the great league way back in the day!
QOTD: For me, medicham, but it make sence
While watching this video I ended up getting the weird lag cutoff and got a loss. Was an easy win for me with alignment, I was even up shields while they didn't have any and just needed to throw a move.
I threw a return on my Sableye against a Pelipper (no shields and 40%) and I only did about 20% on an excellent. Shocked, I got to my dark pulse and fired it off. Only for it to get stuck on the charging screen and never reconnecting. Only to get the "Failed to recover previous match results" and I got a loss. Despite having a shield, two health mons and opponent was only 1 charge attack away and I threw 2.
Guessing it's just very laggy at the moment with the Sinnoh tour. Not going to risk getting my sets in before midnight (soon) with the tour still on in America.
QOTD: Maybe Heliolisk but I only started using it this season after the nerf :')
This is so annoying as someone who is still chasing expert I personally had 3 freezes and one complete game crash in absolute dominant matchups. I had 3 4-1 sets in a row which led to an 0-5 because they all occurred in the same set an absolutely destroyed my Elo. I was able to finish with a 4-1 so overall good day but man the 0-5 killed me due to the game instead of game play! 😤
Callum finally getting his under 1500 cp heatran at last 😂
I wanted to see the dragon ascent hit clodsire 😢
Qotd: shadow nidoqueen used to be so oppressive and I was a expert at using her but not as viable anymore
Qotd:
Not directly nerfed but indirect
Alolan Marowak, since „every“ Pokémon has mud bomb and a lot has water moves it is not as useful as it was.
I m tired of GBL, dropped my fights this season down to ~600fights… it not a fun to play anymore… it’s right now only play mid till end season for rank asap and leave (maybe take 3-4x stardust event, and Elite TMs(but missed 500wins anyway))
It is what it is… Im bored of built and switch moves around every season again and again 10-20tms just the tm system wants to… and if you have time the cup is bad or you always face the same 8 Pokémon over and over.
My experience is that I top left or my opponent top left… you have 10+ fights which are honestly done before the battle start and maybe 2-3/day which are back/forth fun.
Sure you can catch and count attacks the whole season but I’m tired and still reach legend with maybe 1Week counting(not because I’m so good, because my team killed the meta over 2-3days)
i think you can achieve dragon ascent against that clodsire, man im not jealous at all with this team 😭
indirectly, froslass. Always a favourite of mine but the last few metas have been horrible for it
You could have put some effort in and got all 3 shiny.... dissapointing...... 😂
Love the vids and keep up the great work❤
True
Shake alolan marowak was my favorite. Mudboys and poliwrath being thrown in the meta ruined it for me
Shame breaking swipe got nerfed. Really hurt my master league haxorus
QOTD: I will complain about this for the 100th time. I built a rank 1 Haxorus for the GBL and it wasnt supper meta, but it got me a lot of decent wins, and then niantic gave Steelix breaking swipe.....and we all know how it goes from there.
I actually run shadow force just for the fun
QOTD; Medicham!? Spent 4 months walking my rank 1 for it to get immediately nerfed ahaha 😭😭
QOTD: Shadow Skuntank took me to legend 4 times but now has really fallen out of the meta unfortunately.
I still haven’t gotten a great league Heatran. I will never understand why Niantic would lock a Pokemon that will never come back behind trade.
Have you been trading with low level friends?
@@CallumOnToast Yeah. I made a bunch of level one accounts and used the referal system to get green passes. I guess Niantic knew I was cheating so they gave me 2 1501 cp heatrans 🤷
Man they KILLED my man scrafty!
How was Scrafty nerfed?
Good vid 😊
Azumaril running fair play... that was funny
I said if they're running hydro pump then fair play
@@CallumOnToast I was wrong. Rewatching it rn... still great content. GG
QOTD: Shadow Nidoqueen. Such a fun pokemon to play but now kinda useless..
Callum making it overly obvious his reluctance to bait so when recognised in upcoming battles he’ll be able to get away with baits galore
earth power heatran is real
Question of the day answer: Scrafty was really fun to play as
I dont care about rayquaza or steelix but rhyperior didnt deserve a nerf...and dont forget the move charm
qotd rayquaza in ultra league-great lead for me
Every battle I done today would freeze on the winning move wether I won or loss and was only credited with losses
They nerfed Haxorus TWICE and it wasn’t even that good in the first place
I traded away three shiny legendaries to 3 people and got 0 gl heatran
RIP
@@CallumOnToast 🤣🤣
King of spice!
QOTD: Medi😞
Bruh💀
Wth
Defintly Rayquaza
Ever gonna mix up the background music..
Probably not
Look at that wigglytuff against heatran quad resisted on the charm and it skill did half the heatrans health. Game needs seriously sorting out big time. 😢
Tbf Heatran also grabbed a shield advantage & came out of the matchup with residual energy.
gbl was more Ducked than mia khalifa during the sinnoh tour....
Lol
Nidoqueen
bidoof
I had a shiny giratina from the event, traded with my coworker for non shiny, and got 3 star(mid stats) and over 1500 🥲 RIP
QOTD: Bastidon. Took years to get a good one and get the regular candy, let alone XL. Finally got the chance to be toxic and then Poliwrath got counter and mud bois got the buff. Almost useless now with less fire types. There goes 2 years and 500k stardust for a rank 7 basti.
This is why I dont like investing into real expensive gbl mons
The minute you finally have em, they fall out
first time i battle with you.i'm very happy my account when you battle with me is thanh05022010 ,i leave the battle .bescause i don't have stone edge on my quasire so i leave the shield and leave the battle
😃
GGs!🙂