i would love to see a video like this on how to overcome bad leads - a deeper dive into when to swap, store energy or swap after chipping enemy down and stuff like that. I feel like i struggle with that the most
Exclennet resource once again. As a trainer who took a break after season 3 (kinda lost interest after getting a second Libra Pika) you’re really helping me catch back up. Definitely feel like players are more skilled and knowledgeable now so a breakdown of advance strats is so helpful.
Bassalax here and I rarely leave a comment on a video. As someone who's been to Legend about 4 times now and have hit as high as #64 on the Global Leaderboards I have to admit this is something I never really thought of doing in a match. Like subconsciously and a little bit here and there yeah sure, but not nearly to the extent of immediately deciphering what an opponent's team might be. A day after watching this video and I already can tell you it's made a significant difference in my gameplay! Thanks a bunch and just know you make a huge difference in the community. P.S hope I face you again sometime! Still gotta pay you back for that loss 😂
keep going this kind of videos really learning from it, this is something i did not used to do and basically i end up losing based on the last pokemon from my opponent.
Thank you for this video. As a fairly new battler your training videos are super helpful. I hit rank 10 in what was between season 5 and 6, I’ve hit Ace in both season 6&7 and I can tell that what needs to improve is my play. No team is going to carry me farther until I can start mastering Typing, charge move timing and predicting what my opponents might be playing.
Great content! Relatively new battler here -- been running Diggersby, Hypno, Lanturn in open Great League (due to limited options) so loved hearing FPSticks shout out a similar comp (Digg, Hypno, Pelipper).
I'd love to see another video where you talk through the battles live and talk through how you're making your mid game decisions based on what you're predicting in the back. Great video here though!
You missed an important concept. Early in the video with abamosnow lead, azu and DD. They would not have double water in this team. If they did, they wouldn’t have stayed in with Asnow vs gfisk. They would have swapped because both of the back line are strong to gfisk. The fact that they stayed in means there’s 1 hard counter and 1 neutral/poor matchup. If your opponent swaps their lead Pokemon is also big indicator of what they have in the back.
Yes and no. They could also build energy "just in case" for short while. Especially when fast attack from opponent is resisted. And then catch (or try to catch) the charge move (which they didn't succeed or attempt this time). Also not sure about not swapping.. if they swapped into water, then Fp swapped a hard counter to farm or keep hard counter in back fighting the 2nd matchup, they still would had had to come back with aboma who would again meet either gfisk or worse counter and their "only last water" would have to meet either the hardcounter if that wasn't used for 1st water or a neutral matchup if hardcounter was used already... and swap timer would had been available so their last water couldn't even be able to farm stunfisk. Yes i know how ABB teams work but no, at high rating the matches don't always play out in the most obvious way. People have started to gain both tactics and "readability" for ABB and people running those teams don't wanna be THAT predictable.
The amount of stunfisk leads with Pelliper safe swaps and ven closer I’ve faced this week are insane! Getting pretty easy to predict and beat that team! 😂
The problem with guessing ABB teams from the lead for me is that there's as much chance it is a Rock-Paper-Paper as it could be a Rock-Scissors-Scissors Eg - teams like Skarmory Double Grass is RSS where Skarmory protects the two in the back from weakness to flyers, while being hard coverage for grass itself. The grass is meant to help out againts tanks and other anti-flyers. But then there's Bastiodon - Double Razorleaf which is RPP, where Basti is meant to cover the razor-leafers weakness to fire/flying/ice types. Similarly Hypno - Double Dark, which is RPP where Hypno beats fighting that is a threat to the backline, and the backline in a way protects the Hypno from Ghost types/other Dark types. While these feel similar in one case it is about giving extra protection for the lead 'A' in the ABB, while other times the strategy is to let one of the 'B's in ABB sweep. So my challenge is when I see a fighter in the lead is it likely he has two steel tanks in the back (that cover charm counters for the fighter) or is the fighter there to protect two charmers in the back from steel type threats. A Wigglytuff lead could mean there's two steel in the back, and Charm is meant for fighting threats, or Wigglytuff has two fighters in the back to deal with Steel type walls for its Charm, and strategy is to sweep with two shields etc. Hope this makes sense - maybe seeing how soon they switch in lead for a neutral match-up reveals what type of ABB it is?
I use bastiodon with 2 grass type: venusaur and Meganium put bastiodon at first. If anything go wrong, switch to venusaur immediately. The opponent will likely switch to bird type. After venusaur dies, bastiodon can fully farm down
What makes you guess that the opponent's counter to Fire types will be Water, in the case of covering Abomasnow? Fire is also fully weak to Rock and Ground, so is it just because those types are less common in the meta or something?
Explain this how is toxicroaks counter is super affective against obamasnow bc he is ice an grass when ice not grass is weak to fighting bc alolan ninetails is ice an fairy an fighting is not super effective against it
When I face bastiodon leads with azu awak mew I go straight hydro pump and assume that they don’t have a dark type in the back. But I’ve seen 3 obstagoons in the back with bastiodon lead teams and it’s painful
dam fpsticks can start a PvP college soon if he has enough audiences and enough sponsors. Niantic, yes you. It's time to pay back those money you stole from us from the remote raid passes glitch/lag/etc. Donate to us!
I feel like majority of these tips don't work on lower rankings such as 2000-2300 because the team comp is just completely nonsense and trying to predict just make things worse
You don’t really need a video on this lol. If your playing a former rank 10 or legend standard meta in standard order. Everyone else is a toss up usually non meta and or anti meta with random move set. If I play a rank 10 or legend 7/10 I win the game. If I play anyone else it’s literally 50/50. Very easy to beat anyone running meta. It’s very hard to play against random teams. I do wish players would run more spice I just get so board playing against the same teams. That’s why once you make legend you see so many sac swaps and mind games you know the team as soon as you see the lead.
this is definitely the best way to cash in on my English classes
i would love to see a video like this on how to overcome bad leads - a deeper dive into when to swap, store energy or swap after chipping enemy down and stuff like that. I feel like i struggle with that the most
I was literally coming out on break at work to look up information on how to read back lines and this is the video I see. Awesome timing
Exclennet resource once again. As a trainer who took a break after season 3 (kinda lost interest after getting a second Libra Pika) you’re really helping me catch back up. Definitely feel like players are more skilled and knowledgeable now so a breakdown of advance strats is so helpful.
This is one of the reason why i see content creators
@@crugy7 what u mean?
@@crugy7 u mean dark warrior?
@@crugy7 u wanna say fpsticks spoofs?
@@crugy7 ohh ok
FP?!!!! I asked for this in a previous video and you delivered!! So thankful for continually adding value to the community!! Your a true LEGEND 🙏
Broooo love these type of advanced vids man. Big fan over here, cheers!
Bassalax here and I rarely leave a comment on a video.
As someone who's been to Legend about 4 times now and have hit as high as #64 on the Global Leaderboards I have to admit this is something I never really thought of doing in a match. Like subconsciously and a little bit here and there yeah sure, but not nearly to the extent of immediately deciphering what an opponent's team might be. A day after watching this video and I already can tell you it's made a significant difference in my gameplay! Thanks a bunch and just know you make a huge difference in the community.
P.S hope I face you again sometime! Still gotta pay you back for that loss 😂
keep going this kind of videos really learning from it, this is something i did not used to do and basically i end up losing based on the last pokemon from my opponent.
7:35 baby DD 🥰
Thank you for this video. As a fairly new battler your training videos are super helpful. I hit rank 10 in what was between season 5 and 6, I’ve hit Ace in both season 6&7 and I can tell that what needs to improve is my play. No team is going to carry me farther until I can start mastering Typing, charge move timing and predicting what my opponents might be playing.
Great content! Relatively new battler here -- been running Diggersby, Hypno, Lanturn in open Great League (due to limited options) so loved hearing FPSticks shout out a similar comp (Digg, Hypno, Pelipper).
These types of videos are great.. especially when there isn't much new to post/update in the middle of taptap cups!
really nice to get into your brilliant mind and hear about your thought process, great content as always.
Pls do a video on when to store your energy vs when to throw. Usually when they switch in something
i love these kind of videos. I would love to see an ABB ABb team tutorial
I do them quite often :)
Great video man these r the types of videos needed for the community for sure 🤗
One of the best content creator if not the best! kudos!
Best GBL content creator imo. great work man. All this info is very much appreciated by the community!
I'd love to see another video where you talk through the battles live and talk through how you're making your mid game decisions based on what you're predicting in the back. Great video here though!
I really need to get better at this. This could help me pick up a bunch of wins over a season.
You missed an important concept. Early in the video with abamosnow lead, azu and DD. They would not have double water in this team. If they did, they wouldn’t have stayed in with Asnow vs gfisk. They would have swapped because both of the back line are strong to gfisk. The fact that they stayed in means there’s 1 hard counter and 1 neutral/poor matchup. If your opponent swaps their lead Pokemon is also big indicator of what they have in the back.
Yes and no. They could also build energy "just in case" for short while. Especially when fast attack from opponent is resisted. And then catch (or try to catch) the charge move (which they didn't succeed or attempt this time). Also not sure about not swapping.. if they swapped into water, then Fp swapped a hard counter to farm or keep hard counter in back fighting the 2nd matchup, they still would had had to come back with aboma who would again meet either gfisk or worse counter and their "only last water" would have to meet either the hardcounter if that wasn't used for 1st water or a neutral matchup if hardcounter was used already... and swap timer would had been available so their last water couldn't even be able to farm stunfisk. Yes i know how ABB teams work but no, at high rating the matches don't always play out in the most obvious way. People have started to gain both tactics and "readability" for ABB and people running those teams don't wanna be THAT predictable.
Great vid. I love how you covered a large variety of leads. Please do Ultra League next!
Nice breakdown. Love these videos Taylor!
The amount of stunfisk leads with Pelliper safe swaps and ven closer I’ve faced this week are insane! Getting pretty easy to predict and beat that team! 😂
The problem with guessing ABB teams from the lead for me is that there's as much chance it is a Rock-Paper-Paper as it could be a Rock-Scissors-Scissors
Eg - teams like Skarmory Double Grass is RSS where Skarmory protects the two in the back from weakness to flyers, while being hard coverage for grass itself. The grass is meant to help out againts tanks and other anti-flyers.
But then there's Bastiodon - Double Razorleaf which is RPP, where Basti is meant to cover the razor-leafers weakness to fire/flying/ice types.
Similarly Hypno - Double Dark, which is RPP where Hypno beats fighting that is a threat to the backline, and the backline in a way protects the Hypno from Ghost types/other Dark types.
While these feel similar in one case it is about giving extra protection for the lead 'A' in the ABB, while other times the strategy is to let one of the 'B's in ABB sweep.
So my challenge is when I see a fighter in the lead is it likely he has two steel tanks in the back (that cover charm counters for the fighter) or is the fighter there to protect two charmers in the back from steel type threats.
A Wigglytuff lead could mean there's two steel in the back, and Charm is meant for fighting threats, or Wigglytuff has two fighters in the back to deal with Steel type walls for its Charm, and strategy is to sweep with two shields etc.
Hope this makes sense - maybe seeing how soon they switch in lead for a neutral match-up reveals what type of ABB it is?
Takin notes! Appreciate you, FP.
Awesome vid man, i need to do this more especially when i soft lose the lead
Love these types of videos! Appreciate the content
When a tap tap game becomes so complicated
Thanks for the content FP!
Thank you very much, Sensei
Empoleon double dragon in the ultra is about the only one I can call
I use bastiodon with 2 grass type: venusaur and Meganium
put bastiodon at first. If anything go wrong, switch to venusaur immediately.
The opponent will likely switch to bird type.
After venusaur dies, bastiodon can fully farm down
Thanks for doing these
Incredible video, you are a machine, I hope you were Latin to understand yourself better, greetings from Mexico
7:28 smallest dd ever
Five stars content man. Keep it up!
Checking RUclips for all the teams posted let’s you know what’s coming your way.
Quality video as usual keep it up!
Thanks man! This helps a lot!
any chance the slides would have black/darker background color so it wouldn't burn my eyes? thx :D
What makes you guess that the opponent's counter to Fire types will be Water, in the case of covering Abomasnow? Fire is also fully weak to Rock and Ground, so is it just because those types are less common in the meta or something?
THANK YOU
Explain this how is toxicroaks counter is super affective against obamasnow bc he is ice an grass when ice not grass is weak to fighting bc alolan ninetails is ice an fairy an fighting is not super effective against it
Good video man.
I have hitmontop in the lead. Can you guess what would be in the backline
Stunfisk or a steel?
Double steel?
Double steel that also can beat fighters. And team is too weak to a-wak.
Some darm mon like umbreon or mandibuzz? :)
@@Simon-tl5vt skarmory and jirachi
When I face bastiodon leads with azu awak mew I go straight hydro pump and assume that they don’t have a dark type in the back. But I’ve seen 3 obstagoons in the back with bastiodon lead teams and it’s painful
@@crugy7 exactly that’s why I assume that there’s no dark type in the back, but the amount of aba teams in the 2200 - 2400 range is ridiculous
As someone who has been stuck at rank 21 for almost a week, I hope this helps... 😕
Nice, Go battle school is on air again! Thnx!
What is ABB team?
I have a 50 50 chance to win and to lose directly in the league.Sometimes its annoying that the game hang
Can someone share me video to guide me for ABB and ABA team composition?
Using Umbreon as the lead. guess what I got in the back? :D
double charm
Niceeeeee 👍
An azu is weak to poison eletric an grass
dam fpsticks can start a PvP college soon if he has enough audiences and enough sponsors. Niantic, yes you. It's time to pay back those money you stole from us from the remote raid passes glitch/lag/etc. Donate to us!
I feel like majority of these tips don't work on lower rankings such as 2000-2300 because the team comp is just completely nonsense and trying to predict just make things worse
Hard to guess my team since I yolo!
This is what I most suck at in this game.
Predicting teams is easy because over 50% of people run pure meta
I promise you can’t predict my teams it’s random mumbo jumbo
easy. I pick 3 fights, niantic picks fairies
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You don’t really need a video on this lol. If your playing a former rank 10 or legend standard meta in standard order. Everyone else is a toss up usually non meta and or anti meta with random move set. If I play a rank 10 or legend 7/10 I win the game. If I play anyone else it’s literally 50/50. Very easy to beat anyone running meta. It’s very hard to play against random teams. I do wish players would run more spice I just get so board playing against the same teams. That’s why once you make legend you see so many sac swaps and mind games you know the team as soon as you see the lead.
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9:23 they used gfisk cuz galvantula sweeps their whole team
Please could you put subtitles in Spanish language, there are a lot of Latin Americans who watch your videos. 🙏🏿
and nobody cares if you're first 😐
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