*COMPLETE TEAM BREAKDOWN* - SHADOW DRAGONAIR!! | POKÉMON GO BATTLE LEAGUE 

Important breakthrough! After the meta adapted to counter this team (fairy and steel leads, Trevenant as the preferred grass type, Bastiodon in the back, etc.), I started messing around with different variants of this team (Annhilape or Wigglytuff instead of Shadow Dragonair, Gligar or Mantine instead of Skarmory, and Charjabug or Whiscash instead of Lanturn). I finally realized that Dunsparce is able to counter the meta shift in its entirety, since it performs very similar functions to Lanturn while also winning against it, forcing shields out of Bastiodon, and destroying both shadow claw users and Lickitung. I only managed to play one full set with it, but ended up going 5-0, all against teams that I would've otherwise lost or at least had a really difficult time winning against with Lanturn. Dunsparce only really works atm due to people assuming Lanturn in the back, meaning that they'll stay in with Azumarill and Skarmory while saving their Trevenant in the back, if you play against opponents who don't know the original team and how to counter it, then don't use Dunsparce, as it actually leads to you losing the Skarmory, Gligar, Poliwrath and Azumarill matchups that you otherwise win with Lanturn. Furthermore, Dunsparce adds a tremendous weakness to counter users that lanturn doesn't have. Now, counter users aren't supposed to be getting used atm due to Annihilape destroying all of them and the entire meta being focused on countering Annihilape, but it is important to note that, if you see a lot of counter users, Charjabug is a much better adjustment. Best of luck to everyone still using this team, I hope making this knowledge public will help make the team more viable into the current meta. (Petition to get pinned if the information shared is considered useful enough)

Hey man just wanted to swing back and share my appreciation for this video! I used this team in the Catch Cup last season and pushed from 2300s to Expert. This season I ran Altaria in the lead (instead of S.DNair) in the Catch Cup and just pushed from 2500 to my first ever Legend in just 13 sets. I couldn't have hit legend without the effort put into this video and the last one on this team. Thanks for the great vids! Still watch all of them.

These vids are the best kind of GBL content you can find on YT and I thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks!! Def using this team (again, used it last GL rotation after your vid dropped)

Also just wanted to thank you, went from 2751 to 3023 in 15 sets with the team :)

best explained analysis of a team I've heard in a really long time. Great video. You earned a subscribe

Always enjoy your content, looking forward to watching this later today!

Thanks for the videos they are awesome!!!

Another insanely useful upload with my currently favourite team from this channel. Thanks to the extreme detail provided in this video, even the making of a flowchart is possible now. I'm extremely hyped for go battle week to come and now have high hopes of reaching Expert/Legend if my current skill allows for it. Best of luck to everyone else as well, hope to see you on the ladder!

Thanks a lot for sharing this team and all the ideas with us. I climbed immediately from 27xx into the 2900 elo range. Took me two further days to finally cross the line and reached legend rank today. Since I didn't reach legend in last season, I am very happy to make it as fast as never before. Still more than 5 weeks to go. Thanks so much.

Just wanted to really thank you for this video, I was able to climb from 2300s to expert yesterday from following this guide!

Great video man.

Great vid

using this team currently, and its still nuts and toxic. I am currently 2200, and i have streak is about 9:1. New subscriber, and will def look forward to new videos.

Team was working well for two sets then the algorithm kicked in

this video is so helpful

very very good teaching video. thanks for sharing this.

Used this team for 5 of my sets today and climbed 300. Had a couple tough first sets but ended with 4-1 and 5-0 today. Hope to keep climbing this week. Last rotation it worked well too for awhile but then started getting hard countered most games, but thats the way it goes sometimes.

Dawg, thanks for the upload

@kpine, just want to give you a shout out for your team got me to Veteran for the first time. Counting moves was helpful and sticking to the strategy. Gave me consistent winning sets. Appreciate it

Really smart way of playing out the lanturn mirror, going straight surf (but building up to TB). Very interesting

I just went 83-16-1 over the last two days with this team. Thank you!

Ive never been a big fan of toxic team's but i might try this one - i need a good climbing team

Awwe yessss 🔥🔥🔥

I'm still using this team and having a lot of success. One match was basto lead. Would have usually immediately swapped , but stayed in and stood my ground and took it down using a shield. They threw out wiggly and it took down my dair. I wanted to immediately swap into skarm but thought about this video. I put lanturn out and was almost to a charged move when they swapped out their shadow victory bell I then swapped into my skarm and then they left. I was amazed

I loved this video! I have 2/3 of the team built, not enough candies for lantern. How do you feel about replacing it with charjabug, or whiscash?

love these videos man if i encounter I awkward lead ill make sure to ask

Been waiting patiently for the ban list to shift so I can play this team again. This has been working well even with my shadow dragon only having body slam. When the rocket takeover drops the weights are off and I’m pushing to legend

Got some fairy leads in the first set, but after that it was smooth sailing! Awesome team.

Thank you so much for this amazing video! What are your thoughts on replacing lanturn with a whiscash?

Really skilled , first time on your page, great breakdown🎉 would it work alright with non shadow drag dragonair? Need to get rid of frustration 😴

Ayn advice on how you deal with Annihilape swap in after you win switch or at all? Also, great video man!

Make a video about timing of throwing moves ,also will you post some shorts battling annihilape ,it defeats both lanturn and skarm.

I have been using this team since steel wing got buff.

This team helped me hit legend for the first time

I’m trying S Dnair, but I’m having a lot trouble counting the opponent’s moves with dragon breath obscuring my vision to the opponent’s monster (especially the smaller Pokémons in evo cup). Do you have any tips for counting? I’m thinking about looking at own Pokémon’s hp bar instead to see how many times it gets chunked, maybe that’s one alternative. Thanks for the help!

Chillest battle league player

Would a shadow Skarm also work on this team? Or is the non shadow better? Awesome team btw 🔥 and appreciate the breakdown of the match ups

Awesome team KPine, reached the leaderboards, sitting at 3206 ELO currently!!!!

This is amazing! How do you play a Skeledirge lead?

Do you have a video where you explain how to throw on good timing? I struggle with that

I don't play many in this season and I found this channel, this is the team I used and functions really well. love this COMPLETE TEAM BREAKDOWN VID. great work!! : )

Really curious about the best way to handle a mirror team match. Do you throw and hope they shield their Dnair, swamp in Lanturn and take a body slam and get ahead on energy for their Lanturn?

Not sure if A-slash lead has been addressed yet. If I see A-slash on the lead, 90% of the time there’s an Azu in the back, in which case the Dragonair basically has no use. So I just sac the lead trying to get 2 Aqua Tails off, then bring in Skarmory to take care of the A-slash. More often than not in my matches the opponent hard swaps Azu which gives my Lanturn a chance to massively overfarm, and with both shields already gone from lead, nothing is stopping the Brave Birds from Skarmory later.

I am trying this team but with a regular dragon it’s. What do you do with stunkfisk lead. How does you get to the skarmory?

How would you handle annihilape lead using this team? For both ice punch and night slash versions?

is charjabug in the back an insta lose? often i have to go down shields to win lead but then they have a charja up shields in the back and im just at a lose on what to do

I’m noticing more dewgong and medicham in the 2500s. How do we deal with them? Thanks in advance!

Amazing breakdown..Surely gonna try this team… Recently got a 3/11/13 rank 73 shadow dnair, hopefully that would be enough..What do u do against Gligar leads?

I ran this team, but with Annihilape instead of Lanturn just for fun to tr out the new release I actually hit my season high. Yeah, this looks mean, I may try that.

16:52 I may be misremembering here, but I believe a *very* high-rank Charjabug will be able to survive that Body Slam (or Aqua Tail since same damage) on very low HP and be able to fire off their 2nd X-Scissor to force either a shield or switch. I have the rank 1 and I’m sure I’ve been able to survive it, and today I had one survive me on the other end. Edit: it’s actually not just the Charjabug; it’s the rank of the *Dragonair* that causes it to lose if the bus is high rank. If the Dragonair is extremely high rank, then its lower attack means the *charge move* won’t hit the Charjabug hard enough and it’ll hold on and fire the 2nd X-Scissor.

Bro, whadya do against charmer lead?or dewgong lead?r u gonna safeswap into lant/skar?

Does the iv on a skarmory matter only one I don’t have with pvp iv also what to do on dewgong lead?

How do you play the Jelli, Gligar, Altaria or Cress lead?

Who can I use to replace skarmory? I don’t have a good IV one unfortunately

Swapped lanturn with whiscash. I’m terrible at PvP being new to it but hitting new personal highs

Hi! How do you play against any charm lead? I assume skarmory as SS and pray 😂

I’m running sims on pv poke and it looks like a high defense S-Dragonair is the way to go to ensure switch advantage? Have you ever encountered any issues with your IV spread? Of course I spent the whole season farming Cliff for dratini and can’t find a decent high def one 😢

How does your shadow not have frustration? I have an elite charged and can’t change jt

Shadow dragonair is so ridiculous… I was sleeping on it despite the popularity, then realized it can very comfortably flip the matchup against BASTIODON of all pokemon…

Also I have a shadow Dragonair that is 625 cp. I am debating if I make a dragonite for great league or keep it as a Dragonair and use it. I am grinding the candy and battling team rocket to get them. Any suggestions which is better to do?

Hey there. Who’s typically the safe swap?

At 15:30 why does your opponent use both shields on the Gligar? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to let the Gligar go and save both shields for Azu? They could’ve then tried to take out the Lanturn while building up to a Play Rough for the Dragonair

Isn’t this team more flexible with sdnite as it got better matchups against cash steels

find it difficult facing carbink lead and fighter+trev in the back

Climbed to 2490 then came to 2380 ,no favorable leads ,opposite dragonair just wins coz my bad ivs ,and basti teams becoming smart ,taking 1 shield and switching to cress/trev and winning the switch yikes! But I ain't giving up .

What are the ivs on the shadow dragonair?

How do you deal with G-fisk?

What do you do when there is a charmer in the lead?

what is ur lanturn iv?

How do you handle Abomasnow leads, please?

Anyone got any suggestions on how to deal with the mirror match?

any replacement for the dragonair if i don’t have 1?

I just wish I had a Skarmory 😅

How do you deal with Registeel lead?

any tips for annialape lead?

I know that this is very good but the fact that you beat azu-regi-gligar with it shows how good you are not the team!

annihilape is a problem

if i had to wild guess my win to loss ratio i'd say somewhere between 0.9 to 1.4 after watching this i wonder how i don't get more losses lol do you think the app matches you with trainers that have pokemon with the same amount of moves unlocked as yours?

sadly i found this "guide" too late - im hardstuck at 2300 facing alot of steel types and charmers

I never know, total noob... in neutral scenarios are we throwing BS or AT?

PvP is almost unplayable with algorithm. Always playing against some bum using azu