How good are the new items in Scarlet and Violet 

Does it work with Population bomb? 😈

@@oleq4200 it always hit 10 times,but every hit can miss so it won't change anything

@@oleq4200 Population Bomb isnt the right kind of Multihit move, each hit has 90% accuracy and it keeps going until it misses with a cap of 10. Putting a Wide Lens on is best play for it since it turns each hits 90% into 99%

@@oleq4200 wide lens is a better option for P-Bomb

It’s basically a lite skill link. I like it lol.

and ignores egg group limitations,

Yup! Belly Drum Azumarill!

Finally my Corvinight that I hunted on route 1 (in SW) will be able to learn roost!

Wait WHAT So you’re telling me I didn’t need to breed new Pokémon and could of carried on using the same team I used to my playthrough??

@@ThatHollowGuy yes. You have to forget a move and put the herb on the pokemon before setting up the picnic. Another pokemon in the party must know the move you are trying to learn.

Mirror Herb is actually the only way to teach Parting Shot to the Varoom line, since it's the only Pokemon in the Mineral egg group to learn it! Quite a handy little item.

Your comment is so useful, ty!

That's actually insane and more busted. Game Freak said "Let's skip breeding all together now!" Just bottle cap, and mirror herb.

@@NCemloen but you can't set ivs to 0 for pokemon that don't need those ivs

@@NCemloen jeez man take a second to think about what they're saying in context to your comment, chill out. "Game Freak said "Let's skip breeding all together now!" *Just* bottle cap, and mirror herb." and they said "*but* you can't set ivs to 0 for pokemon that don't need those ivs" You have to breed to get low IV pokemon, a point brought up against you saying "Just bottle cap, and mirror herb" You cannot lower a pokemons iv with an item, and it requires solely breeding to get it.

Think punching gloves also would be a good stack on mons with iron fist

Punching gloves would be utterly busted on melmetal

@@MisterVicky9 Gloves and Iron Fist do not stack

Melmetal also used it at the end of the meta to wreck the shit out of bulky garchomp

@@StarfieldDisarray are you sure they don’t stack

Not even until swsh, its really until isle of armor when urshifu water and triple axel were introduced (and melm got unbanned on smogon)

i might be wrong but i remember it was ban on smogon

@@bLu_3 no it wasn't? Are you thinking of urshifu-s?

I definitely remember it as a Gen 7 BH player with the Protective Pads Shedinjas running around to avoid Spiky Shield damage.

Protective pads was gen 6 I think

I agree

finally i can buy a flame orb for money and not BP or some BS

They're gonna just absolutely turn competitive on its head. I've never been more excited to try it. I never have before. I hope Skeledirge is viable. He's pretty slow.

@@thewatcher6969 if you've never played I rec watching online battles to get a feel. Skeledirge could do very well in trick room teams. That's where slow Pokémon go first. Setup will o wisp then torch song hex or slack off he'd be great

Kaizo SV would be cool because of how early you can get a good comp team with items and all

Is it not the opposite?

@@geniusoldcow6818 no, it's like Emil described. that's why choice band/belt is being used more than before

Yes this is the he comment I was looking for

Thats only partially correct. The reason its different is because the ability doesnt give a plus 1 to the stat, but rather raises its base stat by 20 in the chosen stat, and since speed calculations are different than damage calculations, the boost to that stat weighs a bit heavier.

@@danielstachowiak568 but the percentages are accurate, no?

@@danielstachowiak568 lol sounds like the OP is all the way correct. I dont see any partiality here. You merely explained *why* they were right Youre just tryna stroke your ego stop that

@Peter Kane No (Brute Bonnet wouldn't get a Speed boost, but I'm using it as an example anyway) If it increases base speed by 20, then Brute Bonnet (31 IV, 252 EV +Nature) with the speed boost is still slower than Dragonite (31 IV, 252 EV +Nature) If it's 50% than Brute Bonnet (31 IV, 252 EV +Nature) with the speed boost, is faster than Garchomp (31 IV, 252 EV +Nature) and Cyclizar (31 IV, 252 EV =Nature) (Cyclizar is faster than Arceus) If it's 20 base speed, then slow things like Brute Bonnet (base 55) would gain 27.4% (31 IV, 0 EV, =Nature) or 19.2% (31 IV, 252 EV +Nature) If it's 20 base speed, then fast things like Iron Valiant (base 116) would gain 14.9% (31 IV, 0 EV, =Nature) or 12.1% (31 IV, 252 EV, +Nature)

@Peter Kane Shuckle is (tied for) the slowest Pokémon Shuckle with +20 Base speed is anywhere from 266.666666% faster than 0IV, 0 EV =Nature (3.666666× as fast) to only 37% faster than 31IV, 252EV +Nature (1.37× as fast) Cloyster with +20 base Speed is anywhere from 88.888888888% faster than 0IV, 0EV =Nature, to only 29% faster than 31IV, 252EV +Nature

so useful. grinded out a perfect azumarill and panicked when i found out belly drum was egg move. mirror herb solution

Because these videos are more so for battling.

Probably 'cause this was only recently discovered. I only found this out this morning.

Its better than that. Crabomnible can teach Ice Hammer to Tinkaton. These pokemon do not share an egg group. (Water 3 vs Fairy)

Seriously?? Thanks for the info

Nah, when the tera boss suppresses abilities, you get a popup that says that the shield resisted it so you keep your ability.

@@platoiii5052 So useful on pokemon who can make use of their ability and has a strong way to heal

it works well for raids for Pokémon like Huge Power Azumarill or Baked Body Dachsbun - when the raid Pokémon eliminates all stats on your team, that also gets rid of ability boosts / benefits. Ability Shield prevents the wipe from eliminating your ability benefits. so it works well in raids, for sure.

Well, I have one friend that used Ability shield... because another friend was running a team in their friendly matches that was reliant on Grafaiai doodling anything onto Slaking and he thought it'd be hilarious to use his own, faster Grafaiai to Switcheroo Ability Shield onto Slaking.

I can agree with this as I used it on my Dachsbun to keep it's Well-Baked Body against Charizard during it's Raid Weekend

Tera-Water Water Shuriken on Protean Greninja with Dice might also be meaty. (Man, I hope the Isle of Armor tutors come back cuz Flip Turn on him might be great too.)

@@aghadlarhen9397 -You'd probably be better off terastralizing Ash-Gren and tossing out the dice to be completely honest - Ash-Gren Shuriken equals a four-strike regular Shuriken, on top of the better stats of Ash-Gren & the open item slot. Protean also doesn't really mesh well with Terastralization, so if your goal is a pure Water Greninja, just terastralize the Ash-Greninja.- I missed the Battle Bond rework so this is mostly irrelevant, whoops. Now, you wanna talk about abusing Dice, I think Heracross actually has a lot of potential. If you get Moxie boosts your Dice-powered Pin Missiles and Rock Blasts essentially let you become a budget Mega Hera.

@@Gardivanyth Ash greninja isn't in the game. Battle bond was changed to not have a transformation. I think it's just a minor stat boost or something now.

@@Gardivanyth Ash Gren doesn't exist anymore. Battle bond was changed to give +speed attack sp attack after a KO instead of changing forms.

@@ngmonster1017 Yeaaah I just learned this. So there's actually a use case for Loaded Dice Ash-Greninja after all! Go figure.

Xerneas meta? Are we expecting xerneas again in scarlet and violet? Or are you specifically talking about showdown?

@@Brelicity I mean, we are expecting EVERY legendary eventually, probably by the ende of next year, like Crown Tundra, since GF has ensured every legendary is catchable in a single gen since gen 6.

Just imagin the ostrich pokemon switch in on your xerneas with a mirror herb on

I could see skeledirge entering ubers with that. Unaware, plus neutral damage on fairies, and a geomancy boost sounds ridiculous. That is, if it can take a neutral hit from it

mirror herb Meowscarada is a hard counter to Dondozo

Doesn't work

You're thinking of when the Tera Raid pokemon nullify your stat changes and ability, and using an ability shield to prevent that. This unfortunately doesn't work.

@@calook1334uh, reading another thread down below, it looks like you’re just flat out wrong? Several dozen people were talking about how it stopped xyz raid boss from nullifying their ability boosts Said they got a pop-up saying the nullification was prevented and all

I have a corvinight with its hidden mirror armor that does the same thing. It’s quite amusing

Punching Glove doesn't stack with Iron Fist. If you wanna protect from things like Flame Body, better make do with Gen 7's Protective Pads.

Yeah, it's great for wall pokemon, especially Garganacl with Purifying Salt.

And even then, Gholdengo is a special attacker, so it probably won't be procking Flame Body or similar, meaning you'd have to Trick it one of what I call the Trick items (harmful items whose intended use is to be Tricked, like Flame Orb). Although. Iirc a mold breaker mon like Tinka can still use status moves on a Gholdengo. But like Tricking an item, that's not a strategy you're guaranteedto be running at all, let alone have available to deal with it.

@Astralnekomimi In fact you can't trick Gholdengo. Its immune to the status move category, including trick, pain split, encore... all that stuff. So yeah! The cloak has been great on gold boy!

@@TheOriginalKZero Daaamn. I dunno why I thought you could trick it lol. Maybe I just thought "well, trick also affects the user so maybe it'll be fine" lol

Mirror herb on Espathra with Opportunist vs dondozo+tatsugiri gives her a +4 omniboost. Combined with her -2 to spd attack, she's a great counter.

​@@heyheyhey0220 I don't think so. Dondozo's Unaware means all those boosts Espathra has won't help her crack through him. 252 SpA/252 Spe Timid Espathra will do about 20% to 0 HP/0 SpD Jolly Dondozo, who with 252 Atk EVs will OHKO with Waterfall. Espathra has to deal with Dondozo's boosts, but he ignores hers. You can invest defensively in Espathra but you will need your partner Pokemon to be the one who actually counters Dondozo so you can revenge-sweep with Espathra. Personally I have preferred using Haze Murkrow and status to beat Dondozo.

@@nsiderultimaseth The entire point of omniboosting Espathra is to use stored power, which the boosts still apply to.

@@nsiderultimaseth +4 omniboost stored power is a guaranteed ohko after stealth rocks on the dondozo that you specified. It's guaranteed ohko without stealth rocks if you are running modest on espathra instead of timid.

I remember seeing a tactic using flamigo costar to copy a dondozo’s stat boosts by killing the tatsugiri in its mouth with an endure toxic orb explosion

I've been using metronome with annihilape

Metronome Annihilape, how's it working out?

@@watermelonspice5541 well if you're only using rage fist it helps get high amounts of damage faster

So I have a set I wanted to use, you seem educated in conpetitive battling. Would this be viable? Annihilape @Punching Glove, Defiant Jolly (Would Adamant be better?) 252 Atk and Spe, 4 SpD Bulk Up, Rage Fist, Drain Punch, fourth move (Any suggestions? Metronome sounds fun)

I've found that for running through the base game it's the best thing you can give to annihilape, since it boosts rage fist and drain punch by the same amount choice band would, and those are the two main moves you'll be using.

No you’re wrong

@@giargue > Barges into comments > Sees user pointing out a relatively minor mistake in the video > "No you're wrong" > Refuses to elaborate further or give any argument > Leaves

@@giargue Nah @kideuler1758 is correct. Booster energy raises a stat by 1.33x with the exception of speed which is raised 1.5x

Life orb is 1,2x Booster energy is 1,3x V:

@@Candyy248 Life orb is 1.3x. Type-specific boosting items like plates are 1.2x.

I'll never miss a chance to double intimidate the enemy lol grafaiai is so much fun

Grafaiai is already being paired with Slacking to unleashed its ture potential.

Does this work even with allies ?

@@abed8504 It should, if not then I don't know

Tested it did not work😢

If you switch in Flamango costar is really good.👍

Mostly Breloom with Technician.

I use mine on Greninja so that it's signature move is much more useful

I think the biggest problem is that Slaking + Grafaiai is fun but it’s a gimmick so it’s not likely to be common enough to be worth holding onto a counter.

@@JacksonBockus Absolutely. So far the only use I found for the Ability Shield is to prevent losing your ability in raid battles when you really need it

Can the Grafaiai hold the ability shield to keep its prankster while still changing the Slaking's ability?

Nope, it only block moves, not ability, plus hitting it 10 times is useless cuz toxic spikes only stacks 2 times

People started running rock helmet to counter the kouse

Damn, I want that mouse to be a nightmare as much as possible :D

@@kyrntheharpooner4150 I had hopes of more than that, since its an ability. Maybe I've been out of the loop for too long but I don't remember an ability like Glimmora's.

@@2Syndras1Cup Glimmora's ability was introduced in this gen so ofc u don't remember it

Just call it SV like we have always done with Pokémon games (swsh, oras, usum, bw)

@@noahhkun5097who made you the abbreviating pokemon games police

@@nickcalderaro9166 who made you the Questioning of abbreviating Pokémon games police

@@noahhkun5097 no

@@noahhkun5097 so true

The issue with that is Dondozo has unaware as an ability, and because tatsugiri is in it's mouth theres no ally pokemon to hit with your boosts either.

@@yumeir8148 hmm you are right, but running unaware means you can burn it so theres that at least, man dondozo is gonna be a pain to deal with haha

Shhhh! No one is supposed to know that

@@yumeir8148 clear smog is so vital to beat dondozo

You should check out cybertron’s recent video. He just showcased a strat to get rid of slaking’s truant. Not quite what you were saying, but tangentially related.

@@frankweeks5759 That's not really special though. Slaking has always had strats to remove it's ability in doubles, but if ability shield disabled your ability it not only wouldn't require the help of an ally but it would also enable slaking to disable it's ability in singles.

it would also be absolutely broken as hell please do not let slaking run rampant without that ability it has better bulk than groudon, recovery, bulk up, and a huge physical movepool it would be an absolute menace it would be really scary. like just imagine palafin but with 50% more bulk and reliable recovery

I wish this did happen

I have been using a tactician Breloom with it holding the loaded dice and it's been pretty great. Focus Sash guarantees spore coming out but the loaded dice has been really good for breaking walls for me. Also most people expect spore so they switch almost instantly too.

@@TheMr.Logan9 I've been using it on Brambleghast cause Seed Bomb doesn't seem impactful enough and I don't want to use Power Whip lol but I'm just having fun with it

Oh sheeesh that maybe seems pretty good, esp with a chance to crit on each repeat

Iron Fist and Punching Glove doesn't stack, and the item boost is only 10%.

@@gengarzilla1685 Wait, for real? I read somewhere it was 50% for the punching Moves.

I'm pretty sure I've seen people say they tested it and that it does not work in tera raids.

@@silvinity4939it works, i run it on huge power azumarill

That's disproven, it's only 1.1x. I think a low ranking is fair.

It doesn’t stack with Iron Fist, which is honestly dumb since the Muscle Band exists, which also boosts all physical attacks (which all punching moves are) by 10% and does stack with Iron Fist. Is not making contact really that valuable that they had to make it not stack with iron fist?

He's a vgc player all his videos are from a vgc perspective for the most part

you can switch in against a boosted mon and get its stats

I didn't even think of that. I now need to get this item. Heheheheheheh.