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Suggestion to simplify things: use either Clefable or Reuniclus with Magic Guard ability and skill swap. This ability prevents any recoil damage, so you don’t have to use flame body/lighting rod/ghost type Pokémon. And since you can skill swap it onto the target, you’re free to swap into your false swiper If you’re specifically dealing with Memento, then I personally prefer Gallade with False Swipe, Hypnosis, Imprison, and Memento For explosions, I use Golduck with Damp and Skill Swap. It also has Soak,Yawn/Hypnosis, and Taunt

@@jebi-sensei497do you have a specific held item, nature, EV spread, etcetera for your gallade and golduck builds?

Is the ceruledge an alta reference?

@@CT-TooHevy Sorry I didn’t see this reply until now! Yeah, actually I wrote out some super specific builds (you don’t need to be as prepared, I just wanted to cover absolutely every scenario I could think of for a pokemon to self-KO). As long as you save before a fight you can just go bare minimum. Here are my builds: **Breloom** Ability: Technician Item: Silk Scarf; Persim/Lum berry if using Fling Nature: Adamant EVs: HP + Attack Moves: False Swipe Spore Fling Sunny Day if using Harvest strats (Note: Breloom can relearn Spore now! No need to catch Shroomish and evolve past level 40) Usage: Breloom is my go-to false swiper because it’s fast, has high base attack + technician ability, and has 100% sleep with spore. When paired with Golduck, you rarely need anything else. If the target pokemon gets confused, such as after using a move like Thrash, you can cure it by flinging your held berry so it won’t self-KO in confusion. **Golduck** Ability: Damp Item: Wide Lens if using Hypnosis; Ability Shield if catching Koffing Nature: Timid or Bold EVs: HP + Speed Moves: Skill Swap Soak Taunt Hypnosis/Yawn (Rain Dance & Simple Beam can also be useful) Usage: Lead with Golduck when encountering any ghost and/or grass Pokémon to use Soak, which lets Breloom do its magic. Soak has the added benefit of making Curse benign when used by Ghost pokemon. It also can make False Swipe hit Rock/Steel Pokémon harder. Lead with Golduck when encountering any explosive Pokémon. Skill Swap Damp so you can safely swap to your false swiper. If the Pokémon has explosive moves and Memento, use Taunt first, then skill swap, then switch to Gallade. **Gallade** Ability: Any Item: Wide Lens if using Hypnosis Nature: Adamant EVs: HP + Attack Moves: False Swipe Thunder Wave / Hypnosis Imprison Memento Usage: Gallade also has great attack so it’s a solid false swiper but Hypnosis’s low accuracy puts it below Breloom. However, it’s the ideal choice when dealing with Memento users. If the Pokémon can also explode, then lead with Golduck, use Taunt, Skill Swap Damp, swap to Gallade, and then use Imprison. **Reuniclus / Clefable** Ability: Magic Guard Item: Wide Lens if using Sing; Ring Target if using Trick Nature: Timid or Bold EVs: HP + Speed Moves: Skill Swap Trick Thunder Wave Sing (Clefairy-line only) Usage: You’ll primarily only use it for its ability: Magic Guard prevents any and all additional damage that moves, abilities, weather, status, or items can cause for the user. So if you skill swap Magic Guard to a Pokémon with recoil moves, it will no longer receive recoil damage and self-KO when you use False Swipe. Trick + Ring Target is another way to allow Ghost Pokémon to get hit by False Swipe or Grass Pokémon to get hit by Spore. **Trevenant / Exeggutor** Ability: Harvest Item: Leppa berry Nature: Timid or Bold EVs: HP + Speed Moves: Skill Swap Trick Sunny Day Ally Switch (Trev only) / Sleep Powder (Exegg only) Usage: PP management was a much bigger issue in previous generations because you couldn’t leave the battle and try again if the target pokemon was about to use Struggle. For Gen 9 it’s mostly useful for Pokémon with extremely low catch rates like legendaries and Beldum. Skill Swap Harvest onto the target and use Trick to give it a Leppa berry. Once the target runs out of PP, the berry will restore 10 PP to the move. With Harvest there’s a 50% chance that the berry will be recycled to use again which becomes 100% in harsh sunlight. **Smeargle** Tera: Ghost Ability: Technician Item: Silk Scarf Nature: Adamant EVs: HP + Attack Moves: False Swipe Spore Imprison Explosion Usage: Smeargle’s attack stat is garbage, so it works best in very niche cases when a specific move-set is necessary. This build is specifically for Minior since you can’t skill swap Shields Down. Tera Ghost into Imprison, then False Swipe until the core is revealed. Then you can use Spore. Just watch out for your health if it spams Shell Smash since Smeargle is not a tanky boi. Ghost tera is to prevent Double-Edge recoil. Note: If you want to sketch moves easily, you can use a wild Smeargle. The wild Smeargle will sketch the move you use, then you can swap to your own Smeargle and use Sketch. Run away, use the move relearner to learn Sketch again, then fight the same wild Smeargle. To sketch Spore, give your Smeargle Safety Goggles to avoid being put to sleep. Explosion needs Damp to be active for Sketch to work, as you can’t sketch a fainted Pokémon. If you enter a double-battle (I used the coach battle with Rhyme), lead with Golduck and a Pokémon with Explosion. Skill Swap Damp onto the explosive Pokémon, then swap Golduck for your Smeargle. You can sketch Explosion after it’s used and says it failed. BONUS ADDITION: If you are looking for a very low-investment way to completely neutralize any and all status effect moves (memento, perish song, curse, etc.) then you can use the following: **Golurk** Ability: Klutz Item: Assault Vest Nature: Any EVs: HP + Speed Moves: Trick Normally you can’t use any status moves while holding an Assault Vest, but because of the ability Klutz you can ignore the effect and give it to the target pokemon. Then the target can’t use any status moves at all. Unfortunately Golurk learns literally no other moves that are beneficial for catching. But it’s naturally immune to normal & electric moves if you need something to block recoil in a pinch.

Bellibolt gets both too, and Thunder Wave. Para might not be as good as sleep for boosting catch rates but it can be consistent

@@caiusdrakegaming8087 True. Tbh I have been using Golduck for that roll for so long I hadn't thought to even consider a new mon as replacing it lol but to each their own. I figure neither Golduck or Bellibolt can learn False Swipe so if I have to switch anyways then it doesn't really matter as long as my false swiping mon can status. Plus with Bellibolt, Damp is its HA and soak is an egg move. Not a huge deal but it makes Golduck more accessible. Still a great call out tho!

Soak also helps with catching Pokemon easier. You can now use more effective net balls since the Pokemon becomes a water type.

@@kylefullerton2536 Ya know i didnt even think of that lol I'm sure it's handy for others but i always catch my shinies in luxury balls if im able to. One thing i didnt mention tho is if you combo it with Breloom you can Spore grass types which is handy

More like three birds... get it...? because it's a duck??

Yup, classic xD

Wait what

​@Mr_devious69 fletchling is normal/flying, but it turns fire/flying when it evolves

I've done this so many times 😂

Am I the only one who thought wooper specifically was a pure water type

HAHA I would’ve been screwed without the outbreak

I did the exact same thing but with a Fairy sparkling sandwich for a Hatenna outbreak because I forgot that only Hatterene is half Fairy, not any of the pre-evolutions

Yeahh! I’ve seen it recommended in another comment, so I have to for sure add it to the team

I had to pay tribute to my original egg Hatcher 🙏

Talonflame is amazing, so many memories from the XY era with it on my team

it was during an event

OHHHHH GOOD IDEA! Scrappy + false swipe is genius! Maybe it’s time rework the team a bit haha

ooh these are really good choices as well! I was def considering kingambit as one of my options, and psyduck line is really good for all the reasons you mentioned! hopefully I get to put this trevenant to use in the future, we need legendaries to soft reset in SV!!

Taunt can also prevent memento/perish song, at least for 3 turns

Breloom has been the GOAT since I caught it

Thank you!! I have been enlightened about the hisuian decidueye scrappy tech, need to build one soon haha

Twins :D

I love the self awareness haha, sounds like a really fun set

Another note before I continue: Soak is not, in fact, a bad move to have on a False Swipe mon. By placing Soak on a mon, you do turn them into a pure Water type, thereby enabling you to hit them with False Swipe!

Don’t worry! I realized this as I was rendering video 😭 trained up one of the extra shiny poliwag I caught to politoed so that will be my dedicated damp mon!

also this is an insanely good tip!!@@cyberworldcatgirl4188

Will do! Thank you for the kind words!

I loved that loop, they need to bring something similar in newer gen games! also yes, the paldea badge is renewable if you constantly beat the academy ace tournament in mesagoza!

Hehe yup, I’ve been grinding :) hope you’ve been enjoying the content!

Thanks. I just had a shiny Rowlet brave bird itself into unconsciousness, never again now!

That sounds like an amazing team!!

we will miss you scyther o7 truly an OG and shiny hunting legend also go for it! Make sure you get a damp Pokémon as well, that’s one of the few things I’m missing

@@EternalRadiant o7 And thank you for the tip!! I’ve been looking to make a more versatile shiny hunting team. Right now it only consists of my first shiny Iron Valiant with False Swipe 😅

Glad to have you :))

appreciate the kind words :D tyty

Phase 69….noice 😂 congrats on your shinies!

thank you!!

I remember that scene o.o thanks for the support :)

Not sure how far back it goes (pretty sure Breloom has been able to relearn Spore since USUM but regardless, I'm referring strictly to SV in this post) but you actually CAN evolve Shroomish as soon as it's available and go into "Remember Moves" in SV to learn Spore without having to wait.

a lesser known breeding mechanic is that if both parents are the same species (shroomish) and know a move that is learned from levelup (spore), the offspring will be hatched with the move already known and they'll always be able to remember it. That's how you can breed for shinies and not have to worry about remembering to overlevel the shroomish to 40 before evolving. evolve away at lvl 23 or whenever.

@@exxy9931 Got a shiny breloom without spore and couldn't relearn it in SV, but they actually fixed that when Indigo Disk released.

Are you me? I had the exact experience but in Y... I don't think I'll ever get the hang of radar.😭

Oh no….I salute to you o7 let’s hope you didn’t manifest anything terrible LOL

Based 😭😂

Glad to hit you with the nostalgia feels too :)

Thank you so much!!! That’s still a great team, breloom and talonflame carry for most of the hunts

twitch! but thinking about making the switch haha

Ooh good idea!! I’ll keep track of this from here on out haha

Oooh nice tech

Moon :D

Eternal :D

That’s a great solution for recoil moves! To make it efficient do the skill swap first turn, they won’t die that way, then swap in your false swipe pokemon for catching :]

So all of my mons typically have the paldea champion and effort ribbons, which are really easy to get. Best friend ribbons take a bit more time to get, so I only give them to shinies I really like!

@@EternalRadiant ty ty

Thank you! That bugger didn’t wanna get caught 😭

YUPPP

😂😂😂

@@EternalRadiant Don't worry, I will find that soda real quick

@EternalRadiant It's like a mix between Baja blast and purple thunder flavors combined into one like "Baja thunder"? (mountain dew)

yeahh i was excited about its shiny too, until I actually took the time to shiny hunt it D:

o7 gone but not forgotten!

NOOOOO 😭😭😭 that’s truly painful

NOOOO! Goodluck on the reclaim hunt!