I Brought "Bad" Pokémon to a Tournament 

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Is there a reason that more recent VODs are gone from the Live section on your channel? I’ve been wanting to go back and watch them but they aren’t there anymore

Quick question, wouldn't psychic terrain block sucker punches at 4:45?

Ceruledge would have been better Tera flying against great tusk who is a ground fighting type

Thanks for sharing, they have a delicate band option that I love. The style is really hard to find, especially with number markers on the face and at a lower price point.

He think

Truly the tinkaton of all time

5-4 is fire as hell in a physical competition. congrats daniel rumbletumblegames

Tinkaton supremacy

Came here immediately to look for your comment when I saw that 😂

Facts my team is full of goofy shit and my friends are always terrified

then you hit them with splash hahahaha

@@KuyoCuteeTv I'll fully use celebrate and hold hands, it gets people quaking in their boots

I almost lost to a friend that ran moonblast hypervoice primarina (yes she only had two moves) and regular altaria in OU...

@@the_spaggot3148 hahaha

Only true professionals would know.

its about the idea that loss, win, win, loss, win is better than loss, loss, win, win, win. Because the second loss in a row can really affect you on a mental level. Most importantly, it might make it less likely to actually GET those three consecutive wins (I ignore the fact that your standing is worse in that situation - I am thinking about the quality of play)

Because the new Pokemon in SV are not built for Smogon singles. Like don't.

​@@mrex666productions7don't WHAT, MR. REX?!

@@noakinn For example, Chi Yu or Chien Pao have some risks in doubles because they hit YOUR Pokemon with their abilities too. But in a Single Battle, it's as good as a superior intimidate. Houndstone and Palafin also work nowhere near as well in 4v4 doubles than in 6v6 singles where they're unstoppable.

@@mrex666productions7 might still be interesting to someone to see how the metagame changes. Im still a fan of competetive singles as it is, about as much as the VGC formats. Sure, people have to make rulesets around it, but it's fun within those rulesets

The biggest example of this I’ve seen is definitely Gliscor. I don’t play singles, but I’ve heard that it’s poison heal ability combined with toxic orb makes (or at least used to make) it a pretty solid mon, but in VGC, I can’t remember the last time it was usable

r/brandnewsentence

Also Gyarados is probably the best Ting-Lu answer and this tournament in the video didn't have the Ruinous pokemon yet

Gyarados and flying types are simply gonna rise in usage because of fissure ting lu

And since annihilape isn't that common anymore, you don't have to fear giving defiant boosts to it either. And since palafin is at an all time high in usage and often runs close combat, you don't need to worry about gambits much either

In the opening graphic Wolfey shows Gyarados has 58% usage rate, so yes, every other team. There's a big "except this one" pointing at it, you can't miss it

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Tink and Shocks are literally two of the best pokemon in UU rn

​@@PoisonFlower765 and the others are good OU mons (and gyara, but ok)

@@thundergamespt99 Gyarados, Sandy Shocks, and sTinkaton are UU. Flutter Mane and Espathra are Ubers. Ceruledge is the only one of them that is OU

@@Skeloperch yeah, i forgot that ubers was a thing.

I believe 🙏 you feel that way.

The man himself

tinkaton W

RTGAME is here to. Coincidence

Offensively it’s just not good. It’s really really bad. However it has a good amount of support options and can function in a team being a real pain in the ass if played correctly. T Wave, stones, fake out, encore etc

Stinkaton isn't doing squat to Corviknight with 75 base attack. Corviknight's Body Press actually hits harder than anything Tink can do to it.

I was just thinking this. Remembering everything is impressive enough, but recreating is just another level of commitment

@@kahunamed647 99% sure they use the publicly available vods to recreate the fights, just to avoid nintendo doing their silly little nintendo content policy activities

@@mudboy5 The vods only showcase a couple of his battles no? Certainly not every one of every player’s rounds, unless there’s an archive for review purposes or something. Edit: Yeah Wolfey just takes notes while playing, he says it later in the video. He’s included footage from when he’s onscreen in tournaments before

he mentioned taking notes on his battles during the tournament. i think he was just jotting down every move made by each mon, except when he needed to focus harder

@@kahunamed647 Did they stop doing the battle recorder? Or you cannot save these games?

As a competitive pokemon player who loves using most of these pokemon. I feel chosen 🗿

As a competitive pokemon player who has never used most of these mons,I respect wolfe for doing well with them.

If it makes you feel better like half of them are broken or really good in singles

lmao there's nothing quite like the world champ calling your favorite mons garbage (god why'd they have to do aggron dirty)

As a pokemon, i feel represented

What, wait I'm confused how does psychic terrain allow flying types to get attacked by priority. Flying types can't use priority moves in that terrain.

@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 it protects the grounded mons, it doesn't do anything to the attacker. A flying type using priority against another flying type would succeed.

@@user-iz2ik3gh2n that's not how psychic terrain works.

@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 u seem to be confused; terrain effects do not affect flying mons expect move multipliers. Simple as that. You can status flying mons under misty terrain, sleep flying mons under electric terrain, they do not heal under grassy terrain and finally flying mons can be hit by priority.

@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 try to think terrains like this: its the pokemon that are affected by terrain, not the moves. If you stand on terrain (psychic terrain in this case) then you gain the terrains benefit (immunity to priority moves in this case). Flying type ISN'T STANDING in the terrain. Thus flying type doesn't get the protection a grounded pokemon STANDING IN THE TERRAIN would get. Its like... imagine the terrain be a shield. If a pokemon is behind the shield (stands in terrain) they are protected by moves the shield is supposed to cover. But if you hover over the shield then ofc it doesn't protect you.

flutter mane was not considered bad, he mentioned that

Welp, it's good in singles but not in doubles probably

It’s kinda bad in doubles,having the ability to double up on it,kinda ruins it

it's not just good, it's outright *broken* in singles

@@thepurified8386 fr 💀

not in doubles for sure

I don't think you can proc your own defiant, I think your opponent has to drop the stat

Yeah that’s correct, redirection+swords dance kingambit would just be the same but better

yeah same with coalossal steam engine weakness policy but defiant doesnt work that way

Espathra was also just the setup sweeper, no need to pass anything the bird is very threatening by itself

@@stealthy9156 tbh I actually never got in too much trouble with espathra because shadow sneak gallade 2HKO it

@@Caspercab why would 2HKO help when it just OHKOs ur mon? also commonly uses sub lol

​@@stealthy9156 what would you put with it tho?

@@GadielVaStar uhhhh what are you asking me exactly? Good partners espathra can baton pass to or what

unfortunately, wolfeys pokemon also had the "not touching the ground difference" that made them unaffected by psychic terrain. :p

The RTGame nod was my favorite thing about the team

@@phycin5942 I didn't even notice it at first. I was working on something and happened to look up at my screeen at that moment and did a double take and had to rewind.

Don't use "bad" Pokemon unless you're cracked at Pokemon is the real moral here

I won a competition in my county with a Swadloon back in the days of ORAS. The girl that lives next to me is still pissed that she lost to that cute bundle of joy.

You have to consider that single battles is more of a pokemon fan game. It's not real, it doesn't really count.

@@SunniestAutumn do you know what the word ironically implies?

I think its just a case of where gyarados can do alot of things really well theres just alot more pokemon nowadays that can fill a specific role PERFECTLY, so the more generalist options become less popular even if theyre still quite strong. There are tankier tanks and faster/stronger sweepers, so in cases where you have to keep the same pokemon and movesets why run gyarados set when its versatility gets removed and you can just run something else that already is hyper specialized for the role you wanted the gyarados to fill? Not saying i think gyarados is a bad pick or anything just trying to explain the thought process on why people in official tournament settings *tend* to be more inclined to use a pokemon thats seen as a S rank for its role vs one thats B or A rank in many roles Though as wolfey demonstrates often and as youve seen for yourself theres no need to adhere to the meta to be successful and have fun, its just that alot of people also find hyper optimization fun as well and those are the type of people who are *usually* more competitive and go out of their way to be in tournaments so it just leads to most tournament participants trying to follow the meta as a correlated byproduct even if non-meta teams are sometimes harder to deal with because theyre less predictable

@JubioHDX I agree with this. I noticed myself while using it that despite how well it worked on my specific team I did think of other mons to fill its role better in one way but the versatility alone made it work. Of course that's with my team in mind where I'd have to replace two mons to cover everything it does for me

​@@orchid685 don't worry gyaradoa now on top 12 on usage. It is really good counter to ting Lu and with t wave + waterfall you can lock out your opponent from moving. And it also got taunt so it stop spore as well.

Worst quote of all time

@@GravityIsFalling "Being able to lie really well is a fantastic trait" -You

@@GravityIsFalling cope

Flying types aren’t protected by psychic terrain

@@hamish2509 I forgot that, thank you for for clarification

😂

He isn't doing challenge runs

💀💀💀 this is vgc my brother

Challenge running and vgc are a bit different lol. Gyara has always been _good_ but like has lost a bit to power creep over the years. It's still decent but not as strong as it used to be. The reason it's so good in challenge runs is you can mostly play around it's double weakness and you get it insanely early and very consistently. You don't have to worry about availability in vgc when it can be a real concern in a lot of challenges. As with challenge running, anything with intimidate is going to be decent but there are just often better options for vgc. Ie Arcanine, Hitmontop, Incineroar, Landorus, and Salamence, when they're in the format. I might put it over arcanine this generation due to terrastalization and open team sheets but that's a tough call I don't really know the answer to. I think the rest are just straight up better though.

This footage is a recreation for the video based off of his notes (so not 1 to 1). I'm presuming that in the actual game psychic terrain had worn off already

Gyarados is flying type so psychic terrain doesn't protect it from priority