My daughter always asks why I hit the like button on your videos before I finish watching them. I have had to explain a couple times that I do it because you're my friend and I know your stuff is always going to be good. Then she watches the video with me and also enjoys it.
@@Kasaaz it's a quirk of it getting a mix of Gardevoir and Gallade's move pool. I bet it's an oversight honestly. Or a joke, kind of like Umbreon and how he got Synchronoise.
medicham is also one of my favorites, so on the off chance tera raids interest you, there's some fun options. PSYCHIC TERA medicham@shell bell (pure power, +atk - spAtk), 252 hp/252 atk/4 def, zen headbutt, light screen, power trick, psych up. turn 1: VS special, light screen. VS physical, power trick. turn 2: psych up belly drummer. FIGHTING TERA medicham@punching glove (pure power, +atk -spAtk), 252 hp/252 atk/4 def, drain punch, light screen, power trick, psych up. turn 1: VS special, light screen. VS physical, power trick. turn 2: psych up belly drummer. the piggybackers. with all the belly drummers running around, psych up is very fun. (shout out to golduck as well.) but they can put in work solo as well. im also a big support player, so i have two different support builds, these sets focus on skill swapping teammates to give them pure power. medicham@flame orb (pure power, +def -spAtk), 252 hp/252 def/4 spDef, fling, reflect, taunt, skill swap. physical support set. taunt turn 1. reflect/skill swap turn 2. skill swap/reflect turn 3. fling when tera shield is up to apply burn. medicham@leftovers (pure power, +spDef -spAtk), 252 hp/252 spDef/4 def, brick break/body slam, light screen, taunt, skill swap. special support set. taunt turn 1. light screen/skill swap turn 2. skill swap/light screen turn 3. brick break for screens/body slam slam for paralyze thru tera shield, whichever you prefer. fling and light orb another option! anywho, super underrated pokemon, had to take the time to ramble.
Was thinking Brick Break could’ve been useful on Medicham in the last move slot over High Jump Kick, a few times it could’ve gotten rid of screens/aurora veil in a few of the games. Awesome Pokémon and video, love your content!
I saw this once while practicing and had seen somewhere this existed so I lead maushold and clicked follow me. Anyways Pure Power Population Bomb is a lot of fun
@@tractie_ the year is 2025 and they have introduced the mechanic for gen 10. Abilitutilization, where you activate another one of your other abilities. To celebrate this new mechanic Charizard gains access to 2 more abilities in Competitive and Speed Boost. I'm pretty sure someone said that Zard also gets access to all 4 at once, but surely it's just a rumor...
QOTD: not that I think it would be good, but I think skill swap Malamar would make a lot of sense. On more of a viability note, I’d like to see it on Toedscruel just because… Mycelium Might is really holding it back from replacing amogus.
I've been having fun using Medicham to skill swap with Grimmsnarl. Medicham then gets Prankster and can get some priority skill swaps or taunts, while Grimmsnarl becomes a bulky threat. Lots of possibilities.
I like to use him to make otherwise weak mons viable, surskit evolutio has 75 attack but 150 with pure power. That or i swap it with an intimidate user to both boost my attack and lower theirs.
Assault vest on the Grimmsnarl for added bulk. It has fake out too to make the skill swap safer as well. Fake Out, Sucker Punch, Play Rough, and Drain Punch should be a great set of moves for it.
@@NeoUzzy Pure Power Skill Swap can’t make an unviable mon viable because if you can double a weak attack stat, you’d do better to double a strong attack stat. That’s like saying Helping Hand or Life Orb makes an unviable mon viable. It’s really just a resource sink.
@@Kokonutzlz i suppose the internet can confirm but I don't believe passive damage like sandstorm reveals Zoroark's disguise? So it can be a mult-turn strat.
@@momzwrite More just the fact that Zoroark (disguised) would take damage, while Sand Rush Houndstone is immune to Sandstorm damage. I don't think it would break the disguise either
Just want to say, because of your videos, I've reached Master Rank for the first time back in Sword and Shield; your videos really help me make the most of building my own VGC team. Thanks, dude 🤗
I’m the person in game 2 lmao it was my first game of the day and I was trying out a new combination the feed back is very much appreciated couldn’t have asked for a better opponent in the game
Your battles are always fun to watch. Having said that, I actually enjoy your team breakdowns more. With your understanding of how these "off-meta" teams/mons fit into the vgc format, and the detailed benchmark breakdowns, I can envision the highlights of the battles before they happen! Thanks for all the hard work you put in.
I’m so happy Medicham is getting some attention as it’s always been one of my childhood favorites as Gen 4 was my first game! Thanks for the excellent content as always
@@44whitelightning technically yes, if you had a 2nd tatsugiri in the back and got the first one to faint with a toxic orb while inside dondozo it would eat the 2nd one and get an additional Omni booost
as soon as I saw the thumbnail I went " OH NO " out loud then clicked on the video lmao 🤣🤣 I can only imagine the power this team holds. I haven't got passed the breakdown yet.
when i made a team like this i liked running it with a skill swap tinkaton. leads to fun mind games shenanigans and lets you pass on the ability on and keep up the threat even if your main sweeper gets low. fun trick
with the stats that medicham has, i’m hoping to see another evolution for it soon that doesn’t take away pure power besides possibly giving it something like defiant! it’s always been such a cool pokémon for me
@@Painjusuyea but the rest of its stats are subpar and it’s attack with pure power isn’t as great as one might think! it’s respectable, yes, but not fast enough to take care of faster threats
Oh wow! Medicham is one of my favorite pokemon (for the reason why, just look up its attack animations in the Gamecube games) and I've been theorycrafting various team comps for it and its new Skill Swap for weeks now, with some serious option paralysis kicking in. I'm hyped for this! As for what else should get Skill Swap... I'm honestly kind of stumped. They've been very generous with what gets Skill Swap this generation, I feel. Medicham gets it, finally, and even Espathra in theory gets to give away its Speed Boost, which, while still gimmicky in a way, seems pretty neat. While not Skill Swap, we even get Entrainment on Cetitan to spread Slush Rush, which seems really cool on paper.
I'm so glad to see this being played, I love Medicham and built mine very similarly to this. I threw in a little meme and just put it in with a Tinkaton and people don't think (or used to not think) to Taunt the Medicham until they're suddenly getting hit with Huge Power Gigaton Hammer. Only works on surprise factor though so I don't know about it's viability outside of one off matches lmao, but I want to see it taken it as far as possible
I used to play singles format at conventions where we dressed and gym leaders and took challenges and gave prizes to players who brought their consoles. I was Brawly and mono fighting is tough to use but I loved it. My Azumarill counter was skill swap on my Mega Gallade (I would forget I gave them inner focus...) but Azu even with a belly drum wasn't nearly as scary without the ability. A later iteration was Dry Skin Toxicroak who wouldn't die to unboosted Play Rough and outspeeds otherwise and can't get hit by Aqua jet
@@joshuavgc4160 medicham is also very good into farigarif/kingambit trick room teams. You swap abilities with enemy farigarif to give it a useless atk boost and protect yourself from sucker punch at the same time. I personally was using a trick room medicham and a kingambit so I could give my own pure power as well. Was really fun to sucker punch farigarif and block them on myself using their own ability
The duality of team features: Cons: I will run into optimized clones on the ranked ladder that took no effort for others to hop into the driver's seat of. Pros: I recognize the team and sprint to RU-vid to pull up Zheng's video and peek at the team sheet.
It’s nice to see some new battle backgrounds after ranked had the same for so long. But before the new ranked season are you gonna finally do your trainer profile? Gotta take a good pic!
Love your vids. I really wish that when you battle the people you see in the stands are all people youve traded with. It would be awesome if when the camera pans the people on the side lines it would pull from the trainer IDs of pokemon in your boxes/people youve battled on ladder. I thought about that last season when the camera pans the same 4 people in the standium.
I laddered series 1 with a Slaking/Medicham core. It was so much fun. Watching my Slaking OHKO a fully defensive Garganacl with Drain Punch is really beautiful.
i was trying out a skill swap sylveon with e speed tera fairy d nite. it was really awesome for dragonite but left sylveon feeling kind of useless afterwards. could be some cool stuff there for a better teambuilder but im still very new to vgc
The more and more I play with murkrow I realise just how broken a little bird can be. Literally has a counter to everything. Recently noticed quash is just a game changer for certain teams
Tbh there are so many interesting/cool teams this gen that I’m glad he covers more teams. I do agree though in cases where part of a team isn’t utilized in an episode and thus is never shown off.
How do people get different backgrounds? Is it just for Causal battles? I haven't seen it for ranked at all (stuck in the schoolyard). Also, his camera outside is way more dynamic.
@@rcampbell496 sheesh that’s strange. I’m not sure why though. I’ve played in that elite 4 area a couple times, the beach, the gym that’s at medali, and I think it’s 1 or 2 more
@@rcampbell496 I’ll keep you posted but I think your actually right. I may be thinking about battles with friends and other casual situations. I swore I played ranked in different places though but probably not
I wonder what other shenanigans people can come up with. I would’ve never guessed that moveset for Medicham,, EDIT: hahaha I was thinking about that garchomp set with bright powder after I saw your mono ice team video with Glaceon and it literally dodged everything the one time you showcased it.
I've been using medicham to skill seap with stonjourner! Pure power x power spot is really good. Also have blaze tauros on the team which is great to skillswap for double intimidate, and tinkaton which is a great antimeta pick atm, fake out also aids tge setup. My team also uses tailwind bombirdier which paired with medicham checks psychic leads pretty well and the rockslide spam has been trusty as ever
I feel like having a full speed meow gives u more room to do what u want. U end up slower but if u want a free switch in u want u turn to go last, and if it gets hit to sash u can take advantage of the speed and overgrowth as a background sweeper if u need it.
I've used this set with a unaware cloudsire, dropping curse + fake out turn 1, curse + trick room turn 2, then EQ/Rock Slide spam, using a clear amulet on cloudsire and focus sash on the slow bulky medicham. Also had mach punch instead of High Jump Kick, it's annoying against Firagarif/Indeede but it got rid of so many focus sash user that i can't complain. Can't wait to do this with drain punch quagsire 0.0 (Also Farigarif skill swap with Sap Sipper on Quagsire remove the only weakness, throw a meowscarada with petal blizzard and you get yourself a self-boosting monster)
I actually faced the Mugiwara Mob person with that Grimm Drogonite team today. Thought it was kind of cool. I was lucky enough to prevent screens from going up for most of the match with taunt Gengar
I'd love to see tatsuguri with a working skill swap, seeing dondozo eat something like a gyarados or donphan would be hilarious Think it would also be fun to see it on a swift swim/slush rush/sand rush/clorophyll pokemon. It has a lot of probably too powerful synergies & the ability to make opponents faster for trick room.
im not the most pvp competitive guy. I do love your videos and double battles though. its such a pitty there is no battle tower for double battles in this game. A new game double battle plus mode with all lvl 100 would be awesome too
Because Mismagius gets skill swap I think it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for Flutter Mane to get it. Would definitely be an uber's tier strat, but swapping Protosynthesis onto a mon of choice has crazy possibilities and combo's
It's not able to swap a handful of abilities, Protosynthesis being one of them. Iron Valiant has it, but it always fails because it can't swap its own ability.
I think Toedscruel with Skill Swap would be interesting. Giving enemy supports Mycellium Might to shut some support down especially in exchange for Prankster so then you'd have Prankster Spore in exchange for the setup.
Another pokemon that gets skill swap that people aren't talking about much is Tinkaton who can either grab huge power/pure power for itself, pair it with slaking or give an opponent one of its 3 abilities while having fake out itself, it's steel nuke and another move
Sometimes I think you just need to go for the gimmick when a team has placed high enough, because that's a good indication the gimmick is very strong. Huge Power is gifting Swords Dance to an ally and any Pokémon that gets a free Swords Dance is a threat. Sure, Skill Swap has its limitations (dark type, Good as Gold), but generally feels decent right now. There was a Stantler gimmick team that also ended up with some good reasons to use Skill Swap. The nice thing about Skill Swap is that few Pokémon run bad skills, so there's usually something decent to snatch if you're gimmick isn't in play. I'd love to see Skill Swap on both Mold Breaker Tinkaton and Pure Power Medicham solely to watch Gholdengo lose Good as Gold to Tinkaton. I don't know what you'd do after it loses Good As Gold (ummm, Leech Seed Appletun?), but it'd be fun to see that happen to Gholdengo just once.
I know Espeon and Umbreon get skill swap as a TM because of their typing, but i think it would be fun to see the other eevelutions using it (i love jolteon and idk, sounds fun)
qotd: clawitzer. i think it could be very interesting being able to opt into a different ability catching people off guard when you run hard hitting moves instead of just pulse coverage.
I’d be curious to see if there’s any chance Avalugg would have any sort of viability as an offensive presence on a snow based team. Might have to look into that and see if I can come up with something
I have a team with 2 pokemon with follow me, the first time I saw a skill swap Medicham I "followed me" it, giving my maushold Pure power, they surrendered turn 2
