Bro I've been using that with rilla Volcano and milo and I have been sweeping every team even tr teams, the only thing it struggles with is sun teams but then you just throw weather control and you big chillin
honestly i thought he was gonna win, i checked the rankings halfway through and he was the only player to hit 9-0 so i was shocked to see him not even top cut
I honestly have no clue how anyone thought that. Too much of the analysis that happens around the game is results oriented. And the results of any tournament can be extremely capricious. It was obvious to me that Miriadon was going to be one of the best before even indy
@Joeybanananas people are prisoners of the moment. Just like people assumed that Groudon would do way better than Koraidon as a Sun setter do to the former constantly having a 4x weakness to Fairy
@@YoJoRockThaBeatpeople weren’t thinking about the fact that another one of the most popular restricteds was gonna be an even faster ghost type that checks the one Mon that might’ve gave Koraidon some trouble. Meaning barely anyone bothered using flutter mane
I think it was pretty reasonable that people thought that. Firstly, it's a single-target big damage nuke. That's true of a lot of strong restricteds, like Xerneas, Kyogre, Koraidon, etc. It's NOT, however, the sufficient hallmark of a successful restricted. Secondly, for a restricted pokemon, it has average bulk. That can't really tell us anything about how it'll perform. Thirdly, both of its stabs have immunities. That could be a glaring weakness that gets exploited with good play. Fourth, it has above average, but not blinding speed among pokemon which could be popular. This means it absolutely requires speed control, but cannot function in trick room. This makes it seem (at least initially) difficult to build around since it needs a lot of support for the kind of damage it outputs (once again, single-target, stabs have immunities). Fifth, it has strong competition (raging bolt) and common counterplay (parting shot, spirit break, rillaboom) All of this culminates in a pokemon that takes a high level of skill both in the teambuilder and in actual play to pilot, and since the meta wasn't settled then, it was difficult to predict if it was going to be good. I think a lot of people thought about these points and kinda stopped there, going "man it's gonna be difficult to make it work so I think it won't be that great". We were then shown that if it was given sufficient support it could literally avoid SO much damage and freely come and go while taking OHKOs like it's nothing. Plus, there ended up being so few slots for ground types. After that (at least in my mind) it was pretty much a "this pokemon is 100% gonna top 8 worlds and has a decent shot of winning"
Pleasantly surprised to see a final with 3 future Paradoxes but zero past (and zero Incin). Flutter Mane and Raging Bolt will likely come back full force in Reg I, but this time around, Violet fans are taking home the W.
i'm less surprised about the stuff that won than i am about how absent a lot of the top threats were. unless i missed something raging bolt was basically considered as a restricted, incineroar was on every team and was back in the goat conversation, and bloodmoon was one of the scariest threats in the format, but besides 1 incin they were completely absent from top 8. i think bolt will dominate next year though, in double restricted it's gonna have sun and terrain on the same team which is revolting
@@SomeRandom88 Miraidon isn't as broken as the Caly's seeing as how many tournaments Caly won versus how many Miraidon won. He'll, if memory serves me correct, even Terapagos and Zamazenta won more events than Miraidon this regulation. Miraidon is great, but it goes down quite easily if someone plays their cards right.
@@YoJoRockThaBeat The reason why Miraidon didn't won more events previously was because many people at the time was forcing too much future Paradox Pokemon into the team and end up they don't synergize well.
Somebody who doesn’t value their sanity, please count Moxie’s guest’s use of “obviously” /“I-would-say”. I listen to this stuff to avoid responsibilities, but it’s feeling like a mercy to go fix my car now.
It's not a secret that the three countries with the best players are Japan, Italy, and the US. And it's probably in that order nowadays, Marco Silva, Luca Cerebelli, Lorenzo Silvestrini, Arrash Ommati, Ruben Gianzini and Simone Sanvito are really good.
You don't even have to go that far, if Yuta had clicked glacial lance instead of trick room in game 3 he would have won. Glacial lance was always the play there, I think the nerves got to him.
I think more surprising than Miraidon winning is the fact that both Incineroar and Rillaboom managed to miss the finals. The 2 kings of VGC have fallen.
The four genies should have their signature moves reworked. Wildbolt Storm should stay 100% accurate in rain, like hurricane and thunder Bleakwind storm should work in snow, a nerf to tornadus Sandsear storm should work in sand, also a nerf to sheer force lando, a buff to sand force lando Sprigtide storm should work in sun
Alright really, what is that word that James uses over and over. He mumbles thru it so quick that i can't make it out even tho every other word he said was clear. 'Honestly?' 'Obviously?' 'I would say?'
I still can't believe that only one Incineroar made it to Top 8. Which means this is the first time that Incineroar hasn't won Worlds ever since it got Intimidate. Because the only other time it hasn't won worlds was 2023 because it wasn't in Scarlet and Violet. You think Game Freak might try and buff Incin again because of this? I sure hope not.
Incin buffs after such a horrible performance at worlds: • +700 base stats none in special attack • As multiple ability which has prankster (this version of prankster can also use status moves on dark types and every move used by incineroar is +5 priority), special intimidate (-3 sp atk), intimidate (-3 attack), bypassing clear amulet • Access to all support moves including follow me, skill swap, quash, screens,etc • A new move called "king's wrath" which is like a 101% accurate OHKO move but it can bypass sash and one shot any mon on the field, cannot be used in succession. It's a fire type move which bypasses things like flash fire. • 10 extra move slots allowing it to use a total of 14 moves • A version of protect which if made contact, freezes you for 4 turns and cannot be by passed by unseen fist or any such thing.
