Definitely the best part of these videos is the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each team. A compilation of Just that portion of the videos would be good. Grouping them by regulation or possibly ranking the teams you cover every regulation is an idea. Not necessarily a good or bad idea. Just an idea. Great video
I would never of noticed how under represented giraffes were in VGC before this gen, but all hail our new giraffe masters, and the angriest, most noble giraffe of them all.
@@thiccboi8225 Agreed. Whimsicott is irritating, but not having Prankster Rain-dance and a 100BP spread move makes rain less dominant and Whimsicott easier to deal with.
QOTD: Smeargle has been something I’ve tried out with multiple variations to almost no success due to the amount of people running either type of Urshifu (rapid strike specifically but single also counters hard) the survivability of Smeargle becomes borderline impossible despite having such amazing moves. The three pokemon that I’ve had success with it: Wellspring Ogerpon (bulkier follow me), Gastrodon (actually frighteningly good this format - very underrated), and Dondozo (rocky helmet switch in option) Side note: The Gastrodon set that I think will become a viable option is: Storm Drain, Recovery item (Sitrus Berry, Leftovers, or Wiki Berry for the bold), Earth Power, Ice Beam (or muddy water or clear smog if you don’t have Dondozo counter), Yawn, Protect -Good Urshifu matchup, Good Lando matchup, amazing Dondozo answer, and Raging Bolt immunity
As someone who’s competing in my first regional tournament soon (Charlotte) seeing what will be potent in regulation F has been really helpful for me building my very first competitive team. Decided on making a team that can be very flexible with leads to hopefully begin with an advantage and play accordingly. Thanks again for these videos for not only being entertaining but also educational as well. Wishing you the best 2024!
I get so excited every time I see you showcase one of these new mons especially the new paradox mons. Can’t wait to see you use the rest of them and can’t wait to see why ends up being the strongest in the new season!
QOTD: Incin has felt good but not oppressive. The way everybody was talking before its release it was going to be on every team and super broken but it's not. Clear Amulet, Covert Cloak and teras seem to have kept it as just a good support mon and not a "must use or else" which i like
That's because incineroar was on every single vgc team since its inception it was formerly the best all time pokemon of all time and in tournament play its still I'm the 80 to 90% of teamplay in vgc regional rn
I don’t think anyone has ever thought Incineroar was broken. It’s a very very good Pokemon, but it’s never felt like overwhelming to me in the way say Urshifu does. Urshifu isn’t inherently broken either, but the whole auto crit + breaks through Protect combo is very frustrating admittedly.
@@mewtationssb It is commonly known by many people in the VGC circles to be the strongest pokemon ever in this format because of it's insane move pool, stats, typing and having one of the strongest abilities in the game. I agree with everything you said about Urshifu and think it's is more of a "feels bad" pokemon to go against.
@@byrondejong9872 Oh absolutely. I started VGC before Intimiroar even dropped lol. It’s almost certainly the best Pokemon of all time. But I don’t think it’s broken. It’s just really, really good and serves as a great way to glue teams together.
In my mind I call it ARCH-alodon because well its a bridge that has been arched backwards. And bridges have arches. I don't know. Sounds logical to me right?
In my mind I call it ARCH-alodon because well its a bridge that has been arched backwards. And bridges have arches. I don't know. Sounds logical to me right?
In my mind I call it ARCH-alodon because well its a bridge that has been arched backwards. And bridges have arches. I don't know. Sounds logical to me right?
You gotta love how they handled Raging Bolt. Version exclusive? Check. Cannot breed? Check. 1-per-savefile? Check. Locked behind two DLCs? Check. Amazing, isn´t it.
QOTD, I’m surprised the new Tera type stellar is being used less. It was built up to be super powerful, but felt very underwhelming in the competitive scene
I prefer that tbh. While I wouldn’t mind it being a touch stronger, some of the buffs I’ve seen people suggesting were flagrantly overpowered to the point they would have dominated competitive, so I’m glad they went with a more balanced approach.
@@souls6918 the only real viable contrary user is serperior since its typing is great compared to the others. the big issue of stellar is you dont benefit from defensive typing
Wow! I made a really nice team really similar to that but I have Comfey over amoonguss as it has priority healing and can cm up next to amoonguss so it can actually be a pretty big threat with healing from priority draining kiss and grassy terrain.
Hitmontop is so underrated rn. Steel Tera wide guard destroys expanding force. Close combat one hits 99 percent of incin I’ve come across because it seems like they’re more specially defensive, and it wins the fake out speed war. It has coaching, and also works well into terrakion. Been pairing it with Metagross and Entei mostly, coaching helps them so much. Try it out!
I feel like the balance is very potent for regulation F to everyone competing out there i wish the best of luck to you all ....VGC is about to evovle in so many ways .
I'm so happy to see Bolt being recognized! It's absurdly good and I have confidence it can warp the meta around it! As a side note, I wanted to share that I also tried doing grassy seed ragin bolt to also up its defense and with calm mind, a +1 on Def, SpD, and SpA is hard to take down. It's just so flexible with how you can build around it or build it around your team for different roles. QOTD: so far, it's between Gouging Fire or Smeargle. Gouging has an impressive signature move on paper but its movepool leaves a lot to be desired. It's got good Atk but it just doesn't hit as hard compared to other physical mons without DDance. And being a physical mon makes it prone to Intimidate unless you give up the item for Clear amulet. Then there's also Heatran matchup completely walling it. Smeargle is weird. It probably needs time to work with. And even with moves like Silk Trap or Burning Bulwark as alternatives to Spiky Shield, its utility is so far outclassed by like Rilla, Incin, or Indeedee.
The only sad thing is the viability of that pokémon. As a Violet player, how am I supposed to get that? Version exclusive, only one per save file, and behind two DLCs.
Dude I love your videos. Your commentary is legendary. I love that I don’t have to actually watch the video because you are so descriptive of what’s happening. I listen while I’m at work so thanks man. Keep making the great content.
Hey Aaron, something i noticed in the team breakdown is raging bolt having 0 attack iv, if im not mistaken the new paradox are all set to 20iv in each stat.
It’s in the team breakdown because that’s the default option that showdown sets when building a special attacker, but the IVs are corrected in the actual paste.
I have used Whimsicott + Lucario with Bullet Punch to great effect. Same concept as with Terrakion, but with a lower base speed, I can run it with enough speed EVs to be a threat with and without tailwind. Tera Steel can pick up some crazy bullet punch KOs at +4 and covers for ghosts, along with extreme speed and close combat. I have been running with weakness policy and endure, which can totally flip a match if your opponent stalls out tailwind and then tries to KO Lucario with a supereffective move (note: I have caught a couple of urshifu players who try to KO through protect and then I dunk on them with extreme speed). I have been mixing it up a lot with my other teammates. I like Incin a lot, because it just covers for everything, but I have also had a lot of success with a slower trick room core with torkoal, raging bolt, farigiraf, rillaboom and other protosynthesis users. Rillaboom and giraffe disrupt opposing psychic terrain and priority, while raging bolt helps a ton against dondozo and other bulky waters that threaten to take multiple hits from Lucario.
QOTD: sadly hydrapplin. I was so excited to use it but I have found it doesn’t have enough field presence. It walls some teams but when it doesn’t wall stuff it just struggles to add anything.
My face when Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng is back for some more competitive VGC battles in the regulation F format in Scarlet and Violet but he will not be providing live commentary as he goes 😢
You all need to show some respect! This man had all his stuff moving into his apartment and chucked it all in the corner like "No time to organize this pile, got Pokemon videos to make!".
Against ogerpon chiyu when you predicted follow me and went for dragon pulse, that should have gone into the chiyu since it the ogerpon wasn’t a threat to bolt. If they had redirected then it played out the same but in the event they didn’t redirect like they did then you got the chiyu out of the way. Only a problem if they protected.
QOTD: contrary serperior and enamorus, I thought that contrary with stellar terra would be really powerful but in all the games I've played it feels too slow to get going and I often don't end up bringing them.
With how many rillabooms running around im surprised not many people are running electric types Like grassy terrain lessens the damage of ground moves and rilla himself eats ground types. And with incin you can deal with the grass types yourself Plus bolts really good for this because his dragon typing allows you to threaten ALL ele resists
Worth noting that grassy terrain only weakens Earthquake and Bulldoze specifically, not all ground moves so stuff like Stomping Tantrum, High Horsepower, Earth Power, and random T-Blast Grounds will still be threatening
most good electric types are fast glass cannons, nowadays they just get outsped by booster speed paradox mons which makes them unreliable. raging bolt fits right in as a bulky priority user
@@itztaytay2 I never said ground types are worthless, I just said they struggle more than they have in the past where they were of the strongest types.
@@kingmoosh2004 Idk about you but i really dont run into speed boost proto pokemon that much besides the odd speed flutter or moon. Plus there's a shit ton of good ele types that have great abilities which don't require either sun or booster using up a slot.
I ve been trying iron crown with indedee but the iron crown has calm mind, and i think that helps him a lot bc there are moments when you cant deal too much damage with iron crown and just boost yourself can change that, as well that with calm mind the pokemon works iven wuthout indedee
I thought annihilape would be a strong into incineroar. i think it is, but there are other meta relevant pokemon that do good enough into incin that have better all around matchups than annahilape. beatup whimsicott is a nice pairing but it just doesnt feel like enough
iv had to deal with several teams like this and my advice to deal with them (as a Regidrago enjoyer) is to lead with amoongus with mental herb and dragon fang regidrago to deal with it in an instant the only main thing that can stop it is if its a raging bolt with safety goggles and steel or fairy Tera which are by no means common
Great video as always! Would you consider replacing one of your usual ranked ladder videos with a BO3 showdown ladder episode? Maybe a once per week thing? I know showdown isn't as pretty as in game but seeing you use teams on the BO3 ladder with open team sheets would add a whole new dimension to the content and would benefit people who are looking to play the tournament format. Would love to hear your analysis with the information of open team sheet and the intricacies and conditioning that go into a BO3.
rewatching some vids while i grind tera raids. qotd: incen has not been as annoying as i was lead to believe, but i also usually have prio block, so. i also havent had much impact with sinistcha or excadrill. not sure if its just them team or evs or me not being comfortable with the mons yet. imma keep messing around with both tho!
QOTD: sand feels so meh despite excadrill coming back. I mainly use it as a back-up comp with flutter mane and fake tears meowstic hyper offense as the mons to start the battle. Leading sand feels so mid right now
Sand is kinda bad because it got destroyed by Torn Urshifu. The best sand setting, Tyranitar, didn’t want to be anywhere near Urshifu, and weather could be negated with Prankster Rain Dance.
Great Video as always man! Keep it up, Secondly you should start selling merch, I can definitively say that everyone here wants a cybertron piplup hoodie! food for thought! Have a great day!
I was honestly kind of upset walking wake didn’t get calm mind. There was no reason for it not to since suicune got it and then they gave it to both iron crown and raging bolt
Funny to see that cybertron came with 4/6 pokemon that i build on my own xD just incin and amoonguss is replaced for me with dragon cheer milotic and setup dragon tera volcarona xD
It just feels like every single team has Amoongus, Incin, Rillaboom, and Urshifu. So any "Featured," pokemon are just on a team with them. LOL. So its not really the "Featured" pokemon's team. Its the same core team with whatever sweeper you want to put in.
I worry this team has too many physical attackers and so has some issue with balance. So I wanted to use this team but later on gave up. Waiting for a new, more balanced team containing Raging Bolt.
hello hru and happy new year. can anyonepls explain me why metagross does use iron head instead of "heavy slam" because of his weighth/power? ty and have a beautiful day
