The NEW Move Upper Hand Breaks Everything 

Upper hand is actually a really good move that no one is abusing in the current OU meta. With all the priority in the tier it’s such a good anti meta tech. I made a virizion team with SD, trailblaze, sacred sword, and Upper hand and man the team has surprised that crap out of me how much work it puts in lol.

Upper Hand is just "counter your counter with my counter that beats your counter"

Anyone can put together a strong team. Anyone can cheese. I come to Haydunn for the contrived weird ass mind games.

The Idea of being sitting duck and calling opponent to use priority moves is kinda great idea for moves like these. I am not much of competitive player but seeing pokemon & moves used like this is awesome 🔥

Hitmonlee used Upper Hand *Hitmonlee kicks* He's trying his best.

Love the creativity. Sometimes the most fun you can have in Pokemon is using the random moves and mons that people forget

It’s Sucker Punch’s Sucker Punch

I am genuinely shocked at how little I’ve seen Upper Hand used and talked about. It saved me in the DLC, but leave it to the GOAT Hayber to pick it up and run with it.

I'm so happy to see Hitmonlee getting some love. He's always my choice at the Fighting Dojo in Kanto. He's always been luck based with High Jump Kick, so I love the dancing on the razor's edge and it literally being a coinflip at 1 HP on if your opponent uses a priority move or not. Very true to the nature of Hitmonlee.

Hitmonlee at 1HP: "Do it, DO IT! C'MON KILL ME I'M HERE! C'MON DO IT NOW! KILL ME!"

I love how the animation for this move is a palm heel strike. It’s like you’re hitting them right in the nose when they try to pull a fast one. 😂

The back to back videos going crazy I love this. That upperhand to the gambit felt like a therapy session 😂

When he said "Tera-fighting" I heard "terrifying " And I was like "TRUUUUEEEEE"

I would have liked that Upper Hand also have an effect on prankster ability would be a good way to punish so many prankster abusers

I’ve used this exact set in OU a lot because no one really knows about it. It’s fun to one shot resists with a 200BP move, and most priority attackers are weak to fighting (or are just frail like Cinderace). Ghosts with Shadow Sneak is a big oof though.

What do you call a Hitmonlee sweep? A Hit Mon SPREE!!!! 😂😂 Okay I’ll take my exit now. 😅

I’ve been binge watching this a channel and just subscribed. I like the double battles format much more but have a soft spot for under used Pokémon. The subtle humor is gold though, my man is pretty darn funny 😂

My favorite builds are the ones that people don't expect. The out predictions to go/not go for upper hand was super satisfying

I’m gonna support every video you make Hayden, the effort you put into your videos is appreciated! Best of luck on 400k!

Can we talk about how Blastoise shell’s texture looks so good and his cannons are polished af?

You have single Handedly made Hitmonlee my favorite pokemon. Wow

Been lurking on your RU-vid channel for a couple of years and finally decided to support it. I always look forward to your vids, they're a genuine joy to watch. Keep up the amazing work! 😄

love the new thumbnails 👍🏻 been a fan since gen 6. Keep up the good work with these cool gimmick mons

In lower tiers upper hand is a wild move, upper hand ambipom is one of the few answers to fake out pressure in NU and is pretty much the #1 answer into other ambipom

Finally got the chance to catch up on all the recent uploads after I got caught up editing some VGC stuff over the past week. Absolutely love this strat and the Drifblim one as well. The thumbnails are somehow getting cleaner too. Keep it up!!

I run this same set with Blaziken, but instead of upper hand to deal with priority, I was using an indeedee to set terrain. I should add upper hand and free up the indeedee slot! The only problem is if upperhand doesn't kill, the next move is a game of who outplays who.

Great idea the set looks very fun genuinely surprised of how good reversal is, brutally underrated

This hitmonlee set is fire 🔥 litterally never seen upperhand used till now

I discovered you recently, and I really like the way you edit videos to cut out the waiting. Your commentary is great and keeps me entertained even when nothing is happening onscreen. I'd like to see a video where Scizor gets a bigger role in winning games.

This was so satisfying to watch!! Great matches :)

This is a beautiful thing to share, thank you, very creative movesets

This was a fun watch and an interesting way to use the move.

Haydunn definitely has about 45 hitmonlees in a box all named drumstick

Thanks for the video man! They make my day.

Hitmonlee, master of kicks and punches Hitmonchan: "What the f*?"

I got into comp pokemon through Showdown a few months ago after getting burnt out on mainline games around Gen 7 and mostly just playing ROM Hacks since then. I decided that to keep myself sane, I'd handicap myself by playing monotype in OU ladder and because I really like team building, I never so much as glanced at Smogon-- imagine my surprise when I discovered this move, one of the few new moves that doesn't feel like a direct upgrade to an existing move (looking at you, gen 9 starter signature moves!) and fits my mono-fighting setup perfectly. I proceeded to make the filthiest Hawlucha Red Card sweeper of all time and have been having a blast with it since then.

The only reason this isn't abused is because Upper Hand becomes a guessing game once your opponent knows you have it. Really like the fact it out-prioritizes moves, loved the rock, paper, scissors people made with Hitmonchan too lmao

You can actually play rock, paper scissors with a friend just using Hitmonchan and the moves; Mach Punch, Upper Hand, and Focus Punch. Mach Punch>Focus Punch Upper Hand>Mach Punch Focus Punch>Upper Hand

Love the content as always! I have to ask, what would it take to do more draft?

I look forward to your uploads so much man. Your strats are so fucking dope

This is by far my favourite set you've ever built. It's perfect *chef's kiss*

I love Hitmonlee, and I haven't seen anyone use Upper Hand yet! Great job!

I feel like this will be one of the very few examples of upper hand being used as it’s a really niche move so thank you for showing this cool hitmonlee strat Hayden!

I liked the moveset a lot! Nice battles!

You deserve more. I use the flying tera type Muk I learned from watching your channel and it beasts on some Terrys. Lol

Found my way here from draft, enjoyed the content so much I became a member. Keep it up.

I liked the first Hitmonlee set much more.

This is so sick! Amazing video

If you ever do a double battle I have a fun strat for you to try it requires 2 things. 1)Flower Trick, Meowscarada 2)Anger Point, Fire Tauros I think you can see where im going with this and as a bonus Tauros gets Trailblaze so you can Trailblaze turn 1 and Flower Trick Tautos Turn 1 to deal +6 Trailblaze to whatever it hits and then get a speed boost.

I have never seen a Hitmonlee do this kind of damage! Whoa! I love the creativity

I love how you use hitmonlee as your fighting type for most of your battles. You make hitmonlee look crazy good lol.

I see few people using upper hand on vgc I’m shocked a lil as I thought more people would use it.

Omg, the tera fairy probably would have lived the upper hand at only 65 base power. There’s no way you don’t click priority if you have it there lol. Edit: yes, I forgot about the flinch.

I used it on the Belly Drum swift swim poliwrath set. I swept so many teams by upper handing their Bisharp etc. I think this will get less effective over time though as people learn.

love the Gen 1 OGs on these vids

I love Hitmonlee and hate how some older pokemon can't keep up with the new ones. This new moves proves that the old gen one pokemon can still pack a punch.

By far one of my favorite strategies

now that you brought it up, this totally works on salac berry + belly drum kommo o as well if it's set up correctly: no hp evs ensures kommo o can get to 1 hp with 2 substitutes and a belly drum. only problem is ur absolutely countered by ghost mons with shadow sneak :/

Favorite set was kabtops with weakness policy kinda reminds me of that

that first set was bonkers. you love to see Lee shining all these years later

I didn't even know that such a move exists! You, good sir, are a mad genius!

I'm sad I didn't get to draft Hitmonlee in my Draft League to try this set out, perfect mon to have Upper Hand

The 50/50 mind games are amazing. I was hoping for the Haydunn special animated ending.

One thing haydun gonna do is make a hitmonlee video lmao

I hope this can bring up new ideas for any draft coaches whos gonna bring hitmonlee lol

i have been playing around with the idea of upper hand speed boost blaziken... hard to slot another high damage non fighting move w/o flare blitz though and 1 hp the bait

Just thought I would let you know Make it Rain only drops Gholdengo's Sp. Atk by one stage before that comes back and bites you one day. So after using it twice and a Nasty Plot it's only at normal Sp. Atk, not at -2 like you said.

This was extremely satisfying lmao

Yesss Haydun uploaded!!!!!!

EASILY the most creative singles content creator on RU-vid. Great work as usual 🍿🔥

Haydunn is popping off ngl!

Gonna try this on Hawlucha

This strat goes crazzzyy

together we live every second in this video, it never fails to amaze me with his way of thinking

I use to watch a lot of Pimpinite videos then I stop. Years later I came across this channel and it got me back to watching Pokémon battles again

It felt really awesome, upper handing an ampibom trying to stop my moxie, trailblaze heracross rampage (+1 Speed, +Attack), using its fakeout. The move would have failed because ampibom is faster but luckily I had 1 trailblaze speed up.

I used that move on my doubles raichu its ultimate support for rain teams

daamn that ohko with the resisted hit.

I tried to use Upper Hand with Okidogi in a Midseason Showdown but didn’t land a single one. It’s an amazing move but much more fitting to closed team sheets. Still won the tournament tho

Haydunn is a genius! 🤯

Hitmonlee out here kicking everyone's backside

My dude needs the 400k 🤙🏾

It's a good day when Haydunn uploads 😎

My man is underrated like his team

“There’s the leftovers I was talking about boss” 😭

This Hitmonlee is insane

That Kingambit KO was so satisfying

Bro creating new meta

Upper _Hand_ Hitmonlee is a pretty good bit in itself

drumstick goes crazyy

When I saw the porygon i was like it would be funny if the same thing happened like last video and then sure enough saw it happen.

Yup. Sneasler is slightly less notorious for this combo and it's so satisfying to see the mind games set in after that pop on the lip.

You should pool together your battles into a super cut

My favorite fighting type

That first opponent is the antithesis of creativity.

Never thought I’d see a day where hitmonlee could ever sweep

Haydunn out here hitting people with the "You've activated my trap card" move.

I remember hearing about japanese players playing hitmonchan rock paper scissors by giving the hitmonchans upper hand, mach punch, and focus punch, honostly pretty funny that the move made that possible

Damn they hella buffed the boi Drumstick with this one.

I have a question about upper hand in double battle : Does upper hand work if the Pokémon targeted is not the one who learnt it but the ally ? For example Lucario learnt upper hand and is in a team with Garchomp next to him. The rival has a Dragonite with extreme speed. If I make Lucario use upper hand and the Dragonite targets my Garchomp and not Lucario, will upper hand activate ??