That’s why it would be so awesome if one episode he just took us all by surprise and started with “Hey motherf***ers” but in the exact same tone with the same smile and just continued with his intro like nothing was different.
QOTD - I recently ran into a weakness policy tera ghost annihilape next to a jumpluff with fling and an attack boosting berry, instantly +3 attack and a 100bp rage fist to boot
It’s so good to see a humble man who doesn’t brag about himself or do blue talks in his videos, plainly showing passion towards Pokémon battle. Greetings from Taiwan, definitely recommend this channel to other local Pokémon players.
QOTD: I ran into unburden mirror herb hawlucha and prankster swagger grifaiai, the speed from the unburden hawlucha really caught me off guard since it was able to out speed my max speed booster flutter
I tried coalossal with Masqueraine and intimidate safety goggles but that’s also a great partner. Masq also is immune to eq and gets aqua jet without doing much damage to it what so ever. It also gets helping hand and icy wind as good support moves. I used the same ev spread and moveset on coal.
What do you think about a video where you analyze which pokemon were strong in previous gen9 rule sets and why they aren't strong now? I'd be interested in seeing analysis of why things have changed over time
I agree on this! And Aaron can you give a demonstration about how and why you invest in speed for Pokémon. I don't have troubles in defense investment but I have troubles in finding the right speed investment for Pokémon.. I can't find tips! :(
@@Pokemazda what I'd suggest when investing in speed, is to consider what mons you want to outspeed and check their max speed. Then work around that. Next figure what type of speed control you want. For example Tailwind doubles your speed, choice scarf boosts by 1.5 same with booster energy. Then there is speed reduction (bulldoze, icy wind and so on) that decrease speed by 2/3 then 2/4....
I've been using these guys for the last couple of months. While the trainer in me is so grateful to have such an in depth and incredible breakdown for my beloved combo, the hipster in me is crying cause everyone will be using these two now.
Oh man this is crazy. I've been spamming ladder with Masquerain + Coalossal lately with the same aqua jet play. But having the dazzling to prevent priority is so smart!
I can’t really think of a combo but I can remember a Normal Tera Amoonguss almost ruining a game for me cause I Rage Fisted into that slot and it got super dicey and I had to rely on Banded Dnite Outrage
"They forgot about Dazzling!" ( 13:58 ) Yeah no, Aaron. I'm almost certain that they *didn't know* about Dazzling. Because this is probably the first time they've seen a Bruxish outside of Top 10 Worst Pokémon Designs videos and them getting one for finishing the Dex.
@@SC_3 Oh no, I agree. I actually kind of dig Bruxish because it's just so incredibly weird even by Pokémon standards. But pretty much every video about bad pokémon designs or pokémon that they wish wouldn't come back always has Bruxish somewhere on that list.
What a nice coincidence! Just faced a Bruxish yesterday and just lost because i forgot Dazzling Ability of it(Just straight up blocked both Shadow Sneak from my Mimikyu and Ceruledge lol), was fun to see tho, and it one shot Mimikyu with Wave Crash easily, so it hits hard!
Great video. I normally watch these just for entertainment but this strategy really made me try it in game. I went really well with it and liked the different play options. Main one I lost to was a tera grass sandy shocks where I EQ with coallosal instead of Flare blitz (prior to tera I thought EQ was best) . But all the other games I made good calls and had good options. Really robust team. Thanks mate!!
QOTD: Not really a combo, but I faced against an Abamasnow/Cryagonal that just spammed Sheer Cold, Aurora Veil, and healing moves on their back ups. Even with super effective damage I couldn’t kill them before RNG gave them a win with Sheer Cold hits
Love to see Bruxish! I've been using Bruxish as well on my Mono-Water team especially to counter the plethora of priority and to counter Amoonguss (a PRIORITY for Mono-Water in VGC). I'm seeing if I can get anyone to build it in cart so there's a chance you try it out lol so fingers crossed!
QOTD: I lost to a Flamigo stealing +6 ATK from belly drum Cetitan recently, my opponent lead Cetitan with Maushold Follow-me to let Cetitan easily go for the setup, and i knew Flamigo was coming, but still lost to it because it just had Throat Chop and demolished my Bronzong(my only win con) even behind Reflect, and Cetitan EQ'd my entire team(even MAX HP Ting-Lu behind Reflect)
TL; DR Masquerain is actually great on this team Omg I've been playing a team really similar to this! If anyone finds Bruxish awkward, I recommend Masquerain. It adds a little bulk to Coal by having a weaker aqua jet, has Flying to dodge EQ, and has Helping Hand to get the double OHKO. Amoongus, as always, really helps with the TR match up. I haven't lost to TR with it yet
QoTD: I haven't run into any wild combos, so instead I'll share my off-meta defensive core of Tinkaton and Rotom-wash instead. The defensive synergy between the two of them is perfect, as they cover each other's weaknesses beautifully. Both also pack enough of a punch to deal damage in a pinch that they're not ever stuck doing nothing. Tinkaton is really disruptive with the most reliable and fastest fake out in the game right now, as well as having access to knock off, while rotom can do rotom things
It wasn’t really a combination, but I ran into a Slopoke on Showdown. I figured it was support trick room and went to Taunt it, but it had Oblivious and I learned the hard way that Taunt doesn’t work on Oblivious 😭
Thanks for this video! The team is so interesting. I played the first Global Competition with a WP Coalossal, but I made a few mistakes in the team building. As in I don't really know what I do and am not a great player haha I lead with Coalossal with a special set and only single target moves, and Focus Sash Dragapult with surf. Safety Goggles Maushold + AV Glimmora and Toxicroak + Talonflame in the back. Or as a lead. It was okay, won 6 out of 15 games, could've been more. It was a lot of fun. The team you showed makes so much more sense, thanks.
QOTD: Faced an opponent using Pelliper, Luvdisc and Toadscool. The idea was to use entrainment and copy swift swim on Toadscool for super fast spores. I sniffed it out because I wanted to try the same strat with Kyogre once upon a time lol but still a really cool idea
Wildest combo I saw was a Murkrow + Garganacl lead where they set up prankster tailwind. This will speed boost the garganacl which is choice banded to us explosion and sacrifice BOTH murkrow and garganacl. If you're unable to outspeed and then double target the garganacl before it nukes non-ghost types, no hits are able to be done. Then enters a Paldean Tauros and Meowscarada. Meowscarada hits the tauros with flower trick and the tauros (fire type) has tera bug to avoid super effective ground moves. It swept with max attack rock slide. It was a surprise but was fun to see and use. Scream tail was one of the backup pokemon and then there was one I forget but it was cool to see Makes me think of trying Frosslass critical on water paldean tauros with that suicide setup strat tbh
This coal and fish powered tactical nuke you’ve created is brilliant! On a side note I like the big fish theory album art on your wall, love me some Mr. Staples.
Bruxish is one water type in this game other then slowpoke family that can learn Trick Room. Seeing Slowbro/Slowking people know: oh it is a trick room user; but seeing Bruxish they don't expect that. For mono water teams that i am trying to use there is no better way to counter trick room then to reverse it and this mon seems to be the only good option (fast outside trick room, can swim togather with other fast water mons on the field and it reverse trick rooms). Problem is it's neither fast enough without scarf nor durable enough for current meta where flutter mane's and chi-yus roam around. That's why unfortunatly this niche of having access to trick room doesn't work. With Scarf it might do something, might even score a kill with Wave Crash (it's as strong as coming from Floatzel) but then it's ususally dead or a dead weight afterwards. I guess on a non mono water team it could work as a mon that block priorities (it's faster then Tsareena and Farigiraf) but you'd really need to build a team around it. Ergo it's nice to see a team with Bruxish. I would love to see it being more commonly used because Extremespeeds, Jet Punches and Sucker Punches are quite common in this meta. EDIT: After watching first battle i suggest dropping Scarf as you can trigger coalossal with aqua jet (yes redirection will be issue but then lead something else) and get access to reversing trick room that you've mentioned give you problems.
In the last game you did know that chi yu wasn’t scarf because you saw chi yus partners moving first multiple times. Tauros raging bull went before dark pulse, flutter mane flinched before chi yu knocked out coal.
Man, I love how humble you are compared to other players. Not that I am shaming anyone, but when you get the chance to brag, you just do not do it and focus on the game!
I'm about 90% sure the Dragonite in the second game was Inner Focus, which is why it Tera'd. I don't think a +2 Rockslide would KO a bulky enough Normal Dragonite.
Wow! These last few teams have been super creative and I’m amazed by how effective they are when piloted correctly. It’s been really fun to watch you switch styles so expertly. This has been such an amazing stretch of road to ranked that I just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work and top-level content 🙏
I wonder if that last opponent shouldn't have scooped. With Bruxish being choice locked into Psychic Fangs it couldn't do anything to the Chi Yu. I think it really would come down to if Chi Yu can outspeed and OHKO the Bundle. If it has flamethrower it can for sure. Dark Pulse is a roll
In last battle if that Chi-yu were to be scarfed, you'd lose because it is fire/DARK so immune to psychic fangs and Iron Bundle would die to Dark Pulse
I've been spamming coalossal bundle all season but i actually never tried the physical variant, or bruxish for that matter, gonna have to give this a spin
I’ve been playing singles a lot on showdown, and I really like the weakness policy calm mind agility stored power galarian articuno. Using it in NU tier battles, fighting Tera Tera blast slaps, plus fighting resists sucker punch. It’s a fun time haha. Same team I’m using booster energy dragon dance tyrannitar variant (forgot name, electric rock type) Really fun for trying to sweep people. Is VGC purely doubles?
QOTD: I ran into a jumpluff tinglu team where jumpluff kept strength sapping and healing itself up and water tera rage power to keep tinglu safe 🤯 was super hard
Hey Aaron, there’s this strategy I came up with that has protean focus sash Meowscarada with skill swap paired with silk scarf Tera Normal noivern with telepathy. If you lead both you can skill swap onto noivern and give it protean boomburst, while not taking any damage via the swapped telepathy. My set was helping hand, skill swap, flower trick, and shadow claw (for protean ohko on most flutter mane and also immunity to boomburst if you want to Tera normal noivern instead). Arcanine was my 3rd mon bc you can switch in arcanine and skill swap with intimidate and then get 2 of them off in 1 turn which is useful, and then arcanine was clear amulet with play rough wild charge close combat and flare blitz with water Tera for Palafin because protean into those attacks is pretty good. Can you build the other 3 mons around that core? I don’t have the vgc experience to know where to go from there. Would love to see it. Cheers!
Noivern set is boomburst super gang (so that protean turns normal and also nice for bulkies like ting or wo chien or dragonite) protect and either tailwind or heat wave (protean heat wave is decent matchup into sun and hits amoonguss decently and also resists fairy)
Hey Aaron, love the content as always. Question for you and the community: what age do kids start to compete in VGC ? I’m looking to get my nephew involved. Thanks!
@@trainerrichard6859 yes, but there are better mons for accounting for priority moves, and redirection is a lot more of an issue since it can negate the weakness policy boost
Wildest combo has to be bulky toxicroak rain team. And I feel so gaslit cuz I saw it twice on ladder but never again and no one knows what I’m talking about 💀
am I missing something here? coaloassal has 82 speed x 2.5 from steam engine = 205 which is way slower than a lot of mons. how are you outspeeding dragapult/iron bundle/flutter?
Yesterday I made mad One player because i know the team with flutter mane trick room and weakness policy roaring moon thank for your videos (Sorry Nate)
I love it when I hear the words, “Neither of these Pokémon are meta at all.” Means someone actually thought outside the box and made a more interesting team. VGC can be extremely boring, Regulation C specifically. Everyone thinks the same Pokémon are the best and uses those only. Regulation C has been a horrible format for team diversity.
Exactly that's always been the problem woth these formats. We have hundreds of pokemon in the game to use but every single meta people just use the same 10 mons and newer players just go on pikalytics and copy the standard team comps.
1100s ladder take let people be competitive in a competitive game seriously, yes these types of teams are fun but a lot of people actually really enjoy the optimisation of the meta game and the raising of the skill ceiling. using meta mons can have just as much (if not more) depth than using off-meta. as you get better at VGC and more into the hyper-competitive side you start to realise the small differences between, for example, two different players’ arcanine evs or sets is infinitely more interesting at a high level than if they used two different pokemon. uniqueness is cool but it’s not a good take to hate on the development of a meta game in a competitive game as if meta game development is not a core element of competitiveness. maybe competitive games just aren’t for you if you don’t like that. some things will always be better than others.
@@grizzlyscalp9506 keep this same energy and load up an ampharos brambleghast team on 1800s ladder. maybe u will then realise why “people only use the best pokemon” why would they sabotage themselves by using objectively inferior pokemon? competitive games are meant to be competitive. you can play casual if you want to see bad pokemon
@@itsukizy there’s nothing entertaining about 80% usage Flutter Mane. Stop lying to yourself. Reg C has been a god awful format. It just is. The thought process “I can’t use these mons if I want to compete. I have to use these ones.” Is the exact problem mindset I was talking about with VGC. It’s all groupthink. If someone comes up with an outside the box team, they are told they can’t compete with it. Total joke.
