I've been without internet at home the past few days but have been craving to make content LOL so I hotspotted Wi-Fi off my phone to record these battles and then uploaded the video at school 😂 Hope you all enjoy!!!
That first game was kind of funny with you pointing out the ghost-Tera shadow claw Tyranitar, because I just happened to click on the old Houndoom team video from I think the first regulation and the first battle in that video also used a ghost-tera shadow claw Tyranitar that caught you by surprise too
Hi, im the last opponent, the Galarian Zapdos one hahaha. GGs, that was a really good game ^^. Fissure Dondozo is for Konmo-o, Goodra, Okidogi, DD Roaring moon and other set up pokemon but you forced me to use it against Gholdengo hahahaha, that was a wild turn with de icicle crash miss and fissure. One more time GG!! (Sorry if my English was bad 😅)
Hey Aaron! I was the Thundurus-T player in the video :) the flinch was annoying but you played super well! Been trying out a bunch of rentals just to get into the fundies mode before DLC! GG again!
QOTD: Kingdra, so much versatility and great design from Johto! Salamence might be second on my dragons list. Great battles, Aaron - super high level play!
you showed so much confidence in these games! the tera dragon plus salamence in front of a sleepy flutter was bold 😂 i was honestly expecting it to wake up
It's time to go to bed... it's time to brush my teeth.... it's time for "hey guys, Aaron Cybertron Zheng here and today I'm back with another episode of Road to Ranked..." Shelgon, he is friend shaped.
Hydreigon and Garchomp are both top tier for me. I also love Mega Salamence's design. I really wish they would give Salamence Aerilate as a hidden ability these days to give it another playstyle since we can't have the mega
I remember back in the day playing Pokémon Stadium and going against a Rapidash that not only outsped my three-member team but connected three Horn Drills in a row. That was the worst kind of loss.
I successfully predicted a bunch of your opponent’s moves this battle. I’m a total noob at competitive Pokémon, but I’m learning more with these videos. Great stuff.
Just got my missus into it. She's only doing casual but watching her switch on and get the predictions is amazing. I suck at competitive but it's great seeing new players get the hang of it.
Although I lost my job recently I appreciate your content fam it's been a tough time for me lately but I know that coming to watch your content cheers me up Aaron and to answer your question on my favorite dragon type...that would be Flygon ❤
QOTD: I'm going with Haxorus. While it is certainly overshadowed competitively by its pseudo-legendary brethren, Haxorus is nonetheless a force to be reckoned with and has been a staple on my main story teams since its introduction in gen 5.
Ooo, I thought this team was so cool when I saw Justin Tang using it. So glad a rental code was put up to try it (it being all Pokémon obtainable natively in SV is a huge plus for me). QOTD: Favorite dragon…hm, that’s a tricky one. Salamence is great and viable, Flygon and Tyrantrum are really cool designs…(trick question, the answer is my Tera Dragon Blaze Breed Tauros that I just never changed the Tera Type on /s)
Not my favorite dragon types but Hydreigon really grew on me back in reg A and I’m using roaring moon on my team now, it’s pretty versatile and knock off was a great buff 💪
As someone that picked up Gen IX to try and get back into competitive after a 7 year break, I was super disheartened to find out about Reg D and onward, making it sound like it practically required old games that I didn't have, let alone time to play through them. This Team looks so within reach! Definitely going to give it a shot. And for favorite Dragon type, gotta go Dialga on that front. Garchomp if you want a non-legendary. :P
The latest team and player is Chompy, who won the Spain Premier Challenger last week. You can visit and watch the same match from their perspective on their channel.
1:00:00 I remember watching someone with a Defiant Adrenaline Orb Thundurus (now I'm second guessing if it was Tornadus instead tho), and it was a massacre.
QOTD: Garchomp. Gen 4 was when I really started getting into competitive so it holds a special place in my heart. It’s got a great design, great stats, and has managed to stay fairly relevant!
Dragapult and Hydreigon are my favorite dragons. The Pult is a sneaky little guy to not mess with, and ol Three Heads will always be near and dear to me.
Dragalge is my favorite. I just think he's neat; a leafy sea dragon who's literally a leafy dragon, who lives in the sea, but is also poisonous because why not I guess.
QOTD: Rayquaza. My first Pokémon game ever was Pokémon Ruby and seeing him for the first time (and pretty much every time after that) is something I'll never forget. Runner ups are Dragonite, and Dragapult ❤
QOTD: My favourite dragon is the undisputed King of dragons, Garchomp. Nerfed in SV, usually meta defining and almost single-handedly encouraged the existence of fairy types.
My favorite dragon? Appletun. Don't know why and don't really care. But of all the beastly and monstrous dragon pokemon with edgey and over-the-top designs, mine is a chubby apple lizard with flappy ear/eyes.
QOTD: My favorite dragon type is Giratina!! I am in love with its design and the cutscene with Giratina and Cyrus is PEAK. Also, have you ever thought about starting a Discord server for your channel? It would be really cool to have a place to get advice for teambuilding from the community!
QOTD: My fav dragon might just be Dragonite. I quite like Kommo-o, but it was so bad until SV that I had really mixed feelings about it. Gonna be sad when tera leaves and it becomes bad again (seriously why isn't one of its types Steel so that its at least neutral to Fairy).
Why do we think no one uses rock head; wild charge, flare blitz, 😢head smash and protect H-arcanine. Is it too linear strategically?? Not enough defenses?? I feel like I’d love to see a recoil based h-arcanine
I made an competitive Rock Head Hisuean Arcanine with Head Smash, Fire Blitz, Wild Charge and Howl/Protect (was experimenting still with the last move). I even have the Arcanine a bit more bulky and somewhat less attack because of the lack of intimidate. That's why I also experimented with Howl. But sadly... I've done miltiple battles with it and Arcanine isn't bulky enough without intimidate most of the time.. it helpen more of the teammates also if it had intimidate. I've experimented with Expert Belt as item for extra damage because you need bulk. Its a difficult Pokémon to pivot in my opinion without Itimidate. Sadly enough :( I also whished Rock Head was more viable.
QOTD: At first I thought I'd say Kommo-O because of how versatile it is, but being a contrarian now that Kommo-O is famous, obviously I can't just say I like something that's popular. Even if I like the big guy. So, I say Haxorus, because it has such a weird move pool and I've mentioned it a few times in previous videos but back in Series 1, I enjoyed running Haxorus next to a water type back when Bulk Up Ceruledge was running rampant to make them tera grass to avoid getting one-shot, only for me to do Tera Bug Haxorus and first impression the Ceruledge into atoms. With Life Orb, if I recall the calc correctly then they would have to be 252 health, 252 defense with an intimidate on the Haxorus to survive the first impression. Given nobody else was doing that stuff to my knowledge, that was my own bit of personal tech and this was the first time I was playing VGC outside of a few battles in SwSh's final series so I've been a little proud of that since. Is it a good play? No, obviously not. But it was *my* play and it worked fantastically against what was normally a really rough matchup for my team.
I only scrolled through, but I didn’t see a Rillaboom outspeed outside of Fake Out, which has priority. I might’ve missed it though. Typically, at least last I heard, Rillabooms at one point we’re aiming for low speed to try and make sure Grassy Terrain goes up if sent out at the same time as Indeedee
