This New Invincible Shedinja Strat DESTROYED Pokemon Showdown 

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Wait, what format did you use? I tried putting shedija into anything goes, but it says “shedija is not in gen 9” can you pls reply and help me?

Use sunny day for pesky sand users

Thx for that OP strat

Well he isnt in SV so we are safe there now AG gen 9 isnt that safe

@@Nicole-wt3wr I think that was the true reason they didn't add it. I mean they could've done it like if it couldn't terastalize but like sure ok

WTF is terastalization

@@gabrifedri9984 changes your type and if you have your terastalization of the same type your pokemon has he gets x2 stab

@@gabrifedri9984 Gen 9 gimmick. Every Pokemon has a Tera Type- once per battle one of your Pokemon can change to that Tera Type, getting its defensive profile and STAB damage. It keeps STAB for its normal typings but loses their resistances, and if it's Tera Type is the same as its normal type it gets double STAB damage. IMO its a better gimmick than Z-Moves and Dyanamax, but as seen in this video you can do some pretty silly things with it in an unrestricted Dex.

He's gaming too hard.

Sturdy sheninja can lose to move stats like toxic or will-o-wisp, but idk how kill this

@@blark6582 sandstorm. That's what I always do

sturdy Shedinja is still weak to toxic, sandstorm, ... while this one is only weak to thousand arrows (and mold breaker of course)

Whirlwind works too

wrr,idts

I mean. What else is there to do 😂

Sometimes you just gotta whip and nae nae the pain away

Hahaha, XD

If your really good at predicted an incoming weather effect (example: switching to t-tar to set up sand) shedinja has this funny little move called sunny day

wait cant shedinja learn sunny day?

@@stupidioeg855 yeah but if the opponent is slower than you or they use the move sandstorm while you are attacking same turn then you are sol

sandstorm, mold breaker, turboblaze, etc are going to be required in some form for this gen... not an issue as literally most teams should have a mold breaker-like abilites/move anyway...

If it's not in Scarlet and Violet then why is it in Pokemon Showdown? I'm out of the loop.

@@kevintyrrell7409 PS has National Dex tiers.

@@kevintyrrell7409 temp plays in National Dex Anything Goes, so his videos ignore Pokemon that get hit by Dexits

@@kevintyrrell7409 because Pokémon showdown isn't limited to just a region of Pokémon like the new trash games

@@hypnoticrobotgaming cry harder

That's why I always run haxrous on my team.

And maybe Infiltrator?

@@RiodileNo he had Air Balloon meaning it would still be immune even if you break through sub

@@AyoSteven.Official infiltrator leech seed/toxic

@@machinegunkorok4509 On paper that sounds good but how many infiltrator pokemon can learn Leech Seed/Toxic? Well damn there every pokemon to ever exist can learn toxic which seems dumb to me

Honestly, the reason why Shedinja was banned from Natdex Ubers wasn't Tera Electric Air Balloon at all. Instead, it was Heavy-Duty Boots, with a range of viable tera types including Ground, Steel, Water, Fairy, and potentially Electric, though being weak to Ground without a Sandstorm immunity wasn't the best. The broken part about it was that apart from Dusk Mane Necrozma, they had no common counter, and Dusk Mane Necrozma was vulnerable to being worn down by the other five pokemon on Shedinja's team. The players would avoid using their Tera and remove Shedinja's answers on the opposing team, which the opposing player never knew for certain were Shedinja's answers.

What would happen if you used tera blast stellar type?

All of them

Funny enough, if you do manage to KO the Shedinja with something like hail, the person usually forfeits immediately.

either he forfeits himself cause of stealth rock or hazard or you forfeit cause shedninja is untouchable unless you have moldbreaker

even if we still had the natdex, this is too far.

It’s not really an issue in practice, if something like that happened it would be very easy to run sandstream or mold breaker.

Or spikes t spikes stealthrock

@@orange6259 that would basically become the meta and get it banned to ubers

@@orange6259 safety goggles on shedinja prevents it from taking weather related damage and make powder moves useless. Don't know if mold breaker can get rid of wonder guard though.

I mean, if you know you don't have an answer to it, not much point in continuing.

@@smileybones9172 fact

What the fuck can people even DO in this situation? Mold Breaker is the best I can think of, and that's not the most common thing out there.

@@ember3579 the only option I can think of is a weather move that deals damage like sandstorm or hail. I know he has sunny day on his shedinja but unless he could predict someone using a weather move it wouldn't help.

@@ember3579 thousand arrows bypasses air balloon

"I think we can see where this is going, so let's just skip to the end"

This strat was widely publicized yesterday. It was a "How long can we get away with this before it is banned" thing

@@sarahwallace1103 is it still legal?

@@f1r3ny4n we'll make it legal

An Electric-type with Wonder Guard and an Air Balloon.

does soak work with a tera type electric?@@JanusHoW

Or just sandstorm/hail.

@@CrownofMischief he runs sunny day to get rid of weather

@@SpaceSha_rk not enough

@@SpaceSha_rkYou need to predict moves, that way

How does electric terrestrialisation helps?

@@vindovilles3419 Basically it turns Shedninja in Eletric type And with Air Balloon you take away all earth moves. Sub is just you being a dick

@@vindovilles3419 Electric is weak to Ground type only. Air Ballon makes your pokemon levitate until is popped by a hit. So Wonder Guard + Electric + Air Ballon = Immunity to all direct damage.

@@vindovilles3419 makes ground type the only type that can hit shedinja. But with the air balloon they don't have that weakness anymore

@@PauloArais oh I didn't know that wonder guard worked with the terrestrial type too

dawg💀💀

obligatory sand or hail users on every team...if this doesn't get banned you're basically devoting an entire mon to counter shedinja :(

@@kasagure. Hail isn't in the game anymore. You HAVE to use Sandstorm

@@yuuhyakuya3863 Sandstream is essential now.

@@yuuhyakuya3863 wow....that's even worse!

And more Pokemons too. XD

@@asterlofts1565 But specially Shedinja

Ttar still counters it and so does mold breaker hail, and the necrozma DM because of their weather damage and ability ignore

@@Eldoofus Yeah, same for Drapion. XD

That's the only reason Shedinja exists

I mean if there is an ability like cofagrigus's mummy in s/v then you can beat it, or trick to swap abilities. Sandstorm is also a good idea. The substitute play though makes it extremely difficult to beat it through. Well, there is always gravity and then using ground moves

Hate to break it to ya, but two is still multiple

Nowhere near busted tbh. This Shedinja dies to: hail, sandstorm, stealth rock, whirlwind + hazards, infiltrator + toxic or will o wisp, that berry that does damage, aftermath, innards out, mold breaker, turboblaze, teravolt, thousand arrows, synchronize + toxic orb, trick + any self-damaging item and possibly spiky shield, rocky helmet and rough skin. But it's a fun gimmick to use against unprepared teams.

@@slikman19 Besides sandstorm those are all very specific counters. And does hail still do damage Ik they changed it to snow but does it still do damage?

@@steel5315 don't know, I do t have the game so I dont know the new ice mechanic

There is a lot of counters to this, but its kinda like batton pass chains imo, its only decent vs this matchup and kinda bad against the meta, and you can counter the counters.

i mean, one of them did try to use stealth rocks, just too late

You have to outspeed cyclizar turn 1 to set up the rocks to kill. What viable mons in upper tier use Infiltator toxic? Chandelure? Crobat? Jokes? The most reliable answer is actually stuff like mold breaker and sandstorm.

@@RoninofCrimsonMaple I'm just giving an example I didn't say those were the only ways to counter

just sand stream

I think fairy steel only has one weakness which is ground because of steel and fairy resisting each other’s weaknesses with the exception of ground

It’s also weak to fire.

Update from the future: Tinkaton is not meta, even in AG where Shedinja resides. There's simply better Mold Breaker users

So do Veluza and Haxorus.

Stealth rock and whirlwind/roar with tera ghost to prevent a rapid spin can destroy that. I think Skarmory is the best candidate for being the most physically defensive one and good at other things too. Hippowdon/Tyranitar can also work for having sandstream making Shedinja waste of turn for using sunny day before you roar/whirlwind it.

Considering the Shedinja line is cut from the games entirely (Unless DLC changes that), I don't think there's anything to worry about outside of Showdown.

Sandstorm.

It got banned from nat dex on day 1 actually.

Not when you lose to it

Its viability was already shown tbh, zygarde complete is a pure beast

@@skinsarentskill259 not really

@@shaktikhare7096 S tier ag mon in gen 8 according to Smogon.

Will o sabeleye ftw

Mold Breaker as well ignore Wonder Guard

Curse and Hail work too

@@Sigora hail is gone now though right? replaced with snow

Would Thousand arrows work?

Thousand Arrows

Mold Breaker

Or, you know... You can lay off hazzards on t1... Or use a damaging weather like snow or sandstorm

@@walaceandrade4046 fr

There are actually some more counters. You can use a Pokemon with mold breaker, you can use rocky helmet/rough skin/spiky shield/flame body or you can try to stall. Wonderguard is also bypassed by "typeless" moves like struggle and some others (see bulbapedia). But yeah, the strat is way too safe for the reward you get. Even if your opponent runs a counter, you can just switch out and try again later

I've already made a protosynthises sun team that is doing pretty well

Can you explain? I don’t know how they work

@@destroyer4929 same its really fun using things like scream tail and great tusk to snowball outta control

S/V?

@@asterlofts1565 Scarlet and Violet.

Not even sure if that's gonna be there yet

@@corystevens9604 The format in battle is National Dex AG. Zygarde is allowed to be used there.

@@dynamo-g And Shedninja too!

New generation was just released yesterday

were on the "good" list this year.

There was already generation 9 in Pokemon Showdown days before the Violet and Scarlet games came out (of course with errors, rare designs and other details that will be improved, eliminated or changed later)... those of Pokemon Showdown are fast Hey? :)

And some legendary with amazing counter for Wonder Guard... and finally Ring target have a good use here...

Since when do entry hazards pop the balloon?

Everybody keeps saying these things and I'm not into pokemon competition(I think it's a joke) but I'm pretty sure that Substitute isn't going to be one shot by sandstorm. You need a devoted counter to this.

@@iBloodxHunter Weather bypasses sub.

Trick with ring target: bro this is a bigger joke

Shedinja also has Trick so it can PP stall the opponent's or if they switch out, criple the opposite Pokémon with it (also you can use Taunt teammates) but yeah good way to counter this strategy

The first guy just had to hard switch into Ferrothorn to KO it

Yeah, also do you think the box art legendaries are gonna be more broken than Zacian-Crowned ?

I forgot what's mold breaker do, can u tell me?

@@alexisrubengalih9403 Mold Breaker lets you ignore abilities. So Wonder Guard would not be able to protect Shedinja.

@@Shuyin128MK4 huh good to know, now time to set this bad boy up

wasn't shedinja always uber?

Wouldn't be the first time he would. He was the true Kyogre counter way back when.

@@devonjames9883 I don't know. I like playing Showdown, however I'd guess Shedinja wasn't in ubers. The fact that it has 5 weaknesses, and Flying, Fire and Rock types are probably on your team. Or your pokemon could have coverage, like Infernape with Rock Slide. So, you can just use one of these moves and we all know Shedinja would fall.

@@vivie_alcremie and with lotsa indirect damage being everywhere, I don't think it will do so great against it

@@devonjames9883 Nah. Never was. Highest was NU if I'm not wrong. Wonder Guard is a cool gimmick/cheese, but like all gimmicks, it is easily countered.

Exactly. Pokemon IS strategy... not only UGA, UGA, THE MOST POWERFUL MOVEMENT.

And sadly... a lot of players in general have that Uga, Uga mentality... I think in Gen 9 that's going to be very noticeable.

Fire blast, Thunder and Blizzard FTW

Also Stealth Rocks, Mold Breaker, Gravity, Magic Room, Whirlwind.

Substitute blocks status effects from being applied

Hail was replaced with snow in Gen 9 and it no longer does chip damage

​@@BriAnna-hl2tlMold Breaker and Infiltrator says Hello.

@@pariahdark1892mold breaker would let you deal damage, but I don’t think it lets you status effect through substitute. Also, what does infiltrator do? Idr lol

Bypasses Substitute, Reflect, Light Screen, Mist and Safeguard.@@BriAnna-hl2tl

I don't think it'll work.

Game Freak still never let it happen since Shedinja isn't in Scarlett or Violet. This is Pokemon Showdown. It has no affiliation with Game Freak

was it ?

@@skinsarentskill259 Bro the pokemon now have 400 speed

@@shaktikhare7096 zygarde is not a sweeper, it's a physical wall...

350 was slow to me generations ago. Jolteon has 394 max speed, Electrode has 438 max speed and these are non legendary/mythical GEN ONE Pokemon.

@@KamikaziiKidd by the way, the fastest mon in the gen 9 dex is dragapult...

Yeah, they haven't made the 3d models yet

@@donaldbaird7849 Same for the Mons of Pokemon Arceus.

mold breaker

@@ruludos1977 yeah ik there's some counters to this strategy, but considering how most of the showdown players' mind works, it's just funny to see how shedinja is now pretty much invincible

Aww how cute. *OHKO’s Shedinja with Hail*

​@@franaraya2397 Showdown players are running Mold Breaker Defog Hawlucha already aren't they?

It works even wo terrestrial i j went up against it flying types still hit it i ised hurricane once and dual wingbeat k-white

This has Fury Cutter so you didn't face the exact same thing