Waking up and seeing my team on road to ranked was a really cool surprise! Thank you for the feature and the kind words about the team Aaron! Your analysis of the team building was spot on
Hi, I'm Andrda from game 3. I didn't expect this video came out this soon😂😂 You're one of my favorite pokemon youtubers, I always try the teams you show because they are so fun to play with. So I tried Aaron's team too (I LOVE IT). As soon as I read you were my opponent I got super excited cause I think you are soooooo strong. That was a great battle, I am very glad I had the chance. Yes, flower trick was boosted by overgrow but I didn't expect it was enough to get the KO on sableye.😂 Thanks for the game! I loved it!
I used Quash Sableye in early SwSh and it was SO good back then, because a lot of leads were support mon + offensive mon. I usually ended up Quash-ing the more threatening as needed for my own offense to not really have to worry about speed. If I used G-Max Butterfree, spreading status became extremely easy that way and if I used an offensive mon like Porygon Z, the Quash would often allow for snowballing KOs. It fell off as Dark offense became more common with the DLC, but it's extremely fun still!
Literally came here to comment the same thing! I love early-gen when the meta is so diverse and rapidly changing! The moment legendaries become available, the meta just starts to stagnate for the most part, and everything becomes the same four or five Pokémon on every single team, until the end of the gen 😅
@@jesusranchjohn honestly we’re kinda already seeing that and it sucks. Gholdengo, Garchomp, Murkrow, Rotom, and Arcanine are on every team. RU-vidrs make videos titled “CRAZY x mon TEAM!” and it’s just the one mon and the exact same core as every other team.
@@devv197 This is a good point, but I will say that at least with Pokémon like that - with good typings and stats, granted - there are still lots of Pokémon and strategies that can counter and check them, and enough closeness in stat distribution to allow myriad team comps to beat them. The moment the legendaries come in is the moment the meta shrinks because more middling Mons just can't keep up. I mean, how many non-pseudo, non-legendaries are standing up to Zacian-C last gen? Not many, and the ones that were (Incineroar) end up being in every single team.
It's funny how the devs basically showcase the Toxtricity/Sableye combo used here in the Ghost gym refight - The gym leader uses Tera ghost Toxtricity with Boomburst and a ghost partner which made this one of the first things I tried out in doubles :D
Personally id rather people build there own teams, kind of a feel bad spending heaps of time on a team when ppl can just rent the best team out. Content wise, its awsome though its super fun to watch. Who knows.
@@PMBBrainless Not everyone have the time to spend like hours to build 1 pokemon. Also making these fully built teams more accessible means more player stays and play the game even when they're not competitive player
@@pillowhead4456 it doesn't really take 1 hour to build a single Pokemon tho, given you can EV train up to 6 Pokemon at once, Bottle Caps being easy to access and Mints being cheap as hell you can definitely get an entire team (as long as you're not using Gholdengo lmoa) within ~2 hours given that you're not EV training them all the same
@@Raziel_HHL are you listening to yourself? You're expecting adults to spend 2 hours training a team when Showdown exists? There's a reason why game freak switched to rental teams, there's no reason to play the actual games if it's going to be a slog for adults. We have very limited free time but also the most disposable income They can't even try to cease and desist, due to the risk of mass community outrage
After seeing Aaron Traylor's team against Aaron (Cybertron), I am now convinced that a really good amount of people in the high ladder get their rental codes from Aaron's videos lol
I audibly GASPED when I saw Toxtricity OHKO the poor rotom and garchomp. It's so weird seeing Toxtricity finally staying in the presence of a ground type. Such a smart team!
These videos are such a great way for me to start my day. I listen to these every day on my way to work and thanks to the amazing commentary I fully understand what's going on. Though sometimes I rewatch them so I can see damage calcs and stuff later. Thanks for making these and inspiring so many people to hop into the game!
I'm glad to see a team using Tsareena. I have it on my team right now and really like what it's able to do--fun to use with palafin on the team with U-Turn for the free Zero to Hero switches. I think changing the tera to fairy would be a change I should make.
you're cool :-) thanks for making such a calm and fun atmosphere! I've always wanted to get into vgc and almost did about 10000 times, but i'm gonna give it a real shot this gen. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow, that's crazy 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅 Earlier today I was looking for Aaron's new video and I didn't see it. I was afraid he didn't post today 😓😓😓 Thank God I was wrong. Phew!!!!
I remember Weedletwin talking about tera normal toxtricity boomburst when we first found out about tera and I was excited to see if it was strong. That orthworm taking more than half to a resisted hit says it all. Really enjoying the content as always. Thank you for your consistent uploads, sir.
I just subscribed... i thought i was subscribed a long time ago! 😤 . Anyway i love your chill style . The other side of the coin of wolfey. Who i also love. I love how much you explain . Im hoping to watch your vids for years to come! :)
I almost ran pelipper on my team to pair with scizor, but decided I wanted to also use ceruledge as a gholdengo answer. I figured rain wouldn't be great with spamming bitter blade.
Nice to see Toxtricity getting some play. One of my favorite Pokemon that carried me through the post-game of both Sw/Sh and S/V. I was literally in the middle of building a Toxtricity with Punk Rock and Normal Tera when i saw this video and will be stealing some ideas from this team :D
I feel like if a team has Meowscarada, they will lead with it 99.999% of the time. In every matchup, regardless. Been taking advantage of that a lot lately.
So the first competitive team I built in Gen 9 was actually a Toxtricity Boomburst team. Using Soundproof, Telepathy, and Ghost types, I was able to make sure none of my Pokemon could take damage from BBurst! For starters, Electrode is a FANTASTIC partner for Tox. He gets Metal Sound and Screech to lower defenses, Scary Face and Thunder Wave for speed control, Taunt for any Trick Room / Spore / set up shenanigans, and Helping Hand to make BBurst do ABSURD damage. I also used Sableye except mine used Encore, Quash, Taunt, and Sucker Punch. You wouldn't believe how often you'll be clicking Encore when people try to set up on you and Quash just helps Tox even more with his massive Speed problem. His biggest issue is other Dark Types. Noivern is a Telepathy user who can serve as the Tailwind setter. I ran Tailwind, Draco Meteor, Heat Wave, and Shadow Ball with the White Herb to restore Draco stats from falling. Tera Fire to boost Heat Wave btw. Unfortunately he doesn't OHKO a lot of the time, except for other dragons, so usually he's just setting Tailwind and then dying. But again, he does outspeed the vast majority of Pokemon so it's generally a guaranteed Tailwind barring Choice Scarf or Dragapult lol. The other Pokemon I used were Dragapult and Skeledirge. Dragapult used Power Herb to hit Phantom Force in one turn, which did wonders against the insane numbers of Annihilape and Gholdengo on everyone's teams. Skeledirge was the one I used the least and was just a typical Life Orb Sp Attacker. If you can manage to get Tailwind off and set Toxtricity up next to a Helping Hand user, then you're pretty much OHKOing anything that doesn't resist Normal attacks. Electrode using Metal Sound makes Steel/Rock types get OHKOed a lot of the time as well. Obviously his biggest issue is Ghost types, which is why I put so many on the team to hopefully scare them off a bit lol. He also suffers from priority moves. I'll be honest, I only won like 50% of my matches, but pulling it off is super satisfying, especially against all of these absurdly OP teams all over the ladder. But seriously, give Electrode a shot as a support mon. Nobody ever expects it and he goes first like 95% of the time.
I played against a variation of this team a few days ago and was caught so off-guard by it. It had a Gengar instead of a Sableye however, I'm guessing for potential anti-Fairy shenanigans with poison damage. But that Toxtricity's boomburst with an immune Gengar on the side absolutely blasted my 2 mons into kingdom come at that point. Pretty sure the only reason I even won that match was because I got a crit on both Toxtricity and Gengar with a Garchomp earthquake.
Super fun team and great gameplay, Aaron! Love the commentary, always helps me get bettter! An italian pro Femapu made this awesome team that utilizes a unique Guts Hariyama with Tera Normal Facade and Fake Out. DVKFUK if you want to try it too!
I love these videos I play a lot of road to ranked and am wanting to start competing and I watch every single one of these and will also send them to my friends that play too. Keep up the good work! Love what you do
Loooooving the videos man! And especially love this team idea. I was curious who you’d recommend as a replacement for Tsareena if i wanted to use someone else for that slot
I’ve been enjoying Rain this generation using the Ryota (I’m pretty sure?) Team on Victory Road. I made it to masterball tier for the first time ever using it and it definitely taught me a lot about which Pokémon to lead, useful times to switch and predicting what your opponent will do etc.
Cybertron: “with 2 dark types I’m not sure about sableye due to no quash” Me: but boomburst. Cybertron: “I’m not sure about going..” Me: yeah but boomburst This is why Cybertron is the true competitive player and not me 😅
Normal Tera Toxtricity has been amazing in high level raids so I'm not surprised to see it on a team like this too. Boomburst is my favorite attack, so I'm always hyped to see it in action!
Ikr? Why is it that sand gets two weather setters but everyone else only gets one? It’s not enough that Tyranitar is a much better standalone poke as it is. Damn you Gamefreak and your blatant favoritism 😑
I build a team like 2 weeks ago with Toxtri and Ceruledge to take down the ghost imun to boomburst. Seems pretty strong ^^ i featured it with Tsareena defensive pivot for Queenly Majesty and momentum. It's amazing how much boomburst deal ! Gholdengo walls it completely but Ceruledge OKHO it so it's fine :) The main problems with Toxtricity boomburst are ghost imunity and priority mooves cause he have no bulk. You have Tsareena for the prio and Ceruledge for the ghost type.
I reckon weather in general is gonna get more popular as snow teams slowly creep into the meta, and in that case it’ll be sun that counters snow harder with given the type context so rain would have to work pretty hard to keep up imo
QOTD: The ban on paradox mons and chi yu hinders sun and with snow being relativly under explored, rain seems like the best weather with Palafin running around. 9/10.
I played the exact matchup you did in G2, but I was playing Aaron's team vs the tox team. I led Tatsugiri and Hydregon planning on double up on tox before it can pop off. I got faked out on hydregon and the tatsugiri draco meteor did not one-shot the tox and the tox boombursted everything to death. It was nuts. If I had terra'd the hydragon I might have had a chance.
With the advent of open sheet tournaments I feel like having Choice items on Pokémon like Toxtricity or Gholdengo is a death sentence. You basically set yourself up to walk into a Wide Guard
QOTD: 5/10 the swift swimmers are what lets rain down this gen. Drednaw, golduck are probably the 2 best Beartic might be ok if it didn’t have 50 speed and you’re gonna have to Tera water it most times to optimise it and that’s just super predictable
QOTD: I'd give Rain a 4.5/10 After messing about on Showdown for a while with Pelipper and a few different Swift Swimmers and whiffing KOs by just a couple percent when I really needed pick them up left me pretty underwhelmed. I also felt as though sometimes bringing Pelipper resulted in a 50/50 a lot with Pelipper either being offensively very scary, or like I was playing 3v4. But just because I couldn't crack the code doesn't make rain bad or unfun. I'm typing this well before finishing the video, so maybe it can change my mind!
I saw a crazy good arboliva team a couple of days ago that did work as a supportive wall that was just hard to get rid of and destroyed me. Lol. They exist! Only a matter of time before Aaron finds a team with it.
QOTD: I think rain is super slept on. There are so many good water types this gen, like palafin and dondozo. As well as Kilowattrel that can be used like a discount zapdos. I'd love to see a swift swimmer absolutely dominate the meta out of nowhere, feels like a matter of time
Wassup Aaron, thanks as always for the vids. I wanted to ask if you take team submissions, and if so, where can we send them? I've made a team that might not necessarily be the best, but it features one interesting Pokemon in particular that I think would be fun to see in action! Speaking of teams, LOVED this one! Got a random shiny Sableye in my playthrough so I'm definitely gonna add in that Sableye + Toxtricity duo at some point. Awesome matches.
What's the Pokemon? Not sure about Aaron, but MoxieBoosted is starting a video series where he only plays viewer teams that feature unique Pokemon, he talks about it at the beginning of one of his recent videos. I think it's his video about spidops.
Great question! In testing I found waterfall and liquidation got the same amount of KO's and the flinch chance when they didn't get KO's was more appealing to me. Also more than once I got the liquidation defense drop onto a defiant user (there's a lot of them in the meta) and giving them that huge attack boost lost me the game
As amazing as always Although in that Tatsugiri matchup at 31:20 why wouldn't you Tera Fairy + Play Rough the Tatsugiri? That way you dodge the Draco Meteor + potentially kill it with super effective STAB play rough
I was using choice scarf Toxicitry, I will definetly change to choice specs! The only problem is that I see a lot of ghost Pokémon on team so having ghost/dark on the teammates is crucial
Definitely agree here, I think this is why people like Wolfey for example run Pixilate Sylveon with Hyper Voice / Throat Spray instead of a boomburst tox or noivern, because it will get that type change to Fairy and be able to connect on all the good ghost types.
Any reason for Waterfall over Liquidation on Drednaw? I know Waterfall flinching is pretty sick when it goes off was just curious cause Liquidation does just a little bit more damage so could secure a couple more knock outs, and the minus defense can also really mess up anything physically tanky.
Yeah! In testing I found both waterfall liquidation got the same KO's and missed out on the same KO's so I wanted the flinch chance to get out of tricky situations and also more than once I got the defense drop on a defiant annihilape/kingambit which makes things really difficult
I brought my normal terra toxtricity in-game to a team star base and silk scarf normal tera punk rock boom burst ohko ed all of the Pokémon aside from the car, which was a 2hko. Toxtricity is busted, and all of this is super easy to get if you know where to go.
Just some constructive feedback, it looks like there was some video delay to the audio at beginning during the intro. Been really enjoying your vids as someone who's been playing pokemon forever but never got into doubles
