Yo guys, as you see I am absolutely struggling with baby this week and wouldn't mind any advice in the comment section on how to play it better. I've been going 7th and 8th nonstop trying to get a video out so any help on how to improve with baby would be appreciated.
@@justincorreia1760 im not worried about my elo dropping. But baby so far has been extremely stressful lol. I dont think ill play it ever again after this week haha. it feels horrible to play because you need to wait for the egg to hatch. then you need to wait 5 stages per evolutiom and you dont have the Hp to wait for it to get stronger.
Yo man, appreciate the consistent content. While I enjoy the baby content, I'd still prefer you just play whatever the game serves you. The PAC content is not very saturated right now, which to me, indicates that the content doesn't need to be innovated. I just wanna watch you make some great, and hopefully sometimes unique combinations and teams, and get them 1st places! Anyways thats just my ten cents, hope you're doing good
I think the biggest tip for your baby week would be spend some time learning about items that are generally good and using them on a carrier tp help you. You lost so much hp even after throwing items on in item paralysis so not only are you losing baby hp looking for eggs you loose all the hp after your pivot. Most range single target carriers in the game want 2 atk speed 1 damage items (atk or ap depending on the mon) Good luck with the rest of baby week! You got this!
This is good advice I'll keep this in mind. It's not just good baby advice it's good general advice. Although what would these "attack speed" items be? the only one I can think of thats for AD is upgrade. I know blue orb is an AP one. What else is there?
@@Zolrain The two magnets together is good. Upgrade is great even for non ap units as it is scaling atk speed. Blue orb is more niche. Then I like soul dew or red orb depending on the unit. Most range attackers can take 1 atk speed and either red orb or soul dew and just become monsters. Especially if running fire or electric. You also don't need 2 atk speed items if you want a more defensive item as well but if you have a good front line and can protect the range unit then that is super strong.
Good try, good try! I will note, for Vikavolt, it's much more of an Electric mon than it is a Bug - especially if Joltik is an added pick (because then you get two Bug mons that are also both Electric). That's why its items are what they are: attack speed (to trigger Electric's multi-attack more quickly) and Power Gem/Punching Glove (for chip off of that multi-attack). It's not *bad* as a Bug, by any means - 3-range is really good - but it doesn't really have a huge impact/fit all too well in the most powerful Bug comps (Bug/Flying being the most notable). In my mind, it's strictly inferior to Yanma, if that's easier to understand. That said, Staraptor would have, ironically, fit way better in the comp you were going for here. Your endgame board would have gotten Normal off of it, that early Pidgeot, and Beautifly, in addition to a whole lot of Flying/Bug mons you already had on lock.
@@burnstile321 yeah sadly wr just did staraptor and the goal is to give as many hatch mons a shot this week :(. but noted that electric is better for vikavolt!
@@Zolrain Yeeee, I saw, I saw! Might be worth revisiting some time and putting all the added advice and stuff to good use. On the note of general advice, though: I think you'll find it more and more difficult to force new hatch mons as you go along in this series. I'm sure you already knew that, since it's simply just less likely to hit a certain hatch the less there are in the pool, but I'm also meaning in like... In terms of the conventional value of the Baby synergy contrasting the risk involved. The later you get an egg (and unless you're very lucky, that'll just get later and later throughout the week), the more value the hatched mon has *specifically* as a synergy filler/mon that you don't have to fuss over - this is in contrast to getting one early, where it can become a synergy selector/pivot pick/potential carry. Playing a *late* Baby board in anything less than 7 is really tough; at that point, unless you have a good Stone to ensure it's part of the synergy, it probably won't contribute much/get sold unless it's already a (lucky) good synergy fit, basically (Axew is a godsend in that, given a Stone gives it its Dragon-doubled synergy; it and the Water/Sound hatches are probably the only late hatches worth putting on the board, owing to the power they give to those comps). That said, I understand that's not in the spirit of the Baby Week, kek. I can only wish you good luck, in that respect, and advise you to maybe try to get lucky with Baby 3 → 5 not as a *core* strat, but an accent to a purposeful Loss Streak early on. The change in mentality - that the Baby Synergy is largely for economics, and a way of pressing a greater advantage on top of intentional early-game Loss Streak strats - might help with the mental load. And if you don't get a hatch you want? Pivot off and play what you can with all that added money if elo's a consideration! Can't speak for others, but the last thing I'd want is for you to get fed up with the strat and upset with the game. I think it'd also be an educational vid for the Synergy itself, since the intended/continued loss stuff *is* pivotal to all Baby strats on some level. 'Playing with Baby, without the Baby', kek.
RIP my guy, maybe you can just try the 3 or 5 babies if you get em before stage 10 and give it a few tries, otherwise might be just bad. Im still here for it either way 💪
Not a pro baby player or anything but whenever I go baby I try to get two eggs one to build in a synergy I’m comfortable with and since ik im playing baby (a late game strat) I’ll shoot for fossil to get an elemental stone so I can have a second strong baby unit to evolve on its own by late game (water works well with its ap bonus)
you could just drop the babies if u get so a good start ,and save the video for later or double content i dunno but i feel the stress in these games,makes u play with a lot of mistakes. Anyways, keep it up with the baby week /o/
The problem is due to when I record and whdn my videos go up I need to get a video out the next day. So I have to try and get something out asap since Its really late when I record and my videos go up at 10am PST
I feel like I cant really afford to look for a specific baby when i switch it in, the nerfs to Baby hit super hard :( if i have a strong start in something else then I'll keep just playing that with whatever I get and see if a full pivot is worth it later -- recently ended up having a really fun Gothitelle Psychic/Human game after a crazy good Ground start. I also feel like Baby 3 is the most worth running as early as possible, when the health doesnt matter as much and i can get 3 star ASAP. Then if I find Baby 5 while waiting for the first egg I can try a few more rolls.
Yo guys, as you see I am absolutely struggling with baby this week and wouldn't mind any advice in the comment section on how to play it better. I've been going 7th and 8th nonstop trying to get a video out so any help on how to improve with baby would be appreciated.
My best tip is to create another account for difficult weeks so you don't lose too much elo and become discouraged. Keep up the great vids my guy!
@@justincorreia1760 im not worried about my elo dropping. But baby so far has been extremely stressful lol. I dont think ill play it ever again after this week haha. it feels horrible to play because you need to wait for the egg to hatch. then you need to wait 5 stages per evolutiom and you dont have the Hp to wait for it to get stronger.
Yo man, appreciate the consistent content. While I enjoy the baby content, I'd still prefer you just play whatever the game serves you. The PAC content is not very saturated right now, which to me, indicates that the content doesn't need to be innovated. I just wanna watch you make some great, and hopefully sometimes unique combinations and teams, and get them 1st places!
Anyways thats just my ten cents, hope you're doing good
@@drumfir it's just for the week and I promised the baby week... as much as It's torturing me and losing me elo.
Yeah man go for it I def don't mind it with babies. Maybe don't do it after round 15 tho kinda hard to get lvl 3 then
I was screaming when you skipped that igglybuff when you were looking for the 5th baby
What an INSANE start. Shame how it ended, but it looks like youre slowly getting the hang of it! Great video.
I think the biggest tip for your baby week would be spend some time learning about items that are generally good and using them on a carrier tp help you. You lost so much hp even after throwing items on in item paralysis so not only are you losing baby hp looking for eggs you loose all the hp after your pivot.
Most range single target carriers in the game want 2 atk speed 1 damage items (atk or ap depending on the mon)
Good luck with the rest of baby week! You got this!
This is good advice I'll keep this in mind. It's not just good baby advice it's good general advice. Although what would these "attack speed" items be? the only one I can think of thats for AD is upgrade. I know blue orb is an AP one. What else is there?
@@Zolrain the glass? Would be good for both
@@Zolrain The two magnets together is good. Upgrade is great even for non ap units as it is scaling atk speed. Blue orb is more niche. Then I like soul dew or red orb depending on the unit.
Most range attackers can take 1 atk speed and either red orb or soul dew and just become monsters. Especially if running fire or electric.
You also don't need 2 atk speed items if you want a more defensive item as well but if you have a good front line and can protect the range unit then that is super strong.
Good try, good try!
I will note, for Vikavolt, it's much more of an Electric mon than it is a Bug - especially if Joltik is an added pick (because then you get two Bug mons that are also both Electric). That's why its items are what they are: attack speed (to trigger Electric's multi-attack more quickly) and Power Gem/Punching Glove (for chip off of that multi-attack). It's not *bad* as a Bug, by any means - 3-range is really good - but it doesn't really have a huge impact/fit all too well in the most powerful Bug comps (Bug/Flying being the most notable). In my mind, it's strictly inferior to Yanma, if that's easier to understand.
That said, Staraptor would have, ironically, fit way better in the comp you were going for here. Your endgame board would have gotten Normal off of it, that early Pidgeot, and Beautifly, in addition to a whole lot of Flying/Bug mons you already had on lock.
@@burnstile321 yeah sadly wr just did staraptor and the goal is to give as many hatch mons a shot this week :(. but noted that electric is better for vikavolt!
@@Zolrain Yeeee, I saw, I saw! Might be worth revisiting some time and putting all the added advice and stuff to good use.
On the note of general advice, though: I think you'll find it more and more difficult to force new hatch mons as you go along in this series. I'm sure you already knew that, since it's simply just less likely to hit a certain hatch the less there are in the pool, but I'm also meaning in like... In terms of the conventional value of the Baby synergy contrasting the risk involved. The later you get an egg (and unless you're very lucky, that'll just get later and later throughout the week), the more value the hatched mon has *specifically* as a synergy filler/mon that you don't have to fuss over - this is in contrast to getting one early, where it can become a synergy selector/pivot pick/potential carry. Playing a *late* Baby board in anything less than 7 is really tough; at that point, unless you have a good Stone to ensure it's part of the synergy, it probably won't contribute much/get sold unless it's already a (lucky) good synergy fit, basically (Axew is a godsend in that, given a Stone gives it its Dragon-doubled synergy; it and the Water/Sound hatches are probably the only late hatches worth putting on the board, owing to the power they give to those comps).
That said, I understand that's not in the spirit of the Baby Week, kek. I can only wish you good luck, in that respect, and advise you to maybe try to get lucky with Baby 3 → 5 not as a *core* strat, but an accent to a purposeful Loss Streak early on. The change in mentality - that the Baby Synergy is largely for economics, and a way of pressing a greater advantage on top of intentional early-game Loss Streak strats - might help with the mental load. And if you don't get a hatch you want? Pivot off and play what you can with all that added money if elo's a consideration! Can't speak for others, but the last thing I'd want is for you to get fed up with the strat and upset with the game. I think it'd also be an educational vid for the Synergy itself, since the intended/continued loss stuff *is* pivotal to all Baby strats on some level. 'Playing with Baby, without the Baby', kek.
RIP my guy, maybe you can just try the 3 or 5 babies if you get em before stage 10 and give it a few tries, otherwise might be just bad. Im still here for it either way 💪
oh trust me dude ive tried it all I am going dead last.
@Zolrain oof. Yeah idk man if it's too annoying I'd probably play other synergies for a bit, then maybe jump back in so you don't go insane lolol
Not a pro baby player or anything but whenever I go baby I try to get two eggs one to build in a synergy I’m comfortable with and since ik im playing baby (a late game strat) I’ll shoot for fossil to get an elemental stone so I can have a second strong baby unit to evolve on its own by late game (water works well with its ap bonus)
you could just drop the babies if u get so a good start ,and save the video for later or double content i dunno
but i feel the stress in these games,makes u play with a lot of mistakes.
Anyways, keep it up with the baby week /o/
The problem is due to when I record and whdn my videos go up I need to get a video out the next day. So I have to try and get something out asap since Its really late when I record and my videos go up at 10am PST
I feel like I cant really afford to look for a specific baby when i switch it in, the nerfs to Baby hit super hard :( if i have a strong start in something else then I'll keep just playing that with whatever I get and see if a full pivot is worth it later -- recently ended up having a really fun Gothitelle Psychic/Human game after a crazy good Ground start.
I also feel like Baby 3 is the most worth running as early as possible, when the health doesnt matter as much and i can get 3 star ASAP. Then if I find Baby 5 while waiting for the first egg I can try a few more rolls.
@@solDelta This is my problem as well. I may have decided to do baby week a little too late
@@Zolrain yeah, pre-nerf it would've been a lot easier to get a game going, Baby 7 is way too much of a commitment for me now lmfao
how can someone skip somany babys while searching 4 them :Ocant watch that hahahaha
@@tomasgneiding7428 frick did I do it again. this was like my 5th game it was getting late I just wanted sleep :(