A 10% miss chance followed by a 50% faint means there was only a 5% chance of losing from that position (less if you count the crit). Definitely outplayed them, only the dice gave them the win.
@@cheetahofthewind13 "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not. I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them. One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
@@jimmicrackhead12 as another person stated "Your opponent had only a 4.6875% chance to win that game from the final position and did. That is unlucky." literally a 1/20 chance and he played everything right
@@jimmicrackhead12 I'm very sure someone like Freezeai would admit when a win gets ridiculously rigged in his favor by luck. RNG rolls really just screwed him here this game.
Your opponent had only a 4.79167% chance to win that game from the final position and did. That is unlucky. Edit: I used the old crit odds of 1/16 instead of the current crit odds of 1/24. I corrected the mistake
@@archlorddestin damn the projection. The op literally pointed out that the chance opponent winning the game was non 0 lmao its really funny to be called a kid by a school dropout. You are the kind of guy to blame the failures of your life on luck lol.
I tried it on a trick room team in singles, and while it probably wasn't worth it, there was a really fun interaction that came up a fair bit - glastrier would get a swords dance with trick room up and the opponent would dance around with defensive pivots to avoid losing a mon. Then, when trick room ends, they would fire a supereffective stab like pyro ball at it, which glastrier would tank and 1-shot them in response with a neutral move. The horse is just built different.
I didn't know much about the NU metagame before watching this series, but it looks like late-game Grimmsnarl, especially with Tera, is extremely difficult to deal with. It has a number of counters, but most of those are banned from NU.
Grimmsnarl was actually banned from NU for a while, I think it got unbanned semi recently due to drops from home. I may be misremembering though and it got suspected but not banned. I definitely know that Pokeaim and Rabia (who is the NU tier leader) have talked about it being too strong, so they may just not want to ban it since we're only a little more than 2 months away from a ton of pokemon dropping into NU from DLC1
I would've expected you to go for High Horsepower, given the 95% accuracy (better than 90% of Icicle Crash and since you get outsped you can't flinch) and the fact that 2/3 common Grimsnarl terra types (steel and fire) are weak to it. Still, luck wasn't on your side and hadn't it been for bad luck you could've secured the game way earlier. Keep up the good work!
@@senny- Yeah, but Substitute would have let him scout out the tera, and as we see Grimmsnarl go for the second Bulk UP (which it had to in order to deal with Shaymin), he could have gotten 2 High Horsepowers Off, which is more accurate and been super effective.
In hindsight clicking High Horsepower would've been this safest choice (bar tera flying) because it would have a much likelier chance of providing crucial chip even if the guess was wrong about the tera fire
another prime example of why i could never play comp pokemon outplaying your opponent/playing correctly at every turn, and then having the win taken from you because "lolrng" would send me off the deep end
that's the competitive pokemon experience, if you can't handle losing to a dice roll, you probably should stop playing i personally stopped playing showdown after i lost an unlosable match because of 2 lucky ice beam freezes (my pokemon never unthawed)
You're making the right choice. Pokemon will never be a good estimation of skill based play because criticals, flinches, paras, misses, and damage rolls always matter too much. Pokemon is only ever who was better at avoiding cancerous rng.
I legitimately stopped playing pokemon because of the misses punishing what was otherwise a perfectly played strategic move. Sorry you had to take an L over one.
@@TurtleBoxOfficial It would've paid off because Grimmsnarl needed to be at +2 to even have a chance at knocking out Shaymin. Sub was his safest play there
It's easy to say in hindsight but what was the drawback of clicking high horsepower? It has higher accuracy and even though it's not stab it would still hit terra dark decently hard and in that case copperajah would probably be able to kill after grimsnarl has been hit twice by either attack.
I would have used High Horsepower instead of Icicle Miss. Slightly better accuracy could have won you the game regardless of what the tera type was, and you just need damage on the Grimmsnarl considering you have 2 more pokemon in the back.
IMO highhors was always the play against grims. If dark, fire and steel are the only teras, ground is at least neutral to all of them. Furthermore you are at +1, so you surely deal enough damage to finish it with copper without risking shaymin and denying leftovers recovery of that turn. Also hhp is more accurate than icicle crash
@@Adrian-ck2nsI don't think he played perfectly either. He risked missing air slash on the salazzle that was faster than his entire team and was at+2. I understand that he didn't want the Scyther coming for free but he had counterplay to that, if he missed the air slash he would have been in a terrible position and forced to tera because his team was extremely slow
The effort of recording the hypotheticals and everything in game for the showdown battle is so worth it. Even going as far as obscuring information in the re-enactments to not confuse the audience 👏👏👏👏
Yeah I noticed that too. He used earth power against salazzle with his shaymin in the recreation when he actually clicked air slash in the original game
I don't understand the decision for Icicle Crash. Even if its tera dark, high horsepower twice is still fine? why even bother risking the play on icicle crash resist (and its 5% less accurate anyway)
I have been practicing NU and I think eviolite piloswine could be quite good. With its low speed avalanche will almost always be 120 base power. Combined with great bulk I think it is amazing.
8:39 You've made the grave mistake of saying earthquake instead of earth Power. As punishment you shall now be laughed at by the viewers who see this comment (so no one because this comment is made more than a nanosecond after the video was published)
I’m not even trying to be mean or anything but I don’t understand the icicle crash play. High horsepower is super effective against 2/3 tera and IC is resisted by 2/3. You said yourself it was either bulk up or sucker Punch so either way substitute would’ve worked for an extra hit and won you the game maybe I’m missing something but I think you threw
8:35 couldn’t you have hard switched into the elephant and then healing wish with shaymin then healed the horse to high horse power? Or would that not work as I’m thinking
Very well done being so normal and okay with having bad luck, it happens to everyone. Some people might have started an '"unfortunate" doesn't even begin to describe my series' moment
I think the High Horsepower was the better play instead of Icicle Crash, less chance to miss and since Grimmsnarl Tera Fire was called out before the tera.
The rolls were definitely brutal and luck wasnt on Freezai's side here, but unfortunately i dont think Icicle Crash was the right play here. Euther sub to scout the tera or go High Horse Power which is super effective or neutral to each possible tera type and has a lower chance to miss. Much easier to see in hindsight though.
3 coin flip fails (the two speed ties plus the sucker punch ko) followed by the 10% miss on icicle crash feels so bad. the rng is a big part of why ive drifted away from competetive pokemon in recent years
what an unbelievably unlucky match. you lost like 3 50/50s back to back, and didnt get one crit. keep rocking though! that was an amazing strategy to cook off, good on ya.
If we assume equal probability of opponent tera choices for grimmsnarl (including not terastalysing), HHP has a higher EV than Icicle Crash. Accounting for accuracy and STAB, HHP's average power in that scenario is 136.75 while Icicle Crash's is only 114.75. That said, this changes depending on the relative probability of each tera type; HHP only wins out as long as Fire/Steel stay close to a 40% probability. I think it's up for debate which is the correct move in that scenario.
Makes zero sense that both horses are slower than when they are ridden by calyrex. Also hate the calyrex rider gimmick cos it's supposed to be one pokemon in the slot. The thing has two abilities as well. Maushold is another one which breaks this rule, ut at least calyrex has a good design. Calyrex rider should be like tatsugiri. Both hit the field and then become one pokemon attacking from one slot. Dugtrio and magneton i put in the same category as dodrio, weezing and hydreigon etc. Multiple heads, sure, but all attached to the same body. Anyway, that's my mini rant over. If anyone disagrees, idc, it's dumb when any franchise breaks their own rules and copium when fans make excuses which they think make it acceptable.
The fuck man? Its their rule, they update it whenever they want. Its fine if you dont like it, but cmon, do you really have to attack everyone else like that?
@@saiyaddanapudi9216 you forgot fallinks. I wasn't trying to list every pokemon that broke the rule so to speak, just a few to point out how dumb calyrex rider is.
@@walaceandrade4046 attack everyone? No, not at all, just the people who lack the logic to see that my argument makes complete sense. Calyrex rider is two pokemon. Not a fusion, not a pokemon with additional heads, it's simply two pokemon on the field at once. It's called singles and doubles. They never changed that. It has been canon since gen 1 that only one pokemon can be on the field during a singles battle. They didn't change that rule, they just had a design they wanted to use and all other logic was ignored. As i said, copium.
" It has been canon since gen 1 that only one pokemon can be on the field during a singles battle" Yet you acknowledge Kangaskhan exists and fits that rule. Also i dont think its that serious ? Like i dont understand why youre so upset about something thats just a design choice to portray the Pokemons in question better. I generally dont understand people who get upset about tiny stuff like this because it breaks the head canon rules they have, again Kangaskhan exists since gen 1 and was always two pokemon in on sprite/slot.
Speedties that brings back memories of the most brutal game I remember a Venusaur and my heatran were engaging each other and every time he's Venusaur was faster it was always able to pull off a synthesis before I could finish it off with heatran. This happened about 10 times then we got stuck into a bit of a stool wall with it than both being our last Pokemon and I just kept hitting it with my lava plume hoping for a crit. Then all of a sudden my lava plume went first. The only way this could have happened is a speed tie and he had just won a ridiculous amount back to back
No luck on ties and accuracy. But rely on a critical hit for a win is kind of a bad sign about your odds of winning. Why not setup a Trick Room for Glastrier? Anyway, keep sharing your matchs. I discovered strategy, NU tier and SCL some days ago and your channel make me wanna integrate a team one day or another 😊
i am really really enjoying your videos on these tourney sets but wow is all the times you have been losing to rng reminding me why i dont invest that much time into competitive pokemon
idk if you read comments but these videos have inspired me to finally drop the hell that is randbatts and start building teams but i got no idea, do you know any resources i can use? thanks
Freezai’s like, “Glastrier sucks. It’s banned in PU, the worst tier but doesn’t have a niche in NU, and you have to build your entire team around Glastrier terastallizing. My team needs a win because we’re trying for the playoffs. That’s why I decided to use Glastrier.” This is mostly sarcasm; obviously the opponent also picked Glastrier and it isn’t an insta-throw by picking it or anything, but this is kinda Freezai’s theme for this series so far.
I’m only a minute into the vid but my instinct is just… Tera steel? Take great defensive stats, give it the best defensive monotype in the game. That’s gotta be at least SOMEWHAT better. Then maybe trickroom? Idk
A shame, as I like Glastrier's design more than Spectrier's. I wtill maintain that when Fairy debuted in Gen 6, Ice Type should have resisted it. I mean it's not like Fairy would suddenly become less powerful, and Ice would still be one of the worst defensive types. But if you're taking the dragon killer aspect of ice away, at least it can gain something in return. It would also make sense lorewise, as Fairies in myth would lose powers in times of decay and little growth, ie winter.
I don't understand the point of clicking icicle crash, why did you not just simply click high horsepower against the grimm? i mean i get it, it might have still missed, and you wanted the most damage from a stab ice move, but the terastalization seemed obvious to me. I would have probably click high horsepower (and missed and lost the game) but you are international player man, not me
Honestly I always preferred Glastrier to Spectrier just because he's at least trying to be something unique. Spectrier is just gengar on steroids, it's a fast special sweeper, oh boy, we've never heard of that. Sure grim neigh is special moxie but still, it's the same song, different player. Glastrier is a moxie trickroom sweeper. Sure it's not that unique, but it's better than a fast special sweeper
I think this game is the pinnacle of showing just how much RNG can negatively impact a game. You literally had everything go wrong luck wise and still almost won, so you should honestly still be proud of the game and the way you played it.
It is not better to use avanlache because since it is slow they will always hit you first and avalanche when the user receives damage doubles the power it would be 120 and on top of that with 100 precision better than 80 power and 90 precision ?
Not to be that guy (you played excellently and lost due to the rng tbh) but you could have clicked substitute in the grimmsnarl predicting a Tera and would have been able to high horsepower the next turn
I think they should give Glastrier ice shard. It wouldn't make it op because of its low bp and while its strong and bulky, its still an ice type which means it is frail, no matter what its stats say, and that would also make it a lot more fun to use in general
i can see why its not used in singles since its hard to make trick room teams work there but genuinely have no clue why its not used in vgc/doubles because paired with something like trick room/instruct oranguru its really good
Can anyone explain how he got footage on S/V for the Pokemon battles when he played on Showdown? Did he put in the effort to mirror the battle for the videos?
Why risk the resisted icicle crash when either way high horsepower would be good, either its a neutral hit or super effective vs stab neutral or stab resist, I get playing for the flinch but high horse power would just do more damage on average there
I some times use this pokemon with this set Glastrier @ Leftovers Ability: Chilling Neigh Tera Type: Electric EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD Adamant Nature - Avalanche - Tera Blast - Heavy Slam - Protect
Calurex ice eu uso ele muito bom não sei por q não udam mais ele eu dou speed swap já q ele é lento the resto seu golpe de gelo já basta raramente toma one hit ko se o oponente não estiver bufado o articuno também é bom alguém mim aconselha a articuno também é bom
Those speed ties were brutal
Typical nu tier where the best 2 mons speed tie each other
@@daunderrated3106Unless you're Jolteon, then it's a game of who switches out first
Damn three 50% chance misses plus the 10% Icicle Crash miss is rough. You played really well and the team comp was great.
A 10% miss chance followed by a 50% faint means there was only a 5% chance of losing from that position (less if you count the crit). Definitely outplayed them, only the dice gave them the win.
Pokémon can be bs some times
i'd still take a lose like that then a lost were you get waterfall flinched 5 times in a row by a gyarados
@@cheetahofthewind130.000032% chance 💀
@@cheetahofthewind13 "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not.
I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them.
One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
“Unfortunate doesn’t begin to describe my series…”
Man was the luck in that game really in your opponent's favor.
No excuses
kay why es @@jimmicrackhead12
@@jimmicrackhead12 as another person stated "Your opponent had only a 4.6875% chance to win that game from the final position and did. That is unlucky." literally a 1/20 chance and he played everything right
@@KovertCorteX if it was the other way round he wouldn't have said damn I should have lost though
@@jimmicrackhead12 I'm very sure someone like Freezeai would admit when a win gets ridiculously rigged in his favor by luck. RNG rolls really just screwed him here this game.
Your opponent had only a 4.79167% chance to win that game from the final position and did. That is unlucky.
Edit: I used the old crit odds of 1/16 instead of the current crit odds of 1/24. I corrected the mistake
Luck is a skill, stop crying
@@Striker-xx5cu Just because some basic maths makes you cry doesn't mean everyone struggles as much kiddo.
@@archlorddestin damn the projection. The op literally pointed out that the chance opponent winning the game was non 0 lmao its really funny to be called a kid by a school dropout. You are the kind of guy to blame the failures of your life on luck lol.
@@Striker-xx5cuYou seem like an insufferable shithead LOL
@@Striker-xx5cu I mean, going on a very immature rant doesn't really disprove my assumption that you are a child.
I always liked using it on Gimmick trick room/weakness policy teams in Gen 8 doubles. Glad to see it at least be remembered
Its still a monster in doubles with av, snow buff, aurora veil and chilling neigh boosts even outside of trickroom. Ppl just aint caught on yet.
@@grapenut6094ThAT cAnT bE tRuE cUz It’S FoRgOtTeN
I tried it on a trick room team in singles, and while it probably wasn't worth it, there was a really fun interaction that came up a fair bit - glastrier would get a swords dance with trick room up and the opponent would dance around with defensive pivots to avoid losing a mon. Then, when trick room ends, they would fire a supereffective stab like pyro ball at it, which glastrier would tank and 1-shot them in response with a neutral move. The horse is just built different.
I didn't know much about the NU metagame before watching this series, but it looks like late-game Grimmsnarl, especially with Tera, is extremely difficult to deal with. It has a number of counters, but most of those are banned from NU.
Grimmsnarl was actually banned from NU for a while, I think it got unbanned semi recently due to drops from home. I may be misremembering though and it got suspected but not banned. I definitely know that Pokeaim and Rabia (who is the NU tier leader) have talked about it being too strong, so they may just not want to ban it since we're only a little more than 2 months away from a ton of pokemon dropping into NU from DLC1
I would've expected you to go for High Horsepower, given the 95% accuracy (better than 90% of Icicle Crash and since you get outsped you can't flinch) and the fact that 2/3 common Grimsnarl terra types (steel and fire) are weak to it. Still, luck wasn't on your side and hadn't it been for bad luck you could've secured the game way earlier. Keep up the good work!
The safest move was substitute actually, because Grimmsnarl needed that first bulk up to win and feeezai knew it.
@@posobiohe still needs all the damage he can dish out, or else he'll lose. I guess he tunnel-visioned on that.
@@senny- Yeah, but Substitute would have let him scout out the tera, and as we see Grimmsnarl go for the second Bulk UP (which it had to in order to deal with Shaymin), he could have gotten 2 High Horsepowers Off, which is more accurate and been super effective.
In hindsight clicking High Horsepower would've been this safest choice (bar tera flying) because it would have a much likelier chance of providing crucial chip even if the guess was wrong about the tera fire
Well that or sub
Those rolls were brutal, hopefully it comes back around, love the videos keep up the good work!
another prime example of why i could never play comp pokemon
outplaying your opponent/playing correctly at every turn, and then having the win taken from you because "lolrng" would send me off the deep end
It's just a Pokémon game, my brother.
that's the competitive pokemon experience, if you can't handle losing to a dice roll, you probably should stop playing
i personally stopped playing showdown after i lost an unlosable match because of 2 lucky ice beam freezes (my pokemon never unthawed)
Fair, I play a lot of ladder, but I think I'd lose my enjoyment if I ever tried in an actual tournament, I get tilted too easily.
You're making the right choice. Pokemon will never be a good estimation of skill based play because criticals, flinches, paras, misses, and damage rolls always matter too much. Pokemon is only ever who was better at avoiding cancerous rng.
He could have just clicked high horsepower instead of crash. When u play Pokémon you’re aware of these dice rolls
- "forgotten legendary"
- *opponents team has it as well
I legitimately stopped playing pokemon because of the misses punishing what was otherwise a perfectly played strategic move. Sorry you had to take an L over one.
Unfortune doesn't even begin to-
Wouldn't substitute in front of the Grimmsnarl be safer? Thos way you don't have to worry about sucker / bulk up
Still not doing the damage you need to be doing. Only delaying the game and not really paying off with sub.
@@TurtleBoxOfficial It would've paid off because Grimmsnarl needed to be at +2 to even have a chance at knocking out Shaymin. Sub was his safest play there
@@spinceiling7442 safest play after the fact vs the play that plays into risk / reward are two different things.
He made the right play,
It's easy to say in hindsight but what was the drawback of clicking high horsepower? It has higher accuracy and even though it's not stab it would still hit terra dark decently hard and in that case copperajah would probably be able to kill after grimsnarl has been hit twice by either attack.
copperajah would just die to the tera dark boosted crunch, it lived on like 2% without the tera boost
I would have used High Horsepower instead of Icicle Miss. Slightly better accuracy could have won you the game regardless of what the tera type was, and you just need damage on the Grimmsnarl considering you have 2 more pokemon in the back.
IMO highhors was always the play against grims. If dark, fire and steel are the only teras, ground is at least neutral to all of them. Furthermore you are at +1, so you surely deal enough damage to finish it with copper without risking shaymin and denying leftovers recovery of that turn. Also hhp is more accurate than icicle crash
He still lost on every single coin flip which is fucking awful, should have won that game imo but welp sometimes pokemon happens
@@TetraBui for sure he was really unlucky with the 50/50s and played perfectly the rest of the game, I was not hating just explaining my point of view
@@Adrian-ck2nsI don't think he played perfectly either. He risked missing air slash on the salazzle that was faster than his entire team and was at+2. I understand that he didn't want the Scyther coming for free but he had counterplay to that, if he missed the air slash he would have been in a terrible position and forced to tera because his team was extremely slow
HORSE ON THE LORSE
HOOSE ON THE LOOSE
The effort of recording the hypotheticals and everything in game for the showdown battle is so worth it. Even going as far as obscuring information in the re-enactments to not confuse the audience 👏👏👏👏
Yeah I noticed that too. He used earth power against salazzle with his shaymin in the recreation when he actually clicked air slash in the original game
Freezai after this game: "Unfortunate does not begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else-"
I don't understand the decision for Icicle Crash. Even if its tera dark, high horsepower twice is still fine? why even bother risking the play on icicle crash resist (and its 5% less accurate anyway)
I have been practicing NU and I think eviolite piloswine could be quite good. With its low speed avalanche will almost always be 120 base power. Combined with great bulk I think it is amazing.
gonna just nab this idea rq lmao
O q o ele faz o bonus é em pre fases d evolução ou os q não podem evoluir tem bônus ou não
8:39 You've made the grave mistake of saying earthquake instead of earth Power. As punishment you shall now be laughed at by the viewers who see this comment (so no one because this comment is made more than a nanosecond after the video was published)
youtube when you don't speedrun watching every video the picosecond they come out:
I’m not even trying to be mean or anything but I don’t understand the icicle crash play. High horsepower is super effective against 2/3 tera and IC is resisted by 2/3. You said yourself it was either bulk up or sucker Punch so either way substitute would’ve worked for an extra hit and won you the game maybe I’m missing something but I think you threw
You did play slightly better but you got bad luck
8:35 couldn’t you have hard switched into the elephant and then healing wish with shaymin then healed the horse to high horse power? Or would that not work as I’m thinking
Man the RNG gods were on their side... It sucks. Hope you win the next game!
Very well done being so normal and okay with having bad luck, it happens to everyone. Some people might have started an '"unfortunate" doesn't even begin to describe my series' moment
I was wondering if I had hallucinated watching this video but this is the analysis one which I missed!
I think the High Horsepower was the better play instead of Icicle Crash, less chance to miss and since Grimmsnarl Tera Fire was called out before the tera.
The rolls were definitely brutal and luck wasnt on Freezai's side here, but unfortunately i dont think Icicle Crash was the right play here. Euther sub to scout the tera or go High Horse Power which is super effective or neutral to each possible tera type and has a lower chance to miss. Much easier to see in hindsight though.
3 coin flip fails (the two speed ties plus the sucker punch ko) followed by the 10% miss on icicle crash feels so bad. the rng is a big part of why ive drifted away from competetive pokemon in recent years
The storytelling has been amazing so much so I look forward to these every week
Forgotten legendary, opponent also brings it. Not so forgotten now.
the most forgotten legendary is probably phione
It’s funny to see how you mentioned how uncommon Glastrier is only for it to rise to NU proper just days after the video.
what an unbelievably unlucky match. you lost like 3 50/50s back to back, and didnt get one crit. keep rocking though! that was an amazing strategy to cook off, good on ya.
missing ruins pokemon. skill means nothing when you are unlucky.
Smthing tells me freezais gonna start prepping for grimmsnarl more
If we assume equal probability of opponent tera choices for grimmsnarl (including not terastalysing), HHP has a higher EV than Icicle Crash. Accounting for accuracy and STAB, HHP's average power in that scenario is 136.75 while Icicle Crash's is only 114.75.
That said, this changes depending on the relative probability of each tera type; HHP only wins out as long as Fire/Steel stay close to a 40% probability. I think it's up for debate which is the correct move in that scenario.
Substitute.
luck being apart of pokemon is why i trally dont enjoy it. i hate the rng
Makes zero sense that both horses are slower than when they are ridden by calyrex. Also hate the calyrex rider gimmick cos it's supposed to be one pokemon in the slot. The thing has two abilities as well.
Maushold is another one which breaks this rule, ut at least calyrex has a good design.
Calyrex rider should be like tatsugiri. Both hit the field and then become one pokemon attacking from one slot.
Dugtrio and magneton i put in the same category as dodrio, weezing and hydreigon etc. Multiple heads, sure, but all attached to the same body.
Anyway, that's my mini rant over. If anyone disagrees, idc, it's dumb when any franchise breaks their own rules and copium when fans make excuses which they think make it acceptable.
The fuck man? Its their rule, they update it whenever they want.
Its fine if you dont like it, but cmon, do you really have to attack everyone else like that?
My man forgot about Kangaskhan
@@saiyaddanapudi9216 you forgot fallinks.
I wasn't trying to list every pokemon that broke the rule so to speak, just a few to point out how dumb calyrex rider is.
@@walaceandrade4046 attack everyone? No, not at all, just the people who lack the logic to see that my argument makes complete sense. Calyrex rider is two pokemon. Not a fusion, not a pokemon with additional heads, it's simply two pokemon on the field at once.
It's called singles and doubles. They never changed that. It has been canon since gen 1 that only one pokemon can be on the field during a singles battle. They didn't change that rule, they just had a design they wanted to use and all other logic was ignored. As i said, copium.
" It has been canon since gen 1 that only one pokemon can be on the field during a singles battle"
Yet you acknowledge Kangaskhan exists and fits that rule.
Also i dont think its that serious ? Like i dont understand why youre so upset about something thats just a design choice to portray the Pokemons in question better. I generally dont understand people who get upset about tiny stuff like this because it breaks the head canon rules they have, again Kangaskhan exists since gen 1 and was always two pokemon in on sprite/slot.
When a game comes down to luck, it usually means you’re evenly matched with your opponent. Great game, sorry the hedges didn’t work out
Music used, not in desc.
1:00 Acceleration by fox capture plan
Putting in in-game recreations of the match makes a fantastic visual aid. Keeps things more entertaining. Keep up the good work!!!
Sometimes the hax really screws over a game, you did incredibly well here, it's just that luck wasn't on your aide in the end
I just had a brutal, unlikely loss. Freezai, thank you for sharing these. I don't have to beat myself up for the losses.
Speedties that brings back memories of the most brutal game
I remember a Venusaur and my heatran were engaging each other and every time he's Venusaur was faster it was always able to pull off a synthesis before I could finish it off with heatran. This happened about 10 times then we got stuck into a bit of a stool wall with it than both being our last Pokemon and I just kept hitting it with my lava plume hoping for a crit. Then all of a sudden my lava plume went first. The only way this could have happened is a speed tie and he had just won a ridiculous amount back to back
Unfortunate doesn't even begin to describe...
No luck on ties and accuracy. But rely on a critical hit for a win is kind of a bad sign about your odds of winning.
Why not setup a Trick Room for Glastrier?
Anyway, keep sharing your matchs. I discovered strategy, NU tier and SCL some days ago and your channel make me wanna integrate a team one day or another 😊
I swear I saw this video before. Am I crazy? Is this a reupload or something?
He uploads the live battle in his live channel and his edited video in this channel
i am really really enjoying your videos on these tourney sets but wow is all the times you have been losing to rng reminding me why i dont invest that much time into competitive pokemon
damn, missed both speed ties, the 10% icicle crash miss, the 50% roll on the shaymin KO. really unlucky game for you here
This proves every tier has a Kingambit
OU/Ubers - Kingambit
UU - Brute Bonnet
RU - Bisharp
NU - Grimmsnarl
PU - Skuntank
Don't forget Little cups own pawniard
@@jaipadv8282Funnily enough, as a LC player myself, Vullaby fits that role better than Pawniard lol.
@@posobio ah that's fair I haven't played since teal mask dropped
I wish Glastrier still had icicle spear...that's the main reason i stopped using him
This was really cool to watch. Wonderful editing, and the match was really organic. You posted even though you lost. I really admire that.
Can't wait to see this video! I've loved weeks 1-3. Good job.
unfortunate doesn't begin-
idk if you read comments but these videos have inspired me to finally drop the hell that is randbatts and start building teams but i got no idea, do you know any resources i can use? thanks
Freezai’s like, “Glastrier sucks. It’s banned in PU, the worst tier but doesn’t have a niche in NU, and you have to build your entire team around Glastrier terastallizing. My team needs a win because we’re trying for the playoffs. That’s why I decided to use Glastrier.”
This is mostly sarcasm; obviously the opponent also picked Glastrier and it isn’t an insta-throw by picking it or anything, but this is kinda Freezai’s theme for this series so far.
Unfortunate doesn't be...
I’m only a minute into the vid but my instinct is just… Tera steel? Take great defensive stats, give it the best defensive monotype in the game. That’s gotta be at least SOMEWHAT better. Then maybe trickroom? Idk
I was actually JUST CONTEMPLATING THIS last night! Like, you never see the horses used on their own
I have 3 of them, Adamant, Impish, and Jolly natures, as it's a pretty good Galar Legendary Pokémon, even in SV!
A shame, as I like Glastrier's design more than Spectrier's.
I wtill maintain that when Fairy debuted in Gen 6, Ice Type should have resisted it. I mean it's not like Fairy would suddenly become less powerful, and Ice would still be one of the worst defensive types. But if you're taking the dragon killer aspect of ice away, at least it can gain something in return.
It would also make sense lorewise, as Fairies in myth would lose powers in times of decay and little growth, ie winter.
I don't understand the point of clicking icicle crash, why did you not just simply click high horsepower against the grimm? i mean i get it, it might have still missed, and you wanted the most damage from a stab ice move, but the terastalization seemed obvious to me. I would have probably click high horsepower (and missed and lost the game) but you are international player man, not me
Honestly I always preferred Glastrier to Spectrier just because he's at least trying to be something unique. Spectrier is just gengar on steroids, it's a fast special sweeper, oh boy, we've never heard of that. Sure grim neigh is special moxie but still, it's the same song, different player. Glastrier is a moxie trickroom sweeper. Sure it's not that unique, but it's better than a fast special sweeper
I think this game is the pinnacle of showing just how much RNG can negatively impact a game. You literally had everything go wrong luck wise and still almost won, so you should honestly still be proud of the game and the way you played it.
Yeah the fight was pretty unlucky, but the Icicle Crash vs Grimmsnarl was also questionable
It is not better to use avanlache because since it is slow they will always hit you first and avalanche when the user receives damage doubles the power it would be 120 and on top of that with 100 precision better than 80 power and 90 precision ?
This is why i cant play Pokémon competitively. Imagine making all the right calls and rng screws you over like this
Why is the Grimmsnarl's name at 9:03 blurred? It's a recreation, and it doesn't include personal information, so why?
Not to be that guy (you played excellently and lost due to the rng tbh) but you could have clicked substitute in the grimmsnarl predicting a Tera and would have been able to high horsepower the next turn
I think they should give Glastrier ice shard. It wouldn't make it op because of its low bp and while its strong and bulky, its still an ice type which means it is frail, no matter what its stats say, and that would also make it a lot more fun to use in general
Actually in Sword and Shield VGC was pretty good, with Weakness policy
i can see why its not used in singles since its hard to make trick room teams work there but genuinely have no clue why its not used in vgc/doubles because paired with something like trick room/instruct oranguru its really good
Can anyone explain how he got footage on S/V for the Pokemon battles when he played on Showdown? Did he put in the effort to mirror the battle for the videos?
Freezai horse freezai horse
So you made a video about a “forgotten” legendary, only to fight one in the first battle 🤣🤣🤣🤣 seems pretty forgotten
Why risk the resisted icicle crash when either way high horsepower would be good, either its a neutral hit or super effective vs stab neutral or stab resist, I get playing for the flinch but high horse power would just do more damage on average there
wait, why is tera fire grimsnarl advantagous against poison? is it because of amoongus? or just to loose the poison weakness?
Drinking game: Whenever you read a comment with a "%", you take a shot.
2:00 cursed image (high horsepower was introduced in gen 7, while that’s the gen 6 move art)
This is why I couldn't ever possibly drum up enough reasons to battle in pokemon. EVERYTHING is a dice roll and statistics are only "hopeful guesses"
Now I understand why battles in anime take so long.
I some times use this pokemon with this set
Glastrier @ Leftovers
Ability: Chilling Neigh
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Avalanche
- Tera Blast
- Heavy Slam
- Protect
I always forget that Glastrier and Spectrier exist, they only exist for calyrex
Losing 3 coinflips in a row is tough man
If only glastrier had bulk up.
That luck was bs tbh, definition of an opponent winning with blind luck
I remember Glastrier had a niche in vgc as a potent trick Room abuser
lose two speed ties than miss an attack at 90% and dies from sp on a 50/50. lol.
Calurex ice eu uso ele muito bom não sei por q não udam mais ele eu dou speed swap já q ele é lento the resto seu golpe de gelo já basta raramente toma one hit ko se o oponente não estiver bufado o articuno também é bom alguém mim aconselha a articuno também é bom
I was wondering why didn't you sub or thought about subing on turn 12?
The ice unicorn is interesting.
Sad
90 accuracy move in the best of 1 is definitely the decision ever
Well shit. RnG was not on your side today. Great team though
Your teambuilding analysis is so so good and unique man
Why is glastrier bad in VGC? Wasn't it good last gen