Dude I'm always excited waking up on Saturdays for these battles. It's like the feeling I got back when Saturday morning cartoons was a thing. Keep up the awesome work Dan.
Hey adrive. Your commentary has to be the best I've ever heard. My way of watching these battles is listening to them while I work or drive. And with you play by play commentary I know exactly what's going on without even looking. I love it keep it up man!
Espeed Arrows broke through this fragile AF team, and Duncan failed to get any signs when he switched in. I love both YTs, but damn this battle was wack
Duncan didnt play bad, he just didnt prep well and most players would have a hard time when literally your tier 1s dont come and it makes total sense not to bring them. Imagine trying to prepare for 2 pokemon that might not show. That means youre probs bringing 2 pokemon to help with them at least as well as wasting move slots for them so adrive prepped super well. Not gonna discount adrive's battling, but duncan lost in prep mostly.
Just wanted to say I love your videos. The battles are so informative and the shiny hunts are great. I took a `10 year break from the games and when I came back, didn't realize there were methods to increase shiny odds. Was inspired by your vids to shiny hunt in my copy of Y. Just this week I caught my first 2 wild shinys from chaining: Pancham and Ditto. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Watched this from Duncan's side first, and immediately had to see it from over here. Total destruction, and your prediction was top-notch. Insanely good week, Dan, wow, looking forward to the rest of the season!
QOTD: I would eliminate basculin. Barely anybody even remembers that it exists, it has two forms and all that changes is one strip on it’s body. It’s shiny isn’t good, it’s stats aren’t good and nobody would ever use it considering there are much better water types in literally every game that it’s in that can be found earlier that it can.
ADrive taking the belt no question. Idk why all the analysts slept on him so hard. Arguably the best prep every week, arguably the best battler, and has a blowout team. Take that belt for the aDrive army, my man!
Yeah lando needs to go My teams arent weak to him but im sick of having a designated pokemon for lando I usually eliminate him immediately with a scarf sigilyph with icebeam bc everyone on Showdown is brain dead and always leads him lol
QOTD:Lumineon I just hate it For personal reasons Also you played this game very well. You predicted pretty much every turn correctly and had control the whole time. Love seeing the improvement on your reading abilities and keep up the good work :)
I'm gonna have to go with getting rid of Dunsparce. I really wish they'd do something to improve it though, like an evolution or something. Nice battle, you owned it!
Exactly extreme speed and thousand arrows could’ve ko’d almost everything dan was very careless in letting gastro and florges get knocked out and weakened respectfully so ya luck was on his favour
I think both you and Duncan forgot about intimidate on mega-manectric too. You could have brought him in, sacked floregus and the came back in for double intimidate
ShadowSkyX I’ve tried to but it usually takes for ever since it heals every turn instead for calling for help so one without recover and having to leave the route every time until one without recover appears also takes for ever.
I'd eliminate Seaking, the most forgettable Pokemon. A lot of people always go Lumineon is the most forgettable but the fact people remember Lumineon for being forgettable means it isn't forgettable. Seaking truly is forgettable and pointless, it's just a fish with a horn
if he had espeed u play it safe and go manectric for the intimidate, then he's forced to knock out you out instead of ddancing again. then the rest of your team lives non crit hits. so your differential would be lower but guaranteed win
Question of the day: this hurts to say this because I love the Pokémon, but Hydregon. He is the mon I see most in online battles and is the most op in my opinion. Would even the odds.
QOTD: Quilfish. It just isn't worth using/catching/trading/training/etc. If it got an evolution I would choose differently, but it's literally just a puffer fish with no special twist on it. Sorry to anyone who actually likes Quilfish. 😓😞
@@FakeCharles It is definitely not the worst design, but it also doesn't really stand out. I think I would rather a Pokemon have a bad design then a boring one. That way it's at least interesting.
48Boltz just because it’s a normal pufferfish doesn’t mean shit. Lillipup is just a normal golden retriever. Rattata is just a normal rat. Does that mean they should be eliminated? At least Qwilfish has a competitive use and has a purpose, unlike some Pokémon such as Spinda
QOTD: a certain gen 3 bird that happens to be a water type that I refuse to say the name of. Wingull’s okay tho. Even though it would be kinda difficult to have Wingull but not the hot trash it evolves into.
Dude I'm always excited waking up on Saturdays for these battles. It's like the feeling I got back when Saturday morning cartoons was a thing. Keep up the awesome work Dan.
Lord CinnaBuns hahaha omg I get the same feeling
Same
Y for same.
Hey adrive. Your commentary has to be the best I've ever heard. My way of watching these battles is listening to them while I work or drive. And with you play by play commentary I know exactly what's going on without even looking. I love it keep it up man!
Dude you bodybag him omg. You have improved so much offensively
Tbf duncan choked haaard
@@lillith7257 How ??
Espeed Arrows broke through this fragile AF team, and Duncan failed to get any signs when he switched in. I love both YTs, but damn this battle was wack
@@invisibilius1978 you are just a butthurt Duncan fan lol
You embarrassed your opponent. He won't be ranked #1 anymore.
his team was #1, if he can't use it its not the teams fault
Barni Bóbics well said, dont blame the good team blame the bad player lol
Just to see the level of embarrassment duncan felt with every misplay he made we can make sure to bombarde his side of the battle.
Duncan didnt play bad, he just didnt prep well and most players would have a hard time when literally your tier 1s dont come and it makes total sense not to bring them. Imagine trying to prepare for 2 pokemon that might not show. That means youre probs bringing 2 pokemon to help with them at least as well as wasting move slots for them so adrive prepped super well. Not gonna discount adrive's battling, but duncan lost in prep mostly.
QOTD: Unown 28 forms and only can learn 1 move
Pcwdunn515 Walking into ruins full of Unown with the new graphics might be pretty cool tho
Spoilers:
T-tar really took out his own teammate, smh
Man I'm hella hyped for this season! Your team is looking crisp and your plays are on point, I think this will be an epic season
Just wanted to say I love your videos. The battles are so informative and the shiny hunts are great. I took a `10 year break from the games and when I came back, didn't realize there were methods to increase shiny odds. Was inspired by your vids to shiny hunt in my copy of Y. Just this week I caught my first 2 wild shinys from chaining: Pancham and Ditto. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Watched this from Duncan's side first, and immediately had to see it from over here.
Total destruction, and your prediction was top-notch. Insanely good week, Dan, wow, looking forward to the rest of the season!
QOTD: I would eliminate basculin. Barely anybody even remembers that it exists, it has two forms and all that changes is one strip on it’s body. It’s shiny isn’t good, it’s stats aren’t good and nobody would ever use it considering there are much better water types in literally every game that it’s in that can be found earlier that it can.
Clean win. You kept the offensive pressure on him.
Absolutely- clean game and no hacks whatsoever. Nothing his opponent can blame for his loss other than being outplayed!
You have gotten insanely better man you crushing these guys this season.
QOTD: I was gonna say like Aromatisse because I hate its design but I’d say like Bruxish, ugly and forgettable fish
QOTD i would eliminate the middle evolution of the kling klang line so it isn't such a underwhelming evolution
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Great match Dan! I’d get rid of Basculin, specifically red stripe Basculin, I never liked it
I'd eliminate Pikachu to save the rest of the pokemon
Adrive crushing the no.1 ranked in the league 5-0 no sweat! Beast mode!!
QOTD: Phione.
Nobody cares about Phione.
Don't say that pione is cute
Thị Thúy Ngà Vũ phione is cute
hydration rain dance rest phione is actually kinda powerful tho
u rite lol
Z_Colo agree
ADrive taking the belt no question. Idk why all the analysts slept on him so hard. Arguably the best prep every week, arguably the best battler, and has a blowout team. Take that belt for the aDrive army, my man!
lets hope he continues this streak for the rest of the season
honestly... Landorus. I'm tired of seeing it all the time, especially since my team in ultra sun is really weak to it.
Yeah lando needs to go
My teams arent weak to him but im sick of having a designated pokemon for lando
I usually eliminate him immediately with a scarf sigilyph with icebeam bc everyone on Showdown is brain dead and always leads him lol
lol it’s your fault that your team is weak to it..
inyuhgirl exactly you shouldn’t allow yourself to have a team weak to the most popular mon in game
That’s on you why would you make a team weak to the most common mon in the meta, go play uu or something
Who designates a mon for Lando? I've never built fearing it and I've never had a problem with it.
QOTD: Just one Pokemon to save them all? Alright Cascoon, time to do something useful.
QOTD:Lumineon
I just hate it
For personal reasons
Also you played this game very well. You predicted pretty much every turn correctly and had control the whole time. Love seeing the improvement on your reading abilities and keep up the good work :)
Nate Sarlls what personal reasons? xD
My 2 favorite poketubers battling it out. What a way to start a weekend!
Awsome battle the pressure was real he couldn't deal with it
Congrats on the win dude, mad love to your TalonFlame.
QotD: The entire Pan/Simi monkey trio
Why doesn’t Defog eliminate weather also? Wouldn’t that make more sense?
Ryan Corry it actually does make sense. That would be sweet if it did and you would see it even more than it’s already used
Absolutely love Talonflame and Lycanroc dusk my 2 favourite mons so cool you got them both
Passimian did pull through and put out work! Fun match, GG!
20 minutes?!?! Someone got bodied👀
Right??? You know it's an intense battle when the video is around 40min long Lol
I'm gonna have to go with getting rid of Dunsparce. I really wish they'd do something to improve it though, like an evolution or something. Nice battle, you owned it!
Qoth Trubbish line
QOTD: Definitely plusle/minun. Their gimmick is stupid because no one uses it and we already have enough pikachu clones
aDrive, I’m just wondering, where’s the ADrive Army Battle League, I was missing it and thought I’d ask
First turn first death vikavolt never got to see the light
Hi adrive your such a great poketuber I love your shiny videos man.Keep up the good work
he probably would've swept if he had priority on his zygarde
Exactly extreme speed and thousand arrows could’ve ko’d almost everything dan was very careless in letting gastro and florges get knocked out and weakened respectfully so ya luck was on his favour
Wow this was brutal! You are such an amazing battler, putting my bucks on you to win the belt!
Good move not bringing Kyurem vs his team and well played.
qotd: either basculin or unown
I first watched Duncan's perspective. I just wanted to facepalm so hard when he didn't realize how sand essentially gave gastrodon an AV.
The second I saw the alert on my phone I was itching to get the chance to watch
Dan you’re a mad scientist i swear
I'd get rid of Luvdisc without question, it's stats and the fact it doesn't evolve makes it totally pointless.
For the qotd- Blacephalon no question. Just erase that thing from existence.
Yo, Active, any advice an creating a good competitive team based around Mega Houndoom?
Me: * reads title *
My Dad: ba dum tss
They gunna have to stop sleeping on the Volts sooner or later! GG Dan
qotd: lando-t
I hate it with a burning passion.
I would eliminate Jynx...
I think both you and Duncan forgot about intimidate on mega-manectric too. You could have brought him in, sacked floregus and the came back in for double intimidate
That was a nice win for you bro good job!
QOTD: corsola after trying to sos for a shiny mearinie that stupid corsola used recover every single turn so it never called for help.
Why didn't you just get one at a low enough level where it didn't have recover? Could've saved yourself a lot of pain
ShadowSkyX I’ve tried to but it usually takes for ever since it heals every turn instead for calling for help so one without recover and having to leave the route every time until one without recover appears also takes for ever.
@@oscarcardenas9725 taunt exists. Doesn't last long enough imo, but it's better than nothing.
ShadowSkyX I didn’t use taunt but I used heal block but it also didn’t last enough.
You know Dan loves his son because he is starting to make some Dad jokes
Does adrive actually live in Minnesota or is that just his team?
QOTD : Illumise and Volbeat :,)
QOTD: Whismur. It's a creepy little thing that doesn't need to exist
GOTD: Mr. Mime
Mr Mime
I'd eliminate Seaking, the most forgettable Pokemon. A lot of people always go Lumineon is the most forgettable but the fact people remember Lumineon for being forgettable means it isn't forgettable. Seaking truly is forgettable and pointless, it's just a fish with a horn
Wow. Another massacre. Nice job Dan.
QOTD: Plusle/Minun
Why hashtag from Let's go when it doesn't have to do with this video?
QOTD: I'd remove delibird. What was the point of that mon?
QOTD: Patrat and Watchog
QOTD: Nosepass/probopass. Who’s idea was it to have a Pokémon line themed around NOSES...
You completely out played him. No RNG required.
QOTD I would delete bruxish. Don't really have to explain myself do I?
There are a few pokemon I would remove:
Bruxish
Castform
Pyukumuku
Wormadam (But you could still have mothim)
Male Combee
wormadam trash is easily top 3 mons
I'm getting rid of fennekin and it's whole line just really underwhelming mons wouldn't shed a tear to see them go
Pikachu. Yeah pikachu. Fight me.
if he had espeed u play it safe and go manectric for the intimidate, then he's forced to knock out you out instead of ddancing again. then the rest of your team lives non crit hits. so your differential would be lower but guaranteed win
What happened to incergence
How we get rid of trubish
Dan has a very big chance of winning this league.
His team is amazing plus Dan preps so well
Question of the day: this hurts to say this because I love the Pokémon, but Hydregon. He is the mon I see most in online battles and is the most op in my opinion. Would even the odds.
hydreigon is not overpowered at all lol
What does PSO stands for
To answer your question adrive i will get rid off farfetchd
Great game Dan
Finally Miltank can leave us all
Qotd: bruxish
Most of those broken Uber pokemon, unown and the tapus.
spinda can die so all the rest can live!
QOTD: Quilfish. It just isn't worth using/catching/trading/training/etc. If it got an evolution I would choose differently, but it's literally just a puffer fish with no special twist on it. Sorry to anyone who actually likes Quilfish. 😓😞
48Boltz bro Qwilfish is a god in PU
@@FakeCharles And? A Pokemon should really have more then one reason to exist. 🤨
48Boltz It has nowhere near the worst design
@@FakeCharles It is definitely not the worst design, but it also doesn't really stand out. I think I would rather a Pokemon have a bad design then a boring one. That way it's at least interesting.
48Boltz just because it’s a normal pufferfish doesn’t mean shit. Lillipup is just a normal golden retriever. Rattata is just a normal rat. Does that mean they should be eliminated? At least Qwilfish has a competitive use and has a purpose, unlike some Pokémon such as Spinda
I love the Pokémon with Harry Potter names!!! 😊
QOTD: Mr. Mime
I love black Shiny Pokémon like Mega Manetric
Illumise. Out of the 809 pre-gen 8 Pokemon I love 808 of them. Illumise however can just shove it. Easy QOTD.
QOTD: a certain gen 3 bird that happens to be a water type that I refuse to say the name of.
Wingull’s okay tho.
Even though it would be kinda difficult to have Wingull but not the hot trash it evolves into.
20 minute video lol someone gets whooped!
QOTD: No Landorus would be good for everyone
I'd say "see ya" to Spinda
Oooof press F to pay respects
Well played
i put your preparation team sets in pokemon showdown to see if they work. long story short: THEY DO!!!!
i don't mind not having all pokemon in pokemon sword and shield. i would like to have all pokemon available for online that's all
Qotd: luvdisc
QOTD: Aromatisse
I hate the design and it’s a let down of what a real witch doctor Pokémon should look
QOTD I would remove Smeargal. It's cool being able to paint in the anime and all but I dont like it in game personally
PIKACHU.... though I doubt it would happen. If not him, then Elgyem and Beheeyem... gamefreak already forgot about them
Nightfallwolf Pikachu is in the game
Elygem was in the ultra games. Swanna is the one that needs to go and unfezant is just unpleasant
I'd probably snap the Salamence Line it's the worst designed pokemon, or Landorous cuz Landorous sorta kills teambuilding in ou