IMPORTANT NOTE! I FILMED THIS BEFORE THE SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WHICH MEANS SOME THINGS (TALKING ABOUT TAUROS, BAXCALIBUR, AND PALAFIN IN PARTICULAR) ARE OUTDATED - THE LIST SHOULD OVERALL SHOULD STILL BE SOLID
Calling donphan "average tusk" is the best thing I've heard since hariyama being "normal hands", definitely need to use this name system in the future.
A Pokémon isn't exactly good that hit hard by powercreep, got a near useless buff, as its only viable niche is item locked. Is basically Beartic but worse offense, worse survivality, worse speed.
Uraring definitely is underrated here. It's not good, but it's a super bulky trick room sweeper with eviolite. Definitely significantly better than the others in the F tier
Hell, Arena Trap in itself is broken in Singles OU play. It's been banned in nearly ever gen because you freely are able to take down one Pokemon no matter what.
@@TunaBear64 Its defenses are pretty decent overall. 90/75/75 gets turned into effective 90/121/121 defenses making it almost as tanky as Toxapex. Sure, you can't self burn anymore, but you could treat Guts as a bonus.
@@Skeloperch its actually much more tanky than that. The 50% boost is applied to ev and nature meaning that its additional perhaps 45 in both defenses. Meaning it wouod be much more bulky than tox
It can be a little better with Tera Water. Not much, but it does work pretty well with it. And at least it's no longer the weakest Eeveelution according to this list.
I would love to see a video where Wolfe and another player like Aaron take the F tier list, make a team, and play a best of three set. That would be so much fun to watch. Always enjoy your hard work, man! Please also thank your incredible team for their effort too!
I'm pretty sure they already did something like this during SWSH. Wasn't necessarily F-tier mon exclusive, but they definitely severely limited their teams, to the point where Aaron was using Tangrowth as a psuedo-Amoonguss
Tera gave Oricorio so much more. I don't know how good it'll be beyond series 1, but it was my saving grace in a number of series 1 matches. Being able to switch in or Protect and still get an attack in and/or a stat boost has saved me a number of times. I had tera Ground for Oricorio, and I loved that it changed Revelation Dance's type. I know the stats are bad, but sometimes an extra hit can save you, and Oricorio is reliable in giving you that extra hit.
I just recently learn that when team up with Quaquaval, with it's dancer ability it could copy Quaquaval's signature move Agua step. Which honestly is not great with it's attack stat but is helpful for increasing it's speed.
@@akilcharles3473 When I was struggling against Lycanroc + Tyranitar, I started to lead Quaquaval + Oricorio. I would Tera Steel Quaquaval and Protect Oricorio. When the two used Aqua Step, they could take out Lycanroc (as long as it also didn't Tera-normally Tyranitar would to Tera Blast Flying Quaquaval) and get a speed boost. As a pair, they could snowball battles so quickly.
I had an opponent Tera Normal his Garganacl to try and Explosion my frontline. A double Feather Dance from Mukrow+Oricorio let me just tank the thing. Even if it's not meta, throwing out three moves a turn is just really *fun*. Plus, the dance bird is unused enough that sometimes your opponent tries to set up on you, and you get free buffs.
Seeing Wolfey put Cyclizar in C tier when Smogon banned it from OU is one of the many astounding differences of Singles and Doubles. I love playing different formats, there are some Pokémon that would never see any use if it was just Singles or Doubles.
And likewise, there are Pokemon in singles that would never see any usage in doubles. For instance, highly defensive Pokemon like Toxapex, Ferrothorn or Skarmory.
It's a bit specific but Toedscruel's ability giving it the opportunity to sleep Gholdengo is kind of wild. It has given me a few good jump scares on showdown.
Wolfey mad underestimating Oricorio: Quiver Dance Volcarona + Protect Oricorio allows for protecting while setting up and Fiery Dance Volcarona + Oricorio allows for three attacks in one turn and a lot more sets
This is a perfect example of a creator refining and improving his craft! First competitive Pokémon channel I’ve subbed to and don’t regret it at all! Excited to see what the future holds!
The only use I had for luvdisc was to tell my crush that I loved her. I was shy, so I named my charizard after her. I put my Pokémon order as “I” unown, luvdisc, and then the charizard. Luckily, she was savvy enough to figure it out when she saw the order. Otherwise, I agree. It is a waste of data. I wonder how much they got paid to design it.
Fun fact about Copperajah: with its hidden ability Heavy Metal it becomes the heaviest pokemon by far at 1300kg (next heaviest is 1000kg). This means that with Heavy Slam, it almost always gets the maximum base power of 120 (+ STAB). With a base attack stat of 130, this thing can go for 1HKOs with Choice Band. It can even 1HKO Annihilape depending on EVs and/or damage rolls. It gets nice coverage moves like Superpower, Earthquake, and High Horsepower. Tera ground + High Horsepower can 1HKO Skeledirge. It also gets Sheer Force if you prefer the more consistent Iron Head and fairy/rock coverage with Play Rough and Rock Slide. Unfortunately for Copperajah, Gholdengo exists, which nullifies its entire existence as a steel type heavy-hitter. And despite its good HP, its defense stats aren't good enough to make it bulky, especially since you'll want to be investing EVs/nature in attack. It basically mandates using a support ally like Friend Guard Maushold, which isn't always ideal. So... yeah, D tier is accurate.
One good thing about dugtrio in doubles maybe is it is a fast arena trap user so it can cycle protect and substitute, trapping two of your opponent's pokemon for multiple turns if they are slower. Could combo this with tail wind
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@@aliciadalbey1201 yep I recommend still checking out the whole video because he actually has some interesting and helpful things to say about even the D and C tier Mon.
It's so interesting to me that the reason a Pokémon can be really good in singles, is the reason it's not as good in doubles, or vice versa. And then you just have some that are just good in both formats for the same reason, or two completely different reasons😂
I destroy pretty often with oricorio, it's a great tailwind setter that supports volcarona really efficiently and can even baton pass all it's buffs to someone in the back. It copies every dragon dancer and even has good synergy with Quaquaval. All this and it even has a unique interaction with terrastalizing where it's signature move changes to match it's tera type giving it a super great offensive option that mitigates a lot of its inherent weakness
Wolfe: “Ursaring is bad because it is bad.” Edit: side note about Luvdisc, in the random battles format on showdown Pokémon have their levels adjusted to make things more evenly matched. However Luvdisc is the only Pokémon I know of to be level 100, and I’m sure it would be higher if that was an option.
Could we see a video of how to use each paradox Pokémon when they become legal? The stats, abilities, and move pools seem interesting and I kinda wanna see a video getting to rank 1 only using paradox Pokémon
@@user43597 Series 2 starts in February in the games. Showdown has a ladder for it, but usually wolfe only puts out gameplay videos of in-game battles.
They generally give physical attackers higher stats which intimidate accounts for. There is a plethora of strong attackers in the 120-135 base stat range, but very few special attackers in that same range. Physical attackers also tend to rely on setup more with ddance and swords dance, and also there is no item that boosts defense (choice band, specs, scarf, assault vest, but no defense boosting item). The defense boosting item is actually intimidate and the game is balanced around that, so if there was a specially focused intimidate special attackers would be too weak
Physical attackers tend to have a good deal of counters than Special in general Intimidate , Burn cuts your attack in half , rocky helmet etc etc In Legends Arceus Freeze was replaced by Frostbite which is the special attack reducing version of burn , they really should have kept that
I’ve been using Spiritomb on ladder and it’s been incredibly solid. It’s incredibly hard to stop it from setting trick room (most of the time it lives to set it up twice) and then will o wisp, snarl, and helping hand make it always relevant.
I'm actually excited for Hisuian Electrode. Grass/Electric is a good type, and it has such high speed that you can invest in bulk and still be faster than frick. Plus, it's movepool makes it look like a pretty good support; Taunt, Thunder Wave, Grassy/Electric Terrain, Reflect, and a lot of other neat moves. Again, it's very fast, so having good support with high speed is something I'm looking forward to.
I think Altaria deserves a bit more credit. I think it has a decent niche as a Pokémon with cloud nine, Will-o-wisp, perish song and tailwind. It’s definitely not good but I think it’s better than F tier.
The biggest difference between doubles and singled with pokemon like forretress and toxapex is that setting up hazards gives those mons offensive pressure in singles where switching is essential.
Even without switching a match going down to the wire is going to have you switch in a pokemon at least 5 times vs 2 from doubles. Also defensive pokemon are much better when they only need to worry about one opponent.
Dude I really hope you reach 1 million. I loved watching tournaments with you battling and I am so glad you are putting so much videos on youtube! I can not wait to battle you competitively one day🖤 Thank you for everything
You underrated oricorio, when a teammate uses a dancing move, oricorio uses it to, and since moves like Fiery Dance exist, it is really strong. But another thing is that Aqua step is also a dance move. It really well combo's with Volcarona and Quaquavell.
Yo Wolfy if your reading this your videos as of lately on Scarlet and Violet have been amazing. This video and the one you made explaining IVs Evs and making the perfect competitive Pokémon have really helped me step into the competitive Pokémon scene. I hope your the first competitive Pokémon channel to reach 1 million, you deserve it and keep up the amazing effort on your videos
I mostly agree. Happy to see Volcarona always performing well. Larvesta is my favorite, love to see it returning and having a place in the meta. Great job with the content, I've been following since I got into VGC and you were a 'real youtubist' with just over 100 or 200k subs. Congrats on the growth, I'm glad you continue to pump out content.
I feel like you missed something pretty important about Slowking--his regenerator + chilling reception sets for snow. It's got really good synnergy, and while the loss of turn-1 snow kind of bites, it also is a solid way to override other weather since it's bound to come last. Slowking himself being a water/psychic also resists a lot of things that do super-effective to ice, so it becomes a really good addition to snow teams.
Don’t think this changes their ranks but I think it’s worth mentioning that Ursaring and Stantler both benefit from the eviolite in Scarlet and Violet even though Ursuluna and Wyrdeer aren’t currently available!
I like looking at things from a competitive point of view instead of a “my opinion “ point of view. I also love how you rank a Pokémon and tell us valid reasons why. And the best part is that your not scared to just say a Pokémon is straight up bad because some Pokémon are just bad all together. The bluntness is what I’m here for.
I feel like we’ve both shifted to a new reality cause I swear to god that Gogoat was Grass/Normal, only playing showdown last week I realised that it was pure Grass type
Baxcalibur got me master tank both seasons and let’s me climb quickly. Thermal exchange is so good. Base stats are crazy. Priority with Ice Shard is good for Meow and all the opposing dragons. It’s amazing man.
I feel like Armarouge is one of the best pokemon, it is like an anhilape, if you give it like the covert cloak, paired up with the armor cannon, you have a 120 base power move with no drawbacks.
So I put this on as background noise not expecting to pay much attention, but this was super fun to watch through! Really well paced dude. I think you spent exactly the right amount of time on each Pokémon. One note: Cyclizar has the ability Regenerator, which heals 33% of its health upon switching out. So Shed Tail only ends up costing it 17% of it's health, making it much more viable :)
36:08 So you know what would be really cool and might even help improve Revavroom based on what you said for it? If they gave us the Starmobiles. The Team Star bosses should've each given us their Revavroom in the post-game, and each should've had their respective boss fights ability, torque move, and tera type, with all of the torque moves then being added as egg moves for all Revavrooms. It's so weird to me that they added the first Steel/Poison type, gave it so much unique stuff in the story, and then didn't give us access to any of it.
Forretress gets iron defense and body press now, so it really isn't that passive. You should probably use Garganacl over it usually, but it has a few tools to make it worth considering (sturdy/overcoat, thunder wave, helping hand, volt switch).
Lilligant also learns sunny day, so she can work without torkoal, and she has a good speed stat to begin with. I use a liligant with sunny day, quiver dance, sleep powder and giga drain (and holding a big root) on my playthrough team and she sweeps pretty much anything. My favourite pokemon bar none.
Challenge Idea: you make a wheel with every fully evolved Pokémon and attempt to get at least 3 wins with the random team if you don’t want to use a Pokémon you have two rerolls hope you try it have fun wolfy and hopefully you have the world champ difference
just to slightly elaborate, a lot of it is backlogged from his streams, but I myself love how much he puts out. not too much longer til he reaches 1m YT subs, world champ diff. especially after his "perfect pokemon" guide, I don't question that he'll be the most subbed YT pokecreator by a landslide before much longer.
My heart hurts. My dancer team almost got me to master ball last season, but that's probably cause of gimmick and her dancer teammates. Was a fun team though, just had rough weaknesses to common pokemon
Dancer got me to masterball tier for the first time last season! Never made it during SwSh, but the return of this bird made me motivated to try and build around it :)
@DeinonychusL I was 1 win away from masterball in the last day but ended ultra. I only started my climb a few days before the end of the season. But after getting a shiny oricorio during my playthrough and hunt 3 more later on, I knew I had to try her out.
Normally as someone who plays singles and doubles I would be mad at some of the tier choices but it’s Wolfey you really can’t disagree with the world champ haha
Hawlucha actually has an interesting niche this gen because it can use Haze on Gholdengo. Also, a few of these are DEFINITELY changing as soon as Paradox mons are introduced. Sun and Electric Terrain are going to be so much stronger as soon as they come
What’s interesting is that we didn’t see as much as we thought we would for sun and electric train in this most recent tournament. The paradoxes don’t 100% need it to be good so sometimes there’s no real reason to run it and I think that’s super cool.
Few takes from this vid: - He forgot that Evolite Ursaring is a thing in Singles (and it currently works despite its evo not being available). - Houndoom is among the list of Gholdengo and Skeledirge counters, so as Clawitzer. - Ghost Tera Cacturne with Water Absorb can fully counter Palafin (lacking Ice Punch, that is). - ORICORIO IS A MENACE IN DOUBLES if you use it alongside Aqua Step Quaqaval and/or Fiery Dance Volcarona/IronMoth as those also proc Dancer and provide you a 3rd attack within a single turn (search about it on youtube). - Forretress is indeed a box of surprises, as it not only has all the tools to manage the hazards and clean terrain but also it is the only Tera Normal Explosion + Normal Gem user after Garganacl. - Sawsbuck has Body Slam and Headbutt and, outside Serene Grace, Tera Water + Sap Sipper means 1 weakness while retaining Spore immunity (and a +1 boost on a predicted switch into it). - Kofu unironically taught us how to use Crabominable. - Camerupt is indeed awful when not terastalized, but seen some streamers running Tera Grass with it otherwise. - I would put Whiscash in E tier too, until I found one of those (holding AV) in doubles spamming Icy Wind, Spark, Chilling Water and Fissure, which actually made me reconsider twice. - I think Luxray still lacks bulk enough to justify it being D tier. - Eelektross is more like a borderline between C and D tier, it just needs the right way to fit 4 moves into it, which is its major issue besides its speed. - Sandaconda also has the surprisingly good recovery in the form of Rest + Shed Skin. - Skill Swap Intimidate can be exchanged with another ally with Intimidate (from Gen8 onwards), thus providing a -2 ATK for both opponents. Additionally, you can also reproc your weather back if you use Skill Swap on an ally's weather ability while also providing a -1 ATK to your opponents. - Spiritomb also has some moves for doubles that allow it to speed control, altho its biggest selling point also comes in the form of Foul Play when combined with those. - Encore Lumineon is also a bit annoying to deal with. - Doesn't Medicham get Axe Kick? - There have been some players using Zoom Lens Rotom-F alongside Thunder and Blizzard for an orthodox BoltBeam combo, as well as terastalizing it to Electric to remove all weaknesses. - Sap Sipper Water Tera Goodra is pretty strong, and most importantly, it's a great Spore bait against those who underestimate it. - Mudsdale with Counter is ironically good against wallbreakers like Dragonite as Counter even bypasses Multiscale to my surprise. - Appletun should be B Tier. Seen streamers in ranked play using it as their trump card in singles, and it's pretty rewarding even on the thightest situations. - Dudunsparce also has Yawn and plenty other means of disrupting. Its pre-evo in Ghost Tera (under Evolite) using Curse + Roost can also stall teams in lategame scenarios (same strategy can be also done with Skeledirge, but with the additional option to trap with Fire Spin).
Watching this video I must say I REALLY wished you'd done it either from A-Z, by Pokedex number or anything other than by Ranking. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I find ranking videos more interesting if you can more easily tell the difference between a good thing and a bad thing. If you have a good thing, then a bad thing, then maybe a middle thing, then a good thing, and so on, it's easier to understand the differences, than if you have everything bad, everything slightly better than bad, everything slightly better than slightly better than bad and so on, and the diversity in rankings makes the video more appealing. It also kind of takes away the suspense factor of "Oh, where is this Pokemon going to be in?!". As a Viewer, if the TH-camr goes "Next, we have X Pokemon . . . ", I'll immediately go "Oh he's probably gonna put that in Y Tier!", and then be excited if I'm right or wrong, and . . . it's just more fun that way to me.~ I'm not sure if others feel the same way, however.
I have been using this list to run a low-tier tournament and it's been really interesting! Lots of creative sets out of the 8 players and some interesting metagame stuff going on. Would love to see more on it, or maybe more development of the list.
Yeah it's suprisingly good. Speed control and it's annoying to get rid of. Oh you didn't take it out? Circle throw. Oh you tried to attack it? Your speed dropped. Oh you swapped out? Sticky web.
This was super helpful, I'm just jumping back into the scene again and hadn't played since the Alolan generation of pokemon. So this helped me get a good idea of what to build for a team. I admit I wasn't too thrilled back then when doubles started becoming the standard, but at this point I think it looks fun.
Quick note on toedsacruel ive brought up before, I find that using it with murkrow and quash makes using Spore much better, can actually knock out gholdengo before it attacks
IMPORTANT NOTE! I FILMED THIS BEFORE THE SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WHICH MEANS SOME THINGS (TALKING ABOUT TAUROS, BAXCALIBUR, AND PALAFIN IN PARTICULAR) ARE OUTDATED - THE LIST SHOULD OVERALL SHOULD STILL BE SOLID
Wolfy in 2050 be like: ranking every pixel in Pokemon
Probably should also be brought to you attention Toxicroak does get Close Combat this generation
you underestimate hatterene
Killer fish from San Diego
Isnt delibird legal right now in the new Format
Calling donphan "average tusk" is the best thing I've heard since hariyama being "normal hands", definitely need to use this name system in the future.
@Omi.FiveEleven Exactly my point
Average Tusk, Normal Hands, Rocky Thorns, Fleshy Valiant 1 and Fleshy Valiant 2
Bland bundle
Foam Hands is better
Better Jugulis
"The reason Ursaring is down here is because... it's not good"
Hard hitting analysis from the Worldchampion himself
A Pokémon isn't exactly good that hit hard by powercreep, got a near useless buff, as its only viable niche is item locked. Is basically Beartic but worse offense, worse survivality, worse speed.
"It's not good. Even if it were good, well, it's not."
World champ diff
Uraring definitely is underrated here. It's not good, but it's a super bulky trick room sweeper with eviolite. Definitely significantly better than the others in the F tier
@@Rattus375 does eviolite work on ursaring? I don’t know that would work since it “lost” it’s evolution in the new game
@@eliasboudreau3497 Hilariously, yeah it works even right now.
Dugtrio in singles: Has a niche in Ubers in which he traps and kills legendaries
Dugtrio in VGC: help mum I've been killed by a Fake Out D:
ok but literally a crit choice banded iron hands fake out does 93-112
Hell, Arena Trap in itself is broken in Singles OU play. It's been banned in nearly ever gen because you freely are able to take down one Pokemon no matter what.
@@crarlo hehe funny extreme speed OHKO
Dugtrio is good for switching into
Choice specs or scarf electric moves then use it to set up with hone claws then sweep opponents
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Fun fact, even though Ursaluna is not yet in the games, Ursaring (and Stantler, too) still gets the added defenses from holding an Eviolite.
Ooo wow that's really interesting, I guess that means they'll be added to the game eventually?
Ursaring isn't exactly good at defense to take advantage of Eviolite, and holding Eviolite means no self burn.
@@TunaBear64 Its defenses are pretty decent overall. 90/75/75 gets turned into effective 90/121/121 defenses making it almost as tanky as Toxapex. Sure, you can't self burn anymore, but you could treat Guts as a bonus.
Whaaaattt
@@Skeloperch its actually much more tanky than that. The 50% boost is applied to ev and nature meaning that its additional perhaps 45 in both defenses. Meaning it wouod be much more bulky than tox
Timestamps for the tiers
0:00 : F Tier
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1:21:55 : A Tier
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No timestamps for each Pokémon? Lazy!
(Kidding, timestamps are appreciated!)
Lol, the faces they look like. D tier is just happy to be here.
You’d think that with the changes to snow, Glaceon would be finally usable
You’d be wrong, but I admire your optimism
Compared to past generations, I wouldn't even give it a chance.
Someone will find a gimmick one day.
I agree and you at least nice about
Well, as a Leafeon fan, my one comfort is that its companion Glaceon also sucks.
It can be a little better with Tera Water. Not much, but it does work pretty well with it.
And at least it's no longer the weakest Eeveelution according to this list.
I would love to see a video where Wolfe and another player like Aaron take the F tier list, make a team, and play a best of three set. That would be so much fun to watch. Always enjoy your hard work, man! Please also thank your incredible team for their effort too!
Next Purplecliffe Video: "I BATTLED the World Champion with the WEAKEST Pokemon"
Bump in hopes he sees this!
That’s a great idea! I’d watch that totally
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I'm pretty sure they already did something like this during SWSH. Wasn't necessarily F-tier mon exclusive, but they definitely severely limited their teams, to the point where Aaron was using Tangrowth as a psuedo-Amoonguss
Tera gave Oricorio so much more. I don't know how good it'll be beyond series 1, but it was my saving grace in a number of series 1 matches. Being able to switch in or Protect and still get an attack in and/or a stat boost has saved me a number of times. I had tera Ground for Oricorio, and I loved that it changed Revelation Dance's type. I know the stats are bad, but sometimes an extra hit can save you, and Oricorio is reliable in giving you that extra hit.
I just recently learn that when team up with Quaquaval, with it's dancer ability it could copy Quaquaval's signature move Agua step. Which honestly is not great with it's attack stat but is helpful for increasing it's speed.
@@akilcharles3473 When I was struggling against Lycanroc + Tyranitar, I started to lead Quaquaval + Oricorio. I would Tera Steel Quaquaval and Protect Oricorio. When the two used Aqua Step, they could take out Lycanroc (as long as it also didn't Tera-normally Tyranitar would to Tera Blast Flying Quaquaval) and get a speed boost. As a pair, they could snowball battles so quickly.
Oricorio is definitely the most underrated poke on this list and clearly Wolfey doesn't know a ton of what it's got going for it right now
Still wishing Oricorio got Entrainment
I had an opponent Tera Normal his Garganacl to try and Explosion my frontline. A double Feather Dance from Mukrow+Oricorio let me just tank the thing. Even if it's not meta, throwing out three moves a turn is just really *fun*. Plus, the dance bird is unused enough that sometimes your opponent tries to set up on you, and you get free buffs.
Seeing Wolfey put Cyclizar in C tier when Smogon banned it from OU is one of the many astounding differences of Singles and Doubles. I love playing different formats, there are some Pokémon that would never see any use if it was just Singles or Doubles.
And likewise, there are Pokemon in singles that would never see any usage in doubles. For instance, highly defensive Pokemon like Toxapex, Ferrothorn or Skarmory.
Not just Cyclizar, Dugtrio has been scary enough to get Arena Trap banned from OU literally every generation
@@BucketsnG10ves it's not banned in gen 3 ou
I mean, Cyclizar without shed tail and some other moves is kinda bad ngl
Luteralyl
The level of content you’re pumping out is unreal, in both quality and quantity. Truly the world champ difference.
This is tru
😂
Agreed
The guy put Houndoom in F-tier. What does he really know?
@@awenner design wise houndoom is awesome and I’ve always liked it personally, but viability wise he is mid at best sadly
It's a bit specific but Toedscruel's ability giving it the opportunity to sleep Gholdengo is kind of wild. It has given me a few good jump scares on showdown.
Wolfey mad underestimating Oricorio:
Quiver Dance Volcarona + Protect Oricorio allows for protecting while setting up and Fiery Dance Volcarona + Oricorio allows for three attacks in one turn and a lot more sets
This is a perfect example of a creator refining and improving his craft! First competitive Pokémon channel I’ve subbed to and don’t regret it at all! Excited to see what the future holds!
Wolfe is great
The only use I had for luvdisc was to tell my crush that I loved her. I was shy, so I named my charizard after her. I put my Pokémon order as “I” unown, luvdisc, and then the charizard. Luckily, she was savvy enough to figure it out when she saw the order.
Otherwise, I agree. It is a waste of data. I wonder how much they got paid to design it.
Aw thats sweet
That's actually really wholesome
Fun fact about Copperajah: with its hidden ability Heavy Metal it becomes the heaviest pokemon by far at 1300kg (next heaviest is 1000kg). This means that with Heavy Slam, it almost always gets the maximum base power of 120 (+ STAB). With a base attack stat of 130, this thing can go for 1HKOs with Choice Band. It can even 1HKO Annihilape depending on EVs and/or damage rolls. It gets nice coverage moves like Superpower, Earthquake, and High Horsepower. Tera ground + High Horsepower can 1HKO Skeledirge. It also gets Sheer Force if you prefer the more consistent Iron Head and fairy/rock coverage with Play Rough and Rock Slide.
Unfortunately for Copperajah, Gholdengo exists, which nullifies its entire existence as a steel type heavy-hitter. And despite its good HP, its defense stats aren't good enough to make it bulky, especially since you'll want to be investing EVs/nature in attack. It basically mandates using a support ally like Friend Guard Maushold, which isn't always ideal. So... yeah, D tier is accurate.
Wolfie puts so much into his videos and I respect him so much for that :) and also congrats on 900k subs! Almost there..
Dugtrio difference in power from Singles to doubles is insane. Arena Trap is great at smogon singles
Ehh Diglet is broken with Arena trap...
One good thing about dugtrio in doubles maybe is it is a fast arena trap user so it can cycle protect and substitute, trapping two of your opponent's pokemon for multiple turns if they are slower. Could combo this with tail wind
@@danielhicks1824sounds very specific with your partner Pokémon needing to hard wall the other two Pokémon as well, even when double targeted
@@crabnebula1816 just perish song with polemon 2
How is he uploading so many high quality videos so quickly
world champ difference
He’s the goat
You see there’s this glue with a funny monkey on it and it has a funny smell
Time manipulation
And getting closer to 1 mil
The amount of high quality content you are putting out is absolutely unreal, keep it up Wolfe!
As much as I love Palafin, I'm absolutely terrified of it becoming meta and wiping everything it faces
Hi you want to become my friend to evolve finizen. Please I need that.
@Chirag Makhija you can get palafin from a raid which is what I found out recently when I thought I caught a finizen from a raid
@@User-cc5fr please help me I want it for a play through, and how can I tell you my friend code?
I play VGC in showdown quite a lot. Palafin + Murkrow is a killer strategy, specially combined with Lokix and Gholdengo
@@chiragmakhija3608bro just go on showdown and go in wifi chat. You’ll find someone to help evolve it in four seconds
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thankee kindly
@@aliciadalbey1201 yep I recommend still checking out the whole video because he actually has some interesting and helpful things to say about even the D and C tier Mon.
It's so interesting to me that the reason a Pokémon can be really good in singles, is the reason it's not as good in doubles, or vice versa. And then you just have some that are just good in both formats for the same reason, or two completely different reasons😂
I destroy pretty often with oricorio, it's a great tailwind setter that supports volcarona really efficiently and can even baton pass all it's buffs to someone in the back. It copies every dragon dancer and even has good synergy with Quaquaval. All this and it even has a unique interaction with terrastalizing where it's signature move changes to match it's tera type giving it a super great offensive option that mitigates a lot of its inherent weakness
Interesting.
I appreciate the prep work that went in to getting them in order ahead of time.
It's not ranked within tiers, but I agree
Wolfe: “Ursaring is bad because it is bad.”
Edit: side note about Luvdisc, in the random battles format on showdown Pokémon have their levels adjusted to make things more evenly matched. However Luvdisc is the only Pokémon I know of to be level 100, and I’m sure it would be higher if that was an option.
Yeah but why I you need heart scales on showdown 🤔
Could we see a video of how to use each paradox Pokémon when they become legal? The stats, abilities, and move pools seem interesting and I kinda wanna see a video getting to rank 1 only using paradox Pokémon
They are legal in series 2
@@user43597 Series 2 starts in February in the games. Showdown has a ladder for it, but usually wolfe only puts out gameplay videos of in-game battles.
How have we not seen a Special Attack Intimidate ability yet??? Like mind break or Contemplation 😂
They generally give physical attackers higher stats which intimidate accounts for. There is a plethora of strong attackers in the 120-135 base stat range, but very few special attackers in that same range. Physical attackers also tend to rely on setup more with ddance and swords dance, and also there is no item that boosts defense (choice band, specs, scarf, assault vest, but no defense boosting item). The defense boosting item is actually intimidate and the game is balanced around that, so if there was a specially focused intimidate special attackers would be too weak
Physical attackers tend to have a good deal of counters than Special in general
Intimidate , Burn cuts your attack in half , rocky helmet etc etc
In Legends Arceus Freeze was replaced by Frostbite which is the special attack reducing version of burn , they really should have kept that
Blissey/Chansey max HP spdef Is like an inherited -3spa on every mon
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Did you not watch the video lmao, bliss and chansey suck
NO it's going to break the game, probably more than the new ruinous quartet or annihilape
As a very old fan of yours, this video is such a breath of fresh air. I love unscripted Wolf, it’s my favorite content
Ikr
Bonus Wolf posts unscripted videos
@@franbisboi true! But not super frequently sadly.
I’ve been using Spiritomb on ladder and it’s been incredibly solid. It’s incredibly hard to stop it from setting trick room (most of the time it lives to set it up twice) and then will o wisp, snarl, and helping hand make it always relevant.
I'm actually excited for Hisuian Electrode. Grass/Electric is a good type, and it has such high speed that you can invest in bulk and still be faster than frick. Plus, it's movepool makes it look like a pretty good support; Taunt, Thunder Wave, Grassy/Electric Terrain, Reflect, and a lot of other neat moves. Again, it's very fast, so having good support with high speed is something I'm looking forward to.
Hisuian Electrode also gets Chloroblast, which really gives it a huge edge over its Kantonian counterpart.
Unfortunately, with electrode comes regieleki
Neither electrodes will get any usage bc of that
Hisuan Electrode is big time meh. Kinda better than Electrode in some situations but it's pretty lacking and it's movepool is so limited.
Hisuan Electrode looks dope though 🙏
I think Altaria deserves a bit more credit. I think it has a decent niche as a Pokémon with cloud nine, Will-o-wisp, perish song and tailwind. It’s definitely not good but I think it’s better than F tier.
Plus it has natural cure!
I liked your comment without fully reading it cuz it supported altaria :)
No way it belongs In F tier no way possible
The biggest difference between doubles and singled with pokemon like forretress and toxapex is that setting up hazards gives those mons offensive pressure in singles where switching is essential.
Even without switching a match going down to the wire is going to have you switch in a pokemon at least 5 times vs 2 from doubles. Also defensive pokemon are much better when they only need to worry about one opponent.
Quick note on medicham: it got skill swap this generation. That's insanely scary
Wait that's actually insane
I've seen a slaking sweep with medicham's skill swap ITS BROKEN AF
Dude I really hope you reach 1 million. I loved watching tournaments with you battling and I am so glad you are putting so much videos on youtube! I can not wait to battle you competitively one day🖤 Thank you for everything
You underrated oricorio, when a teammate uses a dancing move, oricorio uses it to, and since moves like Fiery Dance exist, it is really strong.
But another thing is that Aqua step is also a dance move.
It really well combo's with Volcarona and Quaquavell.
Too*, Quaquaval*
Almost 2 hours of Wolfey ranking Pokémon? You’re too good to us
Yo Wolfy if your reading this your videos as of lately on Scarlet and Violet have been amazing. This video and the one you made explaining IVs Evs and making the perfect competitive Pokémon have really helped me step into the competitive Pokémon scene. I hope your the first competitive Pokémon channel to reach 1 million, you deserve it and keep up the amazing effort on your videos
This feels like a modern day version of Wolfe’s older videos, and I love it.
Have you checked out his second channel?
@@Krazykarlton yeah, but that channel is legit him doing his older content, while this feels like his old stuff but more updated
Oricorio + Aqua Step absolutely boomed me on showdown due to the surprise factor
Gotta love the subtle shade from Wolfey with “it might be good in singles but it’s not good competitively”
I mostly agree. Happy to see Volcarona always performing well. Larvesta is my favorite, love to see it returning and having a place in the meta. Great job with the content, I've been following since I got into VGC and you were a 'real youtubist' with just over 100 or 200k subs. Congrats on the growth, I'm glad you continue to pump out content.
WE DON'T SAY YOUTUBIST, WE SAY TH-camR!
With circle throw, leech life, sticky web, and a unique protect, Spidops would be decent if it only had better stats. Alas. Still my favorite pokemon.
I feel like you missed something pretty important about Slowking--his regenerator + chilling reception sets for snow. It's got really good synnergy, and while the loss of turn-1 snow kind of bites, it also is a solid way to override other weather since it's bound to come last. Slowking himself being a water/psychic also resists a lot of things that do super-effective to ice, so it becomes a really good addition to snow teams.
Seeing cycalzar getting banned from smoogon while also being seen as bad in doubles really showed the difference between the two lol
Don’t think this changes their ranks but I think it’s worth mentioning that Ursaring and Stantler both benefit from the eviolite in Scarlet and Violet even though Ursuluna and Wyrdeer aren’t currently available!
Wolfie please don’t forget to take time to yourself. Don’t burn yourself out, you’re awesome!
I like looking at things from a competitive point of view instead of a “my opinion “ point of view. I also love how you rank a Pokémon and tell us valid reasons why. And the best part is that your not scared to just say a Pokémon is straight up bad because some Pokémon are just bad all together. The bluntness is what I’m here for.
Wow, I can’t believe I just watched 1 hour and a half of ranking Pokémon me, Wolfey is really captivating 😳
i do miss old wolfey intro but the quality of the new videos is second to none, keep it up bro
I feel like we’ve both shifted to a new reality cause I swear to god that Gogoat was Grass/Normal, only playing showdown last week I realised that it was pure Grass type
Fr figured that out when I tried close combating one the other day
SAME
Baxcalibur got me master tank both seasons and let’s me climb quickly. Thermal exchange is so good. Base stats are crazy. Priority with Ice Shard is good for Meow and all the opposing dragons. It’s amazing man.
I feel like Armarouge is one of the best pokemon, it is like an anhilape, if you give it like the covert cloak, paired up with the armor cannon, you have a 120 base power move with no drawbacks.
The covert cloak doesn't stop secondary effects of your own moves so armor cannon still drops stats
So I put this on as background noise not expecting to pay much attention, but this was super fun to watch through! Really well paced dude. I think you spent exactly the right amount of time on each Pokémon.
One note: Cyclizar has the ability Regenerator, which heals 33% of its health upon switching out. So Shed Tail only ends up costing it 17% of it's health, making it much more viable :)
36:08 So you know what would be really cool and might even help improve Revavroom based on what you said for it? If they gave us the Starmobiles. The Team Star bosses should've each given us their Revavroom in the post-game, and each should've had their respective boss fights ability, torque move, and tera type, with all of the torque moves then being added as egg moves for all Revavrooms. It's so weird to me that they added the first Steel/Poison type, gave it so much unique stuff in the story, and then didn't give us access to any of it.
I was praying you would do this! Thanks for grinding out this vid Wolfey 🙌🏼
Forretress gets iron defense and body press now, so it really isn't that passive. You should probably use Garganacl over it usually, but it has a few tools to make it worth considering (sturdy/overcoat, thunder wave, helping hand, volt switch).
I’d never think that a murkrow would be one of the best Pokémon in a competitive format but I guess you do learn a new thing every day.
Sup, I respect how much work and time you put into all this. Keep it up
Lilligant also learns sunny day, so she can work without torkoal, and she has a good speed stat to begin with. I use a liligant with sunny day, quiver dance, sleep powder and giga drain (and holding a big root) on my playthrough team and she sweeps pretty much anything. My favourite pokemon bar none.
Challenge Idea: you make a wheel with every fully evolved Pokémon and attempt to get at least 3 wins with the random team if you don’t want to use a Pokémon you have two rerolls hope you try it have fun wolfy and hopefully you have the world champ difference
Mega 👏 altaria👏 should 👏 have 👏 been 👏 its 👏 third 👏 stage 👏
I'm with you!!
Gen 8: Every turn had insane stat changes because of Max Moves
Gen 9: Haze
It’s incredible the amount of content you are putting out
just to slightly elaborate, a lot of it is backlogged from his streams, but I myself love how much he puts out.
not too much longer til he reaches 1m YT subs, world champ diff. especially after his "perfect pokemon" guide, I don't question that he'll be the most subbed YT pokecreator by a landslide before much longer.
Wolfey has accessed the multiverse to communicate with other versions of himself to produce infinite videos per second. Love the vids wolfey :D
My heart hurts. My dancer team almost got me to master ball last season, but that's probably cause of gimmick and her dancer teammates. Was a fun team though, just had rough weaknesses to common pokemon
Dancer got me to masterball tier for the first time last season! Never made it during SwSh, but the return of this bird made me motivated to try and build around it :)
@DeinonychusL I was 1 win away from masterball in the last day but ended ultra. I only started my climb a few days before the end of the season. But after getting a shiny oricorio during my playthrough and hunt 3 more later on, I knew I had to try her out.
Wolfey: *do a very detailed tier list*
Me: *focus on the PMD2 music in the background*
Normally as someone who plays singles and doubles I would be mad at some of the tier choices but it’s Wolfey you really can’t disagree with the world champ haha
Remember y'all, he is basing this off of a official VGC standpoint, would love a collab with Joey( pokeaimMD) for a singles take on this
Would be nice to show the stats for each Pokémon as you talk about it
Just go on showdown
Wolfey's commentary on Alomomola: "it's better than luvdisc"
Yeah no shit sherlock 😭
Hawlucha actually has an interesting niche this gen because it can use Haze on Gholdengo. Also, a few of these are DEFINITELY changing as soon as Paradox mons are introduced. Sun and Electric Terrain are going to be so much stronger as soon as they come
Do you mean Defog? Haze always works at Golden joe
What’s interesting is that we didn’t see as much as we thought we would for sun and electric train in this most recent tournament. The paradoxes don’t 100% need it to be good so sometimes there’s no real reason to run it and I think that’s super cool.
@@siberiangopnik Yes sorry I'm dumb
@@siberiangopnik wait, how does only Hawlucha get to use defog on the funny cheese man?
@@illegalmemedealer3549 mold breaker
53:24 fun fact, Toxtricity's Punk Rock not only boosts sound moves, it makes it resist sound moves as well
Few takes from this vid:
- He forgot that Evolite Ursaring is a thing in Singles (and it currently works despite its evo not being available).
- Houndoom is among the list of Gholdengo and Skeledirge counters, so as Clawitzer.
- Ghost Tera Cacturne with Water Absorb can fully counter Palafin (lacking Ice Punch, that is).
- ORICORIO IS A MENACE IN DOUBLES if you use it alongside Aqua Step Quaqaval and/or Fiery Dance Volcarona/IronMoth as those also proc Dancer and provide you a 3rd attack within a single turn (search about it on youtube).
- Forretress is indeed a box of surprises, as it not only has all the tools to manage the hazards and clean terrain but also it is the only Tera Normal Explosion + Normal Gem user after Garganacl.
- Sawsbuck has Body Slam and Headbutt and, outside Serene Grace, Tera Water + Sap Sipper means 1 weakness while retaining Spore immunity (and a +1 boost on a predicted switch into it).
- Kofu unironically taught us how to use Crabominable.
- Camerupt is indeed awful when not terastalized, but seen some streamers running Tera Grass with it otherwise.
- I would put Whiscash in E tier too, until I found one of those (holding AV) in doubles spamming Icy Wind, Spark, Chilling Water and Fissure, which actually made me reconsider twice.
- I think Luxray still lacks bulk enough to justify it being D tier.
- Eelektross is more like a borderline between C and D tier, it just needs the right way to fit 4 moves into it, which is its major issue besides its speed.
- Sandaconda also has the surprisingly good recovery in the form of Rest + Shed Skin.
- Skill Swap Intimidate can be exchanged with another ally with Intimidate (from Gen8 onwards), thus providing a -2 ATK for both opponents. Additionally, you can also reproc your weather back if you use Skill Swap on an ally's weather ability while also providing a -1 ATK to your opponents.
- Spiritomb also has some moves for doubles that allow it to speed control, altho its biggest selling point also comes in the form of Foul Play when combined with those.
- Encore Lumineon is also a bit annoying to deal with.
- Doesn't Medicham get Axe Kick?
- There have been some players using Zoom Lens Rotom-F alongside Thunder and Blizzard for an orthodox BoltBeam combo, as well as terastalizing it to Electric to remove all weaknesses.
- Sap Sipper Water Tera Goodra is pretty strong, and most importantly, it's a great Spore bait against those who underestimate it.
- Mudsdale with Counter is ironically good against wallbreakers like Dragonite as Counter even bypasses Multiscale to my surprise.
- Appletun should be B Tier. Seen streamers in ranked play using it as their trump card in singles, and it's pretty rewarding even on the thightest situations.
- Dudunsparce also has Yawn and plenty other means of disrupting. Its pre-evo in Ghost Tera (under Evolite) using Curse + Roost can also stall teams in lategame scenarios (same strategy can be also done with Skeledirge, but with the additional option to trap with Fire Spin).
He is talking competitive vgc not singles
The reality about houndour hits hard ... nice video man great work
This ranks are so good! I really want you to make a tier list design wise
I'm very happy that Hydreigon's doing so well this generation.
LET'S GOOOOOOO i love how you ranked all returning pokemon too, will you also be doing this when the dlc will come out?
Scary Face Grimmsnarl to counter Trick Room without the downside of paralysis
so much missing: cinderace, charizard, scyther, new future and past forms, legendaries from shrine
Those currently aren’t legal
Important note: Toxicroak does get CC in S/V which was a huge buff
Watching this video I must say I REALLY wished you'd done it either from A-Z, by Pokedex number or anything other than by Ranking. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I find ranking videos more interesting if you can more easily tell the difference between a good thing and a bad thing. If you have a good thing, then a bad thing, then maybe a middle thing, then a good thing, and so on, it's easier to understand the differences, than if you have everything bad, everything slightly better than bad, everything slightly better than slightly better than bad and so on, and the diversity in rankings makes the video more appealing. It also kind of takes away the suspense factor of "Oh, where is this Pokemon going to be in?!". As a Viewer, if the TH-camr goes "Next, we have X Pokemon . . . ", I'll immediately go "Oh he's probably gonna put that in Y Tier!", and then be excited if I'm right or wrong, and . . . it's just more fun that way to me.~
I'm not sure if others feel the same way, however.
No, no you're right.
I have been using this list to run a low-tier tournament and it's been really interesting! Lots of creative sets out of the 8 players and some interesting metagame stuff going on. Would love to see more on it, or maybe more development of the list.
Another important note is the fact that you accidentally put spideops in the F tier instead of the S plus tier
Yeah it's suprisingly good. Speed control and it's annoying to get rid of. Oh you didn't take it out? Circle throw. Oh you tried to attack it? Your speed dropped. Oh you swapped out? Sticky web.
@@alexanderhifler5432 You're missing the joke and meme my dude
@@alexanderhifler5432 bro it's a Joke
ZOROARK IS S
Depends on the Pokemon before it
Wolfie, talking about houndstone: yeah, last respects is not very good
Singles players: *foetal position in the corner*
6:57 when the music came on I got HELLA goosebumps from the nostalgia T_T
Love your Content man. Keep it up, and Good luck at the Pokemon Tournaments!
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Wolfey: I think Grimmsnarl has a better typing than Klefki
Also Wolfey: Tinkaton has the best typing in the game
you have to consider their roles
for a prankster support mon, dark/fairy is really good
@@GravityIsFalling I figured as much, but it was funny to hear him say it without a proper explanation
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"The reason Ursaring is down here is... It's not good... uh... and even if it were good... it's not."
Brilliant.
“Gothitelle will have some big wins as the season progresses.”
Here after Wolfe uses it to win Orlando regionals.
Congrats on reaching 900k + subscribers bro!
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I like how Wolf doesn't acknowledge singles as competitive Pokemon. Great vid.
Because singles competitive isnt oficial
You can tell he puts thoughts into the video. 99% of other TH-cam’s just do it live, but he doesn’t.
Thank you for your wisdom and this resource!
This was super helpful, I'm just jumping back into the scene again and hadn't played since the Alolan generation of pokemon. So this helped me get a good idea of what to build for a team. I admit I wasn't too thrilled back then when doubles started becoming the standard, but at this point I think it looks fun.
Quick note on toedsacruel ive brought up before, I find that using it with murkrow and quash makes using Spore much better, can actually knock out gholdengo before it attacks