Tera Ghost allows dragapult to have a reliable physical ghost move thanks to Tera blast. So it can utilize terastalization pretty well Edit: Wow, honestly I didn't expect this much conversation on this. Thank you all so much for the input love you all
Best Tera for Arcanine I’ve found useful so far is Tera Grass. The immunity to Spore and Rage Powder, as well as resisting incoming Earthquakes and Jet Punches helps it out defensively. I don’t think I’d opt to run any Offensive sets with it as I’ve had way more success with it on a support set.
I genuinely think terastallization is the best 'escalation mechanic' they've ever had. Mega-evos, Z-moves and dynamaxing were neat but ultimately amounted to either helping Pokemon that didn't need it or making Pokemon do their usual thing but harder. Tera types can do that second one if you REALLY want, but the best part is that it has the capacity to give ANY Pokemon a surprising trump card. Murkrow can use it just as well as Garchomp, and I think that's way more interesting.
@@henrypham9525 I think it's appropriately hammy and cute for a pokemon game. Think of it as goofy carnival hats. If you really want to name an insultingly ugly mechanic, Z moves has that covered in spades. A one off attack, where the sprites barely fucking move and just creepily T posing ramming itself into the enemy and a dance that is cringe at best and eyebleeding at worst.
I don't play a lot of competitive games, But I absolutely LOVE to deep dive into metas of different game because all of the strategizing and mind games. Its like doing a deep dive on a strategy game, while watchig hearthstone,Dota or Pokemon. Wolfe is great because its so interesting to get a champ players view on everything.
@@kakeru8683 The tera shard grinding is what’s slowing me down big time. I wanna try new teams constantly. They need to change needing 50 shards. That’s insane.
Sylveon at least needs to get a honorable mention. While not as versatile as the other mons on the list. It is one of the best fairy type attacker in the early meta. With all the dragons running around and having a good spread damage move with hyper voice, it's one of the solid mons to round out a team. This might not be the case anymore when paradox pokemon gets introduced to ranked.
@@ToxiChickens It's good with pixilate, but it means it's pretty narrow in terms of what types it can tera to, and it means it *has* to tera to deal with steel types.
I’m surprised Dragonite and especially Murkrow weren’t mentioned. Murkrow is extremely popular right now for tailwind, and Dragonite with Tera normal extremespeed is quite strong
While Murkrow and Dragonite are good, they're incredibly one-trick ponies in a Tera Metagame. You know that 90% of Dragonites are gonna be Tera Normal and you know that Murkrow is gonna want to use Prankster Tailwind *every game*
@@hunter_michelie4425 that’s true, but I think certain mons mentioned by Wolfe are one dimensional. If you see a Torkoal on the field, 90% of the time, that thing is Tera fire clicking eruption
@@TheSpaceOpera while Torkoal's offensive pressure is entirely 1-Dimensional, the existence of Drought + Support moves such as Helping Hand enables Offensive Sun strategies which've been on the decline since the nerfing of Permanent Weather.
@@kayschut9327 this doesnt mean murkow is better then arcanine tho, it just means people think that murkrow offers more to the team.which he might but lets see some tournaments before we start talking about whats actually good vs what people have found to work
@@gonfftheprince Well the clear amulet takes away a lot of value from Arcanine, and quite a lot of meta picks rn seem to be resistant to fire. With the (in my opinion) lack of diversity in the special attackers and the prevalence of Murkrow making Snarl sort of useless. For an offensive pick I think Arcanine is outclassed by several others picks as well. The only thing it offers that other pokemon do not in this case is the Justified strat, and hope you catch people off-guard.
Wolfey getting hit by the fact that Dynamax isn't returning made me realize I haven't really thought about that either. It's been such a fundamental part of competitive for the past few years that it's going to be weird to have to rework all of our strategies without it.
Hey Wolfie. I would love a video on how to construct a competitive pokemon team. Like, how many support pokemons do I need? How many offensive ones? Should I cover both SP and physical attack moves? Do I need any tank pokemons? What specific support moves should I have on all teams? Etc.
Not experienced in VGC but maybe try building a team around a concept you like (a certain strategy or gimmick idk) and go from there, build the pokémon you need to execute the strategy and the rest build according to needs or weaknesses (comes easier after playing with the specific strategy)
Not a vgc player but good at showdown. Of course you need tank or more bulky mon, cuz no matter what u probaly sometimes would like to swicht and not lost mon, and fake out is one of the best if not the best
Wolfey had a series for this type of thing a while back called Pokemon Academy, including one video called How To Teambuild for Competitive Pokemon. It's still mostly relevant, even though it wasn't made for Scarlet/Violet. I also feel like you can learn a lot by analyzing good teambuilders like Wolfey and Aaron Zheng, even without them explicitly saying, "this team covers both special and physical attacking moves," etc.
@@hylerwhite not really a stupid question because generally your bulkier Pokémon are your supports and it’s actually rather hard to pick up an ohko in doubles without explicit threats you know will do so that you probably build to deal with anyways. You can get away with a large number of offensive Pokémon with little defensive investment in some team archetypes.
the semi-scriptedness of the recent videos has made them a ton of fun to watch, along with already being interesting sources of information. props to the people doing the editing especially, for keeping the pace lively without being distracting
The editing on this video is incredible. The among us jokes for amoongus were just hilarious- the intro music, the sound you used when you showed a tera animation and the funny cuts about its resistances / realizing you were right. Great video.
This video is so damn entertaining. Music choices are varied and fun, comedic timing is great, and the information is concise and clear. Congrats to the whole team. This is peak content.
I just want to say, thanks Wolfe, you got me into Competitive last gen and I might be going to a tournament next year! (Depending on restrictions) so thanks
Wolfey killing it with the content. Pokémon content has been trending constantly. Can't wait to watch you hit 1 Mil. I watch almost all the videos definitely keeps me distracted thru some dark times so thank you.
1:22 Gamefreak employee: How could we make the terastalized form look like a Dark type? Wolfe: Hat. Gamefreak employee: Yes, every form wears some kind of hat, could you be more specific? Wolfe: Black hat.
@@door349 LIVE-A-LIVE remake was one of my favourite games this year. If there's any music I wanted to use for this video, this game was one of em! Glad you liked it!
parting shot grimmcineroar is just so good. I use it on a dondozo team, using screens to effectively give dozo +3 in each defense, AND reducing the opponents attacks to -1. its amazing
This video is really interesting to highlight how difficult it is to protect a meta ahead of time. If we reworked this list based on what we've seen so far on the ladder/in tournaments then it would look pretty different already!
Low-key one of the biggest challenges of watching the new Wolfey videos is being able to identify the various video games the background music tracks/SFX come from. Great video as always!
I think torkoal will be even more insane when they allow paradox pokemon, unless they also allow the box legends at the same time. Imagine staring down a tera-fire torkoal with roaring moon as its partner.
Hey Wolfe! Didn’t know where else to comment this but saw your short on the gym you opened. Since you said you were doing that I’ve been so excited for you! To see that finally come to fruition genuinely brought tears to my eyes. I’ve been playing these games since I was 5 and am now almost 25 and to see that was so cool, seriously a little kid’s dream come true. Thankful for having you in the community and hope you can do it again maybe on the west coast!
Legitimate request for a video. You should go over some of the most nerfed mons from previous generations, like how Rillaboom lost some coverage and the Scald thing and Weavile losing Knock Off Edit: I literally was just thinkinf about using Tera Poison Hydreigon for a team just yesterday omg, I manifested this. This is one of the first times I knew something with such confidence on your channel when u were describing it lol.
@@wooptyfrickendoo6203 yeah true. I'm personally hurt by the Scald change. It will definitely change Toxapex and Slowbro. Another really random nerf was Whiscash losing yawn.
@@microwavedpepsi Might be a Smogon thing where it was technically possible to have a Knock Off Weavile so they let singles run it even though it's hard to get in a real life game
Hisuian Arcanine will also be available when pokemon home access is up. it gets rock/fire type and the ability rock head so you can use moves such as head smash flare blitz wild charge
@@rft1076 true rock/fire is kinda bad, but that is a good thing about Tera forms, it could break out of it's Rock/Fire weakness, similar to how Tyrannitar breaks out of it's rough Rock/Dark weakness.
Your content has been phenomenal recently! I actually subscribed to you a few months back because I'd watch casually but hadn't played anything since gen 3 so was never super invested. But you did one of the percentage of viewers subscribed and it was something absurd like 1-2%. I legit felt bad and subscribed. And now It's so great watching that number rise!
So glad to see Hydreigon getting a mention. That tera Poison with levitate is just so damn good. Personally been running a Critdreigon to bypass all screens.
Something that was overlooked with torkoal is that it supports the scarlet paradox pokemon with drought. I'm assuming that koraidon is going to be banned so having a drought setter like torkoal is going to help as a substitute.
Good list. Your editor is cracked btw. Easily the best put together scarlet/violet videos on YT. I'm someone who likes finding niche strats, but even niche Pokémon would likely require 1 or 2 of the meta Pokémon to help make it work. Definitely coming back to this video in the future.
Tera typing is probably the best gimmick Pokemon has ever come up with, and I'm so happy to see how it's shaking up the meta. Looking forward to that all tera-form guide you said you're making Wolfey!
You forgot that torkoal is even better because of the ancient paradox pokemon abilities. Being able to set up sun to activate those abilities of those very strong pokemon, plus having a very threatening presence of it's own makes it that much better.
Unironically, I'd give Abomasnow a nod, defensive tera is pretty damn incredible for it considering it's current typing is ... Well Grass / Ice and the snow changes have been really fun to play around with so far to the point that Snow now feels usable. And it's the only mon with Snow Warning (for now I guess)
I'd love to see a video on say, "Top ten weakest pokemon that came back" or "ten pokemon to not terrastalize". The last one would be exceptionally helpful since I want to start competitive for the first time. As always, great video!
As a fan of rotom, I look forward to GF adding more types for it. I think the concept of electrical appliance Pokémon can be expanded to many other things, eg centrifuge (poison), blender (dark), vibratory rammer (ground), bug zappers (bug) etc. Rotom phones can themselves be of the psychic type since the internet and it’s many wonders are exceptionally mesmerising.
As somebody who hasn’t played Gen 8 and came back to playing competitive in Gen 9 ( primarily a singles player ) I’ve been in love with Grimsnarl so far
This was the first time I've used Torkoal since Emerald and I loved my Sheldon the whole way through. Very good, I see why everyone likes it now. Ash was too early.
Just wanted to say thank you. I haven’t played Pokémon other than Go since Gold and Silver and haven’t done any competitive since then. I appreciate the catch up and education since this is my first time with EV, IV, etc.
You should do a video on what would happen if mega-evolution, z moves, gigantimax and terrastallization all appeared in one game (and what would happen to the meta)
Important note about Torkoal: Sun is SO good this generation because of Protosynthesis, the signature ability of past paradox pokemon. In strong sunlight, Protosynthesis boosts the highest stat by 1.3x (or 1.5x if it's speed). This bonus on a 570 BST Pokémon (which all paradox Pokémon are) is massive. Roaring moon gets a 180 atk stat! Fluttermane with 175 sp.a! While you can activate this ability with booster energy, having a choice item instead is huge.
Not gonna lie, I was thinking about doing my Violet playthrough as an Ice only run, and this video made me remember that Rotom can be an Electric/Ice Type. 🌠🌈 The more you know 🌈🌠
Can you do the Best Pokemon for Terastalization? For example, Gengar using Tera Fighting to hit Dark Normal and Steel, or Tyranitar being Tera Ghost to avoid fighting moves
To the editor of the video, thank you for using the Octopath Traveler OST "Decisive Battle". That is a phenomenal track and you have exquisite taste in music good sire.
My main tortoise Torkoal still going strong. My all time favorite mon went from being irrelevant to being one of the best within the span of 1 or 2 generations. Love to see it.
Funny that now, given all the Abilities (and a Hold Item) that block Intimidate, plus the meta being initially defined by Dondozo + Tatsugiri, Arcanine is actually going down in usage compared to the others listed here
dondonzo strat will work for a few weeks more. Peaple will start playing with burn , haze and superfang to counter them. I even think that toxic could work.
I have been having insane success with grass tera torkoal. You keep your eruption STAB, you GAIN solar beam stab (plus free sun,) and you resist everything fire was weak to. I think if anybody is going to defensively terastilize, it would be torkoal. He's even strong out of trick room and can even run lava plume with baxcalibur. There are so many options for this pokémon and he's genuinely my favorite in the metagame even if he isn't as used.
I'll assume this is recorded quite a while ago as well, but I think there's a few corrections I would personally make. (Take it with a grain of salt) - Hydreigon and Garchomp are definitely higher on the list. Hydreigon has very good versatility in terms of offensive power (strongest Draco Meteor in the game), good support moves (Tailwind), and good Tera types, while Garchomp is just incredibly strong. - Arcanine I thought would be one of the best, but everything that it wants to Intimidate is basically holding a Clear Amulet, which really hinders its viability. - Gyarados is also hindered by Clear Amulet, but to an lesser extent. Still feels underwhelming though, it doesn't have enough power to back it up (Waterfall and Bounce is not the STAB moves you really wish for as an attacker, making it very reliant on Tera for damage output) - Indeedee-F is kinda just OP, especially with the Trick Room stuff. The grind you are on is insane though! A video every two days is crazy. Keep up the great work!
I'm surprised Dragonite wasn't on there. Tera Normal to get rid of its weakness combined with its Marvel Scale means you can usually get enough Dragon Dances off to make it scary. It also makes Extremespeed a STAB. Plus with Shed Tail being a thing it's possible to get a Dragonite behind a sub that gets the Marvel Scale boost, meaning it's super safe to go for DD set-up.
Thank you very much! I love choosing bangers from games I played and enjoyed. And they fit Wolfey's video to the T, so I went with em! Glad you like em
unfortunately i was able to determine which pokemon you placed at number 1 since you clearly mispronounced its name, the description fits arcaneenay though, is that what you meant?
@@AwesomeMooseSmileTyranitar has tournament wins this Gen. It’s still a good Pokemon. The biggest assessment failure here is Amoongus being so low. Of all of these Pokemon it’s pretty much damn mushroom and Torkoal that have persisted into Reg. G.
My friend built a team using a tera fire torkoal with eruption and choice specs, and a tera dark oranguru with trick room and instruct. The setup works quite a lot, and it's a beautiful sight to be seen every single time he uses double eruption tera fire choice specs in the sun.
13:02 just like to point out a small mistake for anybody who was confused like I was. It should be x1.5, not x0.5. Great video Wolfey, keep up the great content and you’re sure to hit 1 mil eventually!
I'm surprised that Murkrow didn't make the list as the most reliable prio tailwind with other great support options
I think this was pre recorded a few weeks ago
It's because he has sworen against that stupid bird
because murkrow technically isnt returning, murkrow was never viable in the past.
Ok so now I’m curious
Why do people use Murkrow and not evolve it to Honchkrow?
@@BlazeArceus777 It's evolution doesn't get prankster, is a pre-evo exclusive ability
I can't wait to see Torkoal do work with a photosynthesis trick room set
No replies? On Austin’s Comment?
@@TheAltMapper yeah lol
and he does on teams with the new fire guy and indeede
Tera Ghost allows dragapult to have a reliable physical ghost move thanks to Tera blast. So it can utilize terastalization pretty well
Edit: Wow, honestly I didn't expect this much conversation on this. Thank you all so much for the input love you all
Terra blast is special attack?
@@hellothere700 its actually whichever stat is higher! though you're right it displays by default as spA
@@hellothere700 Tera Blast should function like Photon Geyser in that whichever attacking stat is highest, that’s what it bases on.
@@hellothere700 Tera blast can be physical or special, depending which stat is higher
@@JDonaldBin isn’t know that thought it was special by default
Best Tera for Arcanine I’ve found useful so far is Tera Grass. The immunity to Spore and Rage Powder, as well as resisting incoming Earthquakes and Jet Punches helps it out defensively. I don’t think I’d opt to run any Offensive sets with it as I’ve had way more success with it on a support set.
I love how terastilization has added so much unique strategic dynamics to this gen & how it helps pokemon with x4 weaknesses become more viable
I genuinely think terastallization is the best 'escalation mechanic' they've ever had. Mega-evos, Z-moves and dynamaxing were neat but ultimately amounted to either helping Pokemon that didn't need it or making Pokemon do their usual thing but harder.
Tera types can do that second one if you REALLY want, but the best part is that it has the capacity to give ANY Pokemon a surprising trump card. Murkrow can use it just as well as Garchomp, and I think that's way more interesting.
I cant get over the horrible design of it however
@@henrypham9525 I recommend Tera Steel then, the hatchet hat is pretty great. Tera Electric works surprisingly well with a lot of designs, too.
@@henrypham9525 I think it's appropriately hammy and cute for a pokemon game. Think of it as goofy carnival hats. If you really want to name an insultingly ugly mechanic, Z moves has that covered in spades. A one off attack, where the sprites barely fucking move and just creepily T posing ramming itself into the enemy and a dance that is cringe at best and eyebleeding at worst.
@@henrypham9525 most of the terrastalization types actually look great
Another major positive for torkoal: Drought makes it a phenomenal support for paradox mons with Protosynthesis, like Roaring Moon or Flutter Mane
Yeah, but paradox mons currently aren't legal
@@JackStache I also highly doubt they will ever be legal, as you would need to interact with someone outside of the base game to get them all
@@MARIOMAKER-wk8vy actually they probably will be legal, whenever they make legendaries legal
@@MARIOMAKER-wk8vy you need to do fhat for all version exclusive mons? Didn't stop zacian and zamazenta from being legal??
@@MARIOMAKER-wk8vy now they are coming next split 😅
As someone who’s getting in to competitive battling this gen, I can’t wait to see meta will change and evolve throughout the coming years.
Good time to get into competitive considering how much easier it is to make competive pokemon now.
True. So can I get a number 2? Large coke, light on the ice
I don't play a lot of competitive games, But I absolutely LOVE to deep dive into metas of different game because all of the strategizing and mind games. Its like doing a deep dive on a strategy game, while watchig hearthstone,Dota or Pokemon. Wolfe is great because its so interesting to get a champ players view on everything.
@@kakeru8683 The tera shard grinding is what’s slowing me down big time. I wanna try new teams constantly. They need to change needing 50 shards. That’s insane.
No its not. Tera Shard grinding is hellish if you dont have friends or a 2nd Switch lol.
Sylveon at least needs to get a honorable mention. While not as versatile as the other mons on the list. It is one of the best fairy type attacker in the early meta. With all the dragons running around and having a good spread damage move with hyper voice, it's one of the solid mons to round out a team. This might not be the case anymore when paradox pokemon gets introduced to ranked.
I've been testing tera type fire sylveon in pokemon showdown and its a monster.
Unfortunately, dragons really like tera steel, and Sylveon lost mystical fire.
Tera blast allows sylveon to be versatile with pixelate or tera blast fire
@@ToxiChickens It's good with pixilate, but it means it's pretty narrow in terms of what types it can tera to, and it means it *has* to tera to deal with steel types.
U can run Throat spray if u want as well
All of these Pokémon are rly good at its debut game, but coming to scarlet and violet makes it even more cracked
What is "their own game"?
@@AdminAbuse It was a typo sry
I’m surprised Dragonite and especially Murkrow weren’t mentioned.
Murkrow is extremely popular right now for tailwind, and Dragonite with Tera normal extremespeed is quite strong
While Murkrow and Dragonite are good, they're incredibly one-trick ponies in a Tera Metagame. You know that 90% of Dragonites are gonna be Tera Normal and you know that Murkrow is gonna want to use Prankster Tailwind *every game*
@@hunter_michelie4425 that’s true, but I think certain mons mentioned by Wolfe are one dimensional. If you see a Torkoal on the field, 90% of the time, that thing is Tera fire clicking eruption
@@TheSpaceOpera while Torkoal's offensive pressure is entirely 1-Dimensional, the existence of Drought + Support moves such as Helping Hand enables Offensive Sun strategies which've been on the decline since the nerfing of Permanent Weather.
Technically they are not “returning” mons, they are solid options in this metagame. Prior to this they were pretty garbage
These simple offensive strats become weaker and weaker as the meta develops. Wolfe, of course, knows this.
I was really expecting Murkrow on here since it's currently one of the most used mon in the SV meta right now.
This video was probably made before the Murkrow took the Meta by storm.
@@erentsen Probably, I see Murkrow everywhere and see next to no Arcanine.
@@kayschut9327 this doesnt mean murkow is better then arcanine tho, it just means people think that murkrow offers more to the team.which he might but lets see some tournaments before we start talking about whats actually good vs what people have found to work
@@gonfftheprince Well the clear amulet takes away a lot of value from Arcanine, and quite a lot of meta picks rn seem to be resistant to fire. With the (in my opinion) lack of diversity in the special attackers and the prevalence of Murkrow making Snarl sort of useless. For an offensive pick I think Arcanine is outclassed by several others picks as well. The only thing it offers that other pokemon do not in this case is the Justified strat, and hope you catch people off-guard.
@@gonfftheprince murkrow is better than arcanine
Wolfey getting hit by the fact that Dynamax isn't returning made me realize I haven't really thought about that either. It's been such a fundamental part of competitive for the past few years that it's going to be weird to have to rework all of our strategies without it.
This was a big reason I didnt keep up with comp when Megas were dropped. Now I finally have the time to commit to learning the new gimmick lol
Me who skipped gen 8:
now yall have to worry about t.t.t. tera type tomfoolery
Hey Wolfie. I would love a video on how to construct a competitive pokemon team. Like, how many support pokemons do I need? How many offensive ones? Should I cover both SP and physical attack moves? Do I need any tank pokemons? What specific support moves should I have on all teams? Etc.
Not experienced in VGC but maybe try building a team around a concept you like (a certain strategy or gimmick idk) and go from there, build the pokémon you need to execute the strategy and the rest build according to needs or weaknesses (comes easier after playing with the specific strategy)
Not a vgc player but good at showdown. Of course you need tank or more bulky mon, cuz no matter what u probaly sometimes would like to swicht and not lost mon, and fake out is one of the best if not the best
@@hylerwhite Nothing is a stupid question, you should suggest ideas for players instead of calling them names for not knowing how to team-build.
Wolfey had a series for this type of thing a while back called Pokemon Academy, including one video called How To Teambuild for Competitive Pokemon. It's still mostly relevant, even though it wasn't made for Scarlet/Violet. I also feel like you can learn a lot by analyzing good teambuilders like Wolfey and Aaron Zheng, even without them explicitly saying, "this team covers both special and physical attacking moves," etc.
@@hylerwhite not really a stupid question because generally your bulkier Pokémon are your supports and it’s actually rather hard to pick up an ohko in doubles without explicit threats you know will do so that you probably build to deal with anyways. You can get away with a large number of offensive Pokémon with little defensive investment in some team archetypes.
the semi-scriptedness of the recent videos has made them a ton of fun to watch, along with already being interesting sources of information. props to the people doing the editing especially, for keeping the pace lively without being distracting
Appreciate it bud! Thank you very much 👌
The editing on this video is incredible. The among us jokes for amoongus were just hilarious- the intro music, the sound you used when you showed a tera animation and the funny cuts about its resistances / realizing you were right. Great video.
Appreciate it very much bud! Thank you for the kind words!
This video is so damn entertaining. Music choices are varied and fun, comedic timing is great, and the information is concise and clear. Congrats to the whole team. This is peak content.
The Live A Live music is soooooo good
Appreciate you bud! I only choose the best music for my boy. Glad you enjoyed it!
I just want to say, thanks Wolfe, you got me into Competitive last gen and I might be going to a tournament next year! (Depending on restrictions) so thanks
That's so cool :) Best of luck!
Ikr. Although, I don't go to tournaments, Wolfe made me love playing doubles.
I hope you win! You totally have the skills to do so!
Good luck finding all the Tera Shards
one day we’ll have a World Champion who got into Competitive Pokémon thanks to Wolfe
Wolfey killing it with the content. Pokémon content has been trending constantly. Can't wait to watch you hit 1 Mil. I watch almost all the videos definitely keeps me distracted thru some dark times so thank you.
1:22 Gamefreak employee: How could we make the terastalized form look like a Dark type?
Wolfe: Hat.
Gamefreak employee: Yes, every form wears some kind of hat, could you be more specific?
Wolfe: Black hat.
you’re really making the most of this wolfe! i wish you great personal and competitive success this generation.
Man I love the editing style of Wolfey's videos
I never thought I’d see the day Live a Live music makes it into a Wolfey video
@@door349 and octopath traveller at the start
big agree. I feel like some of the comedy from the earlier era is coming back and I love it
@@door349 LIVE-A-LIVE remake was one of my favourite games this year. If there's any music I wanted to use for this video, this game was one of em!
Glad you liked it!
@@TheUziGunnerf you made that Rotom type animation, well done, or well done to whoever made it
parting shot grimmcineroar is just so good. I use it on a dondozo team, using screens to effectively give dozo +3 in each defense, AND reducing the opponents attacks to -1. its amazing
This video is really interesting to highlight how difficult it is to protect a meta ahead of time. If we reworked this list based on what we've seen so far on the ladder/in tournaments then it would look pretty different already!
Low-key one of the biggest challenges of watching the new Wolfey videos is being able to identify the various video games the background music tracks/SFX come from. Great video as always!
I think torkoal will be even more insane when they allow paradox pokemon, unless they also allow the box legends at the same time. Imagine staring down a tera-fire torkoal with roaring moon as its partner.
Hey Wolfe! Didn’t know where else to comment this but saw your short on the gym you opened. Since you said you were doing that I’ve been so excited for you! To see that finally come to fruition genuinely brought tears to my eyes. I’ve been playing these games since I was 5 and am now almost 25 and to see that was so cool, seriously a little kid’s dream come true. Thankful for having you in the community and hope you can do it again maybe on the west coast!
Legitimate request for a video. You should go over some of the most nerfed mons from previous generations, like how Rillaboom lost some coverage and the Scald thing and Weavile losing Knock Off
Edit: I literally was just thinkinf about using Tera Poison Hydreigon for a team just yesterday omg, I manifested this. This is one of the first times I knew something with such confidence on your channel when u were describing it lol.
And triple axel
Rilaboom didn't just lose some coverage it lost Grassy glide too which completely neuters it.
@@wooptyfrickendoo6203 yeah true. I'm personally hurt by the Scald change. It will definitely change Toxapex and Slowbro. Another really random nerf was Whiscash losing yawn.
I thought Weavile already lost Knock Off? I tried teaching it that but I found out it couldn’t in Gen 8.
@@microwavedpepsi Might be a Smogon thing where it was technically possible to have a Knock Off Weavile so they let singles run it even though it's hard to get in a real life game
Another thing about Torkoal is that it setting up drought can also activate Protosynthesis for some of your really strong Paldean forms
Hisuian Arcanine will also be available when pokemon home access is up. it gets rock/fire type and the ability rock head so you can use moves such as head smash flare blitz wild charge
But rock/fire is so awful. If Magcargo wasn't rock/fire it might not even be half bad.
@@rft1076 true rock/fire is kinda bad, but that is a good thing about Tera forms, it could break out of it's Rock/Fire weakness, similar to how Tyrannitar breaks out of it's rough Rock/Dark weakness.
Your content has been phenomenal recently! I actually subscribed to you a few months back because I'd watch casually but hadn't played anything since gen 3 so was never super invested. But you did one of the percentage of viewers subscribed and it was something absurd like 1-2%. I legit felt bad and subscribed. And now It's so great watching that number rise!
So glad to see Hydreigon getting a mention. That tera Poison with levitate is just so damn good.
Personally been running a Critdreigon to bypass all screens.
Tera electric would be even better, literally no weakness with levitate
The Live a Live soundtrack at 4:45 got me super excited. Good taste! 👍
One of my favourite games this year. I just KNEW I had to put some of em in! Glad you like my music tastes!
Something that was overlooked with torkoal is that it supports the scarlet paradox pokemon with drought. I'm assuming that koraidon is going to be banned so having a drought setter like torkoal is going to help as a substitute.
Legendaries are banned in tournaments
@@zacmayes2802 that's what they just said though
Good list. Your editor is cracked btw. Easily the best put together scarlet/violet videos on YT. I'm someone who likes finding niche strats, but even niche Pokémon would likely require 1 or 2 of the meta Pokémon to help make it work. Definitely coming back to this video in the future.
Tera typing is probably the best gimmick Pokemon has ever come up with, and I'm so happy to see how it's shaking up the meta. Looking forward to that all tera-form guide you said you're making Wolfey!
15:56 as someone that just started playing MGS for the first time, this made me happy to hear😂
Seeing a Pokemon's move pool and making it the basis of it's strength reminds me so much of the spell list of casters in DnD lol.
You forgot that torkoal is even better because of the ancient paradox pokemon abilities. Being able to set up sun to activate those abilities of those very strong pokemon, plus having a very threatening presence of it's own makes it that much better.
Unironically, I'd give Abomasnow a nod, defensive tera is pretty damn incredible for it considering it's current typing is ... Well Grass / Ice and the snow changes have been really fun to play around with so far to the point that Snow now feels usable. And it's the only mon with Snow Warning (for now I guess)
I'd love to see a video on say, "Top ten weakest pokemon that came back" or "ten pokemon to not terrastalize". The last one would be exceptionally helpful since I want to start competitive for the first time. As always, great video!
Quick note on Dragapult, Tera Ghost gives you an alternative option for a physical STAB ghost move.
13:29
Didn't know my man plays Octopath. Good choiche.
Of course, the World Champ only makes good choiches, it's the World Champ difference, baby!
As a fan of rotom, I look forward to GF adding more types for it. I think the concept of electrical appliance Pokémon can be expanded to many other things, eg centrifuge (poison), blender (dark), vibratory rammer (ground), bug zappers (bug) etc. Rotom phones can themselves be of the psychic type since the internet and it’s many wonders are exceptionally mesmerising.
Blender as dark 💀
As somebody who hasn’t played Gen 8 and came back to playing competitive in Gen 9 ( primarily a singles player ) I’ve been in love with Grimsnarl so far
This was the first time I've used Torkoal since Emerald and I loved my Sheldon the whole way through. Very good, I see why everyone likes it now. Ash was too early.
I always forget that VGC doesn’t have sleep clause and I’ve probably lost games I didn’t need to because of this
0:03 alternative ending: “no”
Just wanted to say thank you. I haven’t played Pokémon other than Go since Gold and Silver and haven’t done any competitive since then. I appreciate the catch up and education since this is my first time with EV, IV, etc.
You should do a video on what would happen if mega-evolution, z moves, gigantimax and terrastallization all appeared in one game (and what would happen to the meta)
Just happy to hear some octopath traveler soundtrack pairing with Tyranitar
Important note about Torkoal:
Sun is SO good this generation because of Protosynthesis, the signature ability of past paradox pokemon.
In strong sunlight, Protosynthesis boosts the highest stat by 1.3x (or 1.5x if it's speed). This bonus on a 570 BST Pokémon (which all paradox Pokémon are) is massive.
Roaring moon gets a 180 atk stat! Fluttermane with 175 sp.a!
While you can activate this ability with booster energy, having a choice item instead is huge.
Not gonna lie, I was thinking about doing my Violet playthrough as an Ice only run, and this video made me remember that Rotom can be an Electric/Ice Type. 🌠🌈 The more you know 🌈🌠
Gamefreak: *Takes away Superpower on Contrary Lurantis*
ALSO Gamefreak: *Gives away Parting Shot to Prankster Grimmsnarl*
Can you do the Best Pokemon for Terastalization?
For example, Gengar using Tera Fighting to hit Dark Normal and Steel, or Tyranitar being Tera Ghost to avoid fighting moves
I loved the additional editing of the small bloopers lol
To the editor of the video, thank you for using the Octopath Traveler OST "Decisive Battle". That is a phenomenal track and you have exquisite taste in music good sire.
And music from Live a Live too!
Amazing content as always Wolfe, so excited for the 1,000,000 party ❤️
I heard some abilities get buffed/nerfed. I keen to see your analyze on them especially for competitive play.
Tbh, as much as I wanna talk about the tera typing, I love that the editor added music from Live A Live. We love good music choices out here
You put some much effort into this videos, they are super entertaining. Question: have you ever played the tcg?
I love the embedded bloopers. They're delightful :)
The difference of the world champion is strong in this one
As an added note to Chomp, it also gets Liquidation now, so more coverage if needed
It brings me joy to see my boy Arcanine getting so much love
I love the little cursor that pops up for the bst part. Sounds just like a final fantasy select cursor too
My main tortoise Torkoal still going strong. My all time favorite mon went from being irrelevant to being one of the best within the span of 1 or 2 generations. Love to see it.
Mad respect for having fire emblem and octopath traveler music wolfey!!
I only choose the best music from banger games I enjoy. Thank you very much!
Incredible editing. Props as hell to the editors.
Thank you very much!
The S/V videos have all been god tier
Another day of saying, get to #1 or Master Ball Rank using Pooper Wooper
I'm glad my buddy torkoals really good now
Funny that now, given all the Abilities (and a Hold Item) that block Intimidate, plus the meta being initially defined by Dondozo + Tatsugiri, Arcanine is actually going down in usage compared to the others listed here
Indeed, I swear I haven’t seen Arcanine on ladder more than a handful of times.
dondonzo strat will work for a few weeks more. Peaple will start playing with burn , haze and superfang to counter them. I even think that toxic could work.
I have been having insane success with grass tera torkoal. You keep your eruption STAB, you GAIN solar beam stab (plus free sun,) and you resist everything fire was weak to. I think if anybody is going to defensively terastilize, it would be torkoal. He's even strong out of trick room and can even run lava plume with baxcalibur. There are so many options for this pokémon and he's genuinely my favorite in the metagame even if he isn't as used.
I'll assume this is recorded quite a while ago as well, but I think there's a few corrections I would personally make. (Take it with a grain of salt)
- Hydreigon and Garchomp are definitely higher on the list. Hydreigon has very good versatility in terms of offensive power (strongest Draco Meteor in the game), good support moves (Tailwind), and good Tera types, while Garchomp is just incredibly strong.
- Arcanine I thought would be one of the best, but everything that it wants to Intimidate is basically holding a Clear Amulet, which really hinders its viability.
- Gyarados is also hindered by Clear Amulet, but to an lesser extent. Still feels underwhelming though, it doesn't have enough power to back it up (Waterfall and Bounce is not the STAB moves you really wish for as an attacker, making it very reliant on Tera for damage output)
- Indeedee-F is kinda just OP, especially with the Trick Room stuff.
The grind you are on is insane though! A video every two days is crazy. Keep up the great work!
the "don't" caught me off guard :D Well played
No wonder why pokemon games don't have 5moves
Blessed with another Wolfey upload
I'm surprised Dragonite wasn't on there. Tera Normal to get rid of its weakness combined with its Marvel Scale means you can usually get enough Dragon Dances off to make it scary. It also makes Extremespeed a STAB. Plus with Shed Tail being a thing it's possible to get a Dragonite behind a sub that gets the Marvel Scale boost, meaning it's super safe to go for DD set-up.
I think most people currently run Inner Focus.
Props to the editor for picking bangers. Good taste
Thank you very much! I love choosing bangers from games I played and enjoyed. And they fit Wolfey's video to the T, so I went with em! Glad you like em
unfortunately i was able to determine which pokemon you placed at number 1 since you clearly mispronounced its name, the description fits arcaneenay though, is that what you meant?
Dubwolf pumping out quality content like its the thing to do
this aged sooooooo badly
"Idk man, what are you talking abo-"
*#4 is Tyranitar*
"Oh yeah, you're right"
so badly is crazy
amoonguss is just so low and rotom is so high
@@AwesomeMooseSmile hasn't it won a regional?
@@AwesomeMooseSmileTyranitar has tournament wins this Gen. It’s still a good Pokemon. The biggest assessment failure here is Amoongus being so low. Of all of these Pokemon it’s pretty much damn mushroom and Torkoal that have persisted into Reg. G.
@@blurgalsklech2929just because it has tournament wins doesn’t mean it’s good
LOVING the music choices for this video
so this was completely off the mark lmao
How so?
dragapult has won worlds and it feels like done nothing else lol
Grimmsnarl with priority misty terrain is the unsung upgrade to my fairy boi
This video did not went well for Tyranitar 🤣
I was really struggling to round out my team but thanks to this video I've got way more confidence in the pokes I wanted to build a team with.
Beats Cybertron one time and goes from "World champ" to "Absolutely the best, no questions" lmao. Love it 🤣
Loving these videos- as someone who's straying more from the TCG to VGC they are so so helpful! Thanks for all tour hard work Wolfe!
I did not expect to hear Octopath Traveler music being played in a Pokémon video, but I’m loving it.
You didn’t see Pelliper coming huh 😂
Wolfe putting out great high quality content 4x A WEEK for our sake, we love you Wolfe keep it up! (Btw. bonus Wolfe is also great)
Wolfey is in his bag rn. I love this type of content.
Even though this list is very outdated it is still nice to see just how fast things have changed within a month.
I’m loving the stylizations from other JRPGs throughout this video (FF7 inventory cursor, Fire Emblem music, etc…)
My friend built a team using a tera fire torkoal with eruption and choice specs, and a tera dark oranguru with trick room and instruct. The setup works quite a lot, and it's a beautiful sight to be seen every single time he uses double eruption tera fire choice specs in the sun.
There is a mistake in the video at 13:02 where the multiplier for earthquake is 0.50x instead of 1.50x
honestly tera normal Arcanine with extreme speed would be interesting, basically tera blast STAB with priority
13:02 just like to point out a small mistake for anybody who was confused like I was. It should be x1.5, not x0.5. Great video Wolfey, keep up the great content and you’re sure to hit 1 mil eventually!
The music choices in this video are so good 👍
Appreciate it very much bud. Thank you!