This video made in homage to and with permission from KiengIV! Aiming to emulate some of his battler improvement videos from years past, but an updated version
Would be awesome to see collab on videos like this. The more i watch and the more I play, the more i realise that the difference between Ace and Legend is in the minor adjustments, it is rarely about the mons themselves. Coach Yasser and Coach Homeslice Collab. Let's see it
I've made it to vet the past few seasons, but haven't progressed any further. This is the exact type of video and instructional content I need. Please keep making more of these for all leagues, esp ML!
Great video, I hope you can do a future one with a trainer who is stuck in Veteran and can't reach Expert. The mistakes in this video were obvious for me because I'm a player who can easily consistently hit Veteran but I do struggle to hit Expert and have yet to make Legend. So a video with more complex gameplay and matchups could help me and a ton of veteran-stuck players in the future! Keep it up
I am in this boat as well and I just can't figure out in the moment what exactly to do when games come down to 1-2 fast moves. Looking forward to the Vet to Expert videos as well!
This content is amazing HSH and a huge benefit to the PVP community developing their battling chops. Not sure how it will do on the views given that I'm sure much of your audience is legend rank, but these instructional/informative videos are a fantastic resource and much appreciated. Thanks.
Great vid! About time we were blessed with upper echelon player providing thorough educational analysis. Doing it on battles in the Ace low Veteran range is great idea too because there are common mistakes that can be made aware and learned upon. There just aren't that many mistakes in the expert + range.
Henry, might I request a video on “alignment”? I know what it is (I think) but some animations, particularly rollout, are quite difficult to time. “Alignment” seems to be one of those pogo words that is oft-used but ill-understood. Thanks! Seriously great stuff, as always!
To throw on alignment is to use your charge move at the exact same time your opponent comes out of their last fast attack. So, your fast attacks would be aligned, and throwing at that moment lets your opponent sneak an entire move if you don't cmp.
Thank you. I understand that. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been “attack timing” in general. How long exactly is a “turn?” When is the optimal time to throw, to switch, etc? For instance, Incinerate is a five turn move. If I’m using powder snow, can I throw two and switch and avoid the damage? What count does the damage register on? Another example is say Astonish vs Mud Slap…my shadow Haunter vs a Shadow Golett and my Haunter fainted but the Golett was not damaged by the Astonish. Both are three turn moves…why? Does the damage register on different turns for different moves?
@@bhamfamjam Damage registers a turn before the move ends, eg for incinerate on turn 4. So in your case, if you throw 2 powder snows the damage will register on aslash. You would need to throw one powder snow and switch to transfer the damage.
That was an amazing video, and thank you for creating this! As others say, I would like to see a video on Veteran/Expert players trying to reach Legend as well. I can count moves and use charged moves at the correct timing, but I was walled after reaching Expert in the previous season due to unknown reasons.
I watched those Kieng Videos. It's nice to get a new video of that type. They're really helpful. A Duo with Kieng on one of these could be extra fun sometime down the line ;)
I really like this kind of video. My personal best elo was a little above 2400 last season, but I was instantly discouraged after going on a losing streak dropping to the low 2100 range. I need all the help I can get 😭 will you be doing more videos like this?
I’m stoked on this I play every day and I peaked expert last season But I want more knowledge I feel like my knowledge is cursory and im stoked to see this type of video!
Great video! I feel a big mistake that seems to be repeated is this team being essentially ABB but letting the lead get to a health where it becomes useless in the end. Gotta keep it healthy, especially if you back mon share a weakness At least this battler has decent UL pokemon. Wish i had a UL Malamar and Shadow Drapion
This video was great cause i learned new info on when to switch how to spot new pokemon type coming in and how to be efficient. Felt like on the spot coaching
Could you do more of these??!! I’d like one for the great league. I feel like a lot of the smaller nuances of PVP aren’t easy for a person to pick up on their own
Damm, this style of videos is so good to watch, I can watch every day like tv show, I’m at my 3 season to Gbl I started at lvl20, and last one was ace, now maybe veteran 😅
15:48 they’re not *quite* identical with Superpower having 85 power and STAB Foul Play having 84 power (120% * 70). It’s so beyond negligible that one could go their entire GBL career and never have this matter, but there are hypothetical situations where a FP leaves the target on 1 HP and the Superpower would have KO-ed.
Thanks, and yes I do! I'll be looking to cover veteran and expert battles as well. When I'm looking for battles, I'll put out the call in my discord discord.gg/A3AABhvK
Move timing is very difficult for me. A lot of it because of lag, which I usually get a little bit of in every battle I do. For example, it makes perfect sense in the Tentacruel v Ampharos matchup to throw that one more Poison Jab before going for your charge move, even being on 1HP. I don't do that because of lag fears. I'll somehow stutter and not get the move off. In addition, I could see the Acid Spray having been thrown over the Blizzard because when the Amharos threw its move, the energy was just short of a Blizzard. The Poison Jab that was thrown right before is going to give you the energy for the Blizzard, but not physically seeing the move ready could make the battler not confident that he actually has the move. I would bet money that Blizzard would've been thrown if the battler had a Blizzard clearly loaded before the Ampharos's charge move. A lot of the bad move timing is I just don't have it memorized about when I should be throwing. I just have a rough idea of move counts (I know some but mostly go by feel), and I sometimes will just throw on alignment out of fear of my counts or because I don't know exactly when I should be throwing anyway. In some sense, a part of me is holding out hope that I don't have to do a ton of memorization. Can I just learn matchups over time and some important move counts and be okay? The answer is probably no and that I really should actually study these things and commit them to memory. Although I still have a lot of matchups to learn. Malamar vs Venusaur, I wouldn't have thought that both Drapion and Tentacruel were better answers. Maybe Drapion, but not Tentacruel. I might've done the same thing in the 5th battle with the Drapion and Hippowdon, simply not knowing Hippowdon counts at all. I pretty much never see Hippowdon. Also, just watching the battle, I can't even quite tell how many Ice Fangs were thrown. With the Psywave and Ice Fang animations together, I just can't even tell, tbh. It looked like the first Scorching Sands might've been after 9 Ice Fangs? Also, I 100% get not switching the Malamar out of the Togekiss in the second battle (I feel like I would've switched out the Tentacruel against the Giratina in the 4th, but I can't say for certain). It's hard for me to be willing to switch-lock myself or give up switch. Maybe if I were more confident in move counts and the ability to catch my opponents charge moves I'd be more willing, but switch-locking myself when I don't have to is something that I just have a hard time overcoming. I get that you don't want to give your opponent farm, but I guess it's just an issue of overvaluing switch and not knowing when I should really actually care about maintaining switch. Finally, it'd be great to know sometimes if a game was winnable or not. So watching all of these battles and hearing you say they're all winnable is valuable on its own. I'll legitimately have battles where I just lose without putting up much of a fight and I think to myself, "would HSH have won this?"
Bruh, anyone throwing Acid Spray (like the 2nd battle vs Tina) will 100% not shield the next charge atk even if u have 100 energy. LoL. Great content tho!! 👌
Great video as always! Were you able to run an analysis on which G.-Corsola I should run? Rank 72 (2/15/10); Rank 28 (3/14/15) or Rank 27 (2/11/13)? I appreciate your efforts :)
Ive been a legend player for 3 years now. Now it seems like its not possible because of the algorythm. I love the game but when suddenly change to a gastrodon lead i Get faced against serperior and drifblim. When i switch back, the same thing happens with my wiggly. So tired of it
the problem that i most often face in gbl is that my team starts getting hard countered after 2 3 good sets. what should be the optimal thing in this situation? should i change team and keep playing or do i close the app and try again later. what could be more beneficial to save my elo?? Appreciate any help!
Unfortunately thats just the way this game is set up. Punishes you for doing well. You can use all the advanced tactics you want. But in the end. Niantic picks which accounts are allowed to hit legend. Not to mention all the rampant cheaters everywhere. People knowing every move you make and perfectly predicting it before you make it. Switch button not working when you try to catch. And of course the algorithm that hard counters you. Honestly. Save yourself the stress. It ain't worth it.
In that second battle personally i would prefer to preserve switch advantage after the initial match up, i find that alignment ends up being more important than energy leads in most battles is this true?
Preserving switch can be valuable, but if you have 2 stronger counters in the back, I like pivoting out into the safe swap to check for what they have, and save the move on malamar
@moreslicehenry5553 you're right, it is a safe decision because either way you have a winning match up against the second pokemon and you preserve a life for a catch or a reset + a move which could prove useful. I think the lose con is finding something that can exist with energy to then 1v2 which would be unlikely in the ultra league. Thanks for responding 🫶
I'm realising my problem isn't the game mechanics, counting moves.. I just run too much spice.. My team building isn't great 😅 I have been veteran twice or three times and have been playing PVP since the beginning.
@moreslicehenry5553 yeah I can't help myself but build a spice pick I've seen on TH-cam and try it myself with not the same results usually haha. Being consistent is another important aspect which sometimes let's me down
Man how do you count for malamar? I feel like there's always a psywave that goes through before I see anything after a charge move. Should I just start counting it as 2 once I start seeing the animation after a charge attack?
It's kinda difficult considering its animation, as you say. Personally, I just look at the health bar of my own Pokémon, unless there are lots of frame drops that day lol
If you are the psywave user, you can count by visually seeing your energy increase on the charge move button. That can be decent at getting you more comfortable with timing it If your opponent is using psywave, you can count using your own fast moves (i.e. if you've done 5 counters, they have 10 psywaves)
33:40 The opponent is very disrespectful, showing no respect to Blizzard and then stops attacking to let the trainer get close to the blizzard before tapping the last Shadow Claw.
This video made in homage to and with permission from KiengIV! Aiming to emulate some of his battler improvement videos from years past, but an updated version
Used to watch these from Kieng a ton, those and your’s and Chillis’s videos helped me learn so much! You’re gonna help a ton of trainers with these!!!
Fine I’ll count, buy a better phone, and stop playing around cause I’m 38 and a pose doesn’t matter to me. Lol
Hi Henry, what video or creator are you talking about at 49:12 when you mention a charge attack timing video? thanks
Would be awesome to see collab on videos like this. The more i watch and the more I play, the more i realise that the difference between Ace and Legend is in the minor adjustments, it is rarely about the mons themselves. Coach Yasser and Coach Homeslice Collab. Let's see it
Please post more content like this, a lot of people need help and this video was very informative. Thank you 🙏🏻
yeah this is my favorite content and there's not enough of it!!
Will do! Thanks for watching
From what I see you started this kind of videos, don't let anyone take it, this is one I the best pokemon go vids ever, thanks for the info man
Thanks for watching!
Love the content, not enough content creators are dissecting battles to explain what could of done better and ultimately making the community better
🗣️watchu mean bozo
I’m an expert player trying to hit legend for the first time. It would be amazing for you to do a similar video for that rank!
I've made it to vet the past few seasons, but haven't progressed any further. This is the exact type of video and instructional content I need. Please keep making more of these for all leagues, esp ML!
Will do, thanks!
One of the best videos from you Henry, very informative and enjoyable
Great video, I hope you can do a future one with a trainer who is stuck in Veteran and can't reach Expert. The mistakes in this video were obvious for me because I'm a player who can easily consistently hit Veteran but I do struggle to hit Expert and have yet to make Legend. So a video with more complex gameplay and matchups could help me and a ton of veteran-stuck players in the future! Keep it up
I second this!
I am in this boat as well and I just can't figure out in the moment what exactly to do when games come down to 1-2 fast moves. Looking forward to the Vet to Expert videos as well!
This is a great way to learn PVP! I would like to see more content like this!
This content is amazing HSH and a huge benefit to the PVP community developing their battling chops.
Not sure how it will do on the views given that I'm sure much of your audience is legend rank, but these instructional/informative videos are a fantastic resource and much appreciated. Thanks.
U should do more battle analysis videos. Haven't seen any POGO content creators do these. Cool stuff
Thanks! That's the plan
Move timing is the hardest for me and i dont make it outta ace every season. Thanks for the video, this helped so much ❤
Thanks. Gonna Watch it again tomorrow. Stuck in veteran for the 6th seasons in a row.
Great vid! About time we were blessed with upper echelon player providing thorough educational analysis. Doing it on battles in the Ace low Veteran range is great idea too because there are common mistakes that can be made aware and learned upon. There just aren't that many mistakes in the expert + range.
Henry, might I request a video on “alignment”? I know what it is (I think) but some animations, particularly rollout, are quite difficult to time. “Alignment” seems to be one of those pogo words that is oft-used but ill-understood. Thanks!
Seriously great stuff, as always!
To throw on alignment is to use your charge move at the exact same time your opponent comes out of their last fast attack. So, your fast attacks would be aligned, and throwing at that moment lets your opponent sneak an entire move if you don't cmp.
Thanks! I do want to cover fast move timing (and the concept of alignment) in a future upload
Thank you. I understand that. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been “attack timing” in general. How long exactly is a “turn?” When is the optimal time to throw, to switch, etc?
For instance, Incinerate is a five turn move. If I’m using powder snow, can I throw two and switch and avoid the damage? What count does the damage register on?
Another example is say Astonish vs Mud Slap…my shadow Haunter vs a Shadow Golett and my Haunter fainted but the Golett was not damaged by the Astonish. Both are three turn moves…why? Does the damage register on different turns for different moves?
@@moreslicehenry5553Awesome! I posted another reply below clarifying some questions I have. Thanks!
@@bhamfamjam Damage registers a turn before the move ends, eg for incinerate on turn 4. So in your case, if you throw 2 powder snows the damage will register on aslash. You would need to throw one powder snow and switch to transfer the damage.
That was an amazing video, and thank you for creating this! As others say, I would like to see a video on Veteran/Expert players trying to reach Legend as well. I can count moves and use charged moves at the correct timing, but I was walled after reaching Expert in the previous season due to unknown reasons.
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing, Henry!
I watched those Kieng Videos. It's nice to get a new video of that type. They're really helpful.
A Duo with Kieng on one of these could be extra fun sometime down the line ;)
Great video, could you do something like this with Master League matches too
This is the best pokemon go video ever to help poeple to progress 🤩👏🏻🙏
Thanks Henry, always useful to learn whether you’ve hit legend or not 👌
I really like this kind of video. My personal best elo was a little above 2400 last season, but I was instantly discouraged after going on a losing streak dropping to the low 2100 range. I need all the help I can get 😭 will you be doing more videos like this?
I’m stoked on this
I play every day and I peaked expert last season
But I want more knowledge
I feel like my knowledge is cursory and im stoked to see this type of video!
Great educational video Henry 🙂
Great video! I feel a big mistake that seems to be repeated is this team being essentially ABB but letting the lead get to a health where it becomes useless in the end. Gotta keep it healthy, especially if you back mon share a weakness
At least this battler has decent UL pokemon. Wish i had a UL Malamar and Shadow Drapion
This video was great cause i learned new info on when to switch how to spot new pokemon type coming in and how to be efficient. Felt like on the spot coaching
Awesome vid. Best part is that you’re not being mean like others (pogodan)
It’s the first time seeing your face! You look good!
thank you!
Usually come for the teams and stay for the tips, but what I really needed was a video like this. Maybe this season I get past 2400 Elo lol
Could you do more of these??!! I’d like one for the great league. I feel like a lot of the smaller nuances of PVP aren’t easy for a person to pick up on their own
My biggest weakness as an ace player is being slow to learn move counts and easily miscounting move
Damm, this style of videos is so good to watch, I can watch every day like tv show, I’m at my 3 season to Gbl I started at lvl20, and last one was ace, now maybe veteran 😅
This was a good video Henry, imagine if we had this help from the start👍
Amazing content as always
Nice breakdown 🤙🏼
very good video. Can you do a similar one with example an avarage legend/expert player also? would be very instructive
Looking good with the new cut
15:48 they’re not *quite* identical with Superpower having 85 power and STAB Foul Play having 84 power (120% * 70). It’s so beyond negligible that one could go their entire GBL career and never have this matter, but there are hypothetical situations where a FP leaves the target on 1 HP and the Superpower would have KO-ed.
Thanks for the great vid, Henry! I'm that guy as well, peaking at Ace every season... 😢😢😢
Top tier video. Do you plan on take more videos? If so, where can they be submitted?
Thanks, and yes I do! I'll be looking to cover veteran and expert battles as well. When I'm looking for battles, I'll put out the call in my discord
discord.gg/A3AABhvK
Problem is after few winning series game match me with opponents that have exact counter my team
Move timing is very difficult for me. A lot of it because of lag, which I usually get a little bit of in every battle I do. For example, it makes perfect sense in the Tentacruel v Ampharos matchup to throw that one more Poison Jab before going for your charge move, even being on 1HP. I don't do that because of lag fears. I'll somehow stutter and not get the move off. In addition, I could see the Acid Spray having been thrown over the Blizzard because when the Amharos threw its move, the energy was just short of a Blizzard. The Poison Jab that was thrown right before is going to give you the energy for the Blizzard, but not physically seeing the move ready could make the battler not confident that he actually has the move. I would bet money that Blizzard would've been thrown if the battler had a Blizzard clearly loaded before the Ampharos's charge move.
A lot of the bad move timing is I just don't have it memorized about when I should be throwing. I just have a rough idea of move counts (I know some but mostly go by feel), and I sometimes will just throw on alignment out of fear of my counts or because I don't know exactly when I should be throwing anyway. In some sense, a part of me is holding out hope that I don't have to do a ton of memorization. Can I just learn matchups over time and some important move counts and be okay? The answer is probably no and that I really should actually study these things and commit them to memory. Although I still have a lot of matchups to learn. Malamar vs Venusaur, I wouldn't have thought that both Drapion and Tentacruel were better answers. Maybe Drapion, but not Tentacruel.
I might've done the same thing in the 5th battle with the Drapion and Hippowdon, simply not knowing Hippowdon counts at all. I pretty much never see Hippowdon. Also, just watching the battle, I can't even quite tell how many Ice Fangs were thrown. With the Psywave and Ice Fang animations together, I just can't even tell, tbh. It looked like the first Scorching Sands might've been after 9 Ice Fangs?
Also, I 100% get not switching the Malamar out of the Togekiss in the second battle (I feel like I would've switched out the Tentacruel against the Giratina in the 4th, but I can't say for certain). It's hard for me to be willing to switch-lock myself or give up switch. Maybe if I were more confident in move counts and the ability to catch my opponents charge moves I'd be more willing, but switch-locking myself when I don't have to is something that I just have a hard time overcoming. I get that you don't want to give your opponent farm, but I guess it's just an issue of overvaluing switch and not knowing when I should really actually care about maintaining switch.
Finally, it'd be great to know sometimes if a game was winnable or not. So watching all of these battles and hearing you say they're all winnable is valuable on its own. I'll legitimately have battles where I just lose without putting up much of a fight and I think to myself, "would HSH have won this?"
Great analysis Henry. Could you also make a video for vet to expert?
That's the plan, yes! In the future
@@moreslicehenry5553 and an expert to legend video pls 😂 I’m not great at that, don’t get it too often
Bruh, anyone throwing Acid Spray (like the 2nd battle vs Tina) will 100% not shield the next charge atk even if u have 100 energy. LoL. Great content tho!! 👌
Pls make more vids like this! I literally peaked at 2350 a few seasons ago and really want to hit legend!
Great video as always! Were you able to run an analysis on which G.-Corsola I should run? Rank 72 (2/15/10); Rank 28 (3/14/15) or Rank 27 (2/11/13)? I appreciate your efforts :)
I would do the 2/15/10! Corsola really likes high defense
@@HomeSliceHenry what do you think is better for this IV spread? 2/15/7, or 3/12/13?
15 defense
Big thanks! Vy good!
Can we see it again with great league footage? Im an ace player who strictly plays GL
More content like this please
Ive been a legend player for 3 years now. Now it seems like its not possible because of the algorythm. I love the game but when suddenly change to a gastrodon lead i Get faced against serperior and drifblim. When i switch back, the same thing happens with my wiggly. So tired of it
Great content
I've hit veteran 3 times my entire life but never in open great league
Conteúdo premium, muito obrigado
Oh man finally see u 🙆🩷🩷
the problem that i most often face in gbl is that my team starts getting hard countered after 2 3 good sets. what should be the optimal thing in this situation? should i change team and keep playing or do i close the app and try again later. what could be more beneficial to save my elo?? Appreciate any help!
Unfortunately thats just the way this game is set up. Punishes you for doing well. You can use all the advanced tactics you want. But in the end. Niantic picks which accounts are allowed to hit legend. Not to mention all the rampant cheaters everywhere. People knowing every move you make and perfectly predicting it before you make it. Switch button not working when you try to catch. And of course the algorithm that hard counters you. Honestly. Save yourself the stress. It ain't worth it.
fresshhhh new cut king
Do you have a video explaining when to throw in good timing?
There's this one. This is considered the OG gospel on move timing from many years ago.
th-cam.com/video/pAtCo8xg700/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mbr1pgExXvJy14zu
how can you actually count the malamar moves? i am never able to
Stuck in ace❎ stuck in many places😂✅
The haircut looks good man. You look like a changed man.
It's how I remember him.
Really appreciate this one. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
In that second battle personally i would prefer to preserve switch advantage after the initial match up, i find that alignment ends up being more important than energy leads in most battles is this true?
Preserving switch can be valuable, but if you have 2 stronger counters in the back, I like pivoting out into the safe swap to check for what they have, and save the move on malamar
@moreslicehenry5553 you're right, it is a safe decision because either way you have a winning match up against the second pokemon and you preserve a life for a catch or a reset + a move which could prove useful. I think the lose con is finding something that can exist with energy to then 1v2 which would be unlikely in the ultra league.
Thanks for responding 🫶
I'm realising my problem isn't the game mechanics, counting moves.. I just run too much spice.. My team building isn't great 😅 I have been veteran twice or three times and have been playing PVP since the beginning.
That's fair! Spice pokemon are fun, but they are tougher to use than meta
@moreslicehenry5553 yeah I can't help myself but build a spice pick I've seen on TH-cam and try it myself with not the same results usually haha. Being consistent is another important aspect which sometimes let's me down
14k views and 3k subs come on people this is valuable info that everyone can learn something from. give this man a sub and a like.
My only problem is I can't stand using meta pokemon and always try to use spice 😂
Can you review expert players who can’t reach legend?
How to ko a pokemon with 4 powder snow and your game lagged for 9 turns?
Please make more videos like this I want to send my battles too
Thanks, thats the plan!
For master league i have most meta pokemon, but theyre only level 45, not level 50 so yea i think its impossible to get higher
What are your thoughts on an ABC team in lieu of ABB?
ABC is also quite strong! I've gravitated towards more of an ABC style, myself
Man how do you count for malamar? I feel like there's always a psywave that goes through before I see anything after a charge move. Should I just start counting it as 2 once I start seeing the animation after a charge attack?
It's kinda difficult considering its animation, as you say. Personally, I just look at the health bar of my own Pokémon, unless there are lots of frame drops that day lol
If you are the psywave user, you can count by visually seeing your energy increase on the charge move button. That can be decent at getting you more comfortable with timing it
If your opponent is using psywave, you can count using your own fast moves (i.e. if you've done 5 counters, they have 10 psywaves)
33:40 The opponent is very disrespectful, showing no respect to Blizzard and then stops attacking to let the trainer get close to the blizzard before tapping the last Shadow Claw.
I hit vet once, my record overall is 3,770-6,842, this season is 155-270….atm I’m at 2,205 Elo, hoping to hit legend lol
I'm tryna avoid hitting ace rank and over, so I can grind rare candies more easily 😅
I hit Veteran once, then lvl 50 came out & i never got it again 😂
Just play meta teams
I can’t allow myself to do this. I did get to 2650 last season relatively easily though.
Getting stuck in Expert 😅
psywave mewtwo
This battle make me confuse
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ManBunHen transforms into CleanCutAFHenry 👌
What if Henry got a a low taper faaaaaade?!
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great content