Emvee is the Bob Ross of team building. "And maybe we'll put a happy little Gliscor over here for defogging... and maybe in your painting, a Crawdaunt lives here for wall breaking... It's up to you, it's your team. Every day's a good day when you team build."
Omg thanks MV I tried this and it worked immediately my magikarp just swept stormzone and took the throne from him at 2139 this is crazy! All it took was AV mamoswine, rocky helmet corv and umbreon 🥰
Jk emcee ure the goat and for QOTD it of course has to be the funny heat croco Fuecoco even the name is cool. Gen 9 has way better starters than gen 8 btw
@@Quilquala NO, I'VE BEEN HERE A LOT! AND WE DON'T SAY MUST BE, WE SAY IS THIS! AND ALSO, GRAMMAR IS NOT AN UNKNOWN CONCEPT, THERE WAS A VIDEO ABOUT IT!
I love the giggles after he picks a mon and in his mind he goes through all the crazy chinese ev spreads but the only thing coming out of his mouth is a short giggle. amazing
I haven't seen many team building guides, but this is probably the best one I've seen. The one possible improvement I can think of is explaining how the way a team plays affects the decision making. For example, you can't really switch in on certain Pokemon, so what options do you give yourself in order to beat teams with those Pokemon? I think Tapu Lele is a good specific example, since it's likely to claim one of your mons almost every time it switches in, which means that you generally either need to prevent it from safely switching in or gain momentum with your free switch, both of which require the proper team options in order to do I know that would be super in-depth though. I can't complain about we got; 2 hours of good info
Ayyy I'm happy you enjoyed it, means a lot :) yea i think that whole thing comes down to going through the list of commonly seen Pokemon and making sure you have a way to play around it when it comes time to the actual testing, and then tweaking the team based on what you find troublesome on the ladder. Since a team can't handle every single thing and your goal is to minimize the number of holes your team has, you'd see if there can be a way to pivot around certain threats your team has trouble against so it's not a guaranteed loss, or restructure the team accordingly to cover for it.
QOTD: The grass cat. I hope that it evolves into a fast, physical attacker with a good HA such as Tough Claws. Fuecoco might be cool if it isn't cursed with 20 base speed in its final form. I don't know what to make of the duck beyond it maybe becoming Water/Fighting type. That aside, I appreciate the creation of such an in-depth guide on how you make your teams. I can't believe that 3 years went by so fast and that Gen 9 is coming out already. As I get older, I swear that time just goes by faster and faster. When I talk about Pokemon with younger kids playing it now, it's difficult to explain why the old games were better without sounding like a nostalgic Genwunner, lol.
Thanks emvee, now my unown weather hyper balanced team has reached #1 on every ladder ever! Not only that, but my wife and kids came back! QOTD:I really cant decide until seeing final evos, but Quaxly is so far my favorite, fuecoco is close
Seeing this very free flow take on team building has resparked a lot of my love for the game, and I've managed to get a pretty strong hyper offense Regirock team going, I'm having a ton of fun with it too since Regirock is one of my favorite Pokemon. Legit, thanks for making this. I quit playing shortly after Sword and Shield launched feeling things had gotten stale and this is exactly what I needed to see!
Been watching your videos for almost three years and this video has giving me the confidence to hop on showdown for the first time and build a team. Thanks Emvee for the years of great content!!
Teambuilding guide from the heat lord himself? Definitely gonna watch this when I have time over the weekend Also qotd: sprigatito is simply too cute not to pick, but we haven't seen the other evolutions yet so I'm not quite positive yet
Never realized how deranged your sets were until watching you build them live. Also the complete balls to say that double tail dragonite “isn’t that bad”
I'm late, but I have to say something I seriously did. I followed the chinese ev guide for bdsp ou and I ended up with this Kangaskhan set Item: Custap berry (may change it in the future) Ability: Inner Focus Moveset: Work Up/Earthquake/Ice Beam/Fire Blast Ev spread: HP: 72 Atk: 148- Def: 24 SpAtk: 216+ SpDef: 24 Spd: 24 So basically, this set: - Outspeeds most defensive Heatran and ohko's at +1 - Ohko's Magnezone at +1 - Ohko's PhysDef Gliscor at +1 - Ohko's offensive Garchomp at +1 most of the time - 2hko's SpDef Jirachi after Leftovers recovery at +1 - Easily 2hko's PhysDef Tangrowth at +1 - Survives banded Mach Punch from Infernape and ohko's back most of the time at +1 - Survives adamant (non banded) Mach Punch from Breloom and ohko's back (with Fire Blast at +1) And those are just the ones I calculated. I think I'm going crazy lol. I'll definitely build a team around this. Thinking of pairing it with PhysDef Tangrowth to counter things it does not deal with such as Azu or Crawdaunt, and maybe pairing it with Blissey for faster powerful special attackers such as Latios
@@ogmechsftw The surprise factor. People will NOT expect a mixed Kangaskhan set and will switch into what they think is a counter (Gliscor, Tangrowth...) only to get demolished. Then, trying to revenge kill it after discovering it's actually a mixed set can be hard, knowing it has some survivality + the custap berry tech. Nidoking is not as bulky, has no custap and on top of that no one will ever stay in with Gliscor nor Tangrowth. Nidoking may be naturally stronger (and better on certain occasions), but nothing beats winning games with this kind of sets
My goodness, ive never been so hooked to a competitive build video like yours!! The fact that you teach us how to utilize our own fav pokemons is just amazing
Omg I knew this video would be godly, now I'm climbing the ladder with hyper stall offense weather baby mons, over 2000 games and no losses, it's crazy!!! Thanks Emvee!!! 🤝
Thanks for the video emvee! Lots of stuff I learned. Thanks for finally explaining the whole “Chinese EV spread” thing I was always so curious what that even meant lol
can say i know a lot of what was said thanks in part to watching many of your and other creators' vids, but one thing i gained was that jump points only exist on + nature stats, thanks.
QOTD: Like last gen, I actually like all of the starters so far. I hope, unlike last gen, that they won't all turn into monotype grown men cosplaying as pokemon.
QOTD: Fuecoco, he's literally Feraligatr and Charizards child, and those two my fav mons, even if it's Evo looks bad, I'll just have a level 100 Fuecoco
Strong Pokemon... Weak Pokemon... That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favourites. Big props for the Karen reference xD
Grass starter it is. From the looks of it, it seems it's going to be a fast physical attacker which is what I'd absolutely love to have considering the success rillaboom got. Fire starter looks good but I'm kinda sure it's going to be slow af but let's wait! Water ducklett well not a fan but it's possibly going to be a balanced one. I really pray they don't kill it like they did to samurott/inteleon.
I'll never forgive GF for what they did with Samurott, esp since Dewott is my favorite water type. Of all the mons to show as quadrupedal, THAT was the one they picked. The samurai that apparently CAN stand on 2 legs because it's supposed to hold its shell swords in its hands. They even had a chance to improve it in PLA but basically just did a slight color change for the regional form. On top of that, it doesn't really stand out for anything in particular in competitive. It's not even terrible enough to be a joke, just mediocre and disappointing all around.
@@mr.sandman7339 I mean yeah that's certainly not as trash as beautifly but it's just confused (if offensive or defensive) and if offensive (physical or special) And yeh PLA could've easily bettered the design but no they just like add some spiky things and put a filter and bamm new form. That sucks tbh
I'm a firm believer in using Pokémon teams that look good to you visually best they actually play the best to me. Emvee really in his Bob Ross bag! Also as for QOTD, I'ma pick Sprigatito and name it Doja which is a fire name for a grass type cat
Sure I can include a quick little description of terrain teams which are mainly used in Sword/Shield OU :) Grassy Terrain Teams: Rillaboom + Grassy Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Ground-weak mons like Heatran etc Psychic Terrain Teams: Tapu Lele + Psychic Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Expanding Force users like Alakazam, pokemon weak to priority moves cuz they get blocked by the terrain, etc Electric Terrain Teams: Tapu Koko + Electric Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Surge Surfer Alolan Raichu, Rising Voltage users, etc Misty Terrain Teams: Not really a dedicated team strategy unless Tapu Fini + Misty Seed Unburden Hawlucha. Usually you'd just see Tapu Fini on a team by itself without basing it around Misty Terrain, though it can still be useful to help prevent status on other Pokemon.
@@LordEmvee Wow, let's go! Yeah, that's basically all you can do in OU with terrains. In lower tiers of course you have similar stuff. You still exploit weakened EQ for your steel and fire types and you use other Unburden mons like Thievul and Hitmonlee. But actually there's more: generally a grassy terrain team has more than one mon that exploits Grassy Glide (like a Choice banded flapple). Then you have also a Simple mon in Swoobat: grassy/electric seed gives +2 defense and calm mind gives +2 sp.atk and +2 sp.def, so you get a powerful Stored power as well (you have also heat wave for steel types). To conclude you have also Clawitzer and Blastoise that can use Terrain Pulse: that move is a nuke if used by Clawitzer while it really helps Shell Smash Stoise to deal with other Blastoise.
What a great video! I didn't know the channel. I'm subscribing to it :) Could you make a video about the competitive scene throughout the generations? At least since gen4?
I appreciate that very much! Really glad you enjoy it, and welcome to the channel! 😁 Will definitely do that at some point, I actually started competitive during generation 5 but i've dabbled a litte bit in gen 4 competitive before
Thundurus is my favorite rain dancer in gen 5 because it's a setter, support, and a sweeper all in one. Prankster boosted rain dance, taunt, and thunder wave combined w/ thunder is disgusting. If you wanna be a little less vulnerable to taunt yourself you can either run another offensive coverage move like focus blast or dark pulse or you could run something like volt switch if you wanna get a little spicy and fit in a small volt-turn core. Flash cannon, hammer arm, and hidden power water are also decent coverage options for thundurus, hidden power maybe being the best because it itself gets boosted by the rain you set. Can be nice to hit things that resist or are immune to your electric type STAB. Swagger also another good priority move you can run if taunt/t-wave doesn't quite cut it for you.
A great video! I wish I could use this video to make a team for my favorite pokemon, but sadly no amount of teambuilding is going to let Regigigas ever do anything in a serious battle...
Volt-turn has always been my fav strat in pokemon ever since it became a thing. Prob my favorite volt-turn lead is mienshao because it's kinda everything you want out of a volt-turn lead (even though it's not necessarily the best). The set I usually run is fake out, stone edge, u-turn, and high jump kick depending on the team usually with either life orb or sash. Sash is really nice on mienshao because if you take a bit of damage you can just u-turn out and then heal back to full that way sash is live again. Acrobatics + flying gem in place of stone edge (if you're a gen 5 simp like me) is also another great way to run mienshao if you're scared of other fighting types. I also made a really funny volt-turn team a while ago where, like a madman, I ran a scarf u-turn volcarona w/ bug buzz, overheat and hurricane as a mid-late game sweeper that could also out speed other volcarona and all the other things it speed ties w/ (because there's a lot of pokemon w/ base 100 speed that also like to run speed boosting natures, also scarf puts it's speed high enough that it can pretty consistently out speed a lot of pokemon under tailwind) Took it to a local event and did really well with it. Didn't win that locals, but I did get top 4 so that's something.
I see a lot of these guides and while I appreciate that they're trying to help, they always feel unfinished to me. I'm certainly not into _hardcore competitive_ but I'm not an idiot and I enjoy teambuilding and play online, though generally with sub-optimal Pokemon and movesets, because they're more fun, frankly. What always feels left out to me about these videos is this: So you've chosen Wormadam to build a team around, and you immediately dove into building for specific attacks from specific Pokemon, outspeeding, or OHKOing, but you don't say _WHY_ you're looking at those specific Pokemon/attacks. While I'm sure it makes perfect sense to you and any other hardcore teambuilder, it's not clear to me why you're focused on OHKOing Heatran and Lucario (because they're popular and have Ground weaknesses, is that all?), surviving Latios (???) and Azumarill. Especially starting a team from scratch, it seems completely arbitrary to me. I'm not saying this to be critical and I certainly understand the idea behind type coverage and more casual teambuilding, and I understand that it can be really hard to explain (expert blind spot), but there's nothing particularly obvious or clear about why you're choosing to OHKO/survive/outspeed what you are, and that's really not helpful. "Try to outspeed/OHKO/survive the Pokemon you want" isn't really useful advice. "Try to survive/OHKO/outspeed _these particular Pokemon for these reasons_" would be much more helpful.
Sure. So to clarify those points, The reason of why I chose Wormadam-Sand was just as an example to show the general thought process on how to build a team around any Pokemon. There was no reasoning behind me choosing Wormadam other than it was a random Pokemon I found on the list of lower tier Pokemon that I had not built around before so it served as an example. The first step as I said was to figure out what role your chosen Pokemon will play. Wormadam-Sand has a few sets it can run just at a first glance depending on whether you want to go a more defensive or offensive build. Since I decided that I wanted to go a more offensive route, I began by looking at its moves to see if it had any setup boosting moves. Quiver Dance is its best option, so I chose that move because I want to make it threatening to other Pokemon. Leading up to this point in the video, I said that a prerequisite to building your own teams was to have knowledge of the specific metagame you are playing in, which means that you'll likely build better teams if you know what you will commonly run up against. Now since Wormadam-Sand doesn't get any Special Attacking Ground type attacks in BDSP, I went with Earthquake. Because Quiver Dance won't be boosting the attack stat, we needed to make sure Earthquake OHKO's common Pokemon in the format, like Heatran, Lucario, etc. Due to Wormadam's base 79 Attack stat, it likely won't KO standard 252 HP Heatran by itself (as we saw it needed investment in Attack or a damage boosting item of some sort). It needed Life Orb to OHKO Heatran and 4 EVs in Attack to guarantee OHKO Lucario and as we know the guaranteed OHKO is important on strong attackers like those so it doesn't have the chance to touch our Wormadam. Now since Latios is one of the more popular Psychic types in the game and Wormadam's strongest move paired with Quiver Dance is Bug Buzz, we want to ensure that Wormadam can survive Latios so that it can actually retaliate back with Bug Buzz and have the chance to KO it back. Due to strong and popular priority users in the tier that run Aqua Jet to move first (such as Azumarill and Crawdaunt), we invested those Defense EVs to guarantee live the Aqua Jet (due to it being Super Effective against Wormadam-Sand) and do some good damage back with Giga Drain. Giga Drain is also useful to deal with Quagsire. Since Quagsire has the ability Unaware, it is one of the common ways alongside Clefable to ignore damage boosts from any setup sweeper. Essentially when I say "Try to outspeed/OHKO/survive the Pokemon you want", it's entirely up to you dependent on the Pokemon you are building around. The bottom line is that we EV based on what is most commonly seen and what the Pokemon you are building around is capable of dealing with. Assign EVs to walls to tank certain hits and EV bulkier setup sweepers to be able to withstand an attack as you set up or even after you set up and do enough damage back so they hopefully cannot stand. Ultimately you'll first need to know the common threats and stuff. Hope this helps and feel free to lemme know if you have any other questions :)
@@LordEmvee Ur the goat for explaining that so thoroughly to this guy. Also, I love weather teams but I'm having a hard time building a Leafeon Sun team for Sword and Shield OU. I have Torkoal, Leafeon, whatever fire type (usually Victini cus V-Create in sun is a nuke but sometimes I go with Heatran) then a defogger, and a ground type. But opposing Heatrans are really a bitch to me and the rain matchup is kinda hard. Could u provide me with some suggestions :< much appreciated.
@@dirkauditore8413 Absolutely! :) So I assume since you said Victini this is going to be for Gen 8. There are a few ways of dealing with opposing Heatran on a sun team. Venusaur does it well by running Earth Power on its Growth set, but since your Chlorophyll user is Leafeon, you can always run Power Herb + Dig to deter it. Your own Heatran can be more offensive on a Sun team so that it can have the guaranteed Fire immunity while also being able to outrun most other Heatran sets and KO back with perhaps Specs Earth Power (since many of them are more SpDef). For the Rain matchup, I generally like to keep some kind of wall or lure on the sun team I'm using. For example, Umbreon is a Pokemon that can give some Rain teams trouble with how bulky it is, how Foul Play does great damage, and how Wish + Protect can stall out opposing weather based teams. Alternatively, from watching me you probably know how sometimes I like to run a Pokemon with random electric move to lure and OHKO Pelipper rain teams, so something like that could be viable (maybe Electric move Dragonite for example, and Dragonite also helps with opposing Heatran).
@@LordEmvee Ayyy much appreciated brother, didn't expect such a thorough and elaborated response . Thats why u the goat :) . I like how special dragonite sounds
I do never build my own teams cause jamvad says is easier to get better with teams that already work. But hearing u say its art, uuuuhhhh. I want to be an artist too. Thank you
QOTD: all the starters for gen 9 are fire but I'll definitely cop Quaxly. Huge fan of bird Pokemon, and considering Rowlet's evolution line went with glasses and a hoodie, I'm excited to see what happens with Quaxly and their hat
I appreciate it very much! :) hopefully the breeding guides on other people's channels combined with the knowledge i can provide on various sets, teams and battling can help you conquer every opponent!
Could you explain why you choose some of the Pokémon you do to calc against? For example why did you calc against a heatran, Lucario and latias with wormadan? I’m pretty new to competitive which is why I’m wondering. Thank you for the awesome guide btw
Absolutely! So first we consider the role of the Pokemon. What are they supposed to beat? In Wormadam's case, since we're running the Ground/Bug variant and we are doing so in a more offensive way, we want destroy the most common things in the tier that are weak to Ground and Bug moves (in this case, Heatran, Lucario, Latias etc are most commonly seen). It all has to do with knowing what the most common Pokemon in the game are and you'll know it either from looking up specifically what are the most common Pokemon or from playing a lot of games. Then we just calc to make sure we can KO those Pokemon and/or survive a hit from them depending on the set you are building with :) I think this site can give you even more information of what you should calc against as it has usage statistics by rank: pikalytics.com/pokedex/gen8ou (for Sword/Shield) and pikalytics.com/pokedex/bdsp (for Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl)
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omg it worked! i just built a weather trick room balance offense stall team, entered the trick house, and won every game. tysm emvee 🙏
my eviolite bellsprout is putting in major work with that 75 attack stat 💪
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@@limerumpus3589 my no attacks unknown is going crazy in the 1900+ fr fr u have to believe me
@@limerumpus3589 bro you tried banded spritzee? That shit fire and been tearing up high ladder for me
@@limerumpus3589 get good I just got to 4000 elo ith 45 attack stat onix 😎
Emvee is the Bob Ross of team building.
"And maybe we'll put a happy little Gliscor over here for defogging... and maybe in your painting, a Crawdaunt lives here for wall breaking... It's up to you, it's your team. Every day's a good day when you team build."
Omg thanks MV I tried this and it worked immediately my magikarp just swept stormzone and took the throne from him at 2139 this is crazy! All it took was AV mamoswine, rocky helmet corv and umbreon 🥰
Jk emcee ure the goat and for QOTD it of course has to be the funny heat croco Fuecoco even the name is cool. Gen 9 has way better starters than gen 8 btw
You forgot the Chinese spreads
Ken Ny magikarp was 224 hp 16 def 16 spdef 28 speed 120 atk and 100 spatk
@@Duboixofficiel 120 atk is for Splash
@@Duboixofficiel give it oran berry so it can recover some hp, i used this set and i have a 100% chance of winning every battke
"when a team looks good, it does good"
My team: Lopunny,Gardevoir, Pheromosa,Leavanny,Tsareena,Hatterene.
Smash
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YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A SPACE AFTER EVERY COMMA!
@@Amelia4111 must be your first time here
Welcome to the internet, grammar is an unknown concept
@@Quilquala NO, I'VE BEEN HERE A LOT! AND WE DON'T SAY MUST BE, WE SAY IS THIS! AND ALSO, GRAMMAR IS NOT AN UNKNOWN CONCEPT, THERE WAS A VIDEO ABOUT IT!
I love the giggles after he picks a mon and in his mind he goes through all the crazy chinese ev spreads but the only thing coming out of his mouth is a short giggle. amazing
Lmao so true. Also the giggle means he's thinking about the mon puttin in work and destroying people on the ladder probably LOL
I haven't seen many team building guides, but this is probably the best one I've seen. The one possible improvement I can think of is explaining how the way a team plays affects the decision making. For example, you can't really switch in on certain Pokemon, so what options do you give yourself in order to beat teams with those Pokemon? I think Tapu Lele is a good specific example, since it's likely to claim one of your mons almost every time it switches in, which means that you generally either need to prevent it from safely switching in or gain momentum with your free switch, both of which require the proper team options in order to do
I know that would be super in-depth though. I can't complain about we got; 2 hours of good info
Ayyy I'm happy you enjoyed it, means a lot :) yea i think that whole thing comes down to going through the list of commonly seen Pokemon and making sure you have a way to play around it when it comes time to the actual testing, and then tweaking the team based on what you find troublesome on the ladder. Since a team can't handle every single thing and your goal is to minimize the number of holes your team has, you'd see if there can be a way to pivot around certain threats your team has trouble against so it's not a guaranteed loss, or restructure the team accordingly to cover for it.
my team building video was better lol
@@GrowingDownUnderno it wasn’t
Next, do "How to build an Emvee title with any Pokémon name". I've been dying to know for years.
This is the real video we need
ORAN BERRY BLISSEY, ALL YOU'LL NEED FOR ANY METAGAME, 1820+ ELO!
also endeavor
QOTD: The grass cat. I hope that it evolves into a fast, physical attacker with a good HA such as Tough Claws. Fuecoco might be cool
if it isn't cursed with 20 base speed in its final form. I don't know what to make of the duck beyond it maybe becoming Water/Fighting type.
That aside, I appreciate the creation of such an in-depth guide on how you make your teams. I can't believe that 3 years went by so fast and that Gen 9 is coming out already. As I get older, I swear that time just goes by faster and faster. When I talk about Pokemon with younger kids playing it now, it's difficult to explain why the old games were better without sounding like a nostalgic Genwunner, lol.
Oh i completely feel you on that, I feel like time's going by incredibly fast, for some reason especially late 2019-present was played in x4 speed LOL
I feel like they are gonna be grass fighting water dark fire ghost
@@lawtonadams4235 I'll bet they will be Grass, Fire dragon, and Water flying
Thanks emvee, now my unown weather hyper balanced team has reached #1 on every ladder ever! Not only that, but my wife and kids came back!
QOTD:I really cant decide until seeing final evos, but Quaxly is so far my favorite, fuecoco is close
ayyy LOL my vids out here bringing families back together :) just what i like to see
Seeing this very free flow take on team building has resparked a lot of my love for the game, and I've managed to get a pretty strong hyper offense Regirock team going, I'm having a ton of fun with it too since Regirock is one of my favorite Pokemon.
Legit, thanks for making this. I quit playing shortly after Sword and Shield launched feeling things had gotten stale and this is exactly what I needed to see!
This is really useful, and it's pretty cool to recognise just how much watching your showdown videos teaches people about teambuilding as well
Been watching your videos for almost three years and this video has giving me the confidence to hop on showdown for the first time and build a team. Thanks Emvee for the years of great content!!
Ayyy i'm very happy to hear that! :)
Thank You Master! Now my teams will be 2X Fire!
Better get some boots for that!
Teambuilding guide from the heat lord himself? Definitely gonna watch this when I have time over the weekend
Also qotd: sprigatito is simply too cute not to pick, but we haven't seen the other evolutions yet so I'm not quite positive yet
Weed
It is better not standing with two feet on evolution
Never realized how deranged your sets were until watching you build them live. Also the complete balls to say that double tail dragonite “isn’t that bad”
I'm late, but I have to say something I seriously did. I followed the chinese ev guide for bdsp ou and I ended up with this Kangaskhan set
Item: Custap berry (may change it in the future)
Ability: Inner Focus
Moveset: Work Up/Earthquake/Ice Beam/Fire Blast
Ev spread:
HP: 72
Atk: 148-
Def: 24
SpAtk: 216+
SpDef: 24
Spd: 24
So basically, this set:
- Outspeeds most defensive Heatran and ohko's at +1
- Ohko's Magnezone at +1
- Ohko's PhysDef Gliscor at +1
- Ohko's offensive Garchomp at +1 most of the time
- 2hko's SpDef Jirachi after Leftovers recovery at +1
- Easily 2hko's PhysDef Tangrowth at +1
- Survives banded Mach Punch from Infernape and ohko's back most of the time at +1
- Survives adamant (non banded) Mach Punch from Breloom and ohko's back (with Fire Blast at +1)
And those are just the ones I calculated. I think I'm going crazy lol. I'll definitely build a team around this. Thinking of pairing it with PhysDef Tangrowth to counter things it does not deal with such as Azu or Crawdaunt, and maybe pairing it with Blissey for faster powerful special attackers such as Latios
makes me proud to see an EV spread like this :)
very cool, but what does this do better than nidoking?
@@ogmechsftw The surprise factor. People will NOT expect a mixed Kangaskhan set and will switch into what they think is a counter (Gliscor, Tangrowth...) only to get demolished. Then, trying to revenge kill it after discovering it's actually a mixed set can be hard, knowing it has some survivality + the custap berry tech. Nidoking is not as bulky, has no custap and on top of that no one will ever stay in with Gliscor nor Tangrowth. Nidoking may be naturally stronger (and better on certain occasions), but nothing beats winning games with this kind of sets
@@adva1282 true, the lure sets are incredibly useful paired with mons that want the target mon gone.
This video helped me get top ten OU with yache berry 84 special defence butterfree
TY emvee, time to build a team around magikarp
My goodness, ive never been so hooked to a competitive build video like yours!!
The fact that you teach us how to utilize our own fav pokemons is just amazing
i'm super happy to hear this! :) always want you all to succeed with your fav pokemon
Omg I knew this video would be godly, now I'm climbing the ladder with hyper stall offense weather baby mons, over 2000 games and no losses, it's crazy!!! Thanks Emvee!!! 🤝
Hearing a comforting voice for 2 hrs is very good for the first thing in the morning :D
This remembers me when Emvee did some teambuilding guides of weather teams for Pokemon Online website.
Back to old school, man.
ayyy you remember that! :)
Thanks for the video emvee! Lots of stuff I learned. Thanks for finally explaining the whole “Chinese EV spread” thing I was always so curious what that even meant lol
can say i know a lot of what was said thanks in part to watching many of your and other creators' vids, but one thing i gained was that jump points only exist on + nature stats, thanks.
Dam son i wasnt able to cop the very first merch drop but im excited for all the more to come keep up the great work my guy !
appreciate the support and ahh i'll definitely be doing more merch drops in the future for sure :)
QOTD: Like last gen, I actually like all of the starters so far. I hope, unlike last gen, that they won't all turn into monotype grown men cosplaying as pokemon.
Oof, this aged badly
@@tandemtcg Well Skeledirge looks like a proper animal. And at the very least, they have interesting types so that's something
I think it's really funny that you have Zelda music on your Pokemon video.
I'm excited to try to build more teams with this more in depth walkthrough
Sonic, too!
QOTD: Fuecoco, he's literally Feraligatr and Charizards child, and those two my fav mons, even if it's Evo looks bad, I'll just have a level 100 Fuecoco
DO NOT CALL FUECOCO A HE! AND WE DON'T USE THE WORD ITS AS A PRONOUN IF THERE'S AN APOSTROPHE IN IT!
Finally I have the time to sit down and watch all of this. :)
I subbed for the “wuss poppin” at the very beginning. This guy relates
Thank you for making this video emvee, i can now get my a game on and use all my knowledge
I’m going to constantly come back to this video man 💯
actually insanely helpful vid
Strong Pokemon...
Weak Pokemon...
That is only the selfish perception of people.
Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favourites.
Big props for the Karen reference xD
Grass starter it is. From the looks of it, it seems it's going to be a fast physical attacker which is what I'd absolutely love to have considering the success rillaboom got.
Fire starter looks good but I'm kinda sure it's going to be slow af but let's wait!
Water ducklett well not a fan but it's possibly going to be a balanced one. I really pray they don't kill it like they did to samurott/inteleon.
I'll never forgive GF for what they did with Samurott, esp since Dewott is my favorite water type. Of all the mons to show as quadrupedal, THAT was the one they picked. The samurai that apparently CAN stand on 2 legs because it's supposed to hold its shell swords in its hands. They even had a chance to improve it in PLA but basically just did a slight color change for the regional form. On top of that, it doesn't really stand out for anything in particular in competitive. It's not even terrible enough to be a joke, just mediocre and disappointing all around.
@@mr.sandman7339 I mean yeah that's certainly not as trash as beautifly but it's just confused (if offensive or defensive) and if offensive (physical or special) And yeh PLA could've easily bettered the design but no they just like add some spiky things and put a filter and bamm new form. That sucks tbh
Nice! I don't really play showdown tho, but I'll be sleeping well watching this tonight ♡
Yep, I tried it, used a lvl 1 Ditto with Oran berry, and got Top 8 in two games
This'll be nice to watch while I wait for the merch I picked up to come in
Im just getting into competitive pokemon so hopefully this will help me make a good team
You are the greatest Pokemon Showdown TH-camr of all time
YOOO THIS IS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF HEAT WE NEEDED 🔥🔥🔥
Stop typing in all caps!
I'm a firm believer in using Pokémon teams that look good to you visually best they actually play the best to me. Emvee really in his Bob Ross bag!
Also as for QOTD, I'ma pick Sprigatito and name it Doja which is a fire name for a grass type cat
Emvee I appreciate you and your content. You have been putting out straight heat video after video for years
Ayy thanks so much bro :) the support means a lot
Now this. This does put a smile in my face. Love the content dude, tysm for your uploads!
The video is out for an hour, so I had plenty of time to watch it all, and I can tell you, it’s perect !
thank God emvee exists🙏
this is what we've all been waiting for
This is a great resource. I appreciate the time invested.
This is amazing emvee tysm! Btw another Web user you might want to use is smeargle if you want to use spikes+webs
yes very true! forgot about smeargle since it didnt appear on the list :)
@@LordEmvee I always forget about it too, that list is very deceiving
It's finally here!! Thanks for dropping this, Emvee. Always wanted to know what went through your mind when you made these teams.
I love using Torterra to stall!
Leech Seed, protect, curse and earthquake with Leftovers.
By overlooking them, you made me realize that "Terrain teams" are mostly a lower tiers archetype
i mean, he mostly uses bdsp as an example so maybe he excluded them since they're only in swsh. I'm not a super high ladder player but just a guess
Sure I can include a quick little description of terrain teams which are mainly used in Sword/Shield OU :)
Grassy Terrain Teams: Rillaboom + Grassy Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Ground-weak mons like Heatran etc
Psychic Terrain Teams: Tapu Lele + Psychic Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Expanding Force users like Alakazam, pokemon weak to priority moves cuz they get blocked by the terrain, etc
Electric Terrain Teams: Tapu Koko + Electric Seed Unburden Hawlucha, and/or Surge Surfer Alolan Raichu, Rising Voltage users, etc
Misty Terrain Teams: Not really a dedicated team strategy unless Tapu Fini + Misty Seed Unburden Hawlucha. Usually you'd just see Tapu Fini on a team by itself without basing it around Misty Terrain, though it can still be useful to help prevent status on other Pokemon.
@@LordEmvee
Wow, let's go!
Yeah, that's basically all you can do in OU with terrains.
In lower tiers of course you have similar stuff. You still exploit weakened EQ for your steel and fire types and you use other Unburden mons like Thievul and Hitmonlee.
But actually there's more: generally a grassy terrain team has more than one mon that exploits Grassy Glide (like a Choice banded flapple).
Then you have also a Simple mon in Swoobat: grassy/electric seed gives +2 defense and calm mind gives +2 sp.atk and +2 sp.def, so you get a powerful Stored power as well (you have also heat wave for steel types).
To conclude you have also Clawitzer and Blastoise that can use Terrain Pulse: that move is a nuke if used by Clawitzer while it really helps Shell Smash Stoise to deal with other Blastoise.
I've never done this before but dammit I'm going to try it now.
What a great video! I didn't know the channel. I'm subscribing to it :)
Could you make a video about the competitive scene throughout the generations? At least since gen4?
I appreciate that very much! Really glad you enjoy it, and welcome to the channel! 😁 Will definitely do that at some point, I actually started competitive during generation 5 but i've dabbled a litte bit in gen 4 competitive before
I miss watching your team builds on the WBE, when is that coming back or something like it?!?!
I think if the timer gets fixed for gen 9 later this year i'm sure WBE will be starting up again :)
GOATED VIDEO fr fr
Pro tip: If you build pure stall then I hate you.
Incredible guide. Very thorough
We want to see the wormadam team in action lord emvee!
Next video you will see Wormadam in its full glory :)
My Goldeen has all the current meta Zacian quaking :)
The Emvee team building guide is real now? And he got the ash and all his Pokemon portrait!!
BIG VOUCH...miss teambuilding and talking with you bro
ayyy appreciate you bro and same i'll hit you up 🥂
Emvee out here sharing some KNAWLEDGE from ancient chinese dinasties.
THE A IN KNOWLEDGE IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN O!
Emvee blessing us with the volcanic heat. Love what you do man. Thanks for everything you do.
I would love to see team building requests focused over a single pokemon or team building challenges from the emvee subs
I hope that makes sense lol
It's been 1 year since i watched this. Ig it's time to watch it again
sarias song lofi hit different
Thundurus is my favorite rain dancer in gen 5 because it's a setter, support, and a sweeper all in one. Prankster boosted rain dance, taunt, and thunder wave combined w/ thunder is disgusting. If you wanna be a little less vulnerable to taunt yourself you can either run another offensive coverage move like focus blast or dark pulse or you could run something like volt switch if you wanna get a little spicy and fit in a small volt-turn core.
Flash cannon, hammer arm, and hidden power water are also decent coverage options for thundurus, hidden power maybe being the best because it itself gets boosted by the rain you set. Can be nice to hit things that resist or are immune to your electric type STAB. Swagger also another good priority move you can run if taunt/t-wave doesn't quite cut it for you.
emvee: making bulky offense
also emvee: speedy heatran baby!!!!
Just 2HKO’d every clef on the ladder after rocks with double tail Dnite! Thanks Emvee!
Yoooooooo Emvee dropping teambuilding the movie
Dude, I didn't know you could sort the list LOOOOOOOOL
LMAO
Can confirm this works, I just made a team with flail magikarp and 6-0ed stall
Spec sandshrew messing up blissey, and tearing through teams effortlessly! assault vest blissey made it possible with all the support 🥰
BABE WAKEUP EMV TEAMBUILDING GUIDE DROPPED
Stop f*cking typing in all caps!
yes my lord, please teach us the way of the heat
A great video! I wish I could use this video to make a team for my favorite pokemon, but sadly no amount of teambuilding is going to let Regigigas ever do anything in a serious battle...
you're in luck as i've done a regigigas video! hopefully it will
give you some inspiration :) th-cam.com/video/mt0VHdhOZfw/w-d-xo.html
another short video to watch just before bed
MVee is the best content for smogon singles imo. Unsure why he's only 60K subs.
hopefully 100k soon :)
Thats exactly how I EV my mons, it just feels noice...and i am obsessed with even numbers
*THERE IS NO O IN NICE!*
Volt-turn has always been my fav strat in pokemon ever since it became a thing. Prob my favorite volt-turn lead is mienshao because it's kinda everything you want out of a volt-turn lead (even though it's not necessarily the best). The set I usually run is fake out, stone edge, u-turn, and high jump kick depending on the team usually with either life orb or sash. Sash is really nice on mienshao because if you take a bit of damage you can just u-turn out and then heal back to full that way sash is live again. Acrobatics + flying gem in place of stone edge (if you're a gen 5 simp like me) is also another great way to run mienshao if you're scared of other fighting types.
I also made a really funny volt-turn team a while ago where, like a madman, I ran a scarf u-turn volcarona w/ bug buzz, overheat and hurricane as a mid-late game sweeper that could also out speed other volcarona and all the other things it speed ties w/ (because there's a lot of pokemon w/ base 100 speed that also like to run speed boosting natures, also scarf puts it's speed high enough that it can pretty consistently out speed a lot of pokemon under tailwind) Took it to a local event and did really well with it. Didn't win that locals, but I did get top 4 so that's something.
this is a video everyone needed, ty emvee
Congratulations on such an amazing achievement, can't wait to see your channel grow even bigger.
can confirm this worked.
edit:i made a team with some...uncommon pokemon to see
damn, thanks to this guide we can all have lil gremlins come whisper Chinese EVs to use in our dreams
I see a lot of these guides and while I appreciate that they're trying to help, they always feel unfinished to me. I'm certainly not into _hardcore competitive_ but I'm not an idiot and I enjoy teambuilding and play online, though generally with sub-optimal Pokemon and movesets, because they're more fun, frankly. What always feels left out to me about these videos is this:
So you've chosen Wormadam to build a team around, and you immediately dove into building for specific attacks from specific Pokemon, outspeeding, or OHKOing, but you don't say _WHY_ you're looking at those specific Pokemon/attacks. While I'm sure it makes perfect sense to you and any other hardcore teambuilder, it's not clear to me why you're focused on OHKOing Heatran and Lucario (because they're popular and have Ground weaknesses, is that all?), surviving Latios (???) and Azumarill. Especially starting a team from scratch, it seems completely arbitrary to me.
I'm not saying this to be critical and I certainly understand the idea behind type coverage and more casual teambuilding, and I understand that it can be really hard to explain (expert blind spot), but there's nothing particularly obvious or clear about why you're choosing to OHKO/survive/outspeed what you are, and that's really not helpful. "Try to outspeed/OHKO/survive the Pokemon you want" isn't really useful advice. "Try to survive/OHKO/outspeed _these particular Pokemon for these reasons_" would be much more helpful.
Sure. So to clarify those points, The reason of why I chose Wormadam-Sand was just as an example to show the general thought process on how to build a team around any Pokemon. There was no reasoning behind me choosing Wormadam other than it was a random Pokemon I found on the list of lower tier Pokemon that I had not built around before so it served as an example.
The first step as I said was to figure out what role your chosen Pokemon will play. Wormadam-Sand has a few sets it can run just at a first glance depending on whether you want to go a more defensive or offensive build. Since I decided that I wanted to go a more offensive route, I began by looking at its moves to see if it had any setup boosting moves. Quiver Dance is its best option, so I chose that move because I want to make it threatening to other Pokemon.
Leading up to this point in the video, I said that a prerequisite to building your own teams was to have knowledge of the specific metagame you are playing in, which means that you'll likely build better teams if you know what you will commonly run up against. Now since Wormadam-Sand doesn't get any Special Attacking Ground type attacks in BDSP, I went with Earthquake. Because Quiver Dance won't be boosting the attack stat, we needed to make sure Earthquake OHKO's common Pokemon in the format, like Heatran, Lucario, etc. Due to Wormadam's base 79 Attack stat, it likely won't KO standard 252 HP Heatran by itself (as we saw it needed investment in Attack or a damage boosting item of some sort). It needed Life Orb to OHKO Heatran and 4 EVs in Attack to guarantee OHKO Lucario and as we know the guaranteed OHKO is important on strong attackers like those so it doesn't have the chance to touch our Wormadam.
Now since Latios is one of the more popular Psychic types in the game and Wormadam's strongest move paired with Quiver Dance is Bug Buzz, we want to ensure that Wormadam can survive Latios so that it can actually retaliate back with Bug Buzz and have the chance to KO it back. Due to strong and popular priority users in the tier that run Aqua Jet to move first (such as Azumarill and Crawdaunt), we invested those Defense EVs to guarantee live the Aqua Jet (due to it being Super Effective against Wormadam-Sand) and do some good damage back with Giga Drain. Giga Drain is also useful to deal with Quagsire. Since Quagsire has the ability Unaware, it is one of the common ways alongside Clefable to ignore damage boosts from any setup sweeper.
Essentially when I say "Try to outspeed/OHKO/survive the Pokemon you want", it's entirely up to you dependent on the Pokemon you are building around. The bottom line is that we EV based on what is most commonly seen and what the Pokemon you are building around is capable of dealing with. Assign EVs to walls to tank certain hits and EV bulkier setup sweepers to be able to withstand an attack as you set up or even after you set up and do enough damage back so they hopefully cannot stand. Ultimately you'll first need to know the common threats and stuff. Hope this helps and feel free to lemme know if you have any other questions :)
@@LordEmvee Ur the goat for explaining that so thoroughly to this guy. Also, I love weather teams but I'm having a hard time building a Leafeon Sun team for Sword and Shield OU. I have Torkoal, Leafeon, whatever fire type (usually Victini cus V-Create in sun is a nuke but sometimes I go with Heatran) then a defogger, and a ground type. But opposing Heatrans are really a bitch to me and the rain matchup is kinda hard. Could u provide me with some suggestions :< much appreciated.
@@dirkauditore8413 Absolutely! :) So I assume since you said Victini this is going to be for Gen 8. There are a few ways of dealing with opposing Heatran on a sun team. Venusaur does it well by running Earth Power on its Growth set, but since your Chlorophyll user is Leafeon, you can always run Power Herb + Dig to deter it. Your own Heatran can be more offensive on a Sun team so that it can have the guaranteed Fire immunity while also being able to outrun most other Heatran sets and KO back with perhaps Specs Earth Power (since many of them are more SpDef). For the Rain matchup, I generally like to keep some kind of wall or lure on the sun team I'm using. For example, Umbreon is a Pokemon that can give some Rain teams trouble with how bulky it is, how Foul Play does great damage, and how Wish + Protect can stall out opposing weather based teams. Alternatively, from watching me you probably know how sometimes I like to run a Pokemon with random electric move to lure and OHKO Pelipper rain teams, so something like that could be viable (maybe Electric move Dragonite for example, and Dragonite also helps with opposing Heatran).
@@LordEmvee Ayyy much appreciated brother, didn't expect such a thorough and elaborated response . Thats why u the goat :) . I like how special dragonite sounds
This is a great guide! Ty so much!
This helped me make a Clawitzer Rain Team in Gen 8. GEN 8 OU CLAWITZER BAYBEEEEE
I do never build my own teams cause jamvad says is easier to get better with teams that already work. But hearing u say its art, uuuuhhhh. I want to be an artist too.
Thank you
Thanks i needed this
QOTD: all the starters for gen 9 are fire but I'll definitely cop Quaxly. Huge fan of bird Pokemon, and considering Rowlet's evolution line went with glasses and a hoodie, I'm excited to see what happens with Quaxly and their hat
I am currently trying to run a Gen 8 set and currently have in order
Haxorus with close combat to fight off rock types
Chandelure
and a Cloyster
The space between your eyebrows is a glabella. That’s also the name of the bone underneath that space that connects your brow ridges.
Merch just arrived and looks sweet! Ready to hear some fire team building tips.
QOTD: Mr. ducky boi. They all look great though.
YOOO glad you got it fam :) appreciate the support and hope this vid helps!
Huge. Favorite for later.
2 hr vid on team building. This will be good.
I don't even play showdown anymore, and I never actually played singles, just vgc, but I'll definetely this watch this vid
I subbed. I have some knowledge with sets and moves and evs and stuff. But very little battle experience. Breeding is tough this gen
I appreciate it very much! :) hopefully the breeding guides on other people's channels combined with the knowledge i can provide on various sets, teams and battling can help you conquer every opponent!
@@LordEmvee thank bro battles coming soon.
Could you explain why you choose some of the Pokémon you do to calc against? For example why did you calc against a heatran, Lucario and latias with wormadan? I’m pretty new to competitive which is why I’m wondering. Thank you for the awesome guide btw
Absolutely! So first we consider the role of the Pokemon. What are they supposed to beat? In Wormadam's case, since we're running the Ground/Bug variant and we are doing so in a more offensive way, we want destroy the most common things in the tier that are weak to Ground and Bug moves (in this case, Heatran, Lucario, Latias etc are most commonly seen). It all has to do with knowing what the most common Pokemon in the game are and you'll know it either from looking up specifically what are the most common Pokemon or from playing a lot of games. Then we just calc to make sure we can KO those Pokemon and/or survive a hit from them depending on the set you are building with :) I think this site can give you even more information of what you should calc against as it has usage statistics by rank: pikalytics.com/pokedex/gen8ou (for Sword/Shield) and pikalytics.com/pokedex/bdsp (for Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl)
@@LordEmvee thank you SO much! Excellent. I’m greatly appreciative.
WORMADAM DOES NOT END WITH AN N, IT ENDS WITH AN M!
Thanks a lot