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- Grafaiai is a very cool new Pokemon with unique poison/normal typing and the prankster ability. It has some really interesting support options including Doodle which allows it to change its ally's abilities. So I built this super fun team using Slaking and Toedscruel to make the most of Grafaiai's new move!
Team paste: pokepast.es/f6113e62959c2ede
My twitter: / sja900
00:00 Grafaiai
00:46 The team
03:04 Battle 1
04:50 Battle 2
13:27 Battle 3
19:52 Toedscruel
21:13 Battle 4
27:15 Immunities to Doodle
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Just imagine if instead of Mycelium Might, Toedscruel's ability was called "Mould Breaker"
Base 100 speed spore is probably why Mycelium Might exists. The 2nd fastest spore user otherwise is Breloom with base 70
Hah!
Dear god no wonder it has the ability, it would be busted with high speed spore
@@freecinnamonrolls He's making a pun. "Mold Breaker" is a real ability, but "Mould Breaker" is "mouldy"... Which is what mushrooms like. 🍄
@@mattturner1090 no I meant mycelium might countering it’s high speed
Poison/Normal is such a cool typing.
Also Grafaiai does so much works here
This Pokémon has so much potential!
real quick about 24:06, phantom force actually functions like feint, where it will not only hit through protect, but lifts the effects of it. not a lot of people know about this, and while i've experimented with it on power herb ceruledge, i think it has interesting applications with brambleghast, as usually its accompanied with tailwind, of which people will use protect to stall out
Can't wait for Regigas to be in this generation, if he even gets in.
Doodle would be great
They won’t but it’s nice to think of for Pokémon battle website I forget the name of!
@@lexderp2766 Showdown?
@@tylermalmberg1252 Yes thank you
@@lexderp2766 why wouldn't they include it? its in legends arceus 😭
Oooo you’re one of those legendary users huh
I love the doubles support we've been getting on Pokemon in Paldea. It feels so refreshing to have new strategies to build towards and around.
Yeah there are definitely more doubles focused Pokémon this generation
Doubles focused pokemon
- only one Double battle segment and its a gym.
Fuckin faillord
I have yet to get a Slaking in the game and seeing it move around in the open world in the video has me grateful that it has its ability. Seeing that thing stampeding around is nuts.
Right?! It makes it super obvious why it has such insane stats, but it just chooses to be lazy 😆
In Game 2, could you use Doodle while the other Pokemon switches? You swap Slaking out for Tyranitar, use Doodle, which switches out Slaking, sets up sand, then gives Tyranitar Unaware right after
Yes I could have done that as an alternative play, good suggestion
@@foofootoo ok nice! i wasn't 100% sure because I didn't know if Doodle would fail
@@JohnboyTheGamer as far as i know doodle only fails on signature abilities although i don’t know for sure
@@poopdealer7039 doodle would also fail against Dark types specifically because the Grafaiai used in this video is a Prankster one and Prankster modified moves fail when the target is a Dark type
@@poopdealer7039 This is mostly true, but it's usually the form-changing abilities that can't be swapped or copied. Some signature abilities can still be Doodled, like Gale Wings, Mycelium Might, and Dancer.
I've been struggling in Pokéball Tier 5 with my own, slightly different Grafaiai team and was so happy to see this video go live. I've been at work all day but I just got to play a match and finally made it into Tier 6 with your team and I'm so happy you built a team around this awesome little primate. You've definitely given me some ideas about tweaks I can make to my own team! Thanks for the awesome content, I love how creative you are in making off-meta picks do serious work!
That's really awesome to hear, I always find it useful to see how other people are building their teams to get inspiration too!
I like how you make gimmicky strats but you're up front about how you hand pick matches where it works, unlike some people who just claim their gimmick will work all the time
Yay I had the same idea with both slaking and toedscruel but never built the teams. glad to see them being demonstrated! Sucks that the speed order for toedscruel doesn’t work the same turn
It's such a shame about the first turn interaction with Mycelium Might...
I believe you can blame Quick Claw and Custap Berry for that; their effect can only be rolled once per turn, and the simplest way to achieve that is to only calculate all first/last within priority bracket effects once per turn. This also affects e.g. Trick with Lagging Tail or Full Incense.
Doodle is terrifying but what I also took away from this video was excitement that my beloved vivillion has meta potential ✨
Awesome battles, I really like how you explain what's going on in especially the abilities of the Pokemon as someone who doesn't play competitive but is interested in watching it makes your videos more exciting to watch since other content creators react too more than explain their battles
Thanks so much for the feedback!
Bro no cap I've been checking back every day past 2 weeks to see If new vid dropped. Big fan of your takes on pokemon
Had a break for the holiday but have a backlog of fun teams to try for the new year 💪
I never thought Pokemon would take a direction where MURKROW is viable competitively but here we are
Murkrow ruins so many fun strategies 😆
Hasn't Prankster Murkrow been viable basically as long as it has existed?
@@LordTonzilla Murkrow has been slept on and now it's out for revenge!
@@LordTonzilla Whimsicott was generally the better option, but it’s not in SV.
I LOVED using Grafaifai-Slaking against MC Ryme (went for a full Normal team for fun)
monotype runs are awesome (especially normal)
Oh woah I’m surprised I’m here so early and curious to see what you do with him. My roommate has a Prankster doodle Grafaiai that is an absolute *menace* to deal with and repeatedly neutered my ace Toxtricity
Oooh yeah copying Punk Rock to give sound resistance is cool
@@foofootoo Right? Especially when you have only a Clodsire left and all I can hit them with is normal tera Boomburst 😭 I got outplayed
your videos are so awesome, literally can't help clicking the moment I see them in my feed haha
I'm so glad you like them!
24:13 Quick reminder that Phantom Force goes through protect.
Not just through protect, it removes the protection, allowing the ally to attack too.
grafaiai is a new fav of mine and funnily enough I named my grafaiai doodles when I caught him as a shroodle. I did not know it would learn doodle lol
I mainly have it on my team as a support, poisoning the enemy (poison touch, poison jab, gunk shot) and building up attack stat boosts for my physical damage dealers (sword dance, baton pass)
Happy new year ! 🎉 I’ve been waiting for someone to break down doodle and it’s in game mechanics. The main issue I’ve come across is going against double dark type leads in vgc like murkrow and Hydraegon/meowscarada unburden doodle with terrain seed activation has potential but I dunno pranksters priority is great. I’ve used a doodle Toadscruel with choice scarf spore most opponents don’t expected it lol it’s been fun using that in master ranks and following up with bulk up slaking or other Mon switch in.
Unburden does seem like a reasonable alternative, but the prankster priority is so helpful into teams without dark types
@@foofootoo yup exactly! Pesky dark types ay! 😆
Amazing video as always Foo, thanks for this!
Thanks!
Okay but in what world did the skeledirge think burning the facade using slaking was the right move?
Might of forgot and panicked, focusing on crippling the Slaking.
Because the opponent didn’t know it had facade yet, by the time the slaking used facade for the first time, skeledirge already clicked will-o-wisp already during the same turn sequence it was used
@@LOgo-cv9ur um, he clicked facade on the Dragonite to break multiscale turn before? But also facade is a really common slaking move
@@trevorbrooks7816 oh yeah I missed it when it used facade before
People often forget what moves do because memorization is hard, especially for moves that aren't often utilized. Skaking just became meta and most other Pokémon don't run Facade, so the opponent either forgot or weren't prepared for it. I still often forget Shadow Ball can drop Sp. Defense, and I've seen many people attempt to use Shadow Sneak, Sucker Punch, Quash, and the like while my Armor Tail Farigiraf is on the field. Even if Armor Tail has already activated in the battle sometimes.
Doodle vs Oricorio is probably the funniest matchup, the whole match turns into a dance battle
i laughed so hard when the skeledirge burned the slaking that has already been shown to use facade a turn before
that Skeledirge dude didn’t know how to play frfr so many missed opportunities to turn the tides it was painful to watch, anyhoo great video foo! happy new year!
I think not wishing the Tyranitar was the big misplay, and the dragonite didn't end up doing much too. But at least they correctly identified that terastallizing skeledirge was never the play because then I could use Facade
The fact that it used WILL O WISP on Slakoth despite it having Facade hurt me
Unintentional or not, like the 'intimidating slaking' after the events of the first battle
STOP PRODUCING TINNY LITTLE GRIMSNARLS
you've convinced me, slaking is no longer unviable
I tried this team, First time I ever played doubles. It is kind of confusing still normally only play singles but it was a lot of fun. Gonna try make my own team soon. And I am very happy to see grafaiai. One of my new fave mons
the dude has already seen facade "better go for that will o wisp, derp"
that friend guard was so clutch
I used doodle on a huge power Azumarrill. Huge power Slaking is a menace!
Also you can doodle prankster and have priority slack off and bulk up a pretty good team honestly
Even without thinking about your partner... just Doodle on Intimidate seems amazing.
Had some guy trying to use this start on me, but I have 4 Dark types on my team so he couldn't do anything. xD
Yeah it is completely match up reliant
Do you have any techniques up your sleeve for the upcoming Poison Tera Typed Greninja raid? I love watching your competitive Pokémon videos and would appreciate any advice! Thanks ❤
Ive actually been using a very similar team since day one! glad to see my fellow players being creative and sharing ideas! great minds think alike i guess, even though im stupid XD
So many new Pokémon have great potential, can't wait to have tried them all out!
@@foofootoo for sure!
Finally, a way to put my Shiny Grafaiai to use.
I love shenanigans like this
Another combo would be Swagger grafaiai and lum berry sneasler first grafaiai uses prankster swagger increasing sneaslers attack then sneasler procks the lum berry activiting unburden and and attack boost allowing sneaslers to cover up Grafaiai’s weakness if it sash breaks it can also go for doodle to change sneasler ability to things like Huge power from azumarill giving it more power then once grafaiai dies switch in Scarfed Co star Flamigo to double up on the pressure i just came up with this Grafaiai combo from singles
Everyone needs some Grafaiai in their lives.
It would be so funny uf the opponent also had Slaking and switch it in when you use Doodle on that spot
"My Annihilape got fighting coverage" rage fist is do ridiculous
Keep up the awesome strats
Will do!
23:56 lol the trainer spin
(ALSO, I LOVE GRAFAIAI ❤️)
This game lol
I had fun watching it 👍
Thanks for commenting!
He's like a remix of one of my favorite pokemons Smeargle. I used to make a combo of Smeargle WITH Slaking back on emeral. Boosting my stats, stunning the oponent then pass it to Slaking and destroy the opponent calling Slaking to Destroy the stunned oponent.
7:18 I guess you could say they were Unaware of how much you benefited from that switch into Skelidurge.
Thought it was really interesting that Doodle went through the Rotom’s Protect. It really opens up the strat, only problem being Indeedee shutting down Prankster
I'm wondering if such a fast Pokemon even needs Prankster if it's going to just remove the ability anyways.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 it does have unburden so I wonder if there’s any potential there as well
This is my current favorite team with a couple changes. I also run Taunt on Grafaiai to stop fast Spore/ Rage Powder users.
Taunt is a great option, as shown in one of these battles, sleep as an issue for my build
This team is so fun! I just faced an Azumarill and doodled its Huge Power... Slaking was unstoppable...
i love ur videos
Truthfully Grafaiai has alot of Creative room to play around with esp with prankster It can help Unburden mons get thier respected speed boosts Or doodle off swift swim and chlorophyll to use against rain/sun teams basically it can doodle it on a sneaslers after it activates unburden making it even more faster rillaboom can make an excellent partner to pair with sneasler Esp the fact Rillaboom can fake out a ground mon covering sneasler so it can get off attacks to other mons lol
Regigigas: *happy boi noises.*
* sees thumbnail*
* Realisation*
OH God, oh dear God
😁
I'm crying, Grimm is so tiny lmao
Honestly, I would've made perfect sense to give this mon MOLD Breaker.
Wow, that lag in the gameplay footage at the beginning is incredible.
24:10 Phantom force goes through protect
WeedleTwinneedle should be viewing this video by now
Y-you could give any Pokémon wonder guard when/if shedinja gets added
Imagine a pure electric type with air balloon and wonder guard
Can you please make a team around stakeout mabosstiff, I think it has a lot of potential being the best stakeout user and dark types spot in the meta rn. In singles it's the ultimate palafin counter and in doubles I've made some fun sets with forcing the opponent to switch with whirlwind murkrow and dragon tail dragonite, this also is a decent option against dondozo teams to remove the stat boosts. Only problem is there needs to be a quicker sweeper for more offensive variety and depth and I dont really like starting with both murkrow and mabosstiff bc of annihilape and iron valiant (keep in mind prankster whirlwind usually covers it.) Would love any advice and thank you so much for inspiring people like me and many others into making not only unique and meta breaking teams but really fun concepts and increasing the depth and strategy of the game!
Thanks so much for the comment! Stakeout is such a strong ability, especially in singles. I'll certainly look at this Pokémon in future videos! FYI I don't think whirlwind/dragon tail will work on Dondozo once it has combined with tatsugiri
I have tried grafaiai and slaking in ranked. I had trouble with the meta pokemon so I changed my grafaiai's ability to poison point and maxed its speed out. I have won games because my opponent hard counter opening up with dark types expecting prankster on grafaiai, but I catch them off guard with just a really fast grafaiai and a drain punching slaking.
Honestly doodle grafaiai with slacking’s an underrated counter to dondozo if played right especially if slaking has trailblaze
When I first saw doodle, I wanted to use it but I got distracted by Eviolite Bisharp. i even have a prankster one ready for a future team
Eviolite bisharp is so bulky!
I'd just like to add that even if you override the -8 priority on status moves from Mycelium Might, such as through Quick Claw or Custap Berry, it will still bypass the target's immunities granted by their abilities. (EDIT: Works on Pokémon Showdown, but unproven to work in-game. 🤷)
In the case of Grafaiai and Toedscruel, since removing Mycelium Might does not change the priority of a status move on that turn, you can instead choose an attack with Toedscruel and have Grafaiai target Toedscruel with Encore, forcing it to use Spore, but piggybacking off the neutral priority of the attack that Toedscruel selected.
Instruct from a faster Oranguru also forces Toedscruel to act immediately, and if Toedscruel's previous move was a status move, it will execute that move while still bypassing abilities.
Forcing Toedscruel to act immediately by using After You should also work just as well.
According to th-cam.com/video/mLU060t6zJs/w-d-xo.html you can't actually override Mycelium Might with Quick Claw. (If this works on Pokémon Showdown! it's probably just that they haven't implemented all of the latest mechanics correctly yet.) I assume Encore, Instruct and After You should still work as you describe.
Some super interesting theories!
@@urkerab I see. I did indeed test it on Showdown and it *did* work. But I suppose it's yet to be proven to work in-game. I have much respect for DaWoblefet's work but he did also say in the video you shared that it's possible he was just very unlucky. And because I have tried and failed to find evidence that it 100% does not work, I'll settle for calling it unproven rather than false. 👍
@@foofootoo I tested the Encore and Instruct ones on Showdown and they worked to bypass Good As Gold, so I assume they should also work in-game. :)
Super fang has a lot more utility than I thought it would. I ran foul play in most of the builds for Grafaiai that I came up with
I've been waiting for paramons to come out so I can copy there ability and use it in sun/electric terrain. Season 1 a lot of abilities were either useless or not that good to copy
What if Mycelium Might additionally gave the opponent the ability whenever Toedscruel uses a status move (or maybe only when the target's ability would prevent it from being affected by that status move). Idk how good it would be, but it would allow it to actually put pokemon with Insomnia to sleep, which its ability description implies that it does, but it really doesn't.
That could be interesting!
If this game had Regigigas, you could use Grafaiai to make it more viable in combat.
It does now!
Wait till regigigas comes out this would be a scary combo
24:18
Hold on though, doesn't Phantom Force bypass Protect?
How did you even get parting shot on Grafaiai?
Edit: never mind, I see that Bombirdier learns it. About to try out this grafaiai set.
Happy new year ❤️❤️🔥🔥
And to you too!
Was I the only one flabbergasted after watching slaking run that fast
I'm starting to think Game Freak is pouring all the love and ideas onto Doubles, considering how chaotic singles are now with Smogon.
This so evil I love it
Does Slacking keep the doodled ability after Grafaiai dies or leaves the field? Or does its truant come back?
7:06 I am in complete utter disbelief that they just burned a Slaking with Facade.......
I have a question, can you use doodle on ally pokemons abilty?
Even if your Slaking went down to the Skeledirge in the second battle, couldn't you doodle again so that the incoming pokemon (probably Tyranitar) also received unaware?
Could you maybe use after you to make Toadscruel go before others?
I think a cool strategy that I may want to try is use Tornadus (after the Pokémon Home update) to Swagger an ally Own Tempo Tinkaton and also use Tailwind for speed control. This can also be used with any physical attacker with Lum Berry.
Murkrow doesn't learn Swagger on this game
I think Grimmsnarl can do this which is really awesome but the tailwind from tornadus will make it more valuable for sure
Hey I've been using grafiai alot recently but with unburden instead cause double speed he is faster than most of the meta mon with tailwind up and you can still get to doodle anything you see fit and with psychic terrain up you stop any fake out pressure
Great idea!
How did you get Parting Shot on Grafaiai? I can't find out 😢
Doodle + Slaking is a cool idea in theory, but in reality there's just too much to go wrong for it to be consistent. Dark types are straight up immune, and when you've got Murkrow, Meowscarada, Grimmsnarl and Hydreigon being very threatening Pokemon, you'll be running into them a lot. Priority blocking abilities like Psychic Surge and Armor Tail stop it cold too. There's also the common core of Gholdengo + Murkrow, which stops that strat (Good as Gold makes it immune to Doodle). Finally, your opponent will know exactly what you're going to do at team preview, and if you fail to give Slaking another ability, it becomes extremely heavy dead weight.
You could always try Unburden or Poison Point and Doodle, then everything you listed aside from gholdengo no longer blocks the strategy. You just have to be more careful with Grafaiai so it doesn't faint before you get the doodle off
Even if you don't use Grafaia in your team, you should keep studying it. This Pokémon can be really mind breaking and you can make a lot of mistakes fighting against it
But can you say what evs they have tyranitar, rotom and anihilape?
Late to the party, what would be a good ev spread for my little doodle primate
I'm considering building this team myself.
But with an unburden set instead to stop prankster being unable to be used infront of double dark types.
Been shiny hunting half of the team I made on showdown.
Good luck!
What is the EV's of the team? I like to use my own pokemon
Can you Doodle away Comatose? There's a few new ways to change abilities this gen so maybe Komala can wake up?
Interesting idea...
Why would you want to take away its ability? It isn’t actually “Sleep” and it’s ability makes it a budget Gholdengo.
i think not, considering simple beam and such fail
The team code doesn’t work anymore, is there a new one?
I faced a team with this strategy and was a fun fight👍🏻
It's a super specific playstyle
should have give the slaking safety goggles for immunity to sandstorm dmg and sleep powder.
That is definitely an option considering it has slack off for recovery so a healing berry is not a necessity
Stops spore too I believe
Is prankster a mandatory ability for Grafaiai or are there alternate strategies that could make up for the lack of priority that would come from using Unburden or Poison Touch?
It's better to have prankster. So you can doodle first.
Where's weedle? I need them to use this!
it would be so funny if grafaiai got quickbanned in doubles not even a week after this video getting out
I doubt that since good players will know the counterplay
What was the EV spread on Grafaiai?
I put armarouge and got rid of Toedscruel so far this team is really solid especially having trick room
I love screw over murkrow