I honestly love restricted formats because so many weird niche pokemon come into play to play around them. In non-restricted formats the teams always feel very similar, usually sharing like 3 mons. But restricted adds so much chaos.
Fwiw SV has steered closer to the niche mons popping up even outside of restricted formats, but that was a huge selling point for gens 6-8s restricted formats for me
I've managed to climb to +1500 in SD with Terapagos + Comfey, but the star on the team that surprised me was Volcarona. I already used Volcarona back in Gen 8 ladder, but I always felt Volcarona would work in Reg G and I'm glad it does. Being resistant to both STABs of Zacian and Zamazenta and being able to drag any possible threats for Terapagos to itself with Rage Powder with the chance of getting burned because of Flame Body is very valuable. Heck, it also serves well against Calyrex-Ice. Volcarona truly suprised me
🤔 got me thinking about valiant as a miraidon check - use quark drive to outspeed and then threaten moderately big damage with spirit break. if they tera you still get a SpA drop out of it which helps allies. unfortunately, ival doesn't take miraidons attacks well even after a SpA drop, with potential ohkos threatened by even overheat and spread discharge (50%) before the stat drop, and electro drift being still guaranteed at -1. (used timid max/max itemless for both in this scenario, no tera involved for calcs.) Side note on valiant, i wonder why it didn't get access to sacred sword for thematic reasons ... guessing because it was created before they gave gallade access to it this gen or something.
BRONZONG STOCKS TO THE MOON. With tera fire bronzong, you check a surprising amount of physical attackers since physical water moves are uncommon outside of urshifu rapid, and rock coverage isnt common outside of the rare groudon who have rock slide over swords dance.
Yea its a shockingly good option into the format conceptually rn but I'm not seeing it a lot, fwiw it's probably more in that gastrodon vein where it has high potential but only if you decide you should burn a Tera on it which has a high cost. Only for like IR, Landorus, and Ursalunas you'd really wanna like use it for its pre Tera potential
I unfortunately have my final shorts for the topic planned before the next concept, but because you asked I'll give you a brief TLDR: Tyranitar is one of the best Calyrex Checks we have due to its SpD boost with sand and the typing only fearing the Tera sets. This'll lead to AV being its best route probably with a Fairy Tera resist (I'm predicting steel to keep an ice rider resist but fire also works, Steel just has a better MU to the box arts). Standard flying Tera also works here, moveset definitely is Knock / Rock Slide / steel move / Tera Blast if Flying or Grass otherwise Ice Punch. You'd run it probably with a horse or maybe Miraidon (I've seen some Miraidon around 1500s using ttar but ttar didn't touch the field, seems conceptually good). You'll struggle with weather being so dominant and even caly teams using a rain dance torn-i is fairly common and that'll screw ttar, but it can at minimum control a turn with ease (probably only 1 tho) and in these types of formats that's usually enough
Nice Wish it was easier to figure out good mons to bring in a trick room team. It feels like ice Rider is one of very few restricted picks that works well in that setup
Farig Bloodmoon Urshifu (either form usually single unless you're not using Wellspring then either works) is a strong start, then options like amoonguss, incin, Wellspring, rillaboom, bronzong, indeedee, torkoal, atales are all viable to name a few. Id say if you wanna unique mon I actually forgot to cover araquanid in this video but wide guard/liquidation/Leech life/4th move which could be soak, mirror coat, icy wind, chilling water, or infestation would probably be the best way to use this and its pretty good rn!
Im trying to get back into competitive but i was put off by all the identical teams running around. It was really off putting seeing the same thong over and over. Its nice to see someone pushing different mons out
Fwiw if you look beyond just Twitter posts complaining about the similar team point, there's so much diversity in what does well, especially this gen. Nearly every regional some new off meta mon wins tbh
Tbh I find it funny Farigiraf and Kyogre are the two pokemon that never go out of bussiness regardless of what you throw at them😅 Also iron valiant and iron leaves in doubles wooooo. Finally Leaves gets her time to shine
I like watching these even if I don't play Pokemon anymore. I think that's a good sign of the quality of the video!
Glad you still were able to enjoy the content despite not playing anymore!
5:30 I mean, the fact that Iron Valiant has so many good utility moves does make sense if you read the occult magazine entry on it.
Totally fair just meant that it has an absurd toolkit that rivals like mew
I honestly love restricted formats because so many weird niche pokemon come into play to play around them. In non-restricted formats the teams always feel very similar, usually sharing like 3 mons. But restricted adds so much chaos.
Fwiw SV has steered closer to the niche mons popping up even outside of restricted formats, but that was a huge selling point for gens 6-8s restricted formats for me
I've managed to climb to +1500 in SD with Terapagos + Comfey, but the star on the team that surprised me was Volcarona.
I already used Volcarona back in Gen 8 ladder, but I always felt Volcarona would work in Reg G and I'm glad it does.
Being resistant to both STABs of Zacian and Zamazenta and being able to drag any possible threats for Terapagos to itself with Rage Powder with the chance of getting burned because of Flame Body is very valuable.
Heck, it also serves well against Calyrex-Ice. Volcarona truly suprised me
As a huge volc fan this intrigues me, may need to test volc again
Tsareena mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Tsareena is so good rn tbh
🤔 got me thinking about valiant as a miraidon check - use quark drive to outspeed and then threaten moderately big damage with spirit break. if they tera you still get a SpA drop out of it which helps allies. unfortunately, ival doesn't take miraidons attacks well even after a SpA drop, with potential ohkos threatened by even overheat and spread discharge (50%) before the stat drop, and electro drift being still guaranteed at -1. (used timid max/max itemless for both in this scenario, no tera involved for calcs.)
Side note on valiant, i wonder why it didn't get access to sacred sword for thematic reasons ... guessing because it was created before they gave gallade access to it this gen or something.
Valiant at least applies pressure but I would say it's not the best check. Wide Guard and Spirit Break are both very useful, asw as Icy Wind!
This is like REALLY nice editing, especially considering you’re a relatively small channel. You’ve earned yourself another subscriber.
Welcome to the channel, shoutout to Kurt who edited this he killed it as always!!
The fact Iron Valiant didn't get a whole VIDEO dedicated to how insane that mon is rn is actually crazy to me.
Giving it the mention here + a short dedicated to it is the best I can do rn, maybe as the format goes on tho!
chi yu is a good call into the calyrexes
It's so good for them rn since it actually forces Tera instead of incin just being used to pop ice riders weakness policy
BRONZONG STOCKS TO THE MOON.
With tera fire bronzong, you check a surprising amount of physical attackers since physical water moves are uncommon outside of urshifu rapid, and rock coverage isnt common outside of the rare groudon who have rock slide over swords dance.
Yea its a shockingly good option into the format conceptually rn but I'm not seeing it a lot, fwiw it's probably more in that gastrodon vein where it has high potential but only if you decide you should burn a Tera on it which has a high cost. Only for like IR, Landorus, and Ursalunas you'd really wanna like use it for its pre Tera potential
Awesome video, my only criticism is that the pokemon cries were way too loud compared to your voice lol. The pelipper made me jump lmfao
I'll let my editor know ty for the response!
@@oLivSamaFix the rest of them but leave Pelipper as is. Give us the funny bird jumpscare.
How do you feel about TTar in Reg G? Can we get a shorts video on TTar?
I unfortunately have my final shorts for the topic planned before the next concept, but because you asked I'll give you a brief TLDR:
Tyranitar is one of the best Calyrex Checks we have due to its SpD boost with sand and the typing only fearing the Tera sets. This'll lead to AV being its best route probably with a Fairy Tera resist (I'm predicting steel to keep an ice rider resist but fire also works, Steel just has a better MU to the box arts). Standard flying Tera also works here, moveset definitely is Knock / Rock Slide / steel move / Tera Blast if Flying or Grass otherwise Ice Punch. You'd run it probably with a horse or maybe Miraidon (I've seen some Miraidon around 1500s using ttar but ttar didn't touch the field, seems conceptually good). You'll struggle with weather being so dominant and even caly teams using a rain dance torn-i is fairly common and that'll screw ttar, but it can at minimum control a turn with ease (probably only 1 tho) and in these types of formats that's usually enough
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first time watching one of your videos, great editing!
thanks a ton, Kurt killed it yet again as always on the editing!
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Nice
Wish it was easier to figure out good mons to bring in a trick room team. It feels like ice Rider is one of very few restricted picks that works well in that setup
Farig Bloodmoon Urshifu (either form usually single unless you're not using Wellspring then either works) is a strong start, then options like amoonguss, incin, Wellspring, rillaboom, bronzong, indeedee, torkoal, atales are all viable to name a few. Id say if you wanna unique mon I actually forgot to cover araquanid in this video but wide guard/liquidation/Leech life/4th move which could be soak, mirror coat, icy wind, chilling water, or infestation would probably be the best way to use this and its pretty good rn!
@@oLivSama nice I love araquanid
And maybe I can use soak to enable expanding force reuniclus... Hm
Im trying to get back into competitive but i was put off by all the identical teams running around. It was really off putting seeing the same thong over and over.
Its nice to see someone pushing different mons out
Fwiw if you look beyond just Twitter posts complaining about the similar team point, there's so much diversity in what does well, especially this gen. Nearly every regional some new off meta mon wins tbh
I’m hoping something like Klefki ends up raising again to combat the Flutter Manes and Xerneases (Xerneas? Xernei? Idk) like it did in Gen 6.
Xern being out of this gen is harder to justify but fwiw it's a decent screen setter vs ice horse kinda since it at least makes you need to click HHP
watching from germany, incredible quality ❤
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Nice video
ty glad you enjoyed!
Tbh I find it funny Farigiraf and Kyogre are the two pokemon that never go out of bussiness regardless of what you throw at them😅
Also iron valiant and iron leaves in doubles wooooo. Finally Leaves gets her time to shine
Leaves will be kinda fine valiants great rn, and yeah farig ogre not only never die but they're also spectacular together
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Shuckle will be S-tier! /S