Its also seriously not that bad. Some people might want a redirect on their *hyper offense miraidon* team who’s main uniqe value doesn’t rely on allowing their partner to get hit in the first place, doesn’t rely on sleep, and also isn’t 2hit ko by rilla and Incin *U turn* Maybe they want a mon with only 1 weaknesses that is hard to hit right now, and who can take away 1/2 health on *any* non ghost type.(and one he can choose to heal when mirai volt-switches out, when going for damage risks protects blocking the switch) Also Calling any team that goes 5/3 at these stacked world championships forced is kinda wild to me. I may not know what’s cooking, but I know he’s up there and winning a lot and im down here talking about him.
Yo Freezai, I'm the Scraggy guy. I appreciate getting a shoutout from one of my favorite creators. It is worth noting that the Scraggy also threatens to set up a sweep next to drain punch Iron Hands as well as horn leech Ogerpon. In the end, it became less of a caly-I team with tools to support it and more of a "completely built around Scraggy" team once I realized how powerful it was. Thanks again for the feature! It made my day.
I know it's just Scraggy but Foul Play on an Intimidate mon did make me chuckle, well done for making it so far though, great tech under appreciated mon
What's so odd? Low Kick has the same power as Close Combat against a lot of fully evolved or legendary mons. Without the downside of making yourself squishy.
@@vez3834 Yeah but Fake Out Detect and Swords Dance on the same set have horrible synergy, and while Low Kick is hitting the legendaries hard you're also missing out on power agaisnt many common support mons. You'd also probably run Drain Punch over CC like most Iron Hands do, the power is often not worth the stat drop cost. And I'm not saying the set can't work, but it's certainly an odd one.
I just think it’s really funny that he’s got a Pokémon called Iron HANDS with these big ass solar panel hands and yet it’s using low kick with his stubby little feet instead lmao
I mwan Sejun's Pachirisu was sorta expected, it hard counters Raging bolt and Miraidon if used correctly. What i didnt expect was his weird ass Sowrd dance loe kick iron hands
@@jonathanlgill That's crazy, I assumed it had Discharge when I saw the VA Pachirisu - I wonder why he wouldn't have opted for it, the potential is definitely there depending on matchups
@@PreviouslyDexyDaddy Yeah. I presume Choice-locked on a move that hits your teammate isn't something Sejun wanted. But I think Discharge (or even Parabolic Charge) would do more. Then again, I'm not a world champion.
@@Berttheturt314 To me Sableye is a serious contender for the most unassuming great of competitive. And I mean ALL facets of competitive Pokemon. In singles, it's playable in lower tiers thanks to Prankster, Recover, Will-o'-wisp and other support moves. Plus its Mega got banned to Ubers. In doubles, it's seen tons of play as a Prankster support/annoyer. And especially in the TCG : whereas most Pokemon have 1 or 2 meta cards to their name, 3 Sableye cards were great, of these, 2 got banned in some way and one is a candidate for the most broken of all-time, forcing an emergency set rotation to get it out of the game.
I agree that sejun wanted to use pachi and anyone else would have chosen a different pokemon, but in doing so they also wouldn’t have made this team. I think sejun saw miraidon and added chi yu, and then put choice items on both of them. With that many choice items he wanted to use redirection. Since this is a miradon team amoongus and indeedee are out. That leaves ogerpon and clef. If he wants something that doesn’t have as many weaknesses(like to uturn)as ogerpon, then it’s down to clef. Here my take: my mans saw clef and he saw pachi and he wanted the mon that was immune into the most powerful moves of one of the more popular restricteds, and saw more value in a support able to reliably put an opponent’s resists into mirai’s ko range then one that would allow his hyper offensive team to be better able to take hits. Of course he’s biased, and I agree that most ogre are just a better pick. But I don’t think its all that forced, especially if this is the way he wants to play his team, and especially if his biggest problem matchup is the Miraidon mirror. There is no other follow me user immune to miraidon’s electric attacks (cuz we all know how miraidon laughs at resistances) without tera other than Electivire, who has worse defenses, ability, and movepool; and despite having better hp attack and speed, has never won the world championships, unlike pachirisu.(or even raichu, who lacks follow me)
@@_Germ_ That does make a lot of sense. Follow me + helmet is great against water ursh and any sash user especially for sejun’s heavily choiced team that needs to take knockouts. The other reditect users with helmets are amoongus, and indeedee. If you want electric terrain those aren’t at the top of your list. Farig does everything indeedee usually does exept redirection without overwriting electric terrain(and if you’re running indeedee, usually you want that terrain). That leaves grass ogre, which must be in the bottom 2 of the ogerpon forms for defensive typing in this meta.
@@jonathanlgill possibly, but how could anyone suggest that pachirisu feels forced by virtue of the opportunity cost of *electabuzz*? Not ogre and pachi or incin and pachi, or even raichu and pachi but electabuzz? Ill give you that the stats are better but it’s defenses(important for follow me) are only significantly better with eviolite. And still, The movepool is not. Superfang is just too valuable, and even tho buzz has the speed to use it doesn’t have the move. Ill also give you that static is a great ability for a follow me user, but it’s unreliable and it doesn’t break focus sashes like the helmet pachi can hold, while buzz wants eviolite. Most importantly, Pachi is clearly here over conventional choices because of the miraidon mirror, and specs miraidon in terrain doesn’t care about resistances unless they’re AV raging bolt, it cares about immunities, wich pachi has and buz doesn’t.
Electabuzz is actually a decent pokemon in vgc, it got follow me back, can run static to punish the contact hits it takes or vital spirit to redirect spore easily, electrowebs for speed control, eerie impulse for damage reduction, and has deceptively good bulk with eviolite, not the most common follow me user with indeedee and ogerpon around, but not that outlandish either
Gen 9 is interesting since singles is an absolute mess because of the power creep. Meanwhile doubles, while initially devastated by power creep, has seen a weird shift where there are a number of new opportunities for niche mons to come out of nowhere to prove themselves useful in VGC
You didn't really explain why you would want Cloud Nine on a Groudon team. I get its going to be Skill Swapped away but why not Natural Cure. Otherwise Cloud Nine is in effect to start.
@@somenonsense7997 yeah I guess the idea is you start with Altaria and Sableeye to do you Skill Swap and Tailwind/Sing. At that point you want to negate weather. Then Sableeye faints and is swapped for Groudon and then Cloud Nine is off the field.
You'll probably never want to lead Altaria and Groudon, except if you really want to have no weather in effect, so turning off weather turn 1 would be a bonus most of the time.
Really cool to see. Pachirisu may be back as a forced thing, but damnit, that hits me in the nostalgia anyways for when I was way more actively watching worlds.
I saw altaria and knew it was good. it hard walled koraidon and did well against kyogre. amazing pokemon that had its uses. i dont play much vgc but i used it
@@sinnohperson8813 I know that but I maked my comment because I saw the purpose on Slowking, but Bax feels slapped in, it's not been rlly good in most of the recent formats, but knowing that the player knew what he was doing, I would like to understand why exactly Bax?
I agree that sejun wanted to use pachi and anyone else would have chosen a different pokemon, but in doing so they also wouldn’t have made this team. I think sejun saw miraidon and added chi yu, and then put choice items on both of them. With that many choice items he wanted to use redirection. Since this is a miradon team amoongus is out. That leaves ogerpon and clef. If he wants something that doesn’t have as many weaknesses as ogerpon, then it’s down to clef. Here my take: my mans saw clef and he saw pachi and he wanted a mon that was immune into the most powerful moves of one of the more popular restricteds, and saw more value in a support able to put an opponent’s resists into mirai’s ko range then one that would allow his hyper offensive team to be better able to take hits. Of course he’s biased, and I agree that most ogre are just a better pick. But I don’t think its all that forced.
ive always believed in altaria, although i always had more faith in natural cure variants. Its very defensive and has some good moves and works well with some lesser utilized items. Foul Play, Gravity or Skill Swap on Saybleye also has garnered my appreciation before. Of course, all these deductions were done in a much lower level environment, but some things still hold true, like the importance of hitting your moves, and the potential of supportive moves like hurricane or icy wind
Altaria was once useful in Gen 6 OU. ZardX was the dragon dancer of XY, but in ORaS OU, you could use Mega Altaria. It wasn't top 15 but has all the traits of a successful Pokemon, defense, offense, and status.
there were a few other cool mons too, basculegion rain and klefki both in top 10 is pretty unexpected, dondozo is in 11th and 12th in a restricted format which is odd, and there's a lot more terapagos than i think anyone anticipated. btw i think you're likely correct about sejun's pachurisu, he already had two electric types and a chi yu so he's got a massive ground weakness with no resists besides one tera grass, and the only value it could provide over other follow me users is countering enemy miraidon (on a team with iron hands and tera ground farig) and being immune to discharge (which his miraidon wasn't running)
I kinda expected a dark horse pick for golduck or something that cancelled weather. Since it hasnt seen much use this few seasons. But i forgot altaria even had it.
This proves that you don't need to go full meta to get wins. Trying out something new and unexpected can have great results. More players should try creative strategies like these
It has been the case from quite some while , gen8 had good diversity even tho zacian caly existed. Last year was okayish in variety but this year has been great.
Wolfe Glick brought a similar idea to Pachirisu to a regional this year - tera-fairy Raichu with Lightning Rod. It doesn't have Follow Me, but in exchange it always redirects electric attacks without needing to use a move (even on switch-in), and also has Endeavor.
Honestly, its kinda poetic that when Sejun used Pachirisu because it was the best option available he became the world champion, and when he used it because he wanted to use a favorite he couldnt make day 2
Ive been playing with a similar team as the altaria, with landorus to set up gravity, which increases his sandsear storm to 100% accuracy without setting up rain, which increases his weakness to water, and lunala and articuno galar both running hypnosis
A Jumpluff team went 4-4. The idea is that Jumpluff has high speed and the 75% accurate sleep powder, along with pollen puff for redirection, but follow me friend guard clefairy is just better overall.
My personal favourite niche mon was the grand finalist in the Junior division who used Iron Treads. This was a mon that has seen virtually no usage the entire year, as it was thought its skillset was more singles orientated. He used a Life Orb set with High Horsepower, Steel Roller, Protect and Megahorn with Tera Bug (no idea what EVs, though I'm guessing 252/252 since it's Life Orb and I saw it get a Speed boost in Electric Terrain). I'm guessing they used it to beat Miraidon and Raging Bolt, and with Steel Roller it could deal with Psyspam.
the iron leaves also gains positive effects from every terrain in the game electric- quark drive + psyblade damage boost grass- leaf blade damage boost psychic- psyblade damage boost yup thats every terrain
It's also interesting to note that the very top player on the list (Diego Ferreira) had a Torkoal! How does it pair with the other members of his team, though?
Not that interesting, it looks to be a hard trick room calyrex ice team, and eruption torkoal with drought it a nuke on those kinds of teams, loving indeedee’s psychic terrain to stop it from taking priority chip which would weaken its eruption, and with calrex forms a nasty spread move combo that can be very difficult to position around, unlike in singles, this torkoal is a sweeper/breaker, not just a sun setter
Calyrex ice is one of the best Pokemon this gen. It is the second most used restricted. It's in finals for tomorrow. Rooting for it . I want them to make more slow restricteds
Pachirusu needed discharge support from Miraidon for whatever reason the Miraidon did not have discharge I already knew it wasn't going to go down the way he wanted it once I saw there was no discharge
It wonder what motivated Sejun to use Pachirisu this time, there are more Pokémon that can do the Follow Me Trick that are actually good, like the only thing I can imagine is hard countering Miraidon.
idk, I feel like there are better sleep users for that Sabelye combo. Heck, you can easily just use Toedscruel with that same strategy, but without the need for Gravity.
Toedscool would face the problem of safety goggles and grass types, which are commonly brought to deal with amoonguss, that altaria doesnt, maybe there were better options, but it reached day 2 so clearly the it wasn’t a bad choice, and i’m sure they had their reasoning for it
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It's the 10th anniversary of his World Championship with Pachirisu. He had to bring it. He just had to.
The taxidermied pachirisu beckoning him like the green goblin mask
@@oscen335😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
just think x and y was ten years ago…
Its not about winning, its about sending a message...
Its also seriously not that bad. Some people might want a redirect on their *hyper offense miraidon* team who’s main uniqe value doesn’t rely on allowing their partner to get hit in the first place, doesn’t rely on sleep, and also isn’t 2hit ko by rilla and Incin *U turn* Maybe they want a mon with only 1 weaknesses that is hard to hit right now, and who can take away 1/2 health on *any* non ghost type.(and one he can choose to heal when mirai volt-switches out, when going for damage risks protects blocking the switch)
Also Calling any team that goes 5/3 at these stacked world championships forced is kinda wild to me. I may not know what’s cooking, but I know he’s up there and winning a lot and im down here talking about him.
bro just opens the video with the equivalent of a gunshot
Wait I have the perfect Bitmoji for this
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Dude, I just opened the video, and I said out loud "What the fuck" when I heard it
I was reading comments during the opening ad on this video and I was still surprised
Seriously I received damage from that opener
What are you talking about???
Yo Freezai, I'm the Scraggy guy. I appreciate getting a shoutout from one of my favorite creators.
It is worth noting that the Scraggy also threatens to set up a sweep next to drain punch Iron Hands as well as horn leech Ogerpon. In the end, it became less of a caly-I team with tools to support it and more of a "completely built around Scraggy" team once I realized how powerful it was.
Thanks again for the feature! It made my day.
I know it's just Scraggy but Foul Play on an Intimidate mon did make me chuckle, well done for making it so far though, great tech under appreciated mon
@@absolutetrash7880 yeah. Knock off is a strong consideration as well, but making pins into opposing Caly-I is too good to pass on
Nevermind the Pachirisu, the fuck is Sejun's Iron Hands set
What's so odd? Low Kick has the same power as Close Combat against a lot of fully evolved or legendary mons. Without the downside of making yourself squishy.
@@vez3834 Yeah but Fake Out Detect and Swords Dance on the same set have horrible synergy, and while Low Kick is hitting the legendaries hard you're also missing out on power agaisnt many common support mons.
You'd also probably run Drain Punch over CC like most Iron Hands do, the power is often not worth the stat drop cost.
And I'm not saying the set can't work, but it's certainly an odd one.
@@terriblejokefactory8831plus you can't hit ghost types and you know that flutter mane and the horse are here peter
Iron Feet
I just think it’s really funny that he’s got a Pokémon called Iron HANDS with these big ass solar panel hands and yet it’s using low kick with his stubby little feet instead lmao
I mwan Sejun's Pachirisu was sorta expected, it hard counters Raging bolt and Miraidon if used correctly. What i didnt expect was his weird ass Sowrd dance loe kick iron hands
Iron Feet
I wonder if a Discharge version of Miradon would have worked better, to heal Pachirisu via Volt Absorb.
@@jonathanlgill That's crazy, I assumed it had Discharge when I saw the VA Pachirisu - I wonder why he wouldn't have opted for it, the potential is definitely there depending on matchups
It doesn't hard counter anything, it literally just got clapped both games he used it, absolutely useless.
@@PreviouslyDexyDaddy Yeah. I presume Choice-locked on a move that hits your teammate isn't something Sejun wanted. But I think Discharge (or even Parabolic Charge) would do more. Then again, I'm not a world champion.
Not only Altaria but Sableye too? I wouldn’t have guessed that in a lifetime.
Sableye makes more sense. It has prankster and some cool utility moves, I think it was used in early Gen 8
@@Berttheturt314It got screens this generation too, an alternate Pokémon to Grimmsnarl
@@Berttheturt314 To me Sableye is a serious contender for the most unassuming great of competitive. And I mean ALL facets of competitive Pokemon.
In singles, it's playable in lower tiers thanks to Prankster, Recover, Will-o'-wisp and other support moves. Plus its Mega got banned to Ubers. In doubles, it's seen tons of play as a Prankster support/annoyer. And especially in the TCG : whereas most Pokemon have 1 or 2 meta cards to their name, 3 Sableye cards were great, of these, 2 got banned in some way and one is a candidate for the most broken of all-time, forcing an emergency set rotation to get it out of the game.
Sableye is great in singles
@@frogthejam2472it just isn’t though is it
Iron Leaves benefits in some way from Electric, Grassy or Psychic Terrain. Gets a damage boost to something either way.
Good call
I agree that sejun wanted to use pachi and anyone else would have chosen a different pokemon, but in doing so they also wouldn’t have made this team. I think sejun saw miraidon and added chi yu, and then put choice items on both of them. With that many choice items he wanted to use redirection. Since this is a miradon team amoongus and indeedee are out. That leaves ogerpon and clef. If he wants something that doesn’t have as many weaknesses(like to uturn)as ogerpon, then it’s down to clef. Here my take: my mans saw clef and he saw pachi and he wanted the mon that was immune into the most powerful moves of one of the more popular restricteds, and saw more value in a support able to reliably put an opponent’s resists into mirai’s ko range then one that would allow his hyper offensive team to be better able to take hits.
Of course he’s biased, and I agree that most ogre are just a better pick. But I don’t think its all that forced, especially if this is the way he wants to play his team,
and especially if his biggest problem matchup is the Miraidon mirror. There is no other follow me user immune to miraidon’s electric attacks (cuz we all know how miraidon laughs at resistances) without tera other than Electivire, who has worse defenses, ability, and movepool; and despite having better hp attack and speed, has never won the world championships, unlike pachirisu.(or even raichu, who lacks follow me)
I think Electabuzz would be the Follow Me user Freezai was implying could replace Pachirisu.
@@jonathanlgill Personally, I find volt absorb & super fang more useful than the tools electabuzz has, tbh.
Maybe it's the item? Electabuzz runs eviolite to be bulky, clef also runs eviolite, oger runs the mask. Maybe he needed the helmet?
@@_Germ_ That does make a lot of sense. Follow me + helmet is great against water ursh and any sash user especially for sejun’s heavily choiced team that needs to take knockouts. The other reditect users with helmets are amoongus, and indeedee. If you want electric terrain those aren’t at the top of your list. Farig does everything indeedee usually does exept redirection without overwriting electric terrain(and if you’re running indeedee, usually you want that terrain). That leaves grass ogre, which must be in the bottom 2 of the ogerpon forms for defensive typing in this meta.
@@jonathanlgill possibly, but how could anyone suggest that pachirisu feels forced by virtue of the opportunity cost of *electabuzz*?
Not ogre and pachi or incin and pachi, or even raichu and pachi but electabuzz?
Ill give you that the stats are better but it’s defenses(important for follow me) are only significantly better with eviolite. And still, The movepool is not. Superfang is just too valuable, and even tho buzz has the speed to use it doesn’t have the move.
Ill also give you that static is a great ability for a follow me user, but it’s unreliable and it doesn’t break focus sashes like the helmet pachi can hold, while buzz wants eviolite.
Most importantly, Pachi is clearly here over conventional choices because of the miraidon mirror, and specs miraidon in terrain doesn’t care about resistances unless they’re AV raging bolt, it cares about immunities, wich pachi has and buz doesn’t.
We’re so back altaria bros
As an Altaria superfan, hearing about its success is music to my ears.
I honestly never would’ve expected Altaria at worlds but it’s super awesome, we so back!!!
All 8 of us
Altaria bros still exist?
Scraggy made 5 in 3? Impressive
I think Gallade is a pretty novel choice, even if not as crazy as Altaria or Scraggy.
It’s pretty standard on psyspam in this format cause wide guard
Yeah it definitely is not a surprise to anyone that it's at this tournament. It's still a fun pick though @boring6324
Gallade is just a generally good pick. Trick Room, Wide Guard, and Sacred Sword makes it really good into many restricteds.
@@Endershock1678 plus it got the Sharpness buff, so it's a support Mon that can still output great damage.
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Yeah, it saw considerable usage even before worlds in Reg G.
Altaria mentioned. Altaria pronounced correctly. That’s enough for a like from me.
8:25 is that German in the background running an electabuzz?
Yeah
electabuzz has had normal niches that are worth using, so it isnt as notable as stuff like pachirisu
Electabuzz is actually a decent pokemon in vgc, it got follow me back, can run static to punish the contact hits it takes or vital spirit to redirect spore easily, electrowebs for speed control, eerie impulse for damage reduction, and has deceptively good bulk with eviolite, not the most common follow me user with indeedee and ogerpon around, but not that outlandish either
@@AndrewDevourer false
@@Blanktester685 ok
Scraggy is crazy for worlds I hope it wins cuz that would be funny
It got eliminated day 1, but 5:3 is impressive nonetheless.
LET'S GO SCRAGGY BROS ! !
Gen 9 is interesting since singles is an absolute mess because of the power creep. Meanwhile doubles, while initially devastated by power creep, has seen a weird shift where there are a number of new opportunities for niche mons to come out of nowhere to prove themselves useful in VGC
You didn't really explain why you would want Cloud Nine on a Groudon team. I get its going to be Skill Swapped away but why not Natural Cure. Otherwise Cloud Nine is in effect to start.
My guess is it can be valuable for the rain matchup, and that natural cure isn't all that valuable for a tailwind support pokemon.
@@somenonsense7997 yeah I guess the idea is you start with Altaria and Sableeye to do you Skill Swap and Tailwind/Sing. At that point you want to negate weather. Then Sableeye faints and is swapped for Groudon and then Cloud Nine is off the field.
They want accurate Hurricanes. Hurricane isn’t 100% accurate under Gravity without Cloud Nine.
You'll probably never want to lead Altaria and Groudon, except if you really want to have no weather in effect, so turning off weather turn 1 would be a bonus most of the time.
thanks for the explanations I was wondering about this
Really cool to see. Pachirisu may be back as a forced thing, but damnit, that hits me in the nostalgia anyways for when I was way more actively watching worlds.
The Iron Leaves is so cool. I love when counter play lets you use really cool mons
Altaria was pretty good in DPP UU with the dragon dance set at least
blud this is vgc, this has no relevance
@@JackLeighton-uh6sl I know I just think its neat cause I enjoy DPP UU
@@benross9174One of the best UU Tier EVER, IMO.
I also enjoyed DPP UU. We should play 4th gen UU some time.
the support set is also very cool, but people say it's trash
I saw altaria and knew it was good. it hard walled koraidon and did well against kyogre. amazing pokemon that had its uses. i dont play much vgc but i used it
For the Slowking Team I got more surprised by Baxcalibur presence
It's a pseudo legendary with two regional wins already
@@sinnohperson8813 I know that but I maked my comment because I saw the purpose on Slowking, but Bax feels slapped in, it's not been rlly good in most of the recent formats, but knowing that the player knew what he was doing, I would like to understand why exactly Bax?
There was an electabuzz too, pretty cool. I imagine it was used for the static and tanking some hits with eviolite.
I'm pretty sure its vital spirit to counter amoongus
@@nugget9214 Didn't even know it had vital spirit but seems like a decent idea
It's a decent Follow Me supporter and in a world of rain and electric terrain, it can use Thunder safely.
That iron treads they showed, the choice band set, I think it was used to counter other miraidon but it was a very niche choise
I agree that sejun wanted to use pachi and anyone else would have chosen a different pokemon, but in doing so they also wouldn’t have made this team. I think sejun saw miraidon and added chi yu, and then put choice items on both of them. With that many choice items he wanted to use redirection. Since this is a miradon team amoongus is out. That leaves ogerpon and clef. If he wants something that doesn’t have as many weaknesses as ogerpon, then it’s down to clef. Here my take: my mans saw clef and he saw pachi and he wanted a mon that was immune into the most powerful moves of one of the more popular restricteds, and saw more value in a support able to put an opponent’s resists into mirai’s ko range then one that would allow his hyper offensive team to be better able to take hits.
Of course he’s biased, and I agree that most ogre are just a better pick. But I don’t think its all that forced.
5:32 - I'm glad you said that
One of the coolest worlds weekends in years. All these cool picks and movesets, not to mention Iron Valiant in the FINALS???
The trolling Pachirisu is back!
i salute all the players throwing their opponents off with a left field play instead of just using the same handful of mons as everyone else
Tbf theyre still out here using Flutter Mane anyway but theyre coming up with fun scrimblos to pair them with
@@bmac4
Flutter Mane isn’t really great right now. It got like 7th in Day 2, but before this tournament wasn’t even top 10 in a lot of regionals
@@bmac4flutter Mane fell off. The only Pokemon rn with more than 50 percent use is wet bear
There’s an iron valiant in finals
ive always believed in altaria, although i always had more faith in natural cure variants. Its very defensive and has some good moves and works well with some lesser utilized items. Foul Play, Gravity or Skill Swap on Saybleye also has garnered my appreciation before. Of course, all these deductions were done in a much lower level environment, but some things still hold true, like the importance of hitting your moves, and the potential of supportive moves like hurricane or icy wind
Would somebody mind telling the the websites name?
Id love to have a way to look at all the competitors teams
I just cant wait for the 2 hour glick video, regardless of the results seeing day 1
Where do you get the data? Can you maybe put a link to it in the description?
We're talking about pachirisu but DID YOU SEE THAT IRON HANDS SET????
Scraggy player is a baller
The first team just feels like it has so much that needs to go right in order for it to work that if one thing falls apart, the entire thing fails
ALTARIA IS FINALLY THE BEST❤🔥
Justin Knox with Galar Weezing is pretty cool.
Very interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Return of the king.
Altaria was once useful in Gen 6 OU. ZardX was the dragon dancer of XY, but in ORaS OU, you could use Mega Altaria. It wasn't top 15 but has all the traits of a successful Pokemon, defense, offense, and status.
there were a few other cool mons too, basculegion rain and klefki both in top 10 is pretty unexpected, dondozo is in 11th and 12th in a restricted format which is odd, and there's a lot more terapagos than i think anyone anticipated. btw i think you're likely correct about sejun's pachurisu, he already had two electric types and a chi yu so he's got a massive ground weakness with no resists besides one tera grass, and the only value it could provide over other follow me users is countering enemy miraidon (on a team with iron hands and tera ground farig) and being immune to discharge (which his miraidon wasn't running)
Dondozo is pretty decent this format . Not surprising tbh
@@sinnohperson8813 i thought it was a bit worse in reg g, a lot of the restricted mons can blow through it or eat its moves, but i know it is usable
rip to pachirisu, in sejuns defense this is the best format ive seen for pachirisu since the one it won
I think sejun with that team was less playing to win and more playing for fun lol
I kinda expected a dark horse pick for golduck or something that cancelled weather. Since it hasnt seen much use this few seasons. But i forgot altaria even had it.
This proves that you don't need to go full meta to get wins. Trying out something new and unexpected can have great results. More players should try creative strategies like these
It has been the case from quite some while , gen8 had good diversity even tho zacian caly existed. Last year was okayish in variety but this year has been great.
0:12 did noone ever experiment with mega altaria, or are you just referring to the base form?
It was objectively too slow and body press didn't exist back then
@@sirecarrot9124 body press would not have saved it
Megas arent in Gen 9
@@polishedbeans he said hes never seen it be useful, so I took to that mean other gens as well
@@justaliljello5198 probably not tbh purely because of mega mawile and metagross having such high damage
Wolfe Glick brought a similar idea to Pachirisu to a regional this year - tera-fairy Raichu with Lightning Rod. It doesn't have Follow Me, but in exchange it always redirects electric attacks without needing to use a move (even on switch-in), and also has Endeavor.
Wolfe also used endeavor lightning rod raichu for his world's win so yeah its somt hes used to using
Honestly, its kinda poetic that when Sejun used Pachirisu because it was the best option available he became the world champion, and when he used it because he wanted to use a favorite he couldnt make day 2
After a decade, Mister Parks returns and I hope he does well despite his signature mascot being a force for him to use.
Prankster + Gravity + Hypnosis is truly heinous
Ive been playing with a similar team as the altaria, with landorus to set up gravity, which increases his sandsear storm to 100% accuracy without setting up rain, which increases his weakness to water, and lunala and articuno galar both running hypnosis
>brings pachirisu
>doesn't use discharge or parabolic charge on miraidon
meanwhile Chenyue Zheng: goes 7-1 with a team that's 4/6 reg A meta
Not good on a specs Pokemon .
@@sinnohperson8813 I mean I know, but the thing is he brought pachirisu and then didn't sync it properly with his miraidon set which is a bit sad
Wait, I thought paradox and legendary Pokémon were banned now. Are we not playing regulation H yet?
The world championship is in reg g, next season will start with reg h
A Jumpluff team went 4-4.
The idea is that Jumpluff has high speed and the 75% accurate sleep powder, along with pollen puff for redirection, but follow me friend guard clefairy is just better overall.
in the wise words of BigDaddyN0tail: "you can do a million things and everything can work".
My personal favourite niche mon was the grand finalist in the Junior division who used Iron Treads. This was a mon that has seen virtually no usage the entire year, as it was thought its skillset was more singles orientated. He used a Life Orb set with High Horsepower, Steel Roller, Protect and Megahorn with Tera Bug (no idea what EVs, though I'm guessing 252/252 since it's Life Orb and I saw it get a Speed boost in Electric Terrain). I'm guessing they used it to beat Miraidon and Raging Bolt, and with Steel Roller it could deal with Psyspam.
the iron leaves also gains positive effects from every terrain in the game
electric- quark drive + psyblade damage boost
grass- leaf blade damage boost
psychic- psyblade damage boost
yup thats every terrain
every relevant terrain (sad mist noises)
@@toran9909I miss fini
Woo, Altaria, that's my cloud bird!
That altaria set us DIABOLICAL LMFAO
Crazy how quickly Freezai got this out. Is Freezai going to ever take another shot at qualifying for Worlds?
WHAT A GOOD DAY FOR THE ALTARIA FANS!
Don't forget about sing bypassing substitute, also very disruptive
It's also interesting to note that the very top player on the list (Diego Ferreira) had a Torkoal!
How does it pair with the other members of his team, though?
Torkoal is the primary sun setter though, yes?
Torkoal has been a staple of competitive since at least Gen 8 due to its power as a support pokemon and trick room attacker with drought
Not that interesting, it looks to be a hard trick room calyrex ice team, and eruption torkoal with drought it a nuke on those kinds of teams, loving indeedee’s psychic terrain to stop it from taking priority chip which would weaken its eruption, and with calrex forms a nasty spread move combo that can be very difficult to position around, unlike in singles, this torkoal is a sweeper/breaker, not just a sun setter
You must be new to VGC :) welcome! Hope you look into it, lots of differences compared to singles.
For the next regulation, torkoal will be a staple. Stuff like instruct oranguru with trick room and eruption torkoal is really strong.
I had Pachirisu on my worlds 2024 bingo, but I thought it would be on the side of discharge miraidon
I've seen Fire Spin Altaria before, but this is new.
Both Altaria AND Sableye are in my top 3 favorite pokemon (Altaria being 1 and sableye 3) so seeing this made me smile and start fist pumping the air
I found it really cool that Calyrex-I made it to day 2! Wasn’t expecting it to have a good performance at all, looks like it was pretty underrated.
Calyrex ice is one of the best Pokemon this gen. It is the second most used restricted.
It's in finals for tomorrow. Rooting for it .
I want them to make more slow restricteds
@@sinnohperson8813 i know, get baited
Pachirusu needed discharge support from Miraidon for whatever reason the Miraidon did not have discharge I already knew it wasn't going to go down the way he wanted it once I saw there was no discharge
we are in *that* timeline
Great breakdown alvery educational
3:43 fake out- am i a joke to you
entei was a surprising one to see
funny those three pokémon are my go to team in pokémon go for great ball league
It wonder what motivated Sejun to use Pachirisu this time, there are more Pokémon that can do the Follow Me Trick that are actually good, like the only thing I can imagine is hard countering Miraidon.
Raging bolt is a more likely candidate for the hard counter, especially with tera fairy
Cute fluffy squirrel
Is that a Klefki in 12th? I haven't seen a serious one since... before Sword and Shield.
Iron Valiant and Gallade are pretty out there, both top cut worlds
Iron valient in finals
I LOVE ALTARIA THIS IS A WIN FOR ALTARIA FANS
My goat iron valiant made day 2 and still going strong
I wonder what Slowking's Grass Knot is being used for. Maybe Ursaluna matchups?
Probably for DozoGiri too
@@grunkleg.2934 True!
10 years after Pacharisu
My lord shed tail smeargle is a PROBLEM
Here we go for another 10 years of Karen debacles
Tera Stellar Urshifu-R is really cool
The goat Pachurisu
Not a minute in but I find the altaria bit so funny😂😂😂😂
This is a great video idea!
idk, I feel like there are better sleep users for that Sabelye combo. Heck, you can easily just use Toedscruel with that same strategy, but without the need for Gravity.
Toedscool would face the problem of safety goggles and grass types, which are commonly brought to deal with amoonguss, that altaria doesnt, maybe there were better options, but it reached day 2 so clearly the it wasn’t a bad choice, and i’m sure they had their reasoning for it
@@floorgle After taking another look at it, I actually noticed more uses thanks to Gravity, which also lets Altraria hit Hurricane.
What is that website in the very first scene that you are on?
whats the background music?
freez, you forgot about the glastrier that made it into day 2
on sejuns team, I see a major ground weakness, that wasn't present on his 2014 team
Pachirisu has much better synergy back then
Salamence being very sad they don't get hypnosis or sing.
Can you explain the TWO ELECTABUZZ what made it to day 2?? I legit do not know its niche or why its used
Follow me static punishes physical attackers especially the water bear
Follow me + static against raging bolts and miraidons, also having triple the chance to paralyze water urshifu
Wolfey with 2 Incineroars
I wish gf do more regulations like H. I'm so tired of these stupid legendaries
They do it sometimes and the first year of game is non restricted
iron thread went 5/3 as well
What website do you show in the video
Can someone please provide a proper link to the page it's been difficult finding the page with the Poképastes
What is the website that has all of these teams?