Haven’t seen the video yet, but in general Emvee, another prominent player and TH-camr, tends to make riskier (read: “fire”) plays while Joey will leverage his risk so that its not game losing if it doesn’t work out.
THE CRUNCH SWEEP Krook the GOAT Dark/Ground STAB, two immunities, utility moves like Taunt and Rocks which proved vital in previous games, and great abilities like Intimidate, Anger Point, and in this vid, Moxie. And it's a mini T-Rex. What's not to love?
"thank god she's emvee" is BRAZY LMAAAAAOOOOOOO y'all were my top 2 for this season, so the results were gonna be bittersweep regardless but y'all put out a hell of a game and i'm definitely a satisfied viewer. i look forward to more addison content and gl in finals joey!
The transitions in the showcase of the opponent's team has me rolling cause I tapped at some point and saw the Zapdos with Gardevoir's head perfectly attached.
Haha less aggression more calculated risk. Heatrans role was to burn zap. If zap is burn rocks aren’t necessary. Zap isn’t a problem if burnt so heatran becomes expendable vs glim, which is stopping krook from clicking eq. Lava plume it to break balloon on rocks or toxic since opponent doesn’t know idc about heatran anymore. after that i could have gone cress but since lavaplume damage showed max hp, i had a hard time believing it was max hp max sp atk since you want speed for dnite/samu especially since on balloon in dnites case. so on most counts will live earth power and KO back. Mocks are what made this play possible tho haha
@@pokeaimMDI know it was calculated. You could say calculated risks and I could say calculated aggression hahah. Just because they were calculated doesn’t make them not aggressive
Pads would have been the item of choice if i were her, she doesnt need band or scarf, freely pivoting and not care about helmet or flame body is just great for her. I dunno if pads is sometimes overlooked in draft, but here that was 100% the best item she could use. Also i was about to say turn 1 i stay and tera with delphox to tear apart her team but i can't believe she blitzed turn 1, but after that i ran the calcs and i saw that Blitz did more than Crunch to Cress so her play was understandable, but imagine if you actually stayed in with Delphox, not tera, and went for plot. LOL @@pokeaimMD
I haven't seen the Mefesto/Emvee battle yet, but I can imagine Joey going into that finals in one of two ways: getting revenge on Mefesto for bringing more heat in his battle in week 6 or giving Emvee the same team that was brought in Week 4.
The Tauros made me curious, do you think Life Orb is better in Draft compared to Smogon singles? Since you know the pokemon to calc ranges for and you don't have to account for as many pokemon that you're just losing your own HP against without doing enough to them
I think life orb is for sure better in draft. Killing yourself in singles is terrible, especially cause yoj dont know all the ops ur gonna be fighting. Draft ik my ops can calc to put in range and yes im dying but for purpose. Singles making urself loss to things like gambit, bax etc on purpose just bad. Tho bax + ice body good with orb
The week Joey didn't bring AV Samurott is the one where he finally fall as the extra bulk from the AV was necessary to tank the Cocogoat sword dance Horn Leech sweep. Tough luck but that's what you get for not bringing AV Samurott.
i’m so confused as to why nasty plot was the play with delphox on taurus to prevent trailblaze - didn’t dazzling gleam always pick up the kill with life orb recoil whereas nasty plot literally gave her a chance to win if she actually was trailblaze over rock tomb? plus the gleam threatened pult to prevent dragon dance?
If she didnt crit it gives a chance to win yes, i live both if she is trailblaze so worst case can dgleak anyway and hope pult doesnt live crunch as back up
oh so you were playing for the moxie boost because you weren’t sure if crunch killed pult if it was max hp? and the nasty plot forced two terra blasts or a kill on tauros
Yes basically. Cause she had sp atk investment, a lot based on sball damage. But you don’t need max speed vs my team. She cud have even been aggressive and only outsped delphox etc. so if she had lets say def/spatk investment, i cause tryna cover for that. Its a roll in my favor but higher chances that crit losing me game if trailblaze
Coz Dragapult would come in and KO Delphox, and then when Krook came in it wouldn’t be able to kill dragapult if it was bulky since it’s not +1, and that would be a problem cuz addi could switch around and get a couple of intimates on krook, thus making it impossible to win without lucky crits
@@arthursdl but if dragapult was max hp it wouldn’t die to crunch unless it was +1 and a Draco meteor would’ve either killed or put it in range for sucker punch to KO, that’s the concern Joey had
My boy made it to the finals 😭 You had to win! It was going to be an episode of Fallen Titans Season 2! That's for Blunder 😭 That's why he's the GOAT! The GGGOOOOAAAAATTTT
Ok so, you actually did the right play by going for Nasty Plot. On addi side, she needed to go for tera blast and deal as much damage as possible in order to put you in range of shadow ball from Pult, hoping you would attack and not setup, and after that she needed a high roll to knock out Krookodile with Draco Meteor assuming she was Modest Pult with 126 Defense Evs, cause 126 defense Evs is what she needs to always live a scarf Krookodile's Crunch without a Moxie Boost, if i were her i would have also went for Trailblaze instead of Rock Tomb on her Tauros cause it's a guaranteed speed boost and isnt risky triggering Defiant from Ape as well, and Trailblaze also could have covered the Nasty Plot play getting that lucky critical hit. Also I could have seen Iron Head being a great fourth move on Tauros for Tera Fairy Delphox that got out of hand. Great game though, she played really well, even though i would have run pads on gapdos always if i were her. (Update from the interview, i would have gone always Draco Meteor on Pult, not darts, cause that's never killing Krook from full, so even if she prevented the moxie boost, if she wasn't trailblaze on tauros, she was not winning. Cause she needed Meteor. One more thing, Thunderous Kick was actually better than CC on Dos, cause that 2Hkoes tran even with Chople Berry assuming you run Pads, and the defense drop could also allow a better Cresselia matchup. That move sometimes looks way better than CC.
needed darts for dragonite, shouldve had more bulk on pult though this is true, needed scarf gzap for the +1 dnite and potential scarf annihilape, obviously in hindsight wouldve considered pads but flame body flew over my head and there were other things to consider in prep besides the 6 joey brought, flaw of my draft is that i dont think i had many other scarfer options this game.
@@queenaddi you played really well that game nothing to say about it, also thats just my opinions from outside the battle, and to be fair, im pretty sure Tauros couldve 1v1 Dragonite, or at least prevented it from getting out of hand, its overlooked sometimes but that bull has good physical bulk. I understand the choice of darts though. Your team was very scary, too bad though Kingambit didnt do much in that game. Not being able to terastalize hurts it. Although if it could it would be instant banned so ig its good it cant right 🤣
Trying to understand the nasty plot play better, and I think after reading your replies I understand the mindset behind sacc'ing phox, but unless I'm looking at calcs wrong, as long as you sac Phox and Tauros doesn't have CC krook should live from 80% any of Tauros's attacks and still get the win after revenging, getting moxie, and outspeeding pult? Because it was intimidate and not sheer force? I guess unless body slam para?
The transition from Switch it up from assault vest every week to another assault vest mon was comedy
Oh hey I know you, I watch your Pokémon Jeopardy videos!
(You're the guy who makes those, right? I somehow forgor 💀)
Pure gold indeed
Next week he needs to bring assault vest cresselia to really show the heat
@@BeholderBrawlStarsYes he is!
Chimpact UwU 👁👅👁 Ara Ara 😂
The "thank god she has got more Emvee in her than Joey" ⚰
Can anyone explain?
Haven’t seen the video yet, but in general Emvee, another prominent player and TH-camr, tends to make riskier (read: “fire”) plays while Joey will leverage his risk so that its not game losing if it doesn’t work out.
@@motoyeerma3377Emvee loves rock tomb LOL. If she had trailblaze over rock tomb the end could have gotten hairy
Cuz Joey goes deep 6-0 deep
“We gotta change it up since I use assault vest every week.”
Puts Assault Vest on Annihilape 😂
Yeah I use AV every week so I can’t bring that
So anyway I’m using AV
on samurott lmao
These draft league games are easily my favorite kind of content on your channel. I hope there's another one planned after this one
He said he'll do another one after the DLC drops
I hope so too
Draft and Ironmon are 100% the best content on the channel
that mirror herb intimidate trailblaze tauros sweeping you after activating your defiant was unfortunate, but a great season nonetheless
That actually would have been pretty sick, not gonna lie
@@btothewoodprobably would have won that endgame too
Tf man 😭 i thought u were srs. But thnx cuz i was hooked throughout the game
Real??!?!
The arcanine named "a my name is addi" is crazzzzy versus the j my name is joey guy...
“Thank god shes Emvee”
Bro i was dying when I heard that 🤣😂🤣
As always, love the content Joey!!!
Dang that rapid spin nasty plot tatsu sweep was surprising, better luck next time Joey!
Wait, she didn't have Tatsugiri
@@BeholderBrawlStarsThat’s the joke, comments like this always pop up on draft league videos as a running joke basically.
@@fishbrat oh
@@BeholderBrawlStars hehe:)
@@Greenish_frog I was also thinking "Tatsugiri can't learn Nasty Plot." I actually don't know if it can, can it even learn Rapid Spin?
"Thank god she's Emvee" double burn
"Thank God you're Emvee"
I died.
GG bro !
THE CRUNCH SWEEP
Krook the GOAT
Dark/Ground STAB, two immunities, utility moves like Taunt and Rocks which proved vital in previous games, and great abilities like Intimidate, Anger Point, and in this vid, Moxie. And it's a mini T-Rex. What's not to love?
Love this comment. Favorite Pokémon
W
Also wears cool shades and looks so drippy
goat mon mienshao too
its a gharial croc
"thank god she's emvee" is BRAZY LMAAAAAOOOOOOO
y'all were my top 2 for this season, so the results were gonna be bittersweep regardless but y'all put out a hell of a game and i'm definitely a satisfied viewer. i look forward to more addison content and gl in finals joey!
Can't believe you got a crit on her Anger Point Tauros and got swept by it. What a way to lose during the semifinals.
Well, she caught that Metronome Flower Trick very skillfully
That Emvee comparison had me dying lmao
Whew, that was an intense game! Shame you got 6-0’d by Sheer Force Blizzard Tauros but can’t wait for the next time
-grabs popcorn and prepares to watch Joey get haxed or miss a game losing move-
Manaphy freeze PTSD
The game really tried it by giving that crit at the end lmao
@@Sponsie1000it also gave him a 1st turn 30% burn, don't act like he didn't get Lucky aswell.
@@Nobody-su9km there is a difference between a 30% chance and a 1 in 24 chance yknow
Joey Vs Emvee is going to be insane, congrats on the win!
Always impressed with how much you take into account. Even thinking about trace from the opponent. Keep it up !
The transitions in the showcase of the opponent's team has me rolling cause I tapped at some point and saw the Zapdos with Gardevoir's head perfectly attached.
Draft League excellence at its finest! And very much an enjoyable watch from start to finish. Phenomenally done my brother ❤
Damn, Joey gets to fight Fissure man or the one he 11-0'd. Quite the finals to remember
Jesus this was down to the wire. What a fantastic semi finals game!
cool to see krook really shine after its was quiet in the first half of the season, gj joey!
god I love draft league battles. They're the best.
"She had a little more Emvee in her than Joey "
Pause...
“OH POWER BOTTOM, THIS IS PERFECT!” - Joey
🎶 A my name is Addi 🎶
Great interview at the end. Really showcases the immense thought put into the prep and plays. Tense matchup
Lets go Wakers!!! No matter who won, I already know this video is gonna be fire! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Anti-spoiler:
Addi made so many great reads but dayum the whole game was strategically planning that endgame Krook.
What a slugfest semi-finals
HE SAID THANK GOD SHE’S EMVEE 🤣
That was the funniest part of the vid 🤣🤣
300 IQ draft when it matters most. Nice win!
Really enjoying the draft leauge content I'm learning so much I appreciate you 🙏🏾
Amazing game. Was way closer than I thought it was going to be based off the beginning of the battle.
Now we wait and see if we get blessed with the Emvee Joey finals
That was a great interview!! Loved listening to all the analysis and thought process from both of you
Draft League GOTY so far for me. Man that was phenomenal on both sides, and right down to the wire.
Can't believe the opponent brought specs kingambit to the semi finals.
Even when emvee is not playing, joey has to struggle against Chinese sets.
Damn I can’t believe that Tera Poison Black Sludge Kingambit 6-0’ed you
Probably had Ctc make the set
arent you tired already...
I seriously love krook. Always worth drafting. Excellent battle. I would love to see you do a team season recap and review the mons you drafted.
how the hell has Krookodile been like your second or third best mon this season lmao. This mon puts in work EVERY WEEK
Too the team that people called out for no removals....I am overjoyed you are in the finals....Good Luck....Hope you win it all
24:22
"We see no item on it so we know it's boots"
-Joey 2023
How many times did Joey bring assault vest samurott this season? Like 5 times?
Joey beats his opponents like the way my stepdad beats me: *SAVAGELY*
I’ve been watching your videos since week one of this league & to see you take your team to finals?! Super hype for you!
Good shit Dr. Aim 🔥🔥
My boy Hamurott has come so far since week 1
The Crook did it!!! 😭😭😭
So happy to see that. Also gz on getting to finals!
"Thank God she's Emvee" had me dead lmaoo
Its jover with support krokodile, now its moxie krokodile time
"Plus I have to change it up since I have used assult vest every single week" 😂😂
I’m only partway through the video, but I love how aggressively you’ve played early on here (12:54 right now)
Haha less aggression more calculated risk. Heatrans role was to burn zap. If zap is burn rocks aren’t necessary. Zap isn’t a problem if burnt so heatran becomes expendable vs glim, which is stopping krook from clicking eq. Lava plume it to break balloon on rocks or toxic since opponent doesn’t know idc about heatran anymore. after that i could have gone cress but since lavaplume damage showed max hp, i had a hard time believing it was max hp max sp atk since you want speed for dnite/samu especially since on balloon in dnites case. so on most counts will live earth power and KO back. Mocks are what made this play possible tho haha
@@pokeaimMDI know it was calculated. You could say calculated risks and I could say calculated aggression hahah. Just because they were calculated doesn’t make them not aggressive
Fair
Pads would have been the item of choice if i were her, she doesnt need band or scarf, freely pivoting and not care about helmet or flame body is just great for her. I dunno if pads is sometimes overlooked in draft, but here that was 100% the best item she could use. Also i was about to say turn 1 i stay and tera with delphox to tear apart her team but i can't believe she blitzed turn 1, but after that i ran the calcs and i saw that Blitz did more than Crunch to Cress so her play was understandable, but imagine if you actually stayed in with Delphox, not tera, and went for plot. LOL @@pokeaimMD
Mans putting on a show. high quality vid
Less GOOOO Yung strong jaw on goober mode
He chomped for that bread
I haven't seen the Mefesto/Emvee battle yet, but I can imagine Joey going into that finals in one of two ways: getting revenge on Mefesto for bringing more heat in his battle in week 6 or giving Emvee the same team that was brought in Week 4.
The Tauros made me curious, do you think Life Orb is better in Draft compared to Smogon singles? Since you know the pokemon to calc ranges for and you don't have to account for as many pokemon that you're just losing your own HP against without doing enough to them
I think life orb is for sure better in draft. Killing yourself in singles is terrible, especially cause yoj dont know all the ops ur gonna be fighting. Draft ik my ops can calc to put in range and yes im dying but for purpose. Singles making urself loss to things like gambit, bax etc on purpose just bad. Tho bax + ice body good with orb
The week Joey didn't bring AV Samurott is the one where he finally fall as the extra bulk from the AV was necessary to tank the Cocogoat sword dance Horn Leech sweep.
Tough luck but that's what you get for not bringing AV Samurott.
I knew from the beginning of the season you’d be in finals what a great tournament
the production in this video is amazing brother
another Ceaseless Edge hit for H-Samurott. Love to see it. 🤩
Really cool seeing Krook bring in the w. He's one of my favorite mons.
Definitely saw the emvee in her with the pult set lol. Great game and congrats on going into finals can’t wait
The power bottom name 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i’m so confused as to why nasty plot was the play with delphox on taurus to prevent trailblaze - didn’t dazzling gleam always pick up the kill with life orb recoil whereas nasty plot literally gave her a chance to win if she actually was trailblaze over rock tomb? plus the gleam threatened pult to prevent dragon dance?
If she didnt crit it gives a chance to win yes, i live both if she is trailblaze so worst case can dgleak anyway and hope pult doesnt live crunch as back up
oh so you were playing for the moxie boost because you weren’t sure if crunch killed pult if it was max hp? and the nasty plot forced two terra blasts or a kill on tauros
Yes basically. Cause she had sp atk investment, a lot based on sball damage. But you don’t need max speed vs my team. She cud have even been aggressive and only outsped delphox etc. so if she had lets say def/spatk investment, i cause tryna cover for that. Its a roll in my favor but higher chances that crit losing me game if trailblaze
I'm pretty sure that i would not have been able to build this team lol
That match was absolute fire 🔥
Walking Wake PPL Champion merch when?
Good to see scarf Krook back!
28:12 May I ask why it wouldn't be safer to just attack Tauros?
Coz Dragapult would come in and KO Delphox, and then when Krook came in it wouldn’t be able to kill dragapult if it was bulky since it’s not +1, and that would be a problem cuz addi could switch around and get a couple of intimates on krook, thus making it impossible to win without lucky crits
@@cristianordonez7976 but Tauros wouldn't be dead by Dazzling Gleam?
@@arthursdl at the range it’s at tauros dies to a dazzling gleam and a psychic, and grass knot + life orb recoil kills tauros
@@cristianordonez7976 Tauros dying he wouldn't have to worry about Intimidate and Krook could win 🤔
@@arthursdl but if dragapult was max hp it wouldn’t die to crunch unless it was +1 and a Draco meteor would’ve either killed or put it in range for sucker punch to KO, that’s the concern Joey had
Flame charge on Delphox looked nice in this game
🎵I got you, moonlight, hard rock, helmet, I chip you, all night, come on flare blitz me, I'm Cress-inatin'🎵
Let's go I'm so hyped for those vids !! Aim for the win
the double 4x super effective earth power. ground is such a good type
My boy made it to the finals 😭 You had to win! It was going to be an episode of Fallen Titans Season 2! That's for Blunder 😭 That's why he's the GOAT! The GGGOOOOAAAAATTTT
This is the pokemon GOD I subbed too all those years ago. Gg fren :]
Addison's Dragapult spread is the shit I see in my nightmares
So spooky so scary
Ok so, you actually did the right play by going for Nasty Plot. On addi side, she needed to go for tera blast and deal as much damage as possible in order to put you in range of shadow ball from Pult, hoping you would attack and not setup, and after that she needed a high roll to knock out Krookodile with Draco Meteor assuming she was Modest Pult with 126 Defense Evs, cause 126 defense Evs is what she needs to always live a scarf Krookodile's Crunch without a Moxie Boost, if i were her i would have also went for Trailblaze instead of Rock Tomb on her Tauros cause it's a guaranteed speed boost and isnt risky triggering Defiant from Ape as well, and Trailblaze also could have covered the Nasty Plot play getting that lucky critical hit. Also I could have seen Iron Head being a great fourth move on Tauros for Tera Fairy Delphox that got out of hand. Great game though, she played really well, even though i would have run pads on gapdos always if i were her. (Update from the interview, i would have gone always Draco Meteor on Pult, not darts, cause that's never killing Krook from full, so even if she prevented the moxie boost, if she wasn't trailblaze on tauros, she was not winning. Cause she needed Meteor. One more thing, Thunderous Kick was actually better than CC on Dos, cause that 2Hkoes tran even with Chople Berry assuming you run Pads, and the defense drop could also allow a better Cresselia matchup. That move sometimes looks way better than CC.
needed darts for dragonite, shouldve had more bulk on pult though this is true, needed scarf gzap for the +1 dnite and potential scarf annihilape, obviously in hindsight wouldve considered pads but flame body flew over my head and there were other things to consider in prep besides the 6 joey brought, flaw of my draft is that i dont think i had many other scarfer options this game.
@@queenaddi you played really well that game nothing to say about it, also thats just my opinions from outside the battle, and to be fair, im pretty sure Tauros couldve 1v1 Dragonite, or at least prevented it from getting out of hand, its overlooked sometimes but that bull has good physical bulk. I understand the choice of darts though. Your team was very scary, too bad though Kingambit didnt do much in that game. Not being able to terastalize hurts it. Although if it could it would be instant banned so ig its good it cant right 🤣
@@echogaia1708 low tier tera so ye, and tauros doesnt beat dnite 1v1
this was a hell of a battle!
Yet another Joey classic
Joey v Emvee championship
The script writes itself
I predict that crit and i screaming at tablet don't nasty but congrats on the win
Joey vs emvee is a dream come true
I CANT believe he lost to a Tera ice defensive arcanine
Why u didnt kill the tauros w delphox?
WHAT AN ENDGAME !!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
MA BOIS HAVE DONE IT!
That was a brazy game down to the wire
wow, you make me want to use pokemon like lyconrock and krockadile on ladder
Both are great
Bro nearly an Hour of Power!!
Damn sorry to see you got 6-0d by specs gogoat, better luck next time
Trying to understand the nasty plot play better, and I think after reading your replies I understand the mindset behind sacc'ing phox, but unless I'm looking at calcs wrong, as long as you sac Phox and Tauros doesn't have CC krook should live from 80% any of Tauros's attacks and still get the win after revenging, getting moxie, and outspeeding pult? Because it was intimidate and not sheer force? I guess unless body slam para?
Oh well I guess the Pult had sucker punch so nvm lol GG regardless
imagine if pult had surf or something lol, I think a Lo, Ebelt or specs pult with shadow ball and surf would have been kinda nuts
congrats joey good luck next week. Wakers for the championship 🏆
I got the Finals matchup I wanted to see 🔥
Man if Pult was Cursed Body her only chance was to switch and hope to disable crunch.
Good game
My man krookodile lost so much in terms of moveset 😢😢😢 High Horsepower AND Darkest Lariat 😢😢😢 I think a few more too
Based Krook
You were one moveslot and Crit away from disaster lmao.
Why did Joey plot with Delphox vs Tauros? If he was scared of trailblaze surely it made sense just to attack into it? Tauros was at
He was assuming pult was max hp, he wanted the attack boost on krook to guarantee the kill.
GG it was Emvee