i've said it before i'll say it again: oricorio got some incredible buffs this gen. Revelation dance is a better terra blast, aqua step is a strong dancing move, and quaquaval is by far the best feather dance user, it greatly benefits from the new anti-disruption items, etc.

I love that Kilowattrel flying makes it so their teammate is always out of frame by default 😂 But I love this team! The birds in this gen have amazing abilities, so glad that killowattrel was a surprise sweeper

Great video foofoo, stantler skill swap with eviolite is so much more viable tbh, I do think even without gimmicks stantler could be a sleeper pick. I also love Kilowattrel and think more people will pick up on how good it can be with either wind rider/competitive

In game 1 skeledirge probably survived the air slash because unaware ignores all the boosts so with screens it still had the potential to 1v4 the game. I think your opponent didn't realise and forfeited lol Edit: in fact, it does and then torch song oneshots Amoongus and scizor: 252 SpA Kilowattrel Air Slash vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Skeledirge through Light Screen: 93-112 (51.9 - 62.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

This bird is one of my favorite new mons in gen 9, thanks for the inspiration! I've been messing around with Wind Power Kilowattrel next to Pelipper to set up rain and tailwind to wreak havoc, but it seems a bit too easy to predict and counter...

I think Kilowattrel could also see some use in rain teams, maybe thunder, hurricane, weather ball and volt switch if youre going for specs or tailwind for support, or maybe protect, it has a lot of potential in my eyes for sure!

I honestly thought Killowattrel wasn’t that interesting in terms of pokémon designs but you always find a way to change my mind about pokémon I underestimate!

I love how HUGE it is. I did not expect it to be a giant flyer.

The baby's form of that Pokemon's Pokédex entry is pretty brutal. Apparently it shocks it's prey to death, keep in mind that they're already in water.

I love kilowattrel. Tailwind + Electroball is very cool and I love its design. Its cry is awesome too, it sounds like it's from spore (2008)

I really love my Kilowattrel! I’ve been trying to use him in the online ladder, but I haven’t started to train him in evs at all, so uh 😢 I have a lot of work to do 😅

Been using the Garchomp Kilo combo since ranked dropped and I made it to masterball tier today!

Just got my shiny wattrel today!! So excited to use it!!!!

I'm so gosh darn happy that Stantler is finally viable. Sure, it could always do the Skill Swap thing, but Eviolite makes it usable!

If Stantler can use Evolite, that should mean Ursaring can too. I would be interested in seeing how that works out for Ursaring.

I don't know why, but your trainer card only being a candid photo of a Scovillain is so funny to me. 😂

All 3 abilities are so good for this bird it's hard to decide which

The moment I saw your team showcase for the 3rd battle, I realized what your plan was with Stantler and Kilowattrel! Glad to see them take off, and for Stantler to Skill Swap Bisharp's Defiant made the demonstration all the better! ^^

Excellent video at an excellent time. Just finished EV training and evolving the random shiny Wattrel I caught during my playthrough

I've quite enjoyed Kilowattrel on my play through team, it's put in a lot of work

It would've been nice if the regional variants(Hisuian Growlithe, Hisuian Zorua, etc.) and regular evolutions(Wyrdeer, Ursaluna, etc.) were available in the base game without the need of DLC. They could've made them appear in Area Zero and Tera Raids, along with any items needed to evolve them. Hopefully, there will be Move Tutors in the DLC, too. I assumed that one of the sets would be Kilowattrel for a rain team knowing Thunder, Hurricane, Weather Ball, and one other move.

This man is too innovative, put bro in nasa

Gotta say I always enjoy how creative you get with Pokémon sets, keep up the good work!

Love the dedication you put into finding and elaborating on certain pokemon’s utility. I watched a lot of your videos throughout Sw and sh. Thank you for your insight!

I had a blast battling you! that choice scarf oranguru messed me up, i was trying to set up trick room round 1, but i expected the protect so i didnt wanna commit.. GG!

Kilowattrel has Weather ball as an egg move which is pretty insane imo. On a rain team you can go for Thunder Hurricane Weather ball (100 BP water type) Tailwind And that is just ludicrously strong as a wall breaker/ sweeper If Politoad makes a return in the dlc Kilowattrel will be a terra type water volt absorb menace.

I got one of them early on and it never left my team. Its type is amazing and it's a fast special attacker, something I needed. In Doubles, Kilowattrel (Competitive) + Annihilape (Defiant) would make a good duo against Intimidate spammers! Edit: Omg Eviolite Stantler is genius.

I feel like Kilowatrel is the Non-OU version of zapdos and that's a good thing, I love zapdos's strats but having it limited to ou kinda sucked lol

I used kilowattrel with tailwind and electro ball to great success through my playthrough of the game

Pair it with Garchomp in doubles for Discharge spam, pretty fun mon

The thunder bird leaves us shocked If I get these games, I want this mons

I feel in love with the birb because of that hurricane/thunder/weather ball combo. Is just crazy

My first shiny was a stanler and now I know how to use it thanks

8:16 Hope they fix these camera angles and Pokemon sinking through arena floor. And this vid definitely made me want to use that Electric bird

i’m trying this stantler team thanks foo!

I have a kilowattrel been waiting for somebody to talk about him it’s a great new mon especially with competitive. Tbh all it’s abilities have competitive use to be fair

Just so you know, a lot of people have said that eviolite stantler doesn't work as stantler isn't coded to be ae to evolve or something like gen 8 meltan.

Hmmm a new addition to my monotype flying in AAA

Interestingly, Brambleghast's Wind Rider ability activates when switching into tailwind. I think these wind abilities will get some tuning in the future so the minute differences aren't so inscrutable.

Would actually change he tera type of that volt absorb with tera water, cause ground mons want to switch into electic moves and you just leave 1 weakness aka grass which isnt that common left, and there is a reason why surf is almost always run on heliolisk and raichu cause it gives great coverage. and it is not lik you will be dealing well with garchomp anyway

It's the first video I watch with actual S/V gameplay... Holy cow, the dropped frames. I'm going crazy with second hand frustration.

Stantler gaining access to Eviolite now makes me _very_ pleased. I will very much try that out in the near future!

Honestly haven’t been all that interested in Wattrel and it’s evolution but I may need to look into it 🤔🤔

This Stantler next to something holding an Adrenaline Orb could be interesting.

Tailwind is strong but is also balanced because it’s the shortest form of control only lasting 3 turns. Compared to trickroom’s 4 turns.

Earlier I made a competitive kilowattrel doubles team without knowing that competitive only activates when a foe lowers stats, not an ally😭

I used Kilowattrell in my first play through, and used the Thunderbolt/Volt Switch/Air Slash/Tailwind set, and I loved it!

wow you are so knowledge, professional pokemon, I did learn quite a number of thing ...

Kilowatrle is like really good in rain

Kilowattrel with Competitive is probably the best Defog punisher in the game, since every Defoger is slower and/or weak to Kilo’s STABS. Some are neutral but after a plus two boost none of the Defoggers will want to stay in. From there you can either get your free Tailwind as they switch out, hold momentum with a Volt/Turn, or just swing with an +2 attack. The poo fish kinda counter’s Watts hard but a plus 2 attack is still alot for it to handle. And if you’re too predictable maybe the opponent can hit Watts coming in to counter defog with a coverage move or a Terra Blast but with Watts planning to come in to try and get +2 SpAttack you can take some EVs outta SpAttack and invest into bulk.

Kilowattrel is stronger in terms of BST than I originally thought (checked it out a few hrs ago). Expected it to be closer to its two stage brethren.

I run special stantler in doubles with hyper beam and earth power with Tera ground, so kilowattrel can use +2 discharge without hurting stantler. Also running him with a special set makes it so he isn’t negatively affected by his own intimidate.

In singles you can tailwind the t-bolt with a focus sash then when it dies switch to a great tusk and have fun

Good under rain. Thunder/hurricane/weather ball is very good coverage and last move is volt switch. I gave it the item which boosts super effective attacks.

My signature double team in SwSh was a terrain gimmick featuring terrain pulse Clawitzer, Tailwind support Naganadel, steel roller Metagross and Dhelmise, with my terrain setters being Rillaboom and Koko… this gen I’m making a wind and rain gimmick with a core of Kilowatrel, Brambleghast, and Pelliper. Still working out the rest of the team but I’m excited for this new gimmicky team.

Kilowattrel also could be a good wallbreaker in rain like a vanilla Zapdos, since it has Thunder, Hurricane, Weather Ball and also have the eletric immunity so it can check choice locked eletric types

I love birds and water types and this thing having volt absorb is so good for me. You can hurricane and thunder under rain while also absorbing electric attacks

I haven't done any testing but sandstorm is considered a wind move so sandstorm might be a weather it can run in

Toedscruel is amazing I used it on my 3rd playthrough of Scarlet it can pack one hell of a punch and its also able to solo Rika of the Elite Four its also great in helping catch Pokemon due to having Spore which never misses.

as a kilowattrel fan who has fun switching out with volt switch i approve

I loved my Kilowattrel,it just one-shoted everything with tailwind+electro ball

Kilowattrel was on both my teams on Scarlet & Violet these were the Pokemon I used on my first play through of both games I have done 4 plays of each game using different Pokemon Scarlet (1st playthrough) Quaquaval Kilowattrel Pawmot Scovillain Farigiraf Baxcalibur Violet (1st playthrough) Skeledirge Kilowattrel Palafin Espathra Cetitan Daschbun It took me ages to get a Male Shiny Kilowattrel finally got one a few days ago after finding 3 Female Shiny Kilowattrel.

One thing that I think is somewhat overlooked is Electro Ball, it’s not always great, but it’s the thing I click after getting Tailwind set up

Thought the title said “sleep” instead of “sweep” lol

Surely you want this on a rain team, you get Thunder and Hurricane, both of which are 100% accurate in rain and Hurricane activates charge to double your Thunder

Try Farigaraf with Clawitzer. I had so much fun with these two together as a trick room team. Tera type dragon Clawitzer core breaks so many teams, plus farigaraf as a setter is really nice to prevent priority moves done to you.

I love Kilowattrel but i also love spamming Double Shock with my Terastalized Pawmot.

Thoughts on using Kilowattrel on a Rain team with moves like Thunder/Hurricane and Weather Ball?

Imagine it having Drizzle as an ability... Just having two 110 power moves which are always hitting in Thunder and Hurricane and with 125 speed does sound kinda OP.

i was really surprised you didnt make a rain doubles moveset. Rain setup + Volt absorb + thunder,hurricane,weatherball,uturn(not blocked)

I wish Wind Power made Kilowattrel immune to wind moves like Brambleghast's Wind Rider ability does for it, I mean why not it's not like Kilowattrel's super bulky or anything and the only major benefit is really just immunity to Icy Wind most other wind moves are resisted or neutral normally

That first battle makes me wonder if you should give garchomp brick break to shatter any screens an opponent starts with

Gen 9 foo strategy content begins! 😍

Question. With its outstanding 125 base speed and access to tailwind would electroball not be a good move to run on it? At what speed threshold does thunderbolt become stronger than electroball?

Wait I thought evolite wouldn't work for Stantler yet? I'm gonna try out eviolite Ursaring then. It only has 10 less attack than Ursaluna

Thanks allot for the team idea's i just built a team using this killowatrell/stantler combo but i figured out a way to add bit more damage to killowatrell since it should be hyper offernsive

Gives me a reason to use this bird (first)

I see Kilowattrel as a... somewhat better Zapdos considering Speed & Competitive allowing for +2 SpAtk so you could pair it with Specs to do more damage than Zapdos itself

I'm curious as to whether Gimmighoul or Naclstack would work with eviolite. I like their designs better than their evos and they are somewhat defensive.

Love this pokemon so much

Air Cutter is also a wind-based move.

another great way to use it in singles is on a rain team, it has weather ball, hurricane and thunder and can switch into electric type moves that might be targeting the rain setter thanks to volt absorb too

Rotom-Fan should receive Wind Power too

You are missing the most broken option IMO. Talonflame+kilowattrel lead. Kilowattrel with choice specs and electric tera, talonflame with focus sash. Turn 1, tailwind from talonflame (which is priority) gaurantees kilowattrel outspeeds everything non priority, noteably annihilape with choice scarf. Kilowattrel uses discharge and tera. This does INSANE damage. Discharge with just STAB+TTAB is already a 160 BP move, but it's doubled with charge and +50% more with choice specs for essentially 480 power move on turn one. HOWEVER, assuming talonflame doesn't get paralyzed, you can gust turn 2 into kilowattrel (make sure talonflame outspeeds kilowattrel) and get a second 480 power discharge. Talonflame goes down but it's job setting up tailwind and supporting is done and now you have 2 turns of tailwind, and the enemy should be crippled. Obviously, protect or wide guard can stop it but you have volt switch and electro ball as well if you don't want to discharge. That potentially preserves talonflame gale wings. I think it's incredibly strong.

I named mine Wattson, and I love him. ❤️

Eviolite primape has been what I have been experimenting, with anger point and max special defense is my idea.

I thought I played against you with this comp but wasn't sure if it was an imposter Foo, glad to play against you even though I swept :/

Make a Swalot team to make use of some of its new moves!

Wind based moves aren't a new category. They've been around since Gen 1. There are new mechanics specific to them though kinda like when they introduced sound based mechanics...sound moves weren't new.

I just made my Kilowattrel Steel tera to deal with its two weaknesses to Rock and Ice.

My fav new pokemon

Would've been funnier if Wind power worked like Storm Drain. That said I love Kilowattrel regardless. Great design, good stats and cool abilities.

I like competitive Kilowattrel in singles because you can switch in on defog and sweep

You could consider Electro Ball with Wind Power Tailwind

Why ghost mimikyu? Because the little headband falling half off it’s ear is adorable

Electric Oricorio gets trailblaze and is a bit bulkier

Is that an Unnnhh reference with oranguru-? 😳 katya ftw 😮‍💨

Question If you use tera electric Pawmot Double Shock Will you still keep the electric type? Coalossal and Arcanine cancel learn burn up this generation to test

Oricorio pom pom style on steroids

I have my Kilowattrel set up for a rain team. Basically a Zapdos 2.0. Volt Absorb Flying Tera is very strong