Just imagine if instead of Mycelium Might, Toedscruel's ability was called "Mould Breaker"

Can't wait for Regigas to be in this generation, if he even gets in. Doodle would be great

Poison/Normal is such a cool typing. Also Grafaiai does so much works here

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

I never thought Pokemon would take a direction where MURKROW is viable competitively but here we are

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

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

Doodle is terrifying but what I also took away from this video was excitement that my beloved vivillion has meta potential ✨

I LOVED using Grafaifai-Slaking against MC Ryme (went for a full Normal team for fun)

your videos are so awesome, literally can't help clicking the moment I see them in my feed haha

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

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

Amazing video as always Foo, thanks for this!

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.

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!

Okay but in what world did the skeledirge think burning the facade using slaking was the right move?

Keep up the awesome strats

24:13 Quick reminder that Phantom Force goes through protect.

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

I love shenanigans like this

Unintentional or not, like the 'intimidating slaking' after the events of the first battle

I had fun watching it 👍

that friend guard was so clutch

the dude has already seen facade "better go for that will o wisp, derp"

I used doodle on a huge power Azumarrill. Huge power Slaking is a menace!

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

23:56 lol the trainer spin (ALSO, I LOVE GRAFAIAI ❤️)

"My Annihilape got fighting coverage" rage fist is do ridiculous

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

STOP PRODUCING TINNY LITTLE GRIMSNARLS

It would be so funny uf the opponent also had Slaking and switch it in when you use Doodle on that spot

Everyone needs some Grafaiai in their lives.

Finally, a way to put my Shiny Grafaiai to use.

you've convinced me, slaking is no longer unviable

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 ❤

Even without thinking about your partner... just Doodle on Intimidate seems amazing.

Also you can doodle prankster and have priority slack off and bulk up a pretty good team honestly

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

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

This is my current favorite team with a couple changes. I also run Taunt on Grafaiai to stop fast Spore/ Rage Powder users.

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

i love ur videos

Regigigas: *happy boi noises.*

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

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.

This so evil I love it

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!

I'm crying, Grimm is so tiny lmao

24:10 Phantom force goes through protect

Happy new year ❤️❤️🔥🔥

7:18 I guess you could say they were Unaware of how much you benefited from that switch into Skelidurge.

WeedleTwinneedle should be viewing this video by now

This team is so fun! I just faced an Azumarill and doodled its Huge Power... Slaking was unstoppable...

Wow, that lag in the gameplay footage at the beginning is incredible.

* sees thumbnail* * Realisation* OH God, oh dear God

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.

I faced a team with this strategy and was a fun fight👍🏻

Honestly, I would've made perfect sense to give this mon MOLD Breaker.

Y-you could give any Pokémon wonder guard when/if shedinja gets added Imagine a pure electric type with air balloon and wonder guard

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

Was I the only one flabbergasted after watching slaking run that fast

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

7:06 I am in complete utter disbelief that they just burned a Slaking with Facade.......

Good 1

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.

Wait till regigigas comes out this would be a scary combo

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

Honestly doodle grafaiai with slacking’s an underrated counter to dondozo if played right especially if slaking has trailblaze

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

Can you Doodle away Comatose? There's a few new ways to change abilities this gen so maybe Komala can wake up?

should have give the slaking safety goggles for immunity to sandstorm dmg and sleep powder.

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.

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.

If this game had Regigigas, you could use Grafaiai to make it more viable in combat.

24:18 Hold on though, doesn't Phantom Force bypass Protect?

Zangoose with toxic boost, belly drum,baton pass, facade holding toxic orb with female indede with follow me, psych up, baton pass, heal pulse and grafiai slaking in the back aim to get max attack slaking and then time grafiai in to pull off a doodle in time

Quick question, wouldn’t it be more consistently effective for Grafaiai to have the Ability Shield so that it can continue to use Prankster?

I'm starting to think Game Freak is pouring all the love and ideas onto Doubles, considering how chaotic singles are now with Smogon.

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?

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?

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.

Does Slacking keep the doodled ability after Grafaiai dies or leaves the field? Or does its truant come back?

Would this work for photosynthesis? Reverse sweeping a sun team with paradox forms would be a great use for this strat 🤯

it would be so funny if grafaiai got quickbanned in doubles not even a week after this video getting out

I have a question, can you use doodle on ally pokemons abilty?

Could you maybe use after you to make Toadscruel go before others?

How did you get Parting Shot on Grafaiai? I can't find out 😢

But can you say what evs they have tyranitar, rotom and anihilape?

If you get Mold Breaker or Mycelium Might on Grafaia, can you then Doodle Good as Gold?

What is the EV's of the team? I like to use my own pokemon

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.

Late to the party, what would be a good ev spread for my little doodle primate

I put armarouge and got rid of Toedscruel so far this team is really solid especially having trick room I love screw over murkrow