Google the Betterhelp scandal. You might not want to accept their sponsorship again. Short version they are accused of using "therapists" who aren't actually qualified and selling their user data to brokers.

Please reconsider accepting sponsorship from these scammy companies. Do some research in the same way you research pokemon. Better help have been known to employ unqualified people and sell user data. And since it's people's mental health we're talking about, it's not just a scam like those fake lord titles, it's actually dangerous. Too many creators are falling for this.

wow a wild pokemon pro-plier

please dont partner with betterhelp again man. they're awful

Better help isn't a good service. They actively enable people with mental struggles and then actively used them for publicity

Anything that’s not a “special pokemon” AKA box art legendary, Defaults to OU. They knew it was gonna get banned but I think they just find it funny to do this each gen.

And they are absolutely correct. Seeing Eleki ruin OU for a day was one of the funniest events of the generation

@@mb778_ embrace chaos, consume anarchy

​@@Skullhawk13 isn't terapagos a box art legend?

@@th3_ph4ntomreborn31 *shrug* I didn’t get S/V, So iunno

Great typing too

yeah i think it was huge miss to not mention that, also dragon fire is one of the best defensive combos there are, a dragon that isnt weak to ice or fairy is huge

@EmersonCRVG Especially in vgc. Not being weak to flutter mane or icy wind is massive.

Defensive weather abusers are walking contradictions though. You want to both stall for extra turns and hurry up before the weather runs out.

​@@EmersonCRVGthe issue is that both of those types are still neutral, and for vgc it gains a ground weakness as well Fire offers good coverage to dragon, but the dragon type defensively offers nothing to the fire type So defensive variants of gouging fire (forgot the name already in case I got it wrong) won't be terribly common unless paired with something like Rillaboom Which even then still has weaknesses like rock, as well as ice water and fairy neutrality But burn protect is strong

Ice steel as well

Normal Steel too (when it happens)

Steel-Fighting

@@MeatOfJustice normal steel is actually ok tho, a steel immune to ghost is great

@@saiyaddanapudi9216 heh

VGCentralized moment

@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829idk who that is but I’m assuming it’s the Vsauce of VGC so I’ll take that as a compliment

@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829 what do you mean, singles is the only format that exists

​@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829ironic when gambit basically owns ou

In Doubles, yes. In Singles however, it has a chance to.................lose to Kingambit using Sucker Punch lmao.

Don’t forget that it gets Dragon Dance of all things, things gonna be nasty.

​@@vintagestealth8802 scaleshot too

Burning Bulwark's a nice signature move, but man That DD + Scale Shot + Loaded Dice set looks so nasty.

@@markalken7976 i used it in OU with Dd Flare Blitz Eq Scale shot loaded dice Only ditto could stop it

​@tafazzi-on-discord Only if it's not using Spore or similar.

I think that much like the Urshifus, people will adapt to Iron Boulder. Not to mention it's only Mighty Cleave that powers through, something the care bears aren't restricted to. It will be good, don't get me wrong.

​@@AIDcytvgc players have to adapt to everything but rest assured rapid strike is literally broken in doubles. Boulder likely won't be

Lol the care bears

@@justaliljello5198exactly. When Urshifu-R doesn't even care about the return of Incineroar, something not right

Boulder is 124 speed... It's going to be format warping. Urshifu-Boulder HO breaker core

It 2shots unaware dozo in sun, its absolutely nuclear lmao

(With band)

@@aigis0423 also not even factoring in terra either lol, thing also has stupid defensive sets too because for some reason gets morning sun

Gen 9: Yo, you want another nuclear Fire type?

@@TheOtherNeutrinoThird time

It isn’t when it is a signature move, and unfortunately all good Rock types need it.

Fun fact though Electro shot bypasses redirection without stallwart cause it's a charge move like meteor beam and solar beam and thus can't be redirect

Checking Incineroar isn't hard though, and Howl is vastly inferior to Swords Dance anyways, which most physical attackers learn. It also doesn't counteract Intimidate since it costs a turn.

@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Howl helps out because it buffs you and your teammate's Attack by 1 stage.

@@rootbeeraddict4885 yes but in over 10 years of vgc how much howl has there been on event winning teams?

@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Howl isn't used on meta teams because almost no meta teams use Pokemon that learn Howl, with the exception of some teams that use Arcanine and its Hisui form. Howl still has some uses in competitive, and the fact that you instead decide to shun an idea instead of thinking it over proves a lack of experimentation, which is key for most high performing teams over the years.

@@rootbeeraddict4885 Alolan Ninetails saw lots of usage and also learns Howl, and its entire thing was buffing teammates, yet it never ran Howl. Zacian and Zamazenta both learn it too. And never ran it. The issue here is that you need to evaluate pros and cons for moves. You don't need to experiment with moves like Thundershock to know they are bad for example. And in gen7 there was a somewhat famous low ladder strategy build entirely around countering Incineroar with a Competitive + Adrenaline Orb Milotic so Intimidate would give it a massive stat boost. It was never successful outside of low ladder. Because being able to check Incineroar doesn't mean much. It's a support. It doesn't need to be checked, if it got some free turns out for its teammate then it fulfilled its job.

If done right, this could be brilliant. You could use the unheard-of power of Choice Band/Life Orb Guts, combine it with a Tera boost and any other boost, and then you're REALLY cooking with gas!

If brutal swing is still in the game, I think it makes contact so it’ll probably work really well for this while still attacking the opposing Pokémon

@@storm78211 Unfortunately there is no Pokemon that has Guts and can learn Breaking Swipe. Facade and Breaking Swipe is possible but it won't make sense since your attack is cut in half.

@@jeroenvdw brutal swing not breaking swipe, the 60bp dark type move that hits your teammate, and both opponents, it’s not very common but I used to use it to activate weakness policies on dark weak Pokémon

@@storm78211 ah yes I misread it and forgot about that move, that would be insane

If a defensive archuladon can learn electric terrain then yeah actually, on turns with double protect prediction you can get free terrain up and set up iron boulder even better It simply DOES need to fear urshifu-R and honestly even urhsifu-S which hasn't seen much play this gen

Yeah, I think it mostly doesn’t have to worry, it’s faster and I ran the calcs, Urshifu Aqua Jet doesn’t kill from full even with Chien-Pao. It gets wild charge to hit back or solar blade to fit on sun teams and if it gets a boost either from swords dance or terrain it’s an OHKO. While Archaludon is fun, it doesn’t get electric terrain. I think it’s more likely we’d see it with Raging Bolt to punish the priority plus possible electric terrain + rising voltage shenanigans.

799 special attack just isnt real

A bit underwhelming when the most used pokemon in OU is a ground type that's faster than it

​@@asepsisaficionado7376Fair point, but now you have to keep your Tusk healthy specifically so you don't lose to it.

Attacking with What?

@@Tetzll123 Heat Crash, it's on the heavy side plus no recoil.

@@MeatOfJusticeand do 1 damage to most mons, ive used it in doubles and the opponent just attacks around it😭 bulwark never once gets activated and its bulk is honestly underwhelming, iron hands with AV is so much bulkier and more offensive. Im not sure about singles tho

It was already quick banned, iirc, much like Girafarig was.

I wish Violent pokemon had better abilities

Maybe technician for Iron Crown and tough claws for Iron Boulder

@@gaigeguy339 now that's just op. Maybe magic bouce flutter mane, iron fist iron hands and adaptability iron valiant

Electric surge raging bolt sounds disgusting. Raging bolt has another signature move, rising voltage, which has its power doubled to 140 in electric terrain. It's kind of useless since the only terrain setters in VGC and Smogon OU is pincurchin but raging bolt being able to set its own terrain for an effectively 182 BP STAB, no drawback move with more base special attack than flutter mane cannot be sugarcoated.

Rising Voltage isn't signature, it's a gen 8 DLC tutor move. It just probably seems exclusive due to limited distribution.@@SK-df1iw

That would have been genius!

I think you underestimate how _broken_ having a decent speed and a good BP move that ignores protect does for a mon in VGC. Iron Boulder is 100% gonna be format warping just like urshifu

It also has a 100% accurate rock type move that’s the scary part

No, he said that it goes through protect.

That's... not that much actually. You need to be 5x as heavy as your target to deal full damage.

so? u can use temper flare if u really want to use it to hit something other than ghold or other ligher mons. It doesn't even need to be at max power to be strong, base 100 or 80 can do a lot of damage at +1 or 2.

@@Pando0678 using two offensive fire moves on the same set really messes up your coverage, so yeah just settling for Flare Blitz is still generally the best option.

I meant over heat crash, do you think I'm stupid to use two moves of the same type without one of them being priority or something?

@@Pando0678 so you wouldn't use Heat Crash in the first place. It's still better to just use Flare Blitz though. Stomping Tantrum was mostly useful as a move because it's a single target ground move and so you don't need to worry about hitting your partner, but there's no reason to use Temper Flare. Flare Blitz has recoil, but it's so much worse when your opponents survive because you used a weak move than to take some recoil.

I checked my phone at that point in the video cause I thought I was getting a call.

The swords of justice paradoxes really got screwed over. The beasts gained the dragon typing, meanwhile the swords only gain psychic

Typing doesn’t inherently make or break the Pokémon. Despite being one of the main reasons Heavy-Duty Boots were introduced last gen, Volcarona is still a fantastic Pokémon in singles. Hell, it’s Ubers this gen thanks to Tera. I don’t play doubles, so I can’t speak on that front though.

@fencerderio9814 I know, psychic is still fairly underwhelming compared to dragon though

@@fencerderio9814 It makes the things fast offensive threats like Iron Bloulder want to do much harder though. Finding switch ins and surviving once you find them become much harder when more attacks do twice the normal damage. In VGC Boulder wants to take advantage of the threat of Mighty Cleave to limit the opponent's defensive options but being frail means it would need more help from its partner to force the opponent to choose defensive options in the first place.

But Expanding Force is a TM now

Sounds like a skill issue

@@JaleelJCarter Bro got mad that I love that the mon is simple lmao

No he’s mad that you lost with a good mon

@shirshobanerjee7751 Almost like I said I'm going to, not that I did.

We don't have a good enough electric terrain setter to warrant the extra turn for setup on that move just to be negated by ground types, but yeah

130 BP and 160 BP are not comparable

Much better than Draco Meteor. 160 base power puts it in Z-move or G-max move territory

More like dragon pulse but it has a 30% chance to be eternabeam without drawback

Went through the different mons that can get electric terrain to double that and yeah there's a decent list it, including a fast Iron Boulder or bulky Iron Hands with Raging Bolt as it's special coverage

Motor drive doesn’t affect redirection, but Stalwert let’s it ignore stuff like Lightning Rod however.