My favorite running joke on the channel is referring to offensive bug moves as “u-turn” because that the only one you see.

Having multiple immunities is so essential when you have Illusion as an ability

Common attacking types like "U-turn", Fairy and Fighting.

I remember fighting an H-Zoroark with an air balloon. Why air balloon? Because he had a choice scarf Gholdengo in the back. But when I saw an Air balloon go for Nasty Plot, I thought. "Oh okay. My Volcarona has some chip damage but it should be able to outspeed and fiery dance" and I fell for it hook, line and sinker

3 immunities is strictly better than only 1 if you have an ability that gets deactivated after getting hit

2:45 Ah yes, my favourite attacking type, *U-Turn*

2:45 I like how U-Turn is a "common attacking type". There are no such thing as bug type attacking moves outside of U-Turn -and maybe Bug Bite if the opponent is feeling spicy- .

Imagine the mind games if Species Clause didn't apply to Zoroark. Or if Team Preview couldn't tell the difference between regional forms.

Your editor is honestly really amazing! Congrats for bagging him for your videos.

I like to disguise H-Zoroark as a special Dragapult. I run it as a specs set with Shadow Ball, Hyper Voice, Dark Pulse and Trick. It's hard to notice it's actually not Dragapult and its a double surprise bc my Dragapult is actually a physical Dragon Dance Sweeper

Back and generation five and six I always tried to make zoroark work but he always feel short on the mark on taking an opponent out or just dies from the slightest breeze of a resistance attack. I am glad this new form is substantially much better.

2:46 I love how bug is such a bad attacking type that it's just referred to as "U-Turn" instead of "Bug" lol

H-Zoroark's typing really carries it. It's the fighting, ghost, normal immunities that allow it to really make use of illusion

One of the biggest reasons for why Zoruark is usually underwhelming is because back in when gen 5 released, the competitive rules made it so your teams Pokémon need to be public, and illusion helped to get a free psychic switch in or fake out, but even if your opponent has no clue, there are very few fighting or poison types that are known competitively to set up with nasty plot.

Ah yes, the U-Turn type.

Really appreciate you showing the description of moves when you bring them up! Real helpful for folks like me that don’t play competitive and don’t have the kinda knowledge to know what some things do right off the bat

Ah yes, the 3 dark weaknesses Fairy, Fighting and U-Turn

Okay, now hear me out: Run both on the same team, leave the opponent constantly guessing

2:46 My favourite type is U-Turn

I love running tera blast on H-Zoroark because it's already a stab normal move but if you happen to terastallize to something wacky you have the added benefit of keeping that stab move. Very versatile on a pokemon like this.

Love it when people call U-Turn an offensive type because every other Bug move is useless

I like how you are editing these videos! Keep it up

Man, freezai's vids just keep getting better, entertaining, quick and great knowledge about the competitive scene and just good overall

Your editing has become top tier, keep going freezai💯💯💯

If Bitter Malice wasn't nerfed, imagine how much more terrifying H-Zoroark would be.

What an insane typing does to a mon

Loving the editing

It all comes down to one really simple reason - Normal/Ghost is an amazing typing with tons of competitive applications.

After years of using zoroark I found out that the unovian zoroark best parter for using illusion is gengar. The hisuian zoroark has to be disguised as a either as dark or a fighting type Pokémon

Okay but all things considered, prankster immunity with illusion balances things out.

The editing has been top tier

Love the new style, shoutouts to the editor

Wait a minute, you’re the freezai that’s on showdown? Dude you helped me make my team a BEAST. Thank you good sir- subscribed

Back when chi-yu was running rampant in OU, I used zoroark to bait switches into the opponents’ walls and counters. I could continuously chip away at them with hazards or just spam dark/fire with what was essentially a second chi-yu

You a good guy freezy I like it Glad illusion can work now cause it’s unique

My favorite way to use H-Zoroark is in conjunction with regular Zoroark since it covers its type weaknesses so well. With the way Illusion works, having regular Zoroark in the last slot makes it so the opponent has to guess whether it’s dealing with the regular or H variant. This allows for some very cheeky plays. I usually like to run a focus sash on the regular one with U-turn on both variants and a supportive mon with healing wish letting me reset its hp and quickly switch for more potential mind games later on in a battle. I’ve really messed with a lot of people using this strategy.

Nice vid mate

I love that instead of saying dark has a bug weakness you just said it's weak to u turn

I still remember when I discovered the absurd synergy of Zoroark transformed into Gengar while searching for a team to use at the PWT on Black/White 2 back when the games were new... I was 10 years old at the time and felt like the smartest human being in the world at the sudden realization😂😂😂

one of my favorite disguises for h-zoroark is walking wake because of their very similar stat spread for special atk and speed, + both of them having access to flamethrower.

Not gonna lie, I hope you would add subtitles just like in the Fissure video. That was a great addition.

My favorite moveset for either of the zoro forms is using it on a terrain team, with a seed disguised as hawlucha, they will send in their psychics, ghosts or fairys and getting demolished by your stab or sludge bomb freeing up the way for lucha, can't wait to use h-zoro alongside terrak for the real mindgames though

Ahh, my favorite types, Fairy, Fighting, and U-Turn.

"Types like u-turn [...]" Ouch.

I hope you see this but you probably won't. I respect the increased quality of the videos, it's much more visibly appealing and it's definitely going to grow your audience! You also have gotten way more confident doing KZfaq videos, and I can tell in your voice! You're doing it man, keep up the good work ❤

I used TeraBlast/Shadow Ball/Momento/Nasty Plot,Tera Fairy,max speed and special and Timid for outspeeding as much mons it can,Tera Blast with Fairy punishes overconfident dragon or dark types,while just the nomrla and ghost combo hits neutrally,it makes dittos think twice since you are also immune to the moves yourself,If you think you are not doing survive the turn and your atack does not faint the pokemon,momento could let you give a chance to another setup sweeper like hatterene or dragonite.

In other words, Hisuian Zoroark is cuter than regular Zoroark.

3 powerful immunes does a lot of the leg work.

Thank you for the information. Zoroark variants are my favourite pokemon, it's very useful to know that!

I’m curious to see how Hisuian Zorark is gonna be in vgc as it has an immunity to fake out and it’s ability is so unique that it might make a splash. Being able to check Flutter Main and switch into Iron Hands isn’t bad either

My favourite bug moves u-turn, quiver dance and that one bug attacking move volcarona likes using

The Immunities really come in handy cause if your opponent uses a Normal, Ghost or Fighting move and doesn’t effect the pokemon it can really psyche them out. If they are not familiar with Illusion it’ll just seem like a hacked pokemon with no weaknesses. It’s funny and infuriating to some

What format would let me shell game with both?

My H-Zoroark, named Snowdrift, makes for a great matchup in my Snow Team. I shouldn’t have to explain, but because half of my team is weak to Fighting, an immunity _to_ Fighting is incredibly invaluable for the team. I also use Slowking as a slow-pivot alternate setter in the event of an opposing weather team, which is also weak to Ghost. It’s crazy how often she successfully baits in Fighting Moves, allowing her to freely setup in front of notable threats, assisted in part by her Focus Sash. She commonly disguises as my Sableye or Slowking if leading the team, or any of the offensive Ice Types if she isn’t lead. (Baxcalibur or Chien-Pao.) I find the Sableye disguise can last for a disgusting amount of time too, enough for the real Sableye to enter the field and support her by being a literal gremlin, Disabling, Faking Out and Paralysing others to her liking.

why are some parts of the video subtitled but some arent :/

2:47 I didn´t knew that u-turn was a type

I like the neat transitions you're adding in these videos.

Illusion on a Pokémon with like 3 immunities was bound to be broken.

I’ve been trying to figure out what would be the best disguise for H Zoroark to bait the opponent in using a move it’s immune against, but I don’t know what. Can anyone give any recommendations and a move set to go with it?

Another benefit of H-Zoro, It can use Tera Blast when it's not tera

What about Terastralization for getting more Stab?

The meme with Skeledirge and Dragapult using Bitter Malice against each other for no effect 😂

I'm so mad that I missed the mystery gift for H-Zoroark. So mad.

Bring the full captions back 🙏🏼

Only one weakness in Dark (or Scrappy Fighting) and three immunities make a world of difference.

Really appreciate all the moves popup to explain what the moves/abilities do since I basically know none of them!

Someday, freezai will say "bug moves like scizor's pounce" and you will all flip out

I find that Regular Zoroark works well if you're specifically using a bulky ghost like Cofagrigius. Stab knock off, u-turn, suckerpunch and protect is a pretty annoying set to deal with. That being said, H Zoro is a way better nasty-plotter. After a KO, have it illusion a psychic type and use the turn they whiff to get a free +2, that gg.

I like how he says U turn instead of bug lmao

Unfun fact: Zoroark and H-Zorua are in the same tier. The difference in typing is that big

Almost all of the Hisuian Forms in general are the Upgrades of their Original Counterparts competitively, with only one exception being Avalugg While I love both Zoroark and its Hisuian form, having 3 immunities is better than being dependent on disguising as poison types on a psychic type.

My favorite H-Zoroark set is Aerial Ace, Happy Hour, Take Down, and Torment.

1 weekness and 3 immunitiess is amazing

Two words: Three immunities

Freezai, regarding your recent Short about Corviknight confusing itself due to an Iapapa Berry...why do people think Mints outright change natures? They don't - they never have. All they do is change the stat calcs, not the stored nature itself, which is still gonna be the original one on the summary screen - and what's passed down through breeding via Everstone. The fact the championship player _didn't look at his metal bird's summary screen_ is his own damn fault. Sure, the changed 'nature' (the stat calcs) are reflected on the stat screen, by changing which stats are red and blue respectively, but the original nature name remains, which a pro like him should've known.

Ah yes, my favorite type: U-Turn

are you Indian?

My favorite set is a no no sense Specs set with: Shadow Ball Tera Blast Focus Blast Trick The fact that Tera Blast is STAB prior to Terastalizing is nice cherry on top Edit: The set has Tera Fairy since it pairs phenominally with Zoro-H

I like how you still used Generation 3 music but it's from FRLG instead of RSE.

I used to use Zoroark and Alola-wack together, and it felt like it worked out decently

A ghost pokemon that is imune to ghost moves in a meta game where some ghost types like Dragapault and Skeliderge are considered the best in the tier is pretty dangerous

I like that the only attacking bug move is U-Turn.

First impression really puts an impression on Zoroark.

I need that Esdeath avatar 4:24

The main thing is because of typing I think I find MOST times, Ghost is More useful than Dark right now. As Fighting is super important to deal with Terra steel. This means if they predict your Pokémon going Terra steel, you get a free bamboozle which is the same as if they were asleep, paralyzed, or other such things.

Having two forms of this Pokémon is actually a good thing since you may not be able to tell which Zoroark form it is.

I go lead H Zoroark to have my opponents sweating from the start. Disguising it as Great Tusk on a Glimmora usually makes them energy ball, even potentially use tera while I can always outspeed and 2 shot. Dragapults somewhat tricky if I can guess it as a lead. I generally just coin flip and hope they shadowball instead of draco turn 1. I need a fairytype to force a shadowball, but eh. Meowscarada is just annoying. I tend to go Orthworm since most carry taunt and dont want a free shed tail pass.

I really want to get into VGC and I was planning to build my team around Hisuian Zoroark, but regulation c hates me :)

This mon is gonna be real spicy post-home ubers. You take the illusion of a sweeper and threatening pokemon [assume calyrex-shadow] which the opponent absolutely cannot let set up. Now if they decide to go for a ghost move here, BOOM you get owned by zoroark. Let's try to do this again in the same match. Let calyrex-shadow switch in on a fighting type move. Now your opponent thinks it's horoark and let it setup Both have nasty plot, psychic etc this is high risk, high reward imo

One of my favorite ways to use Hisui Zoraork is to combine it with Bloodmoon Ursaluna-

Buff suggestion: Illusion only dissapears at

What if I just used both zoruark?

I know it's definitely an oddball set, but I run Hyper Beam/Shadow Ball/Focus Blast/Nasty Plot on my Zoro-H. The ability and immunities gives it valuable extra turns against opposing Pokemon, and a Tera Nornal HB hits super hard.

Tera normal hyper voice is deadly on this mon

Fun fact: I actually finished to shiny hunt for (unovan) Zoura yesterday.(and I'm hatching the remainder of the eggs as I type this) Interesting that this showed up in my recommendations

Gengar gets nasty plot now so you can set up disguised as a gengar without relying on your opponent to falsely believe that gengar has that move

An absolute insane typing tailored to his ability. 3 immunities You're welcome

I don’t even play with illusion in mind when using zoro

Would an item that gives monotypes a 2nd type be OP? Even if just offensively?

ok this is the second type you have said exactly the line "Common attacking type" and said u turn instead of bug