Relic song's actually pretty good IMO due to serene grace sleep chance

Yeah, the sleep chance is good, but unless you're going for a physical Pirouette form set then you're usually better off sticking to Hyper Voice because special sets then have to do it again to change their stats back, and physical sets need a turn to switch forms, and in both cases that's at least one turn where you aren't getting much done. Although, having said that, I suppose I must admit that it does have a niche. I just wish you could make Melo start off in pirouette form because design wise it's pretty cool.

Tbh its not that Relic Song is bad as much as its gimmic of changinh Meloetta's form is bad Transfer that form change to a key item and relic song is now fully accurate sing that does damage

​@mysticpumpkin8520 damage and sleep naaaah thats nasty

@@mysticpumpkin8520 if it was physical it'd be much better

REALLY?! I understand not healing on hit, but it is fascinating that it doesn't let you choose it at all. Although it probably is just easier to program it that way.

Given that a lot of Waterpons want to run Horn Leech, it can completely block the only way they have to hit you for SE damage

Hold on I gotta look something up

Naaaaahhh 💀💀💀

By Arceus, this can't be happening

Is that the naughty hyper beam?

Bro thinks he’s regigas

And it doesn't even need the help of liquid voice to do that bc it gets sparkling aria, ie reverse scald (it also gets water pledge but that's pretty meh)

imagine tinka got follow me now

What's the music you use in your videos?

Air Ballon Tinkaton with Pick Pocket that's defence natured can take only 40% damage from a mystic water surging strike and then steal the item from the Urshifu

@@EineVerbindung I know! ;_;

@SephyClone7 it's not bad tink still won't be faster so I opt towards total damage and pure support. With own tempo I can usually pair with a swagger. I do use air balloon but I've noticed with metal coat you can get a lot of cheeky 1 hit kills with a terra too. Plus I have a houndstone usually with terra fairy and play rough with choice scarf and sand rush commonly paired with a tailwind and a tyranitar so I can outspeed anything I need.

I second this, I’m honestly really bad when it comes to teambuilding, so I could use some tips on that

Yet another reason why soul dew was never legal.

It's 2:00am here and this comment made me conscious that I've been awake too long.

I'm sorry, Rhydon gets Supercell Slam!?! People forget how much love this thing gets!!! IT HAS SO MUCH COVERAGE!!!

Tailwind. Meta gross is decently fast and last thing you need is to be put to sleep by Amoongus. Additionally, you can just say screw speed and go brr with choice band bullet punch.

Unlike Iron Hands, Metagross can break through Aurora Veils and Screens reliably.

@@YoJoRockThaBeat It is helpful with that, but with the Blastoise team I'm running I already have Iron Crown and Indeedee on it.

Wolfe just made a new video were he brought magmar to a tournament. I WAS RIGHT💀!!!!

Occasionally ev training a stat for 4 evs will give 2 of the stat instead of one. So players will invest in defences for that extra 1 point. And there are also cases where a specific amount of evs will let the Pokemon either live a kill shot or ko something faster

The fact that there are two pokemon mean that a fast and strong threat has a harder time just killing the thing in front of it and not having to take damage. The two pokemon on the field means that you are often at risk of taking at least one hit, so offensive pokemon forgo one-shots to hit bulk benchmarks more often

Two that I can think of. First, every difference between doubles and singles comes down to the number of pokemon on the field. When you're in a 1v1, you can reasonably expect a certain amount of damage and so you just crank up the bulk or the damage stat to max to try to maximize your chances of killing everything in 1 or 2 hits. In VGC, that's less of a concern because you can double attack or be double attacked and that does change your concern with being KO'd or picking up a KO. Like how many things are surviving a double attack from Ushifu and Fluttermane? Do they really need max attack? The second reason I think is the big one and that's because of what VGC and Smogon actually are. VGC is mainly tournament play. The youtubers you watch for VGC are probably trying to compete in them and ideally go to worlds. So they're going to split hairs about what EVs let them survive what attacks or pick up a KO or outspeed vs. the common metagame threats. I think that's also easier in VGC because there's less relevant mons at a given time and all the top teams are pulling from a smaller pool. You're less likely to run into a weird mon in a world's tournament than you are on smogon ladder. Smogon Ladder is competive but it's not really. It's for fun. There's no prize pool for hitting first. Most of the people you see on Ladder are just trying to play pokemon and they don't want to think too hard about their teams and how they fit into the metagame, so they crank the two relevant stats and hop on with their favorite. But what you will see in single tournaments with a prize pool is those smaller pools of relevant pokemon running more predictable movesets and being EV'd very precisely to survive things or KO things or outspeed things. Because in a tournament space you can put thought into and predict things like that in a way you can't on ladder. One reason for that is that in a tournament with money on the line or the biggest tournament of the year, you run what you know is the best and know gives you the best chance to win, whereas on ladder you run what you think you can get away with and are more willing to try something weird because there's not really consequences for failure. You'll also see this difference in totally different games too. For example decks in Hearthstone look different for actual tournament play than they did on ladder because of the ability to predict who is likely to play what. Yugioh decks look different at locals or in online play than they do at worlds.

Let’s set up a simple scenario. Flutter Mane max speed max spat. It KOs the slightly slower, bulkier Chien Pao (no sash cause singles) in front of it. They switch into Heatran or something to resist? Just switch. Easy. Now let’s set up the same scenario in doubles. That Chien Pao (let’s just pretend sash is broken) will go down to a dazzling gleam, but the Arcanine can and will KO you for doing so. You switch in your Lando for an intimidate. No bulk Flutter will drop instantly regardless of intimidate. Bulky Flutter Mane will survive, KO their Chien Pao, then be able to launch off a power gem next turn to KO the Arcanine.

You want 0 attack IVs anytime you aren't using an Attack based move yourself basically (and sometimes even if you are if it's purely utility). There are 2 reasons why, Confusion self damage hits which are based on your own attack, and enemies using Foul Play on your mon. Frankly both of these tend to be rare so not going the extra mile for a 0 attack IV and just settling for a decent one is rarely punished

Yes, run upper hand, drain punch, poison jab snarl assault vest

If GF really wanted to, they can give Registeel Filter like they did MegaAggron. Maybe Regice gets Filter too and Regirock gets Solid Rock. Shame the OG Regis didn't got their own sig ability like -draco and -eleki

It can cause it becomes water

@@MoxieBoosted Oh sorry my Bad. Thought this only accounted for hyper voice. 😅

Timestamps prove you wrong

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