I enjoy how positive you are the whole time even when it seems like the game was against you or when you are getting your shit pushed in. Fav pogotuber
Dragonair has been my nightmare this season. I continuously bump into a team that must be popular this season which is Dragonair, Skarmory & Lanturn. I was using one of your recommended teams which was Whiscash, Skarmory & Gligar which just had ZERO win opportunities against this team (Whiscash in lead). I ran into it so often and lost every time that I started hard countering Dragonair in the lead and what do you know? I never saw this team…. Until I changed back to my old team and bam it’s back again. I swear GBL chooses opponents based on your lineup.
They do lol. I don’t think that’s debatable. Change your lead and you’ll see different Pokémon. If only we knew the odds of seeing certain Pokémon based on your lead 🤔
That's actually crazy because i made that exact team (Dragonair, skarmory, and lanturn) all on my own and encountered the exact team you are using. If that was you, sorry bro, it happens
Real similar to my team, a bit more balanced as mine. I play chesnaught lead, Talonflame sweep and s. Charizard as swap. As your team is more balanced, with a s. Charizard you always lure out a talon flame, whiscash or Bastiodon (if it’s there). And honestly, if the opponent swap 1 sek to late and try to farm down the s charizard with Lanturn or try to overfarm with whiscash they have to shield or lose switch. And Bastiodon kills s. So fast that you can farm with your lead Easy till it’s not worth for the opponent to swap out. Biggest threat for me is dragonair lead, because they always double shield this, or altaria… Anyway dragonair with 2 shields is way to strong in this meta… for next season I’ll built a team around ice. Tried this season with psychic based teams around, but only Deoxys really works and I predict wrong and expected more fighting mons since Medicham vanquish. Maybe a come back for s. Machamp? But the ape killed my thoughts😁 I really like your instructions, keep on going.
I've gained 400 elo running Charjabug/Trev/Lanturn. SO many water/grass leads that Char can take care of. No one expects the second electric in the back. Talonflame lead can be tricky but doable. Any other fire lead though and it's instant top left. Mudbois are tricky but doable, unless if its Clodsire.
on the battle at 21 minutes against lanturn lead, when u had 2 psycho boosts you shoulve used one, swapped to talon flame and saved it because of the de buff
@20:08 I think you would have won if you didn’t throw double psycho boost, but only threw one then swapped. Since there is the attack drop, I think holding back the 2nd move would have dealt more damage to the lanturn later and won you the battle. GGs anyway.
In the long run, this team works. Mine is similar, more aggressive but not so balanced. You get free wins with Bastiodon leads, you can play around bad Leads etc. … dragonair s. Is a beast with 2 shields, can beat most steels types if it wants. Talonflame is such a good closer, with good bulk… there is no water quickmove in the meta right now. Anyway over time you win more as you loose. This team I better than mine, and I still reached legend with ~500fights in GL(and only GL this season) … and sure I had luck in the last 2 sets (which you always need, but had bad luck at expert 2745-> and I lost straight down to 2550… happens everyone)
How long have you been playing? By the way I'm in the same boat and been playing about 5 months, this is my second season also. It's tough man, I do need to build better mons but I have so much to learn on counting and do a better job at fast move timing. Goodluck moving forward
what is the ideal iv for dragonair? I have a shadow dragonair with high ranked IV by poke genie (attack nearly 0) and this one has absolutely no fast move pressure whatsoever. I was wondering if dragonair is better off with high attack stats.
Hey I saw u use aquatail in some scenarios where body slam is also neutral. Isn’t body slam the same energy but more damage? Or did u do this to get more farm?
I dont power up or use pokemon over rank 100, am i too picky with my IV choice? Still dont have some pokemon like shadow dragonaire due to the being picky
Nah man your good. I only use top 100 as well. It just drives me to hunt harder. Shadows come and go. It's all luck on when you'll get the lucky pvp shadow pokemon ivs. Only few mons where it doesn't matter is like d.d. lol
Since dd isn't tradeable, ivs truthfully don't matter all that much. It can be if you plan on using dust, you want too try and make the dust spent back on it by using it I'd say.
@ZyoniK Sry to ping you zyonik, ik you prob get that alot. But while you're here, I have a question. I've been battling for season to season. But I never get over ace and into vet? I have good teams and I'm learning counts, but I still seem to struggle. Any suggestions to reach vet from ace?? Again sry to bother you
D.D. Is a counter user, so personally, I'd suggest another counter user, the 2 that come to mind is annihilape or poliwrath, sure medi and vigo exist, but I do think medi has rly fallen off and vigo is better as a ss and not a lead.
I don’t want to jump too much into conclusions but normally you’re very chipper in your videos. Idunno it seems like you’re sad-doggin’ us (like mad-dogging, or mean-mugging, if you saw Get Hard you’d know what I mean immediately lmao) or tired but hey I could be totally wrong 😅 just hope everything’s alright with you keep up the great work on your videos 👍🏻
Love these longform style of videos. Really teaches you how to play the team and deal with certain matchups.
Same! I like when Zyonik pauses and explains things 'cause I'm too slow to understand all the nuances 😂
I enjoy how positive you are the whole time even when it seems like the game was against you or when you are getting your shit pushed in. Fav pogotuber
Dragonair has been my nightmare this season. I continuously bump into a team that must be popular this season which is Dragonair, Skarmory & Lanturn. I was using one of your recommended teams which was Whiscash, Skarmory & Gligar which just had ZERO win opportunities against this team (Whiscash in lead). I ran into it so often and lost every time that I started hard countering Dragonair in the lead and what do you know? I never saw this team…. Until I changed back to my old team and bam it’s back again. I swear GBL chooses opponents based on your lineup.
They do lol. I don’t think that’s debatable. Change your lead and you’ll see different Pokémon. If only we knew the odds of seeing certain Pokémon based on your lead 🤔
Steelix beats dragonair anyday
I love that team, I ran it all go battle week.
That team was popularized bc it’s an rps team to the max. Just max a lead that bodies dair and u win every timr
That's actually crazy because i made that exact team (Dragonair, skarmory, and lanturn) all on my own and encountered the exact team you are using. If that was you, sorry bro, it happens
21:00 ; this is why people including me like using lanturn❤❤❤
Real similar to my team, a bit more balanced as mine.
I play chesnaught lead, Talonflame sweep and s. Charizard as swap.
As your team is more balanced, with a s. Charizard you always lure out a talon flame, whiscash or Bastiodon (if it’s there).
And honestly, if the opponent swap 1 sek to late and try to farm down the s charizard with Lanturn or try to overfarm with whiscash they have to shield or lose switch. And Bastiodon kills s. So fast that you can farm with your lead Easy till it’s not worth for the opponent to swap out.
Biggest threat for me is dragonair lead, because they always double shield this, or altaria…
Anyway dragonair with 2 shields is way to strong in this meta… for next season I’ll built a team around ice. Tried this season with psychic based teams around, but only Deoxys really works and I predict wrong and expected more fighting mons since Medicham vanquish. Maybe a come back for s. Machamp? But the ape killed my thoughts😁
I really like your instructions, keep on going.
I definitely like how you've been pausing and talking through the strategies lately on the videos. Nice to hear the thought process. Well done Z!
I've gained 400 elo running Charjabug/Trev/Lanturn. SO many water/grass leads that Char can take care of. No one expects the second electric in the back. Talonflame lead can be tricky but doable. Any other fire lead though and it's instant top left. Mudbois are tricky but doable, unless if its Clodsire.
I was running a shadow Dragonair lead, shadow Whiscash swap, and a Charjabug in the back for spice
on the battle at 21 minutes against lanturn lead, when u had 2 psycho boosts you shoulve used one, swapped to talon flame and saved it because of the de buff
At 4:30 wouldn’t it be better to flame charge instead of fly as the whiscash was so low it would still take them out and give you a boost?
@20:08 I think you would have won if you didn’t throw double psycho boost, but only threw one then swapped. Since there is the attack drop, I think holding back the 2nd move would have dealt more damage to the lanturn later and won you the battle. GGs anyway.
Of course the cover ‘mon is a DRAGON!
The algorithm is Zyonik s best friend. I barely attempted this team and I was wrecked with every single lead
Dude, this is all showcases, if you really want to see the madness of GBL just watch live streamer
I mean, Zyonik doesn't always win lead though. It's about knowing the team and when to store energy and swap.
Just like other poster said this is strictly a showcase, in all reality it's about 50 50 on good lead or not
In the long run, this team works.
Mine is similar, more aggressive but not so balanced.
You get free wins with Bastiodon leads, you can play around bad Leads etc. … dragonair s. Is a beast with 2 shields, can beat most steels types if it wants.
Talonflame is such a good closer, with good bulk… there is no water quickmove in the meta right now.
Anyway over time you win more as you loose.
This team I better than mine, and I still reached legend with ~500fights in GL(and only GL this season) … and sure I had luck in the last 2 sets (which you always need, but had bad luck at expert 2745-> and I lost straight down to 2550… happens everyone)
My struggle has been getting out of the 1850-2050 range. So many different teams and wildcards
How long have you been playing? By the way I'm in the same boat and been playing about 5 months, this is my second season also. It's tough man, I do need to build better mons but I have so much to learn on counting and do a better job at fast move timing. Goodluck moving forward
Mvp of gl this season
Charjabug Lickitung cressilia whishcash and shadow Gligar ❤❤
what is the ideal iv for dragonair? I have a shadow dragonair with high ranked IV by poke genie (attack nearly 0) and this one has absolutely no fast move pressure whatsoever. I was wondering if dragonair is better off with high attack stats.
Wow! I lost 140 elo in 2 sets using this team getting hit with ghost leads almost every game! Thanks zyonik!
I just built a shadow dragonair to use this team but i ran out of tms so i had dragon pulse & i used it on a lanturn to win the game it was fun🤣
😂🔥🔥🔥🔥
Same here but against an Altaria. Survived with 1 HP lol
It just took me 3 battles... Ggs trainer
Yo Z..if i dont have Tflame..what can i use as a replacement?this team is super stonks tbh
Great video
THE CHAMP IS HERE !
Hey I saw u use aquatail in some scenarios where body slam is also neutral. Isn’t body slam the same energy but more damage? Or did u do this to get more farm?
Body Slam is indeed the same amount of energy (35) and does more damage, don't go for Aqua Tail like Zyonik if both moves are neutral
Y do you use aqua tail instead of body slam in neutral situations? I think body slam is way better, btw ggs
Why do you use 14/13/5 shadow dragonair? Isn't it very bad IV's? @ZyoniK
I can make this team...I'll give it a shot
13:51 You might make it to the body slam with a high rank Dragonair👌
I understand why use the sadow dragonair but I have been using the regular one and its awmazing
I think that was me in the second battle 🥲 didn’t expect fly on talonflame and messed up so bad that I just rage quit.. GG tho
glad for me i have all of them 🎉🎉🎉
What ELO did you finish (so far)?
Show me the Goat 🔥
I need 500k dust for this….just used a basti, shadow Vic, annialape team felt like a breath of fresh air…went 17 and 8
Nice! That’s a fun team too
How to remove frustration from shadow Pokemon sir?
Use a charge tm during a team rocket takeover
Ty for the long vid
i have rank 74 sableye should i power it up or should i grind more for the better ivs?
All in the 100 Ranks Are good
If it's rank 74 purified Sableye, it's highly unlikely you'll get a better one
@@JayronTorres-r4u yeah its purified one ,i think i should power it up after i collect some stardusts , thanks tho
I dont power up or use pokemon over rank 100, am i too picky with my IV choice? Still dont have some pokemon like shadow dragonaire due to the being picky
If you do pvp daily it's a must to have in your roster.
Nah man your good. I only use top 100 as well. It just drives me to hunt harder. Shadows come and go. It's all luck on when you'll get the lucky pvp shadow pokemon ivs. Only few mons where it doesn't matter is like d.d. lol
@dragunlundberg9582 I only power up good iv pvp pokemon. Its only a few pokemon the shadow is better than normal one
@@ThomasoElg been grinding hard this rocket event, no luck yet
@ThomasoElg that's what I mean. I only make top 100 pvp iv pokemon tbh, anything 98 or higher up percent in gbl
Alternative for deoxys?
Same question, I was about to ask 😂...
Still dont have one :(
Anyone with counter . @ogloco7555 @@Aizen_Sosuke_11
Same question here! A lot of people said Hypno but it has no coverage against Steel and Rock (except with Focusblast) so I have no idea...
Poliwrath, annihilape, maybe medi I'd say
14:00 why lantern, why not bastidon ?
Worth double moving a 14/10/15 1474 cp DD? Only one i have
Yes.
Since dd isn't tradeable, ivs truthfully don't matter all that much. It can be if you plan on using dust, you want too try and make the dust spent back on it by using it I'd say.
@@dragunlundberg9582 oh yea i complete forgot you could not trade it. Defo gonna build it then
Yeah, worth!
@ZyoniK Sry to ping you zyonik, ik you prob get that alot. But while you're here, I have a question. I've been battling for season to season. But I never get over ace and into vet? I have good teams and I'm learning counts, but I still seem to struggle. Any suggestions to reach vet from ace?? Again sry to bother you
Just know I'll be seeing this team later lol
Couldn't run this team. See Azu as 50% of leads if my team is remotely weak to it.
Azu lead is good for this team though, you get it out of the way early and talonflame sweeps their backline
Replacements for dd
D.D. Is a counter user, so personally, I'd suggest another counter user, the 2 that come to mind is annihilape or poliwrath, sure medi and vigo exist, but I do think medi has rly fallen off and vigo is better as a ss and not a lead.
I'm over this game. I just got a new Samsung S24 and it's crashing in 1/3 of my GBL sets. I'm fed up with this POS game
It could always be a Lanturn, the game should be called Lanturn Go.
give awak drill run
I don’t want to jump too much into conclusions but normally you’re very chipper in your videos. Idunno it seems like you’re sad-doggin’ us (like mad-dogging, or mean-mugging, if you saw Get Hard you’d know what I mean immediately lmao) or tired but hey I could be totally wrong 😅 just hope everything’s alright with you keep up the great work on your videos 👍🏻
Been up since 4am, kiddos had a rough night sleep
Disclaimer:These battles are played at water pulse whiscash elo kek
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