Very excited for this episode of Road to Ranked where Aaron Cybertron climbs the online Regulation F VGC ladder and provides live commentary as he goes - featuring a really wild team with a ton of surprises up its sleeve
Very happy to see my team showcased on RTR once again:) This team was made for preparations to Global Challenge, a BO1 format online event. If anyone wants to try them out on the ladder always try to act as if you're playing a fast standard rain team haha Thanks again Aaron for sharing this team! P.S. Hope you had fun at READY TO BE😉
In the Explosion calc at the end you forgot to add the Choice Band rather than the Life Orb, the Crit still ends up mattering if they have bulk but : 132+ Atk Choice Band Tera-Normal Regieleki Explosion vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Gouging Fire: 169-199 (93.3 - 109.9%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
Bro, thanks for these videos. I listen to them on my commutes to work. You describe it so well that it feels like im watching it while only listening. I learn so much.
Hi Aaron! I know the importance of knowing your viewership, so I wanted to shout out that I LOVE the 1hr+ videos! I'm just one guy but I'm getting serious about VGC and the insight you bring is so amazing. When you're playing a game with literally hundreds of variables, you need all the tidbits of information you can get lol. Rooting for you 😎😎
I think it would be nifty if each of the Power EV Accessories gave like a 20% boost to their respective stat in exchange for lowering speed. I think for the speed and HP ones you could do like a 20% damage reduction or increase in in exchange for a similar boost in speed. This could mix up traditional trick room teams and a sort of B-grade scarf to some bulk. Thoughts? Clean look! 😎
20% is absurdly broken. Imagine like Ursaluna Bloodmoon with this idea and that special attack boost. The main counterplay just doesn’t exist anymore LOL.
Some great games and loved this team, Choice Specs Pelipper especially. A Bo1 strat I really liked was Freezai using Fire Tera Blast Trick Room Farigiraf in Smogon Champion's League Week 3, 2023
Really cool to see Brave Rapid strike in a TR setup team. I didn't have a min speed one so I ran Room Service with acrobatics to deal with the grass types back in reg d
Hey hoping Aaron or somebody in the comment section can answer a couple questions for me. Would it be smarter to have room service as urshifus held item so that you aren’t stuck being the slowest on the field when trickroom isn’t active ? U can switch out to lose your speed being lowered … or is there a reason power anklet is better for these circumstances? Also does a power anklet make u slower than room service would? Thank you and thank you cybertron for showcasing teams and always having great videos!
I tried Urshifu with power brace about 2 months ago on one of my many trick room teams. It was fine. What really was useful for me was Camerup with Power Brace time ago as it can do tons of dame with Eruption and Earth Power
I went VS this team today on showdown and hadn't seen this video yet, i complimented the guy on it and he was telling me how it's his original team with secret spreads etc LOL
QotD: Back in SwSh, I messed around wiith a team using Dragapult, Terrakion & Zoroark. Now at team preview this looks like a standard beat up/justified combo… but it was actually WP Dragapult & Zoroark disguised as Terrakion w/ side-sucker punch & Burning Jealousy. The amount of people that quit when their prankster T-Wave failed against “Terrakion” 💀
what do you recommend to climb up the doubles ladder? Since I generally wait for a good team to be showcased after the new season started, but in this season not a lot of team were showcased by Aaron and they were all "niche" teams I always assumed it wasn't good to use a team showcased in the previous season, like a month before, as meta tends to change
Oh... This makes so much more sense now... I don't know if I ran into this specific team on the ladder, but I did have a confusing encounter with an Urshifu that outsped my Incineroar in my own TR. I ended up winning anyways, due to having 2 slower mons besides that with Torkoal, and A-Exeggutor, but that certainly was a surprise Edit: Just checked my recordings, and apparently I misremembered, I did not run into this team in particular. A bunch of Gholdengo, Farigiraf, Flutter and Urshifu, but none with these 6 mons
The difficult part is to get 0 speed IV Urshifu, especially if you already got 1 and maxed its speed. Funny enough i got myself 0 speed Walking Wake and i am planning to make it work under trick room.
Google pikalytics regulation f vgc and if you go to the pikalytics site it should have the usage percentages and you can see common items/moves/etc. You can change format as well on the site I just find it easier to look for the format directly in the search engine
The nature gives you a 10% boost in a stat right? Why are you not choosing a Jolly nature Regileki and no investement in speed? Then you have a overall higher stat total right? Because +10% with that speed stat is 220 speed
I’m not fully familiar with the maranga berry, what’s the logic of using that over booster spdef? sure you have a slightly better matchup into sun but booster would protect against trick taking away your boost before it can activate as well as shielding against the first attack as well
Booster spdef requires your spdef to be higher than spattk (so can't use modest), and reveals shenanigans in the first place in a hard bluff team whereas you probably already have trick room up by the time they see a maranga berry. Realistically I think either is fine
I'd lean towards you being correct here. You always mitigate the damage if you dont need to switch, but it has the disadvantage of telling your opponent how you are invested and that seems to be what this team intends to hide on everyone. The boost coming in after you've locked into a scarf chiyu/specs move from something else could be devastating
The problem with this team is that literally NOBODY has a LEGAL 0 speed iv urshifu lol. Definitely not a tournament option, other than you really wanna softreset just for that special set
QOTD: my most successful best of 1 team has a calm mind suicune with enough sp.atk to oneshot lando with ice beam. And then a choice scarf regidrago to clean up late game. It’s been a consistent team ive been using since dynamax in SwSh, and now things are squishier since you cant double your hp anymore. So drago can sweep late game pretty easy
Now that we've seen Maranga Berry absolutely pop off, is there any chance we see Kee Berry in a future team? (For those unaware, Kee Berry is the physical counterpart to Maranga Berry)
Maybe, it'd work well on any high def mon w/body press especially but Urshifu will be a perpetual thorn since crits ignore it (and it'll mostly be for ladder shenanigans instead of tournaments since they're open teamsheet)
Really cool team. It is always fun to play around your enemies expectations. Just wish the youtube(?) compression wouldn't make the video look like 480p half of the time.
QOTD: 1) Sturdy Mirror Coat Avalugg 2) Latias Psych up + Stored Power, after leading with Smeargle with Moody and Minimize Alolan-Muk with Power of Alchemy
I'm really curious why Farigiraf is zero speed IVs but not -speed nature. Is that a mistake or is there a notable bench mark between the two in and out of trick room?
Very excited for this episode of Road to Ranked where Aaron Cybertron climbs the online Regulation F VGC ladder and provides live commentary as he goes - featuring a really wild team with a ton of surprises up its sleeve
This was top comment during my intro, gave me a good chuckle 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Very excited for this comment that's on nearly all of his videos
The earrings!? Okay Aaron, we see you 😎
Man’s got DRIP
Im so into it. Time to climb the attraction ladder
im ded 🤣💀@@christiank5675
the KPOP look
Aaron looking like a certified rocket these last few vids.
He is so cute and handsome! 🤩
Very happy to see my team showcased on RTR once again:)
This team was made for preparations to Global Challenge, a BO1 format online event.
If anyone wants to try them out on the ladder always try to act as if you're playing a fast standard rain team haha
Thanks again Aaron for sharing this team!
P.S. Hope you had fun at READY TO BE😉
really sick teams dude!
Cool team but please tell me how you found a min speed Kubfu!!
@@eesev2017 save in front of it and reset until you get one. I was lucky enough to get it quickly enough
In the Explosion calc at the end you forgot to add the Choice Band rather than the Life Orb, the Crit still ends up mattering if they have bulk but : 132+ Atk Choice Band Tera-Normal Regieleki Explosion vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Gouging Fire: 169-199 (93.3 - 109.9%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
Bro, thanks for these videos. I listen to them on my commutes to work. You describe it so well that it feels like im watching it while only listening. I learn so much.
Thank you so much for watching 🙏🙏
Hi Aaron! I know the importance of knowing your viewership, so I wanted to shout out that I LOVE the 1hr+ videos! I'm just one guy but I'm getting serious about VGC and the insight you bring is so amazing. When you're playing a game with literally hundreds of variables, you need all the tidbits of information you can get lol. Rooting for you 😎😎
Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching!!!
Hi! I am the player of game 3!is an honor to play with you Aron!
The k pop glow up is real.
Haven’t got past team preview and I’m already hyped to see this.
This team was cooked up the lab of a mad genius lol
bro learned attract by level up
The battles and Aaron's drip here is too much 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Okay Aaron lookin good! I see you with the haircut! And the earrings okay!!
I think it would be nifty if each of the Power EV Accessories gave like a 20% boost to their respective stat in exchange for lowering speed. I think for the speed and HP ones you could do like a 20% damage reduction or increase in in exchange for a similar boost in speed. This could mix up traditional trick room teams and a sort of B-grade scarf to some bulk. Thoughts?
Clean look! 😎
20% is absurdly broken. Imagine like Ursaluna Bloodmoon with this idea and that special attack boost. The main counterplay just doesn’t exist anymore LOL.
I suppose the 20% was in order to give a use case to other niche items.
Aaron calling the side scary face "cute" 😂 thanks for these uploads!
Some great games and loved this team, Choice Specs Pelipper especially. A Bo1 strat I really liked was Freezai using Fire Tera Blast Trick Room Farigiraf in Smogon Champion's League Week 3, 2023
Really cool to see Brave Rapid strike in a TR setup team. I didn't have a min speed one so I ran Room Service with acrobatics to deal with the grass types back in reg d
Hey hoping Aaron or somebody in the comment section can answer a couple questions for me. Would it be smarter to have room service as urshifus held item so that you aren’t stuck being the slowest on the field when trickroom isn’t active ? U can switch out to lose your speed being lowered … or is there a reason power anklet is better for these circumstances? Also does a power anklet make u slower than room service would? Thank you and thank you cybertron for showcasing teams and always having great videos!
Hyped for this new video. Let’s go😊. Greetings from Germany
AARON u look so good bro!! I just wanna say thank you for fun content as always. U are my favorite Pokémon youtuber :)
Thank you for the kind words and for watching, it means the world to me!!!
I tried Urshifu with power brace about 2 months ago on one of my many trick room teams. It was fine.
What really was useful for me was Camerup with Power Brace time ago as it can do tons of dame with Eruption and Earth Power
I went VS this team today on showdown and hadn't seen this video yet, i complimented the guy on it and he was telling me how it's his original team with secret spreads etc LOL
Best commentator in the world right here. Pretty good battler too.
Damn Pelipper got hands.
Simple Beam quad boost Dondozo is easily my fav best of 1 closed team sheet hahahaha
Got a paste?
I love this team. Looks like a lot of fun.
I really wanted that Ambipon to come out. 😂
I've never seen one in Doubles, only singles.
51:02 that moment when u realize trick room goes up 🥴🥴 with that team?! enemy must be so confused
What an interesting berry on flutter mane, I have never seen that ever in my career in VGC
QotD: Back in SwSh, I messed around wiith a team using Dragapult, Terrakion & Zoroark. Now at team preview this looks like a standard beat up/justified combo… but it was actually WP Dragapult & Zoroark disguised as Terrakion w/ side-sucker punch & Burning Jealousy.
The amount of people that quit when their prankster T-Wave failed against “Terrakion” 💀
okay earringssss
he's evolving before our eyes
REGINALD MY BELOVED
L000ng episode, thanks for the effort Aaron
Thank you for watching!!!
51:58 I didn't know side prankster moves worked on dark types
HAIRCUT AND EARRINGS, AARON YOU HANDSOME DEVIL GOOD LORD SIR…wait we’re talking Pokemons right?
I've been building around room service urshifu rapid for quite a bit now. One cool thing you can do is have Acrobat to ko rillabloom
what do you recommend to climb up the doubles ladder? Since I generally wait for a good team to be showcased after the new season started, but in this season not a lot of team were showcased by Aaron and they were all "niche" teams
I always assumed it wasn't good to use a team showcased in the previous season, like a month before, as meta tends to change
Oh... This makes so much more sense now... I don't know if I ran into this specific team on the ladder, but I did have a confusing encounter with an Urshifu that outsped my Incineroar in my own TR. I ended up winning anyways, due to having 2 slower mons besides that with Torkoal, and A-Exeggutor, but that certainly was a surprise
Edit: Just checked my recordings, and apparently I misremembered, I did not run into this team in particular. A bunch of Gholdengo, Farigiraf, Flutter and Urshifu, but none with these 6 mons
“I can bring flutter and just explode” is one of my new favorite concepts
When did Aaron become an idol? A new hairdo and earrings, and he looks amazing. lol If only it were so easy for the masses.
Edit: Punctuation
QOTD : Does the Perish Song Trap strat counts?
The difficult part is to get 0 speed IV Urshifu, especially if you already got 1 and maxed its speed.
Funny enough i got myself 0 speed Walking Wake and i am planning to make it work under trick room.
Where do you go to find optimal EV spreads? I always want to try somwthing newer but i dont know where to look
Google pikalytics regulation f vgc and if you go to the pikalytics site it should have the usage percentages and you can see common items/moves/etc. You can change format as well on the site I just find it easier to look for the format directly in the search engine
Come through, piercings! Looks great (not sure if they're new or if you're just sharing them with us now)
Cyberton lookin HM02!!!
new hair and ears pierced
BAD BOY AARON CYBERTRON ZHANG IS IN FULL EFFECT
How come the bitrate has been so low for the past few videos? The particle effects and his face look blurry. 13:38
Why not just Booster Energy on Flutter? Probably more reliable but with a slight reduction in bulk after (potential) proc
I ran this team in reg e I believe and did really well in regionals just very easy to read into
I ran a Midnight Lycanroc, skillswap No guard onto dondozo for 100% fissures in the First Gen 9 Global challenge. Was super fun, didnt do great tho.
First impression haxorus with all the expanding force spam
Wouldn't work because of psychic terrain blocking priority
how prankster tornadus used sacry face on dark ushifu???
this team features a Cybertron holding the earings item with 252 in rizz lol
Aaron "The pimp" Cybertron i see you dude!!🤟
This explains a lot
The nature gives you a 10% boost in a stat right? Why are you not choosing a Jolly nature Regileki and no investement in speed? Then you have a overall higher stat total right? Because +10% with that speed stat is 220 speed
The kubfu of my Scarlet game is 0 Speed and 0 Atk. Really considering making it a TR special attacker just for the lulz.
thank god my new team its ready for this team
NEW EPISODE LET’S GO!!!
Damn those pokemon.
Aaron you are looking so cool recently? Also, love me a specs pelly.
QOTD: DDozo Tatsu + a simple beam user (probably Latios) for +4s. Trying to build my first team with them but it's so tedious & inaccessible
I’m not fully familiar with the maranga berry, what’s the logic of using that over booster spdef? sure you have a slightly better matchup into sun but booster would protect against trick taking away your boost before it can activate as well as shielding against the first attack as well
Booster spdef requires your spdef to be higher than spattk (so can't use modest), and reveals shenanigans in the first place in a hard bluff team whereas you probably already have trick room up by the time they see a maranga berry. Realistically I think either is fine
I understand Aaron didnt make this team, but wouldn't a booster energy on the Flutter be more efficient, vs getting the +1 spdef after being attacekd?
I'd lean towards you being correct here. You always mitigate the damage if you dont need to switch, but it has the disadvantage of telling your opponent how you are invested and that seems to be what this team intends to hide on everyone. The boost coming in after you've locked into a scarf chiyu/specs move from something else could be devastating
@@trick6pokemon624 trueskies, you right on all accounts. Sheeeeit, you got a youtube channel like Aarons too? Ill watch it.
am i crazy but are the earrings new
Aaron be getting dat gyatt with alla dat drippp 👀👀👀
He did have heavy slam
Cool Team, but I dont really see the point of Maranga Berry. SpDef is your highest stat anyway so you might as well just run Booster Energy
Yo, sick earrings!
qotd: scarf or specs cress. AV bundle in hail.
0 iv storm drain gastrodon for counter
Shiny Dragonite is sooooo pretty
specs pelipper is my favourite mon
The problem with this team is that literally NOBODY has a LEGAL 0 speed iv urshifu lol.
Definitely not a tournament option, other than you really wanna softreset just for that special set
It's a bo1 team, no One would use this in a bo3 Open teamsheet tournament
QOTD: my most successful best of 1 team has a calm mind suicune with enough sp.atk to oneshot lando with ice beam. And then a choice scarf regidrago to clean up late game. It’s been a consistent team ive been using since dynamax in SwSh, and now things are squishier since you cant double your hp anymore. So drago can sweep late game pretty easy
Comment for the algorithm
niceeeeeeeeeee
Pog
Long intro you are so boring
Look at this stud wearing studs.
Opponet: *Sides Scary Face*
Aaron: "Oh, that's cute lol"
Me: Savage 😂
I was completely destroyed by this Urshifu in the Global Challenge and I hadn't understood what happened until now.
I was using Trick Room😢
I knew this team had to be for Global Challenge shenanigans before you even said it lol
Anybody notice Aaron looking real good lately 👀
ooooo earrings!
Why do Rhyperior and Fluttermane look like two lovers outside on a rainy night at 01:02:10 ?
Whats this new pokem… nvm just aaron with a middlepart n studs
Now that we've seen Maranga Berry absolutely pop off, is there any chance we see Kee Berry in a future team? (For those unaware, Kee Berry is the physical counterpart to Maranga Berry)
Maybe, it'd work well on any high def mon w/body press especially but Urshifu will be a perpetual thorn since crits ignore it (and it'll mostly be for ladder shenanigans instead of tournaments since they're open teamsheet)
Really cool team. It is always fun to play around your enemies expectations.
Just wish the youtube(?) compression wouldn't make the video look like 480p half of the time.
Choice specs pelipper - Aaron “Gigachad” Zheng
That archaludon play at 19:44 is wild! This is why i love Pokemon. There is so much clever stuff you can pull off.
That Pelipper Muddy Water with Helping Hand did absolutely unethical amounts of damage, what in the goddamn.
51:55 “Aw, that's cute.” Even people like Aaron can be ruthless. 😂😂
Aaron changed his look irl and in-game
QOTD:
1) Sturdy Mirror Coat Avalugg
2) Latias Psych up + Stored Power, after leading with Smeargle with Moody and Minimize Alolan-Muk with Power of Alchemy
I'm really curious why Farigiraf is zero speed IVs but not -speed nature. Is that a mistake or is there a notable bench mark between the two in and out of trick room?
You’re looking good man. Earrings, nice haircut. Looking for a girlfriend or boyfriend? Either way, I like the new look!
I run TR and the idea of finding a min speed Kubfu seems like such a slog so that’s some crazy luck for this creator
My fave best of one strat I like is Curselax with any healer support like Comfey or Cresselia.
Have you always had your ears pierced, bro? Looking good