I think you have to do it exclusively. The goal is to make people play other pokemon outside of the norm. It's a really awkward format. Making people wait on level up pokemon is dumb. It feels like a great format to be in the game. Yet having it near the end of the season is wild.
@@rorytribbet6424Why stop play ? rank does not matter in pogo ! End season reward are based on your max rank of the season , so play as much as you want even if you lose to maximise stardust imo
I caught a galarian articuno with solid ivs for this catch cup and it got wrecked. I don’t have enough options to make him viable but dammit it’s spicy lol
It’s not even a themed cup. It’s so stupid. Basically just Niantic saying hey, why don’t you go ahead and waste a bunch of resources for me so you can play GBL
@@christianirizarry5661 not wrong, I'm not here to defend it, I agree it's a stupid cup. I just happened to already make some mons this season and the Zapdos showed up and was going to be built anyways so I'll take it to recoup the stardust
I hope they keep Breaking Swipe as is. Its annoying on Steelix...but it makes Pokemon like Rayquaza viable in Master League and allows it to live up to its status as a legendary
I only spent 70k stardust to level up and double move a 2/14/15 iv lanturn I caught last week. If it wasnt for the lanturn I'd probably struggle a bit more this catch cup.
I like the catch cup because it forces me to use new Pokémon. Hate the catch cup because I have only one meta team, which I formed a year ago. I’m still gonna battle though, I like the booms
Skarmory, scrafty and Medicham got me to veteran yesterday in this cup, which I have never gotten before. Been close, but never reached veteran until now.
For me I like the catch cup because there aren't too many people with Meta Pokemons with 500K stardust, although I won against a Gligar, Medicham and Carbink team with my Hypno, Greedent and Pelipper
I've been using [S] Golbat, [S] Quagsire, and [S] Whiscash. Quagsire is my safe swap, and Whiscash is the closure, though Golbat has had to close a few times, too. Gained 300 elo so far, but you gotta be careful with all the new Trailblazers.
Unpopular opinion, but I love Catch Cup. I just hit Legend for the 3rd season in a row thanks to it, I would probably have never done it without this cup. Every season I will get a few pokemon that are good and meta with good IVs that I would end up making anyway, and there's also the mons from the Community Days, so I don't see it as that expensive. You don't need to run an ultra meta team to win. And it's a good opportunity to see a different meta, instead of the repetitive open Great and Ultra Leagues. I hope Niantic keeps it, maybe just along with some other one for those who don't like it.
I was playing catch cup and got tired of seeing all of the clodsire, so I built this rank 8 swampert I caught this season(had one built already with worse IVs) and started hydro cannoning them in the face gained 200 + elo
My opinion is... the issue is not the fact that Niantic chooses to do catch cup the last week or second to last week, the issue is that they make it so incredibly difficult to power up pokemon to begin with. The catch cup allows some newer/ not as advanced pvp players to compete a bit easier for a week, but this is an issue in the long run. What Niantic should do it something along the lines of allowing new players to power up their Pokes and get moves in this week very easily. Hopefully, if they do this, it will allow players to get competitive Pokes much more easily. I have been in and out of competitive pokemon scene in Ptcg, VGC and smogon since about 2007. Every game, card game, etc has made it easier to make a comp team. Except for PoGo which makes it more difficult every season, for literally every season. I have a ton more to say, but who cares about my opinion?
I think the purpose of the catch cup is to get trainers to spend stardust on new mons that way when you get your stardust at the end of the season it’s almost just replacing what you spent.
So while yes that's true. The main thing is making an environment for new players being able to get into pvp. It's a drug. You start and you can't stop.
Catch cup is a mixed bag for me it sucks if you don't have another team good for it & it's crazy using stardust to basically to "start again" a new team 😂 good maybe for new pokemon to shine
Ideally. But in reality, half the players still have meta relevant pokes. Just played a few sets and there are plenty of players with maxed out Sableyes and Medichams 😔
I'm sure I am in the minority, but as a newer player, it's been fun this week to play against opponents who can't use all of their best meta pokemon that I did not have access to either. I totally get it being annoying as a veteran making a final push at the end of the season.
yea im sorry but breaking swipe needs to be nerfed to match the other moves in the same catergory. either keep the damage and make it a "chance to" move or nuke the damage and guarantee the debuff. its a broken move right now. moderate damage, low cost, guaranteed debuff. one of those needs to go.
I like catch cup i dont like running meta mons. Let me have some fun change it up. Helped me go up a lot of elos....... sadly cant get veteran got all the way up to 2447 and fell apart after
I fought my way up to 2700 in the Ultraleague. Finally have a good team for it and knew the match ups well. Then this shit cup got be down to 2600 again 😂 not going to touch it
I am back playing after last season just playing once go battle weekend, and this time I also playing catch cup. When you reached your goals it is a good chance to play some not meta teams I play with Quagsire, Skeledirge and Charizard ... it is not so good, when the opponent has Pelipper it is hardcore to win, but it is still a bit fun and I will just use Pokemon I don't have yet and in future I can use too, or that are cheap like Skeledirge
Nah catch cup isn’t it. It should be classic or remix format imo. The extra dust is too much of an incentive to pass up, but the whales make it tough to get too into it.
It sucks, I hate it, and IM RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG IF YOU DON'T AGREE. lmao I only have 3 mons I built this season, bombirdier, skeliderge and oinkalogne haha
Catch cup is bullshit. Unless you've been grinding every day since the start of the season, in addition to having 'unlimited' storage, you'll have a tough time. Dropped like 200 elo cause of this crap.
Catch cup is my favorite meta so far. I've only been playing since February of this year so finally I can win on skill and not lose to someone who plays the worst I've ever seen to only reverse sweep me with a armored Mewtwo.
Catch cup should be first week of the next season so elo doesn't matter just have fun
Thats a really good idea tbh
Exclusively catch cup for a week is truly one of the Niantic moments of all time
I think you have to do it exclusively. The goal is to make people play other pokemon outside of the norm. It's a really awkward format. Making people wait on level up pokemon is dumb. It feels like a great format to be in the game. Yet having it near the end of the season is wild.
I'm new to the game, so I've been playing "catch cup" all season. I love it!
Catch cup is only available this week. Maybe the one you’re talking about is great league?
@@colin_brawlstars he probably started playing this season so every pokemon he's using is available for catch cup
I am on the same boat 😂 its awesome
I’ve gone down 360 points because of this cup 😭😭😭
Edit: 400
I hit expert with this cup lol
I dropped 400 from ultra league and am now back up that because of catch cup. Not every one experience is the same.
I went up like 300ELO I love it
Stop plying lol. Save your rank.
@@rorytribbet6424Why stop play ? rank does not matter in pogo ! End season reward are based on your max rank of the season , so play as much as you want even if you lose to maximise stardust imo
15:38 What a Boommmmmmmmm surprise!
they definitely need to run another cup along with catch cup cause its too late in the season in my opinion to spend any stardust on anything new
agreed
I just spent all my stardust on mega garchomp counters so i cant even battle
Just play the game right instead of whining and you won't have any problems with star dust
I hate catch cup. And then yesterday i caught a decent IV galarian zapdos sooo...catch cup is back on the menu
I caught a galarian articuno with solid ivs for this catch cup and it got wrecked. I don’t have enough options to make him viable but dammit it’s spicy lol
It’s not even a themed cup. It’s so stupid. Basically just Niantic saying hey, why don’t you go ahead and waste a bunch of resources for me so you can play GBL
@@johnnyhellkite6347 ah that's unfortunate, congrats on the flex tho!
@@christianirizarry5661 not wrong, I'm not here to defend it, I agree it's a stupid cup. I just happened to already make some mons this season and the Zapdos showed up and was going to be built anyways so I'll take it to recoup the stardust
I have started to hate Pokemon Go PvP
the crocalor user was a prophet. he knew
thanks for shout casting my submission zyonik!!!
13:45 uh oh you know what time it is 😂
I understand the hate, but I'm enjoying it. I'm running Jellicent/Gligar/Steelix. Also, you can use the Pokemon that you hatched this season.
I’ve actually had some pretty decent success with Arctibax lead, Jellicent safe swap (w/ bubblebeam, not surf), and Gligar to close.
I hope they keep Breaking Swipe as is. Its annoying on Steelix...but it makes Pokemon like Rayquaza viable in Master League and allows it to live up to its status as a legendary
I only spent 70k stardust to level up and double move a 2/14/15 iv lanturn I caught last week. If it wasnt for the lanturn I'd probably struggle a bit more this catch cup.
I like the catch cup because it forces me to use new Pokémon. Hate the catch cup because I have only one meta team, which I formed a year ago. I’m still gonna battle though, I like the booms
7:52 if breaking swipe gets buffed I’m deleting the game… clearly misspoke but just scared the hell out of me when I heard it initially lol
Skarmory, scrafty and Medicham got me to veteran yesterday in this cup, which I have never gotten before. Been close, but never reached veteran until now.
For me I like the catch cup because there aren't too many people with Meta Pokemons with 500K stardust, although I won against a Gligar, Medicham and Carbink team with my Hypno, Greedent and Pelipper
That lag is like getting hit with old school dial-up sound 😂
I've been using [S] Golbat, [S] Quagsire, and [S] Whiscash. Quagsire is my safe swap, and Whiscash is the closure, though Golbat has had to close a few times, too. Gained 300 elo so far, but you gotta be careful with all the new Trailblazers.
They should do a 2016 catch cup
The should do gen cups early in the season. Like Kanto cup for the memes of more love to charizard.
I have been running golbat, galarian pancake landfish, and jellicent. Thoughts on this team? I struggle with Lanturns which is the biggest flaw imo.
I had only a few pokemon leveled up. So I gave it a try. Steelix gligar chargabug. Went from 2200 to 2500 in 2 days.
3:48 Pls make that into a tshirt 3 terrible things in life 1.death 2.taxes 3. GBL lag
Unpopular opinion, but I love Catch Cup. I just hit Legend for the 3rd season in a row thanks to it, I would probably have never done it without this cup. Every season I will get a few pokemon that are good and meta with good IVs that I would end up making anyway, and there's also the mons from the Community Days, so I don't see it as that expensive. You don't need to run an ultra meta team to win. And it's a good opportunity to see a different meta, instead of the repetitive open Great and Ultra Leagues. I hope Niantic keeps it, maybe just along with some other one for those who don't like it.
How about shadow cup in next season in which only shadow pokemon will be used
I was playing catch cup and got tired of seeing all of the clodsire, so I built this rank 8 swampert I caught this season(had one built already with worse IVs) and started hydro cannoning them in the face gained 200 + elo
If anyone needs a catch cup team, I’ve been running Peliper, clod, Quag and it has worked extremely well for me
My opinion is... the issue is not the fact that Niantic chooses to do catch cup the last week or second to last week, the issue is that they make it so incredibly difficult to power up pokemon to begin with. The catch cup allows some newer/ not as advanced pvp players to compete a bit easier for a week, but this is an issue in the long run. What Niantic should do it something along the lines of allowing new players to power up their Pokes and get moves in this week very easily. Hopefully, if they do this, it will allow players to get competitive Pokes much more easily. I have been in and out of competitive pokemon scene in Ptcg, VGC and smogon since about 2007. Every game, card game, etc has made it easier to make a comp team. Except for PoGo which makes it more difficult every season, for literally every season. I have a ton more to say, but who cares about my opinion?
I think the purpose of the catch cup is to get trainers to spend stardust on new mons that way when you get your stardust at the end of the season it’s almost just replacing what you spent.
That & trying to get people to go outside and catch Pokemon
So while yes that's true. The main thing is making an environment for new players being able to get into pvp. It's a drug. You start and you can't stop.
i been running shadow dragonite jellicent and clodsire and ive gained 300 eleo in the past 2 days gotta love catch cup
I basically lagged too at 1 hp Pidgeott clicking brave bird orbs vs a yellow HP Gligar.... would it K.O?
THE GOAT IS HERE ! 💯
Can some tell me why Chargbug is better than Vikavolt? Im not even on XL candy range lol.
I regret it when I built medicham in this season i wonder if medicham is still playable next season . 😓
A-Sandslash dominates this meta, and this team is a prime example
agree. tons of clodsires and lack of fighters.
Catch cup is a mixed bag for me it sucks if you don't have another team good for it & it's crazy using stardust to basically to "start again" a new team 😂 good maybe for new pokemon to shine
I'm using toxi awak and jelly and even tho weakness to dark i still flip switch
bro i havent watched you in 2 years but you still upload
Tbh catch cup is fun bcs it forces you to use diffrent pokemon
Ideally. But in reality, half the players still have meta relevant pokes. Just played a few sets and there are plenty of players with maxed out Sableyes and Medichams 😔
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These days I just do gbl and events like com days. I barely have anything of note for catch cup and don’t have the resources to burn anyway.
I'm trying to push from vat to expert and people running azu medi gligar Aslash all meta in catch cup
Hey Zyonik I love your vids! Can you feature some master league when it comes out please?
I have a Dewgong I double elite tmd for the catch cup :)
I caught so many 99-100% pvp iv mons this season so for me Catch Cup is going alrightt😄
Sadly I won't be playing catch cup, I've climbed from 2300's to 2800's since playing ultra league so can't risk dropping elo 🙃
What did you run for UL
+500 ELO in 3 days. 2900 rn
Vivillon has nuke moves I use my XL one in the ultra league
The goat strikes again
Am I a joke to you?
I'm sure I am in the minority, but as a newer player, it's been fun this week to play against opponents who can't use all of their best meta pokemon that I did not have access to either. I totally get it being annoying as a veteran making a final push at the end of the season.
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Doesn’t make sense how it won’t let me use my 1500 charizard but it’ll let me use my unpowered charizard
Catch cup For me is like.. Ok what i have close To 1500
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Ok this team is bonkers👌
This was already my least favorite cup even more so now with charged TMs being harder to come by.
Clodsire is the medi of this catch cup
yea im sorry but breaking swipe needs to be nerfed to match the other moves in the same catergory. either keep the damage and make it a "chance to" move or nuke the damage and guarantee the debuff. its a broken move right now. moderate damage, low cost, guaranteed debuff. one of those needs to go.
Love the booms!
Yea catch cup is so annoying but have been able to build a team to at least keep me above 2000🤦♂️
I like catch cup i dont like running meta mons. Let me have some fun change it up. Helped me go up a lot of elos....... sadly cant get veteran got all the way up to 2447 and fell apart after
Need me a zyonic t shirt with death, taxes and go battle lag
Um I'm confused it says this video has 234k likes is that true?
Yes it has exponentially more likes than views, you are correct.
You are living in the future
running clodsire dratini and dragonite. 400 elo gained
I fought my way up to 2700 in the Ultraleague. Finally have a good team for it and knew the match ups well. Then this shit cup got be down to 2600 again 😂 not going to touch it
I’d like catch cup if they just gave a bunch of stardust.
I’m running shadow a9 umbreon and mud boy and I’ve gained 180 elo lol
This cup is terrible! lol I’m trying to use fun spice teams and all I see is a-sandslash, gligar, medi and lanturn. Where is the spice
I need Charged TMs...
Can't believe people would build a medi n licky 😑😶🌫️
I wouldn’t be opposed to it but the clods are annoying
I am back playing after last season just playing once go battle weekend, and this time I also playing catch cup.
When you reached your goals it is a good chance to play some not meta teams
I play with Quagsire, Skeledirge and Charizard ... it is not so good, when the opponent has Pelipper it is hardcore to win, but it is still a bit fun and I will just use Pokemon I don't have yet and in future I can use too, or that are cheap like Skeledirge
and i've just got a 30 day last warning ban:(
Nah catch cup isn’t it. It should be classic or remix format imo. The extra dust is too much of an incentive to pass up, but the whales make it tough to get too into it.
3:40 😐
It sucks, I hate it, and IM RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG IF YOU DON'T AGREE. lmao I only have 3 mons I built this season, bombirdier, skeliderge and oinkalogne haha
Let's go!
This is absolutely the WORST battle league. I cannot stand it.
You and AK are the only channels I don't post hate for this mode on
Hate catch up so much
rawr
Catch cup is bullshit. Unless you've been grinding every day since the start of the season, in addition to having 'unlimited' storage, you'll have a tough time.
Dropped like 200 elo cause of this crap.
Catch cup is my favorite meta so far. I've only been playing since February of this year so finally I can win on skill and not lose to someone who plays the worst I've ever seen to only reverse sweep me with a armored Mewtwo.
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I maxed out for the day. Anyone want to run some battles? 😅
Catch cup is a nonsense cup I would say…
I hate steelix so fucking much. Hopefully it gets nerfed
The Catch Cup sucks 😂😂😂 my opinion and perspective
Algo doing algo things, jelli the back and every single leadout is ghost or super effective to jelli…… such a lame system.
Catch cup sucks and so does Niantic for making it in the first place.
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Catch cup aka a week off of PVP, literally trash
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