Hey Aaron. Recently lost my dad, and then my dog a few weeks later. I very much appreciate your videos. I know it's a job on your end, but the 90 minute distraction from life is always very much appreciated. Thanks much.
Hey man, I’m so sorry for your losses, I’m sure they were very lucky to have you in their lives. Thanks for watching the videos, I’m grateful they can be helpful in such a difficult time and it’s the least I could do. Take care of yourself man, I’m thinking of you ❤️🩹
I may be addicted to these videos. I've been checking in like 3 - 4 times per day to see if anything new had been uploaded, lol. Never been this early before, but I'm hungry and dinner has just been served 😂 (literally and figuratively)
Love your stuff aaron - congrats on the MBA by the way. I got mine a few years back and worked at Accenture, and it reminds me how cool it was to be around so many people who are world class in such a diverse group of interests. I would imagine your success with pokemon / content creation was a super interesting story to tell in interviews... Hope you have just as much success in the corporate world!
MBA as a literal master in business administration. He did on Stanford (one of the best in the world and tech oriented) and he recently started working at BCG consulting. I am impressed he keeps his content releases.
QOTD: Not exactly a specific pokemon but buff Cloud Nine so that it also dissables things like Tailwind; this will indirectly buff Ray, Altaria and some other mons in need of a little boost
This was my absolute favorite team coming out of Worlds last year. One of my friends and I were looking through the Day 2 teams and the transition from "what was bro cooking" to "holy $#!& bro was cooking" as we looked through the teamsheet was super cool.
I hate to be one of those guys but due to power creep I think the only way to really buff alot of gen 3 pokemon like Tropius, sableye, and many single stage is to give them an evolution. I'm old enough to remember when base 100 speed was rare and gave those mons a real edge lol
Sableye is already good and as a prankster mon just giving it more great support moves is enough. Tropius is terrible but giving it something like wind rider or some other great ability could make it usable in certain formats.
I saw a bunch of Groudons during the latest Sitrus Series! Groudon seems to be picking up a lot and it's such a weird coincidence that it happened right after your video featuring him! I love you're videos featuring underrated mons!
You know, this WHOLE time, I thought Gravity just made everything perfectly accurate. I did not know that it was just a 1.7x multiplier, thank you for mentioning it at the start, Aaron!
A team without Caly, Inci, Rilla and Urshi? Let's go! Groudon I think reached top 16 on the last Regionals, unfortunately the team wasn't that interesting
QotD - Buff Luvdisc: New Typing: Water / Fairy New Ability: Competitive New Stats: 98 HP / 30 Atk / 75 Def / 95 SpA / 95 SpD / 117 Spe New Attacking Moves: Moonblast / Dazzling Gleam / Alluring Voice, Thunderbolt / Thunder, Focus Blast / Aura Sphere New Status Moves: Quick Guard, Follow Me, Life Dew, Glare, Lovely Kiss You could also just make this an evolution of Luvdisc, and could probably get away with an addition 20-30 BST in that case.
I just wanna say that watching you, I’ve learned so much about VGC. I finally made it to master ball tier over the weekend after playing since August. Mind you, I hadn’t played any Pokémon since Emerald but your videos/meticulous commentary have made the learning curve feel a little less steep. Really appreciate the amazing content!
My favorite pokemon design wise and in the show was always seviper. There's multiple ways they can buff it, and one easy one would be to give it a mega and make it poison/dark with levitate. The better one would honestly be +10 in each attack and +20 speed. It would only be 498 bst but it would actually be able to serve as a good mixed attacker because it already has a good move pool
I kept thinking that altaria would have negative synergy with groudon because of hurricane being only 50% accurate in sun but then I realised halfway through the video that it has cloud nine which negates weather lmao
QOTD: I would give Swampert access to Regenerator as an ability, and maybe recover, especially given its basis on an axolotl. Axolotls are known for having some of the best regenerative abilities found in vertebrates, so it would make a lot of sense for the mudkip line to have access to these abilities and would buff them so much
Wait... am I hearing GameCube music at the same time as the in-game sound effects? Isn't that Colleseum or Gale of Darkness music? Did you actually edit the audio together?! Dude! That's some extra effort! Wow!
Hey Aaron video idea: would you be able to make a video about how you created your team for worlds? Talk about why you chose zamazenta, it's partners and why you chose the evs that you did. Then of course climb the online ladder providing live commentary as you go.
QOTD: Give Altaria Fluffy. Sure you lose the fire resist but the defensive bonus would make it much harder to remove. Alternately some equivalent of Thick Fat, Thick Fluff maybe, that would mitigate its ice weakness. Ludicolo having Dancer would make it usable in doubles with something that can quiver dance next to it while it uses other moves. I couldn't think of anything else easily while trying to stay on theme for the Pokemon.
My favourite pokemon aestheticly is Gen 3, Mawile... Went all in on Gen VI since it was buffed there with a mega form, but that buffs gone away, so I'd like to see it 'grow up' and get a couple evolution that maintain it's vibe with possibly some maturity/experience added to it, doesn't need better abilities or move pool, really, just stats and it'd be viable... although if we're putting a ribbon on it, touch up the move pool including adding Fake Out along with a pivot move and it might just be broken depending on those new stats.
QOTD: give Swampert Wave Crash and Storm Drain. It already has some good support tools in yawn and wide guard as well as the ability to slow switch with flip turn. Wave crash gives it the ability to do a bit more damage while and storm drain gives it a niche into urshifu and kyogre
Hey Aaron! Idk if you’ll see this but I wanted to ask if you’d be willing to do a video about leads and how to know who to bring and who to leave behind, it’s probably my biggest weakness when it comes to battlin and would love to know how to get better
Got clapped by Urshifu 😂😂😂 its always funny getting caught off guard by my opponent i admit it doesnt happen often to me but when it does cant help but laugh
I watched match 1 and was like I feel like playing played one game won second game was this exact team. Hard fought but max attack great tusk pulled through
QOTD: GIVE SHEDINJA FIVE HEALTH BARS (yes, I would like to see the world burn) Also, I love the weather shenanigans on this team between prankster skill swap and cloud nine, always cool to see in restricteds
QOTD Make Toxic Boost ignore poison damage. Then bump up Zangoose's speed by like, 10 or something. Make the moveset Facade, Protect, Close Combat, then either Knock Off for coverage or Swords Dance if you're insane.
QOTD: I would buff Sharpedo, mostly because I think it's cool 😂 . I would actually give it 2 buffs, first increasing it's speed from base 95 to 105, and second giving to access to fishous rend. The reason why I think this would still be reasonable to play against is because sharpedo has the defensive stats of wet tissue paper
I LOVE Gravity! I was really hoping you'd showcase this team. These vids are always bright points in my days. QOTD: I think overall, Gen 3 mons are okay... well, how about a buff for poor old Flygon? An ability that gives it both Levitate and an additional STAB (Bug or Flying) would be good. EDIT: Seeing your smiling face and ✌️ at the end is great!
I would love to se plusle and minun getting new abilities and stat changes so that they both are viable as a duo. One for support, one for damage. Some like that
QOTD: ooh ooh this one was made for me. SWELLOW, my favourite Pokémon, should get the buff that it will be in the next mainline game. It's been gone for 2 generations of ranked battles.
Would you use Galarian Articuno instead of Altaria? Better overall stats with the exact same moves (recover instead of roost, hypnosis instead of sing) and the only thing Altaria has over G. Articuno is dragon typing.
Turn 1 on the first battle and you’ve already hit more sings than you did last time you used the move for a video. QOTD: I would buff Banette by giving it a powerful ability since what it has currently is pretty mid. I think either Prankster like the mega or Shadow Tag. Maybe take away some special attack and put those stats in its defenses
QOTD: Altaria: I would reduce the Speed stat by 20/30 points and put that in to Defense/HP. It appears as a cloud, which is slow moving and ponderous, and should better reflect that with lower speed. LOVE Altaria, always wished it was better!
I played against someone using this team. Looks interesting but it takes too much to set up. All I had to do was set up tailwind and my kyogre started to one shot everything lol
QOTD: Give altaria a new form, maybe with fairy typing instead of flying and 100 extra base stat points to spread around its mediocre stats! But fr I think giving kecleon a Tera shell-like ability but with a different camouflaugy name could be cool
@@CybertronVGC but Reg H you couldn't use restricted pokemon (kyogre, calyrex, etc). What I mean a format that you can still use restricted but not paradox and urshifu, cerselia, and others
QOTD: Armaldo is my favourite Pokémon from Gen 3! Not too sure how to buff it, since its typing is pretty bad. Maybe give it a better Ability or something? And increase its Special Defense as well. I really like Armaldo, it’s such a cool looking Pokémon design! 💙
@zashinunes8191 doesn't seem to work well with Groudon unfortunately Urshifu is just too problematic for a Groudon + Ttar team. Requires too many resources. And if you use something more like Spectrier then it just doesn't seem to be super useful to use gravity. I think it's more viable for a reg H team tho.
QOTD: Take 30 points out of Blazikens SpA and put 15 in each defense so it can at least maybe not be forced to run sash. Mega Flygon. PLZ!! Sand force or sand veil. Take out 50 SpA and put in defenses or speed. Just make one of the coolest Pokémon viable PLZ!!
100% I’m buffing Zangoose. He always felt like the beta of the Lucario/Zoroark style of cool looking pokemon, but was just way too weak. Give my boy some better moves and abilities pls
Hey Aaron. Recently lost my dad, and then my dog a few weeks later. I very much appreciate your videos. I know it's a job on your end, but the 90 minute distraction from life is always very much appreciated. Thanks much.
Sorry to hear that bro, I send u a hug 🫂
Hey man, I’m so sorry for your losses, I’m sure they were very lucky to have you in their lives. Thanks for watching the videos, I’m grateful they can be helpful in such a difficult time and it’s the least I could do. Take care of yourself man, I’m thinking of you ❤️🩹
Damn that’s so unfortunate. Sending you my best wishes. 🙏
I feel you. Lost my grandma to cancer (which we knew was coming) and then my cat a week later (did not know about). It's rough. I'm pulling for ya.
Sorry for your loss ❤Here’s a hug 🫂
It's a great day when Aaron Cybertron Zheng climbs the online vgc ladder and we watch him provide live commentary as he goes.
Thanks for sharing this team Aaron. Can't wait to get bodied by this team on the online ranked VGC ladder and provide frustration as I go.
That skill swap substitute stall to get the Calyrex to KO itself was really quick, on the spot innovative thinking. Impressed.
I may be addicted to these videos. I've been checking in like 3 - 4 times per day to see if anything new had been uploaded, lol. Never been this early before, but I'm hungry and dinner has just been served 😂 (literally and figuratively)
Ngl sometimes I'm kinda like that too, specially when I'm about to eat and don't have anything that interesting to watch
Love your stuff aaron - congrats on the MBA by the way. I got mine a few years back and worked at Accenture, and it reminds me how cool it was to be around so many people who are world class in such a diverse group of interests. I would imagine your success with pokemon / content creation was a super interesting story to tell in interviews... Hope you have just as much success in the corporate world!
His MBA was it in what area? I'm very curious
MBA as a literal master in business administration. He did on Stanford (one of the best in the world and tech oriented) and he recently started working at BCG consulting. I am impressed he keeps his content releases.
Oh that skill swap line in game 3 was nice. My idea was protect groudon, swap in flutter and sac it, then fake out with sable and set up a sub.
That skill swap sub play in game 3 was GENIUS!!!
QOTD: Not exactly a specific pokemon but buff Cloud Nine so that it also dissables things like Tailwind; this will indirectly buff Ray, Altaria and some other mons in need of a little boost
This is actually a really cool idea and a smart way of giving these pokemon a niche
This was my absolute favorite team coming out of Worlds last year. One of my friends and I were looking through the Day 2 teams and the transition from "what was bro cooking" to "holy $#!& bro was cooking" as we looked through the teamsheet was super cool.
18:09 "Fera Tairying" lol
Look it's tough to say Terry Fera ok
Hehe nice
This is my brain every 5 minutes lol
That game 3 was some big brain plays for the win.
I love your content so much. Plz don’t stop. Really get excited seeing u post
I hate to be one of those guys but due to power creep I think the only way to really buff alot of gen 3 pokemon like Tropius, sableye, and many single stage is to give them an evolution. I'm old enough to remember when base 100 speed was rare and gave those mons a real edge lol
Sableye is already good and as a prankster mon just giving it more great support moves is enough. Tropius is terrible but giving it something like wind rider or some other great ability could make it usable in certain formats.
Especially LUVDISC!
If Sableye had an evolution that lost Prankster (like Murkrow and Riolu) people would just run Sableye and give it Eviolite
@@davidwindsor2579 not even horrible. Baby and mid evolutions are wayyyy too underloved
I saw a bunch of Groudons during the latest Sitrus Series! Groudon seems to be picking up a lot and it's such a weird coincidence that it happened right after your video featuring him! I love you're videos featuring underrated mons!
Absolutely goated choice of soundtracks there with Zinnia's theme and music from XD, love the Cypher Peon theme 🔥🔥
You know, this WHOLE time, I thought Gravity just made everything perfectly accurate. I did not know that it was just a 1.7x multiplier, thank you for mentioning it at the start, Aaron!
Love this team bro! Thank you
Groudon is one of my favorite pokemon, it's great to see it in action! Thanks for the video.
A team without Caly, Inci, Rilla and Urshi? Let's go!
Groudon I think reached top 16 on the last Regionals, unfortunately the team wasn't that interesting
I think there were two and one of them used gouging fire it was pretty sick
Love the XD Gale of Darkness editing on Game 2, lots of nostalgia lol
LOVED that you included the Pokémon XD music.🕺🏻🕺🏻
QotD - Buff Luvdisc:
New Typing: Water / Fairy
New Ability: Competitive
New Stats: 98 HP / 30 Atk / 75 Def / 95 SpA / 95 SpD / 117 Spe
New Attacking Moves: Moonblast / Dazzling Gleam / Alluring Voice, Thunderbolt / Thunder, Focus Blast / Aura Sphere
New Status Moves: Quick Guard, Follow Me, Life Dew, Glare, Lovely Kiss
You could also just make this an evolution of Luvdisc, and could probably get away with an addition 20-30 BST in that case.
You really take the question serious and I love it
I just wanna say that watching you, I’ve learned so much about VGC. I finally made it to master ball tier over the weekend after playing since August. Mind you, I hadn’t played any Pokémon since Emerald but your videos/meticulous commentary have made the learning curve feel a little less steep. Really appreciate the amazing content!
Oooh, Altaria is intriguing 🤔
This team is surprisingly good!
That prankster sub play was so cool
QOTD: Sceptile’s defensive stats. This is certainly one of the most creative teams I’ve seen in awhile. Well done, Motoki!
My favorite pokemon design wise and in the show was always seviper. There's multiple ways they can buff it, and one easy one would be to give it a mega and make it poison/dark with levitate. The better one would honestly be +10 in each attack and +20 speed. It would only be 498 bst but it would actually be able to serve as a good mixed attacker because it already has a good move pool
I kept thinking that altaria would have negative synergy with groudon because of hurricane being only 50% accurate in sun but then I realised halfway through the video that it has cloud nine which negates weather lmao
QOTD: I would buff Delcatty with the Fairy, and a buff to its base Attack. I used to love Delcatty before I realized how AWFUL it actually was 😅
Been waiting to see a cloud nine Altaria in your hands!!
QOTD: I would give Swampert access to Regenerator as an ability, and maybe recover, especially given its basis on an axolotl. Axolotls are known for having some of the best regenerative abilities found in vertebrates, so it would make a lot of sense for the mudkip line to have access to these abilities and would buff them so much
Wait... am I hearing GameCube music at the same time as the in-game sound effects? Isn't that Colleseum or Gale of Darkness music?
Did you actually edit the audio together?! Dude! That's some extra effort! Wow!
Yes, great ear ☺️
Hey Aaron video idea: would you be able to make a video about how you created your team for worlds? Talk about why you chose zamazenta, it's partners and why you chose the evs that you did. Then of course climb the online ladder providing live commentary as you go.
QOTD: Give Altaria Fluffy. Sure you lose the fire resist but the defensive bonus would make it much harder to remove. Alternately some equivalent of Thick Fat, Thick Fluff maybe, that would mitigate its ice weakness.
Ludicolo having Dancer would make it usable in doubles with something that can quiver dance next to it while it uses other moves.
I couldn't think of anything else easily while trying to stay on theme for the Pokemon.
Liking the new music pic!
My favourite pokemon aestheticly is Gen 3, Mawile... Went all in on Gen VI since it was buffed there with a mega form, but that buffs gone away, so I'd like to see it 'grow up' and get a couple evolution that maintain it's vibe with possibly some maturity/experience added to it, doesn't need better abilities or move pool, really, just stats and it'd be viable... although if we're putting a ribbon on it, touch up the move pool including adding Fake Out along with a pivot move and it might just be broken depending on those new stats.
why is nobody talking about how funny his reaction to altaria fainting at 51:20 LOL
I was about to say XD
QOTD: give Swampert Wave Crash and Storm Drain. It already has some good support tools in yawn and wide guard as well as the ability to slow switch with flip turn. Wave crash gives it the ability to do a bit more damage while and storm drain gives it a niche into urshifu and kyogre
I thought you already uploaded a video on this team, but I think that was James. I'm getting some Deja vu lol.
Hey Aaron! Idk if you’ll see this but I wanted to ask if you’d be willing to do a video about leads and how to know who to bring and who to leave behind, it’s probably my biggest weakness when it comes to battlin and would love to know how to get better
Got clapped by Urshifu 😂😂😂 its always funny getting caught off guard by my opponent i admit it doesnt happen often to me but when it does cant help but laugh
Gen 3 mons mostly need reshuffling on their stats especially Atk and Sp.Atk so they're better fitted after the physical/special split
I watched match 1 and was like I feel like playing played one game won second game was this exact team. Hard fought but max attack great tusk pulled through
QOTD: GIVE SHEDINJA FIVE HEALTH BARS (yes, I would like to see the world burn)
Also, I love the weather shenanigans on this team between prankster skill swap and cloud nine, always cool to see in restricteds
aaron's back with another video!!
Just finished the video, this one was good
Impossible
QOTD
Make Toxic Boost ignore poison damage. Then bump up Zangoose's speed by like, 10 or something. Make the moveset Facade, Protect, Close Combat, then either Knock Off for coverage or Swords Dance if you're insane.
QOTD: I would buff Sharpedo, mostly because I think it's cool 😂 . I would actually give it 2 buffs, first increasing it's speed from base 95 to 105, and second giving to access to fishous rend. The reason why I think this would still be reasonable to play against is because sharpedo has the defensive stats of wet tissue paper
imagine that with Mega Sharp. Speed Boost to outspeed and then Mega into Strong Jaw
@frozenherolp9077that would make it top tier, with the right support
You want a Pokémon with STAB fishous rend with the speed boost ability. I don't think that would be very balanced, but the idea is cool xD
That game 3 ending was diabolical 😂
I LOVE Gravity! I was really hoping you'd showcase this team. These vids are always bright points in my days. QOTD: I think overall, Gen 3 mons are okay... well, how about a buff for poor old Flygon? An ability that gives it both Levitate and an additional STAB (Bug or Flying) would be good.
EDIT: Seeing your smiling face and ✌️ at the end is great!
QOTD: give Sableye its Mega evo as just an evolution…but with a bit more beef on the BST to discourage Eviolite >:)
if it doesnt get prankster like mega sableye cant see it being better
I would love to se plusle and minun getting new abilities and stat changes so that they both are viable as a duo. One for support, one for damage. Some like that
QOTD: I would give a better ability to Swampert and a secondary more useful ability to Rayquaza as well
Also love the music on the matches!
forgot to turn off the game sound under the added groudon theme 😅1:15:04
QOTD: ooh ooh this one was made for me. SWELLOW, my favourite Pokémon, should get the buff that it will be in the next mainline game. It's been gone for 2 generations of ranked battles.
nice hair. new sub!
Hi, I recently started watching Pokemon VGC but what website do you guys use I couldn't find them. It would be great if someone helps
Would you use Galarian Articuno instead of Altaria? Better overall stats with the exact same moves (recover instead of roost, hypnosis instead of sing) and the only thing Altaria has over G. Articuno is dragon typing.
Turn 1 on the first battle and you’ve already hit more sings than you did last time you used the move for a video.
QOTD: I would buff Banette by giving it a powerful ability since what it has currently is pretty mid. I think either Prankster like the mega or Shadow Tag. Maybe take away some special attack and put those stats in its defenses
QOTD: Altaria: I would reduce the Speed stat by 20/30 points and put that in to Defense/HP. It appears as a cloud, which is slow moving and ponderous, and should better reflect that with lower speed. LOVE Altaria, always wished it was better!
I used to love skill swap kyogre with Mr mime. Filter kyogre was so good
@@tquenched3210 unfortunately we don't have Mr Mime anymore
Also how did you get the pokemon emerald music game 7?
I played against someone using this team. Looks interesting but it takes too much to set up. All I had to do was set up tailwind and my kyogre started to one shot everything lol
How come Colosseum/XD music is playing in this game?
QOTD: Give altaria a new form, maybe with fairy typing instead of flying and 100 extra base stat points to spread around its mediocre stats!
But fr I think giving kecleon a Tera shell-like ability but with a different camouflaugy name could be cool
Is it possible to use sableye skill swap stall?
Is there a format that banned paradox pokemon and non restricted legendary (urshifu, ogrepon, etc)?
Yes, Reg H
@@CybertronVGC but Reg H you couldn't use restricted pokemon (kyogre, calyrex, etc). What I mean a format that you can still use restricted but not paradox and urshifu, cerselia, and others
@ no, that has not existed
@@CybertronVGC ah I see...
qotd: there are so many that need a new evolution or Mega. Tropius, castform, mightyena, flygon, chimecho…
QOTD: Armaldo is my favourite Pokémon from Gen 3! Not too sure how to buff it, since its typing is pretty bad. Maybe give it a better Ability or something? And increase its Special Defense as well. I really like Armaldo, it’s such a cool looking Pokémon design! 💙
a fun watch while I beat my head against shiny hunting for furfrou in Ultra Sun. Like 5x over odds in my SOS hunt. Why does the dog hate me????
Was so sure based on the thumb nail we where getting a full gen 3 team! :(
James Beak did a vid on this a few weeks back and i thought it was really cool. Looking foward to seeing you pilot it.
Just 10 days ago in fact.
if you had prankster on altaria, doesn't that mean it doesn't cancel weather anymore?
That’s correct, but you can reset it back to Cloud Nine by switching out
I cant lie aaron, you make me wanna get into vgc soooo bad.
Could you use yanmega over altaria for hypnosis+speed boost
Yanmega is glass, altaria is very difficult to ko
@@daytonbenson1203mmm not even just protect turn 1? oh wait ursh is biggest peice of bs ever
What does gravity do?
Increases accuracy of moves by 1.67x and grounds all Pokemon (so Flying types and Levitators are affected by Ground-type attacks)
Love the music, really appriciate the switch up to some old goldies
Are the ear piercings new? They look really nice. Great vid too!
I remember this team it was crazy
Gravity lowers evasion???? What a crazy team even by your standards
why have hurricane, cant you have better options?? , is this because of gravity
Had a similar idea with Sableye allowing TTar to always hit stone edge.
@@zavadil_racing7731 Cool idea, put into practice
@zashinunes8191 doesn't seem to work well with Groudon unfortunately Urshifu is just too problematic for a Groudon + Ttar team. Requires too many resources. And if you use something more like Spectrier then it just doesn't seem to be super useful to use gravity. I think it's more viable for a reg H team tho.
@@zavadil_racing7731 I felt that, unfortunately we aren't in Reg H anymore
What was your album of 2024?
I'd love to see a buff for Zangoose
having valiant without wide guard is crazy
QOTD: I might give Shedinja a 4 HP. So that it can use substitute and Life Orb
Legend
Odd I made a comment about gravity Sableye on your last video 😅
colo music????
QOTD: Take 30 points out of Blazikens SpA and put 15 in each defense so it can at least maybe not be forced to run sash.
Mega Flygon. PLZ!! Sand force or sand veil. Take out 50 SpA and put in defenses or speed. Just make one of the coolest Pokémon viable PLZ!!
100% I’m buffing Zangoose.
He always felt like the beta of the Lucario/Zoroark style of cool looking pokemon, but was just way too weak.
Give my boy some better moves and abilities pls
I would buff claydol by giving it a regional ground fairy form wish misty surge for truck room setting while countering amoongus
Qotd: give metagross a strong signature psychic move
Buff Lanturns relevant stats
Game 4 is just proof that Urshifu forms should not look the same in Team Preview.
Give my boy Sceptile skill link.
Someone had enough of the in-game music haha
QOTD: Ludicolo! i don’t like basculegion:/
Yet another recording background???