Could be because I'm only rank 8, but typically whenever I encounter deoxys using this team I find that if I immediately switch into shiftry my opponent doesn't switch out, but if I do 4 air slashes, then switch out, I can either catch a rock slide and cause a switch, or build up some energy, catch a thunderbolt, then cause a switch. This works especially well if they switch in registeel, not just because of how well shiftry does against registeel but because deoxys will typically come back in when it can to finish off shiftry, and it almost always has low energy. Which in turn lets you either fire off a move on shiftry, bring skarmory in to fire off A sky attack, build up energy then switch meganium into deoxys' next attack, OR the same thing but without a charge move from shiftry (depending on how the registeel fight went).
I like this team and strategy a lot! Genius!! THE problem is that it becomes easy for players to predict. My suggestion is to consider substitute for one of the 3 pokemon. In my view, Shiftry cannot be substituted due to its coverage and high DPE leaf blade. Meganium could possibly be replaced, but I don't think any other grass type pokemon can do. I suggest an electric type with good bulk, such as stunfisk (can possibly handle azumarill). The best maybe is to change Skamory into another steel type to handle flyers and charmers. May consider jirachi (could handle fighting type), or Hypno with thunder punch as a much cheaper choice.
@@CalebPeng Interesting! I found Skamory is better to handle grass, fairy and umbreon. You original team is the best! But now I do see many players double shield their flyers, when they see shiftry does the safe switch.
At 4:18 I was pretty surprised they didnt fire a single frenzy plant with Meganium when you were able to go for 3 charge attacks (maybe they had razor leaf?) GGs man great choice to go deeper into this lineup but the team is spreading fast! Maybe next vid how to beat double grass 😄
Another thing I do now is farm with A-chu 2 Tpunch whenever I run into skarmory so I can get the 1 shield and they never shield the half health skarmory so I have enough energy for a second Tpunch or only 1 volt switch away from psychic and dependending on what they throw I can either get a shield down or do massive damage with psychic
played a FF mawile today with this team. I just had to quit XD I will say that this team has been very successful for me, even before the 2nd vid. This is why you're one of the goats!
It is but i think that compromises your team against fighting types. I could see a lucario running through the melmetal and shiftry. So the skarmory flying type gives a decent fighting coverage.
Using this comp is incredibly fun but people now start switching out the Altaria against Skarmory, sac swap the mudboy to keep the Registeel alive or start bringing the medicham or a charmer in the back to cover shiftry (which Skarmory can handle pretty well and stll win the match with Meganium+shields), medicham is particularly annoying with PuP. I saw also Regi+Bastiodon in the same line, like fighting type doesn't exist in the game LOL
part of the problem with this strategy is that it's getting more popular so it's easier to predict. Whenever I see a skarmory lead I wait for grass types to stab me
Meraadj Thank you! And great question! I’d count to 5 fire spins (enough for Shadow Ball) and then quickly switch to shiftry to try and catch it. If they have a flyer or fighter, they likely will bring it out at this point and then you can finish that mon off with Skarmory. Burning shields will be important so that you can set up an EQ from Meganium later. If they really are running Alolan Marowak and a flyer, it’s definitely a very hard team composition to go against but this will likely be your best bet of winning it.
I think it's funny no one runs psychic on A-chu but I do and so many venusaur expect any other charge move and they give me the free kill, same thing victreebel if I have energy lead
@@CalebPeng I got grass lead for that and as soon as they see the grass most go for the skarmory and bam free kill with A-chu and possibly a shield before it goes down even better if I land a psychic on something neutral but I'm at rank 8 so people play a bit differently I assume I'll switch it up for rank 9
The thing is that this team isn’t really viable at ranks below 7, because a lot of people tend to play less meta fire Pokémon that counters this line-up hard
Yo ! Really nice team. I use mew shadowclaw/grass knot and superpower instead of meganium, do you think it can do the job ? I strugle a lot right now (I’m not use to play skarmo)
Also, fought someone tonight using this same team but with deoxys instead of skarmory. I'm not sure how well it works against other teams but against this one it doesn't work well at all. You're better off just running a flyer anti-flyer.
Like the thousands of others who watched your initial video about this team, I’ve been absolutely loving this team! Quick question for you: while it’s exceedingly rare, I have run into several Charizards in the lead. How do you approach that situation?
Sorry, seeing this late! Venu is okay but it doesn't threaten haunters, registeel, and flyers like Shiftry does. Hopefully you'll find some seedots near you
If you can could someone give me advice for my line Probopass Lantern Alolan marawak I know I can't deal with wishcash and swampurt any advice on how to solve that problem
I'd recommend subbing out Probopass for Meganium and lead with Lanturn, swapping in alolan marowak if it's a losing matchup. You'll want to protect Meganium from their flyer
@@CalebPeng okay ill power up one with a moderate attack Im currently using your double grass strat and leading with a hypno with ice punch thunder and its doing its job pretty well
Oh my god. That double flyer with azu. I fight him. But azu lead. That bastidon have swampert at the back. But my opponent bastidon have tropius. Woo tropius, long time no see
since i dont have meganium with frenzy plant i use ivysaur with razor leaf almost all of my opponent even if its neutral damage still switch because of the massive damage of razor leaf LOL
Actually it's not difficult to counter your team, one just need to wait for your switching to shiftry, and then immediately bring out any charmers to destroy your shiftry.
withcarename every team is easy to counter, 1 if you know the lineup, 2 if you bring the proper counters to it... If you don't have charmers, double flyers, fire type attacks, and you don't know 1 and 2, you will most likely lose.
Yeah definitely more people are aware of it now. I'm still able to go 5-0 and 4-1 pretty often but definitely need to anticipate them knowing what you're doing.
This team is about to make me quit GBL. I'm so goddamn tired of losing to it, switching things up to counter it, and then never seeing it again until I switch back.
@@CalebPeng Lol, I somewhat regret this comment - I think I saw this video pop up in my recommended right after a seven game losing streak that was finished with a match against your team. I was fully tilted at that moment, hahaha. Honestly, though, I might try it out next season (not now, since UL is coming up), especially since it comes with a full guide. I've been stalled out in rating for a week now, around 2250, and haven't been able to get anything to work consistently enough to climb.
this team comp was designed to cover the meta and pseudo-meta. you just happen to have picked a team that most people aren't running so it is able to counter caleb's specific lineup. and of course, after he posted the video, now people are aware to expect double grass and it's not as big as a secret whereas before... more people would have been surprised by this team composition because they would try to knock out the shiftry immediately in the secondary matchup and expend shields so that they could safely use their water type in the back however the meganium cleans it right up.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Alolan Marowak
01:51 - Double Flyer
03:07 - Registeel (lead)
04:33 - Toxicroak, Registeel, Azumarill (HouseStark's meta line)
05:55 - Skarmory, Shiftry, Meganium (mirror matches)
08:36 - Haunter (lead), Azumarill, Registeel
10:50 - Bastiodon (lead)
13:38 - Melmetal (lead)
15:03 - Deoxys Defense (lead)
16:26 - Galvantula (lead)
17:58 - Alolan Raichu (lead)
Caleb. Hello, can I use sceptile instead of meganium?
@@yasuomaruko496 Meganium is pretty crucial due to its bulk but sceptile can be an okay replacement if you don't have a FP Meganium
@@CalebPeng , thak you
Ran into this team three times in a row! Make sense now, great comp!
My advance strategy is to come near my window so i wont get lag in a middle of a fight ^^
Epic😂
:D
I play next to my wifi and still get lag in GBL, only in GBL
@@nicocee2431 Try playing on data only. I've found that playing on WiFi for GBL causes more lag issues
these are awesome matchup mastery videos only few youtubers do. props to you!
Could be because I'm only rank 8, but typically whenever I encounter deoxys using this team I find that if I immediately switch into shiftry my opponent doesn't switch out, but if I do 4 air slashes, then switch out, I can either catch a rock slide and cause a switch, or build up some energy, catch a thunderbolt, then cause a switch. This works especially well if they switch in registeel, not just because of how well shiftry does against registeel but because deoxys will typically come back in when it can to finish off shiftry, and it almost always has low energy. Which in turn lets you either fire off a move on shiftry, bring skarmory in to fire off A sky attack, build up energy then switch meganium into deoxys' next attack, OR the same thing but without a charge move from shiftry (depending on how the registeel fight went).
Thanks for the tips! Really needed to know what to do on specific matchups! Lookin forward to more awesome team comp from you! 😁😁😁
I’m glad this team composition is so popular. It’s like free wins for my team!
That switch into Skarmory at Melmetal.. so clean 😍
"Double flyer incoming" Haha told you :D
Amazing vid man
I like this team and strategy a lot! Genius!! THE problem is that it becomes easy for players to predict. My suggestion is to consider substitute for one of the 3 pokemon. In my view, Shiftry cannot be substituted due to its coverage and high DPE leaf blade. Meganium could possibly be replaced, but I don't think any other grass type pokemon can do. I suggest an electric type with good bulk, such as stunfisk (can possibly handle azumarill). The best maybe is to change Skamory into another steel type to handle flyers and charmers. May consider jirachi (could handle fighting type), or Hypno with thunder punch as a much cheaper choice.
For sure! I tried replacing Skamory with Deoxys Defense for a while. It worked really well until I ran into Shadow Gardevoir :D
@@CalebPeng Interesting! I found Skamory is better to handle grass, fairy and umbreon. You original team is the best! But now I do see many players double shield their flyers, when they see shiftry does the safe switch.
At 4:18 I was pretty surprised they didnt fire a single frenzy plant with Meganium when you were able to go for 3 charge attacks (maybe they had razor leaf?) GGs man great choice to go deeper into this lineup but the team is spreading fast! Maybe next vid how to beat double grass 😄
The meganium was trying to get to an earthquake and caleb had energy advantage
Another thing I do now is farm with A-chu 2 Tpunch whenever I run into skarmory so I can get the 1 shield and they never shield the half health skarmory so I have enough energy for a second Tpunch or only 1 volt switch away from psychic and dependending on what they throw I can either get a shield down or do massive damage with psychic
played a FF mawile today with this team. I just had to quit XD I will say that this team has been very successful for me, even before the 2nd vid. This is why you're one of the goats!
Thank you for the kind words!!! :)
And yea, FF Mawile is a lost cause haha but luckily there aren't many in the meta
6:58 purple kyogre
Word is way out on this team now. Going to have to change it up but it was a nice rise from 2100 to 2600.
I chose to use melmetal instead of skarmory, its a bit better against the flyer imo. Great vid again :) Subbed
It is but i think that compromises your team against fighting types. I could see a lucario running through the melmetal and shiftry. So the skarmory flying type gives a decent fighting coverage.
@@soloplaysgames9965 True, fighting pokemon are deadly for my team
Using this comp is incredibly fun but people now start switching out the Altaria against Skarmory, sac swap the mudboy to keep the Registeel alive or start bringing the medicham or a charmer in the back to cover shiftry (which Skarmory can handle pretty well and stll win the match with Meganium+shields), medicham is particularly annoying with PuP. I saw also Regi+Bastiodon in the same line, like fighting type doesn't exist in the game LOL
Thanks for recommending this team. Gives me easy wins with Haunter lead and Skarm in the back 😂
Caleb looks like a Qing Dynasty warrior! keep up the good content
part of the problem with this strategy is that it's getting more popular so it's easier to predict. Whenever I see a skarmory lead I wait for grass types to stab me
Amazing gameplay, man..🙏🙏🙏
So funny you ran into Purp using your team. GG’s.
Thank you Jimma :)
Long life to mighty shiftry my old hidden ninja now a celebrity lol
great video, didn't work shit for me of course since every game pretty much encountered the opposite teams of what you did, but still amazing
Great video!
I used this team again now, and it's still working pretty well.
What would you if the opponent has A Marowak in the lead?
Meraadj Thank you! And great question! I’d count to 5 fire spins (enough for Shadow Ball) and then quickly switch to shiftry to try and catch it. If they have a flyer or fighter, they likely will bring it out at this point and then you can finish that mon off with Skarmory. Burning shields will be important so that you can set up an EQ from Meganium later. If they really are running Alolan Marowak and a flyer, it’s definitely a very hard team composition to go against but this will likely be your best bet of winning it.
I think it's funny no one runs psychic on A-chu but I do and so many venusaur expect any other charge move and they give me the free kill, same thing victreebel if I have energy lead
True! Although, it makes you a lot more susceptible to whiscash and swampert. At least they won't know and still might shield.
@@CalebPeng I got grass lead for that and as soon as they see the grass most go for the skarmory and bam free kill with A-chu and possibly a shield before it goes down even better if I land a psychic on something neutral but I'm at rank 8 so people play a bit differently I assume I'll switch it up for rank 9
If you make this line up popular I will be happy because I run double flyers in my line up!
Great content, thanks!
On level 2 for Skar, Shift and Meg a fire fang Houndoom destroyed my team. Other person also had Altaria in the back so there was no come back for me
The thing is that this team isn’t really viable at ranks below 7, because a lot of people tend to play less meta fire Pokémon that counters this line-up hard
Damn are you covering your Gym Breaker run?
i always hate it when my meganium in the back always gets met by an altaria
Still rocking this team to a 65-70% win rate. Only gone under 3 wins 1 time in 20ish sets.
this team makes it fun to play against the whizcash which i find so annoying. much thanks :D
You're welcome! :)
@@CalebPeng subbed ✌️✌️
Against fliers and grass type Pokémon in general. I run ice fang with crunch and sludge bomb drapion. It’s very effective
Good point, although it still loses to Skarmory in all shielding situations, even if Drapion uses a shield and Skarmory doesn't
Walking around looking for a good seedot 😆
Hope you got one today
Bro was about to say when are u gonna upload a new video :-) thx for doing it today
Watched this and as soon as I battled.. fire fang mawile lol
Purple Kyogere with the shoutout
Yo ! Really nice team. I use mew shadowclaw/grass knot and superpower instead of meganium, do you think it can do the job ? I strugle a lot right now (I’m not use to play skarmo)
That's a creative substitute! I think there's definitely potential there
i just face you in Go battle league, thanks for the awesome match
:) GGs!
Also, fought someone tonight using this same team but with deoxys instead of skarmory. I'm not sure how well it works against other teams but against this one it doesn't work well at all. You're better off just running a flyer anti-flyer.
Thanks to that strat I went up rank so much. Now we need an anti anti that beats the meta and your double grass team. Any ideas bro?
Three charizards
Christian Garcia deleted by azu and swampert
Serperior + Registeel + Haunter. I already beaten 2 trainers using this lineup with these 3.
Like the thousands of others who watched your initial video about this team, I’ve been absolutely loving this team! Quick question for you: while it’s exceedingly rare, I have run into several Charizards in the lead. How do you approach that situation?
Sorry, seeing this late! I usually just muscle through with Skarmory and try to land a FP with Shif but it's definitely a hard matchup
I fought against this team 5 mins after watching your video and i lead with fire fang mawile lol.
How does this team deal with new meta /
Very well actually. New video dropping soon about this very question :)
ive run into this time like 4 times but I beat it with registeel, wigglytuff and charizard
What's the quick moves on these pokemon? We only see the charge moves
They're listed in my previous video, but Skarmory sky attack, Shiftry snarl, Meganium vine whip.
Nice win
hello Caleb. I dont have a frenzy plant maganium to do this linup. Other pokemon i can use with good results?
Sceptile with LB and EQ can be a decent substitute but it's a little glassier
I use Skamory, Meganium and Umbreon, however, the Umbreon it's bad for Azumaril. Shiftry can be changes for other pkm?
Is there anything you suggest to sub shiftry for if i don’t have one? Currently using venasaur with sludge bomb and frenzy plant
Sorry, seeing this late! Venu is okay but it doesn't threaten haunters, registeel, and flyers like Shiftry does. Hopefully you'll find some seedots near you
If you can could someone give me advice for my line
Probopass
Lantern
Alolan marawak
I know I can't deal with wishcash and swampurt any advice on how to solve that problem
I'd recommend subbing out Probopass for Meganium and lead with Lanturn, swapping in alolan marowak if it's a losing matchup. You'll want to protect Meganium from their flyer
How do u handle deoxys when they stay in against shiftry?
I usually bait them with Leaf Blades so that I at least come out with a shield advantage.
Is this still good if you use Venusaur instead of Meganium?
It’s unfortunately not as effective since you need meganium to take out registeels
Can we sub skar for umbreon ? And run 2 people with foul play ?
It's solid but you'll definitely struggle if you run into any charmers. Always a trade off but I like Umb as a sub there
What do you use to edit your videos? Keep up the content 💪🏼🤙🏼🇺🇸
Final Cut Pro :)
Thank you for your support!
What do you do with a vigoroth lead?
I usually stay in. Usually if they’re staying in too, they likely have grass in the back which isn’t a huge deal.
I’m running a toxicroack, registeel, azu team right now, but in league 7 I am prety stuck... should I try another team? Or keep going?
I believe alolan raichu works instead of shifty?
It'll struggle vs whiscash, swampert, and haunter so that'll be the trade off there
Whats the ivs of your skarm?
Is it an attacker or bulk?
It's about 11s across the board so pretty back for PvP IVs. I like it though in the mirror lead since I usually win CMP.
@@CalebPeng okay ill power up one with a moderate attack
Im currently using your double grass strat and leading with a hypno with ice punch thunder and its doing its job pretty well
Oh my god. That double flyer with azu. I fight him. But azu lead.
That bastidon have swampert at the back. But my opponent bastidon have tropius. Woo tropius, long time no see
since i dont have meganium with frenzy plant i use ivysaur with razor leaf almost all of my opponent even if its neutral damage still switch because of the massive damage of razor leaf LOL
What if i dont have a frenzy plant meganium? UGH
Sceptile with LB and EQ can be a decent substitute but it's a little glassier
I can 't get frenzy plant on nu meganium. Does any one has a idee.
game squad it is a community day move meaning it is a legacy and you can't tm it.
Actually it's not difficult to counter your team, one just need to wait for your switching to shiftry, and then immediately bring out any charmers to destroy your shiftry.
withcarename every team is easy to counter, 1 if you know the lineup, 2 if you bring the proper counters to it... If you don't have charmers, double flyers, fire type attacks, and you don't know 1 and 2, you will most likely lose.
It's good to get these strategies but if you dont have meganium and shifty-,-
I ran into bastiodon lead I swap they swap to venusaur and they have a skamory in the back 😭😭 it’s game over for me
:(
It’s ok I’ve won a lot with that team!!! Thank you but ultra league depleted all my points 😭😭😭 you’re my favorite
Hello caleb 👍💪🏼
Did you used to play yugioh?
I didn't but I used to love the TV show :)
6k views at 8h
It's funny how I've not yet ran into this team, yet I keep finding Charizard and Castform Sunny-form. My Blastoise sends his regards, by the way.
Probably because you’re a pretty low rank? That’s where I find the majority of people who play Castform and Charizard
Fuck this comp I run double fire now lol
SMH Caleb, you've only watched the first few minutes of your own video?
To late, strats broken now. Everyone is using counters to it.... two flyers/fires or 1 flyer and 1 tropius. GG
Yeah definitely more people are aware of it now. I'm still able to go 5-0 and 4-1 pretty often but definitely need to anticipate them knowing what you're doing.
PurpleKyogreYT xD
Ur a beauty
Your anti meta is becoming the meta. Wow
1 fire type and it's a bad say for this team though.
Zyonik acknowledges your team in: ua-cam.com/video/Y-BSCcuEwmE/v-deo.html
This team is about to make me quit GBL. I'm so goddamn tired of losing to it, switching things up to counter it, and then never seeing it again until I switch back.
Oof...sorry to hear that. Why not give it a try then...? :D
@@CalebPeng Lol, I somewhat regret this comment - I think I saw this video pop up in my recommended right after a seven game losing streak that was finished with a match against your team. I was fully tilted at that moment, hahaha.
Honestly, though, I might try it out next season (not now, since UL is coming up), especially since it comes with a full guide. I've been stalled out in rating for a week now, around 2250, and haven't been able to get anything to work consistently enough to climb.
@@isaiahzepf5842 No worries! GBL is definitely a grind that can often be frustrating (even when there isn't lag/glitches). Hope UL treats you well!
@@CalebPeng Thanks man. :) It seems to be ok so far.
It’s so annoying to face your team, cause I know I can’t win against it haha
1 bug mon 1 fire mon and a steel type would do it. If you had a mawile w/ fire fang itd be an easy matchhup
2 Grass is dead
dennis ferber I mean this video is also 2 months old 😹
@@CalebPeng y xD
Grown man watching pokemon battle hahahahahaha. My wife is like are u kidding me.
First one!!
26-0? U have big luck this Team is not good. Yesterday i killed your team with blaziken, raichu and skarmory gg.
this team comp was designed to cover the meta and pseudo-meta. you just happen to have picked a team that most people aren't running so it is able to counter caleb's specific lineup.
and of course, after he posted the video, now people are aware to expect double grass and it's not as big as a secret whereas before... more people would have been surprised by this team composition because they would try to knock out the shiftry immediately in the secondary matchup and expend shields so that they could safely use their water type in the back however the meganium cleans it right up.
i just face you in Go battle league, thanks for the awesome match