"I have no idea why Gyarados gets the moves that it does" Gen 1 was one hell of a drug.

@johnmartinez7440

8 ай бұрын

I remember teaching my Raticate the TMs for Blizzard and Water Gun.

@lewisgregory1996

8 ай бұрын

Gen 1 Gyarados actually had really good special

@solidgryphon7406

8 ай бұрын

I remember teaching my primape overheat

@Kejmur

7 ай бұрын

And Hyper Beam was the last generation where Hyper Beam was a 100% completely viable move, as KOing the opponent removed the recharge from Hyper Beam.

@liampowers8570

7 ай бұрын

@@Kejmurhyper beam

I love doing things like this. Your pokemon really don't have to be that great-but if your opponent has no idea what you're doing and can't predict what you're doing, you can sweep with unexpected strategies.

@tedsterthehedster5568

8 ай бұрын

Man thats so true, back when fire red n leafgreen could transfer up to oras, I would use counter/mirror coat swampert n had a guy immediately quit

@stephenrussell762

8 ай бұрын

Back when talonflame was everywhere in gen 6 I ran a rindo (or whichever berry it is for flying) berry on a serperior which could then tank a brave bird even after stealth rock damage and then hit it with the hidden power rock to KO it, caught everyone off guard

@Robin93k

7 ай бұрын

My favourite unpredictable set was a slow/bulky Swampert with SR/EQ/Hammer arm/Avalanche during a time where every Swampert had Waterfall (and usually Ice Punch for Ice Coverage) The fact that the opponents always tried to play around Waterfall until they've seen all Moves basically made it like I actually had 5 Moves.

@trubluduhu9055

13 күн бұрын

It's the prime example of "Never let them know your next move"

They really need to make an alternate Gyarados that's a special attacker.

@Exivious4556

8 ай бұрын

Milotic has the same bst and its stats have the same grouping just under different stats as gyarados. It just lacks the flying typing and intimidate. While not the same, I don't see them making a special attacking gyarados anytime soon. I believe that was their intention with milotic.

@johnmartinez7440

8 ай бұрын

We call that Gen 1 Gyarados

@kaotic300

8 ай бұрын

maybe they can replace the red gyarados in the lake of rage with a special attacking "bloodmoon form" the next time johto gets remade? 🤔

@linksora7120

6 ай бұрын

Milotic is the gyrados special attacking alternative: a serpentine water type with the same exact base stats, evolves from a weak fish Pokémon, both have a way of improving their defence through abilities (gyrados gets intimidate to lower opponent attack and milotic has marvel scale for defence boost under status ailment), milotic and gyrados both also have another ability that boosts their best attack stats (gyrados gets moxie as a hidden ability which boosts attack when it knocks a Pokémon out while milotic gets competitive as a normal ability which boosts special attack if its stats are lowered), the only difference is that milotic is pure water while gyrados is part flying but that’s honestly a buff for milotic since water flying is super weak to electric while milotic can fight electric and grass types better

@AnimaLepton

4 ай бұрын

Milotic is among the few Pokemon that really hate the Physical/Special split. 100 Sp Atk is solid, but 125 Sp Def was particularly fantastic back when it was introduced and all Grass + Electric type moves were considered electric. Water types are inherently pretty good, but with only the 2x weakness combined with the high SpDef, it could shrug off its so called weaknesses easily.

This is some Pimpnite levels of screwery 😂😂 LOVE IT!!

Haydunn shows that teams filled with stacked mons aren’t what make a player good (although it certainly helps) - it’s much more about understanding each team’s capabilities, and having the situational awareness to come up with a strategy to make things work, no matter how bad things are. Good shit, man

@trubluduhu9055

13 күн бұрын

And also just the brain power of how to navigate around your Pokemon and setting them in the right places to get value out of them

Ah, Gyarados. I figured its moveset was messed up by the physical/special split of gen 4, but upon some research all the "element" types and dragon were special moves at the time too. Seems the thing that really did it was its 100 special stat turning into only 60 spatt in gen 2 compared to its 125 physical attack. In gens 2 and 3 that really hurt it because almost all of the good moves it knew were special types. Nowadays it learns a lot more physical moves so the issue is much less noticeable but all those special moves are still available despite being pretty bad options in comparison

@en20drayt87

3 ай бұрын

imagine it was ground and flying

Due remember that during gen one a lot of mons was given coverage for the pure reason of balance. Many types did not have a lot of coverage outside of those moves. That said I do use a tera flying special gyarados on my rain team.

DUDE WHAT?!?@!@? This was the most insane match you ever did!!!!!! You deserve so many likes and subs my guy!!!!!

I really enjoy the content you produce recently, serious and funny in the commentary, the intro was really good for introducing the battle, and I love that you have been using the music from Pokemon Masters EX!

My bro doing Pimpnite run

This was a fun battle to watch! I'd love to see more!

I have an intimate Timid Gyarados with rain dance, Hydro Pump, Thunder and Ice Beam and it's call Stormbreaker 😂

That was an awesome battle! I would love to see more battles with that setup!

That was super fun to watch. Love those rare move sets, Gyarados' coverage with special attacks is insane tho.

Dude! I watch ALL of your videos when you upload, you’re one of my favorite Poketubers for years now! This battle had me on EDGE! Amazing like always! Thanks for all your hard work and content 🙌🏼

@Haydunn

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much I’m glad you enjoyed!

Great Battle, Haydun! Loved it!

Best match I've seen for quite a while!

Haydunn this is for sure your best video of scarlet and violet era and your content keeps getting better keep it up homie!

@Haydunn

8 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

This is really cool and paper-thin close! Gj haydun. I remember you did something like this back in BD/SP, a game that i occassionally play 😁

Down to the wire matches in anything is always so fun to watch!

That was a close match! The element of surprise helped you on this one. What a fun team!

Not going to lie i laughed at that fling

This was such a fun game and wanna see more like this

This concept is so much fun! I’m in a draft league right now and i might try this.

Such a fun video, I was on the edge of my seat

always a banger from the goat!!

Bro, I would love to see more videos like this.

Holy crap, that was the most clutch win I've ever seen in a Pokemon battle.

🎉🎉 Amazing content!! Gary put in work

this went hard, well done

Omg craziest haydunn video

I really enjoy your playstyle with pokemon, doing nonstandard stuff for the most of the time.

Yeah, do more of these . I can imagine your opponent during this lol

I love this lmao. This reminds me of how I play 😂 I don't play competitively often, but when I do, I occassionally win with my ice ninetails who knows dig, she's very special 😂

Nicely done as usual

Special attacking Salamance and Tarous are pretty cool too

I love teams like this. So fun.

Would love to see more teams like this

Bro is probably confused af lol.

You absolute legend I love to see it

What a great match, like every switch in was perfect

This is peak Haydunn 🎉

Love your creativity bro

This was such an epic battle!

The idea is gold.

Thanks for the vid!

That was fucking crazy!!!! I was really on the edge of my seat for this one lol

I've been using charizard wrong this entire generation, and i absolutely love it. Tera: Water Nature: Modest EV: + Spa +Spd Item: Assault Vest Move pool - Fire Pledge - Weather Ball (Water) - Dragon Breath / Scorching Sands - Air Slash Its no power house, but its fun to set up the rainbow with a physical Blastoise and spread status lol.

I love the occasional mix up of suprise mons

Keep the videos up there great

Pls give us more! This match was awesome!! Great critical thinking

Haydunn became PIMPNITE for a day.

Holy sheeeeeet that was awesome.

Love the opposite day teams!

There's something hilarious about sneazler just throwing a rock

I can say I've never seen a clef with meteor mash before. Congrats sir, you surprised me

Dawg this team is NASTY

Fucking GOAT. Greatest time to be a Haydunn fan

This battle was _tight_

I love vileplume for this too use an attk plume under sun for solar blade is just fun

I love these videos

I played competitive mostly in Gen 4 and I had something like 40 Gengars. A choice band one existed, but my favorite was "Muscles" Hasty Nature with max HP and Speed. Focus Sash. Counter, Shadow Ball, Destiney Bond, and Hypnosis

I used to do a special Gyrados that had wide lens and all the big hitter moves, Hydro Pump, Thunder, Hurricane, and I think Fire Blast

This was epic

Awesome team concept

Hahahaha 😂That was Awesome!! Let’s go wacky flip flop teams

I used a special Gyarados in BSS on Showdown for my rain team. Gave it Thunder, HydroPump, Fire Blast for the extra damage

Crazy lol good match

Nice match before work 😎

Clefable works in any function regardless. That's my dawg

Incredible 😂

Yess i love doing this

Bro out here pulling of some ash Ketchum strats.

The days of doing this on Showdown, channeling that full Heatah Fajita power!

Banger

What a battle!! Also, potato IYKYK

Great battle 👏 👌

Nah this thumbnail is incredible

amazing video

It was so spoopy that I'm changing my halloween costume to Specs Gyarados.

wow, clutch

This is genius

Unpredictability is good until it is obvious that you have flipped the switch. The best thing to do is have mons that are walls be total offensive monsters, like a banded quagsire

Shout-out to the fuckin ancient Banded Focus Punch Clefable used to Run in DPPt

W video that was a close one😭

Wild battle

That was a classic and legendary game.

I once took part in a FB tournament in which we chose a region and used only mons native to that region. I brought a Fire Blast Gyarados to deal with the guy who chose Johto and it worked lol

I once did a playtrough in emerald when i was young/when the game came out and i had no idea wtf i was doing but i remember having a gyarados: fire blast, waterfall, thunderbolt and ice beam and suprisingly he was stronger then any of my team (exept blaziken he was the goat on 1st playtrough)

I like the theme, this is from Pokémon masters ex right?

I did a special tauros once as a joke and it did surprisingly well

Pokemon needs to make a mode like this. Opposite day.

I used to love using specs spa Dragonite, it ALWAYS caught them off guard, as well as specs spa Talonflame on a rain team with Gale Wings and Hurricane

@Kejmur

7 ай бұрын

On unexpected special attackers, I loved the 'ChainChomp'. Pretty much a Swords Dance Garchomp that ran max SpA, with Fire Blast and Draco Meteor. Swords Dance and Earthquake were still there to fake it being a physical attacker, while still hitting reasonably hard after the +2 boost.

Pls do a mixed attacker (Phys-Special) team. Can they be good?

Choice banded clefable lolol

What's the name of the background music ?

That was so funny

Cool strategy

Hayden thank you for being you

Sweeping with DD gyrados does not take much skill. This was actually fun and also nail biting finish.