So I’ve been playing Pokémon since ‘98. This is the first year that I’ve been playing VGC seriously and it is absolutely insane how difficult the transition is. Learning how to properly calc EVs, lead teams, swap correctly, build support sets, build teams, choose four, have the right items for your roles, check meta threats, account for speed tiers and modes like tailwind, gravity, trick room, and terrains. Learn the type chart and the special interactions like prankster doesn’t work on dark types, ghost Pokémon can swap out of shadow tag, grass Pokémon are immune to spore and powder moves, poison Pokémon pick up toxic spikes when swapping in, etc. Now add Tera where any Pokémon can be any type. Offense or defense which is better who knows probably both? But if you lose your Tera or burn it to early you lose, but if you use it early and perfectly you win immediately. Now learn all the abilities and what is popular. Is the dragonite inner focus or multiscale, which Pokémon stop priority moves with their ability, who is unaffected by thunder wave and who can I intimidate? the list goes on and on. Even just playing on ladder with closed team sheets you see something and immediately have to guess ok there’s a flutter mane. Did I see a booster? No. Ok then it might be focus sash or it might be pixie plate, life orb, or even choice specs. If it’s the first two it could have protect. Does it protect turn one or Tera fairy and blow me away? What if it’s imprison trick room and it’s bulky water Tera slow flutter? It’s tough man, luck is a big factor and you spend most of the game mitigating that

The best way to improve in vgc is to just learn what every Pokémon does like the type of playstyle and their role on the field. Doing this will greatly increase your predictions in game and know what are threats on the field.

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

There's alot of pokemon so I assume that will take a while

@cheddarcheese4159

11 ай бұрын

@@ImAurora1 Keep in mind not every Pokémon is major threat to be worried about so you don’t need to be familiar with all of them

@hypotenuse2895

11 ай бұрын

@@ImAurora1 ngl the best way to do this is just play random battles on pokemon showdown

@giulianogrisafi4367

11 ай бұрын

@@hypotenuse2895I mean it is not since random battle is in singles format not vgc and there’s no team preview which changes completely how it is played

@Beamin439

11 ай бұрын

I mean you generally only need to be prepared for like the top 15-20 pokemon. Open up pikalytics to see them.

Feels bad that CybertronVGC is the poster child for bad luck for the Pokémon franchise 😂 the conspiracy is he single handedly got the move will-o-wisp buffed in accuracy the next gen

I'm all for competitive pokemon content! I would love to see this as a series! I would especially love to see it's if you were to go to a regional!!! I would love to see your growth!

Just got recommended this video and I really enjoy watching people learn and have fun playing a game I love. I agree starting out playing VGC (or even singles) can be overwhelming because you'll get overloaded by a lot of information. You did a really good job at looking for where to get information like Pikalytics. When you start out, it's best to just know what your team wants to do just like what you did by watching Pokesports' video (since you still don't know what the other team is all about). It's like forming a gameplan you stick to to achieve your goal. As you play games, you'll get better at knowing what and what not to do and will also help you get familiarized about the mons the enemy bring against you. It's an information game, the more you know, the more advantage you have. It's a long process, but trust me, the more you play, the more it'll be second nature to you to know what a mon or team does by just having one look at it. Subbed! I see potential just by watching you play, would like to see you play more (of course, play anything you want, it's your channel after all). I'll check your other videos as well, your commentary seems good :33

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man! I do plan on continuing this type of Pokémon content!

@kinechichi

11 ай бұрын

@@ImAurora1 Looking forward to it! Imma try to help you out by leaving some tips and tricks xd

I’ve been playing Pokèmon forever, and my brother has too, but he plays competitive, I don’t. When he moved to college a few years ago, he gave me a little guide. The guide taught me basic information, but not calculating IVs or stuff like that, so this video and the comments help a lot.

Awesome video! Competitive Pokémon can be cruel at times when you're new. I've been playing for a few years and still come across moments where I have to say "I didn't know this did that!".

gardevoir: spamming psychic like it’s choice locked this guy: tera fairys his resist away he’s so lucky he didn’t get crit

hey, just want to tell you that your content is worth way more than 300 subscribers, you definitely make it big someday!

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Much appreciated

Underrated tbh, also love the mk7 music

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Mk7 music is a banger

@Helicopter3847

11 ай бұрын

FR

Future Pokemon world champion here great video man keep it up

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

I'm coming for wolfy lol

My introduction to competitive pokemon was a rom hack called Radical Red, its really crazy how much we ignored when we were younger. Im interested in this series now

My best experience so far is random battles on pokemon showdown. Each team you get is built up of catergories of Pokémon, those categories being bulk, damage, stall, setup, support etc. Knowing the categories allows you to figure out what each mon is used for by looking at the moves and abilities. And i choose random battles because it allows me to face and use multiple different mons, strategies and items to be able to learn the diversity. For example, knowing that slowbro has a mega evolution and has access to calm mind allowed me to predict my opponent, so using a slower mon i caught him in an encore trap of calm mind and hit him physically. He forfeited because i destroyed his win condition. The mon i was using? Emolga.... Id love to see a journey series, maybe road to masters series or something. Just arrived because this vid was recommended but sub'd to see more!!!!

Was trick room up when the iron hands mirror happened? I believe they just had a standard 6 IVs mon, while yours had 0 in speed to capitalize on trick rooms

First vgc team and u used h decideuye 🔥

6:37 TR is typically a good Dondozo answer since Dozo doubles it’s speed w/Tatsugiri. Since Cress is so bulky it can def live a couple hits from Dozo and just click lunar blessing over and over next to like iron hands or something

Wow impressive quality

4:08 loll u didn’t need to switch ur cresslia😂 cresselia has an ability called levitate which makes it immune to ground moves

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

I mainly switched it because it was poisoned and I didn't want it to take more damage lol

I mean lol, yes Pokémon is riddled with goofy hacks and luck but in all honesty it _does_ more or less balance out. You just need to 'condition' to it and get over your fear and the intimidation factor and start busting out a few smart Over-predictions to put fear and doubt back into your opponent's mind. That's how you can push the initiative a lot.

You might have woken up first because Cresselia used Lunar Blessing on Iron Hands which heals any status. BUT your Iron Hands is still slower than Eisenhands

Wow 50/100% of viewers liked at this point❤❤

@Helicopter3847

11 ай бұрын

Also one way to improve your avatar is shortening the neck

I always play ranked in games and i just bought violet a month and a half ago and it’s my first time ever playing a pokemon game. I have mainly just roamed around and done raids after finishing the story but i just started playing ranked (singles) and I’m on rank 6 but it’s getting a bit hard. My biggest problem is knowing type interactions because I have almost no idea if I’m gonna get super effective on me because the only way I know is that I’m slowly learning the interactions.

@thundergamespt99

11 ай бұрын

Thats one of the reasons that moat people play singles on showdown, the commands are really helpful (for example, /weak helps you with type matchups)

@natlus_

11 ай бұрын

@@thundergamespt99 I never played pokemon showdown but it looks boring

@thundergamespt99

11 ай бұрын

@@natlus_ its a matter of taste i guess. Its a simulator, after all, it was created so you dont have to spend hours breeding a team to bring to the next regional, or for you to just battle your friends, and just became its own thing. If u want to play pokemon competitively, i would absolutely try it

@Beamin439

11 ай бұрын

​@natlus_ it's not flashy or anything. It's just so you can load up a team instantly and try stuff out and practice before putting in the time to make teams in game.

I would commission character art to use in your videos if I were you

Tera fairy Cresselia out of fear of Shadow ball?

Could of help been playing for years

welcome

Aurora: I'M AN IDIOT Editing Aurora: NO YOUR* NOT *You're not your That's pretty ironic.

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

There's to many yours in the dictionary

@FedGrod

11 ай бұрын

@@ImAurora1 Who put son many theres in the dictionary

Enamorus is not a nickname, sadly

No point in learning this gen. Its way too unpredictable and the meta is extremely boring. Literally the same pokemon every match and priority moves really ruined it for me. Hax ability cheese and random tera types to really shit on any lead you have. Its really a headache and you will end up using the same damn team everybody else is using.

YO BRO THAT'S MY TR TEAM LMAO

@ImAurora1

11 ай бұрын

Ik lol that's why I credited you in the description

I will say- if you want total freedom to experiment with different mons, I'd strongly recommend pokemon showdown!!

I have a show dislikes thing on and 0 DISLIKES LETS GO

Vgc is so easy it’s just uber spam

im a minor ( early teen ) and i can beat someone who is over 35

@PreciousLuna1988

11 ай бұрын

Gen 9 nat dex ag pssy

Please stop calling it are-a-luna 😂

I'm not gonna watch this, so maybe this comment winds up out of pocket, but, yeah. There's not another game like Pokémon; at best like half of your skills are going to transfer over if you've trained something relevant like luck management or player reads, and even then, you've got to learn the other skill and marry the two. And that's saying nothing about the very Pokémon specific requirements - you need to be able to, at a glance, identify what the likely roles of all the Pokémon on your opponent's team are, simulate how those pieces line up against your pieces, and then develop a gameplan to cover their strengths and exploit their weaknesses in a coherent and cogent way - again, all from team preview, and then again any time you receive new information. I think, optimistically, a normal person with a baseline understanding of the relevant mechanics and Pokémon should expect it to take maybe a year to reach competence and a decade to reach mastery in the format of their choosing.

@kinggeorgev5783

11 ай бұрын

Okay?😂

@witherdragon99_53

11 ай бұрын

You irrelevant nerd don't comment if you're not gonna watch

@jkid1134

11 ай бұрын

​@@kinggeorgev5783I bet you say that to all the commenters 😘

@JohnnyVincent420

9 ай бұрын

@@jkid1134 I sense some rage building up in real life maybe kid?

@jkid1134

9 ай бұрын

@@JohnnyVincent420 a swing and a miss

It was fun making it to master ball rank but tbh i had to quit because rental team players are so cringe. Rental teams shiuld not be allowed in ranked battle it takes away the skill of building a team shoul only be in casual so you can test them out