Thanks to Matt for lending me the Iron Crown! Also, lol that the rental code is basically "veg bae" we love our plant based king

@zimattack9994

7 ай бұрын

Tryed something similar with hairyama stellar tara blast and close combat

@kenzoventurella1559

6 ай бұрын

Hey i made my own version of your team and i think i may have stumbled into something very cool and exciting. Could i send it to you and have you review it. Its on pokemon showdown because i dont have a Nintendo account but if you could improve it and make it a real team i would love that.

@wolf_boy_1987

Ай бұрын

How do I build ur teams

Whoever decided to give malamar skill swap was smoking something strong

@Twigggggy

7 ай бұрын

malamar deserves this the mon was pretty bad

@wolfiemuse

7 ай бұрын

This will actually make it useful outside of like RU or NU or wherever it was before

@asprinjuice8877

7 ай бұрын

They REALLY want Stellar type to be good

@twobladedswordsandmauls2120

7 ай бұрын

They weren't smoking anything. Why would Malamar let its puppets damage their lungs like that?

@wolfiemuse

7 ай бұрын

@@twobladedswordsandmauls2120 Malamar gets the contact high lol

Malamar skill swap with stellar tera blast is gonna make some builds just SILLY

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Yeah stellar tera + contrary looks super strong. For hydrapple a defensive tera made sense since it has good coverage already and draco/leaf storm are more powerful and give better boosts than tera blast

@twobladedswordsandmauls2120

7 ай бұрын

Oh, that is so evil. It's perfect.

@VivaBoricua93

7 ай бұрын

On adaptability porygon z??? Omfg

@sconettilda8580

7 ай бұрын

​@@VivaBoricua93adaptability doesn't work with stellar unfortunately

@TotsNoTater

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@foofootoo Not only that but it’s stab

Skill swapping Supersweet Syrup in order to not only get an Evassion lowering on the enemy just so you hit Draco meteors and Leaf storms constantly with hydrapple abusing the Contrary boost, BUT also skill swapping for the enemy in order to get an EVASION BOOST because of Contrary has to be the most funny and EVIL things there is.

@maxspecs

7 ай бұрын

Top tier evil malmar strats.

@ToadetteTails6969

7 ай бұрын

@@maxspecs That Dark-Type really doesn't lie.

@daofficerofthenoodles7504

7 ай бұрын

And 100% sleep

This combo should be called the "Apple Turnover". Hydrapple (apple) + Malimar (upside down squid, aka turnover). Add in that trickroom "inverts" speed and you have a very punny theme name.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

omg I was going to make that joke but forgot!!! 100% if I had topsy turvy on malamar that would be the perfect combo name

The play at 14:55 was so smart, the evasion boost on hydrapple really helped

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

It helped by destroying the opponent's will to play the game 😬

@dustinbragg1921

7 ай бұрын

​@@foofootoo Can you blame them? I'm not a betting man, but I think it'd take me betting on you for them to pull a win out from under that set up.

@ToadetteTails6969

7 ай бұрын

@@foofootoo If the battle carried on, then I would've loved if you just kept the Incineroar alive to just keep Skill Swapping Supersweet Syrup and Intimidate around. I bet the moment you did it must've been a real mindf*** for the opponent.

That skill swap into the Incineroar made jump out of my seat. Absolute genius.

@maxspecs

7 ай бұрын

I'd quit too if my opponent gave themselves an evasion boost with skill swap.

Contrary Malamar is about to go wild on so many fun gimmick sets

Imagine using this strat on some bulky close combat user like Tusks and make an immortal menace

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

There so much potential here...

@aronolafsson8256

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately Protosynthesis and Quark Drive can’t be skill swapped :(

@treven8742

7 ай бұрын

​@@aronolafsson8256I think they can be replaced now, so Entrainment is the way

@Albortomagico

7 ай бұрын

@@aronolafsson8256 Hey, you just gave me an idea! How about Paldean Tauros? You get double intimidate thanks to skill swap! Alternatively, if you really want something simple that will still yield results, Ursaluna with Headlong Rush would probably be a BIG threat since it's so bulky already and hits so hard it doesn't need any attack boosts. Perhaps an alternative course would be to try and find a mon that can use both Close Combat and Superpower (or any other attack-lowering move) so that you can boost the stat you need at the right time. -And Arceus forbid you try this out with a Rayquaza or a Victini-

@dustinbragg1921

7 ай бұрын

​@@treven8742 Malamar doesn't get it. That's a risky set up needing to swap Contrary to your Entrainmenter to then Entrainment Contrary over onto your next swap. Also I don't think you could run Booster Energy on your Great Tusk or any other paradox pick you make because the boost would be lost when your ability is overwritten. Assault Vest/Leftovers Great Tusk/Iron Hands however just became much less killable though.

I was not expecting the Supersweet Syrup getting swapped onto the Incineroar. What an outrageously hilarious play!

I'm so glad we can finally start talking about Hydrapple now the DLC is out. If you saw the supposed "leaked design" [where there were two Dipplin-looking worms weaving upwards like a DNA strand], did you like that look, and how does Hydrapple's official design compare, foo? Personally, I really liked the leaked design, but the official design is just leagues better than I could have imagined. What a triumph in design! Also, I've been testing around with the new abilities, and I'm sad to report that my favourite move from the DLC [Dragon Cheer] does not trigger Throat Spray. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Hydrapple is such a cool mon, my favourite of the newly released ones for sure. Great moves, abilities, and stats! That's weird about dragon cheer... definitely should be sound based!

@what.are.you.doing.stepbro

7 ай бұрын

​@@foofootoo maybe bc the pokemon cheers with gestures instead of saying "cheers mate"

The Skill Swap boosting Hydrapple's evasion was nuts!!! 😂

this channel is so underrated, these teams are actually insane

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

tyty

Love this types of videos! Keep the awesome content coming - it’s pure fire! 🔥

I suck at battling but I love watching you make teams around specific Pokémon. Keep making this awesome content, Foo!

Your creativity and fun teams never disappoint, Foo

Incredible. A work of art. One thing to watch out for, of course, is Maus/Whim-Ape. You thought it fell off... But no one's ever really gone.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

mausape is always in the room with us

You cooked up a full-course meal here! Really brilliant team building 😻

This is a really cool idea for a team, and honestly I think I'm gonna make it as well. Awesome video. 👍

Your teams are always so unique! Love this!

Omg i hadnt seen the hydrapple reveal, the design is blowing me away! Ive always loved the applin line so much, this is a dream come true. I dont know if it will find a real niche in competitive but thanks for giving it love right out the gate.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

I think it will fair better in singles than VGC since it does have a lot of awkward weaknesses, though tera can help with that

saw this on twitter! Malamar is one of my all time favorite pokemon (no bias), and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to make it work with no luck. I'm excited to try this strategy out since it's so interesting! Thanks a ton for this, got my sub.

Kieran taking notes on how to beat the player character colorized.

I've only watched 2 of your videos and I'm already subbed. Keep making killer content.

This is a very interesting team! Imma definitely try it. Nice video men!

Liked and subbed for the simple fact that you took your time to come up with something epic rather than covering what 1000 other youtubers made vids about on day 1.

Finally...Gyarados is now a Special Attacker Meme

Fun video! I love Hydrapple and this strat is super entertaining. Subscribed :]

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Welcome!

This strat earned you a sub. That was crazy

This is freakin awesome man! Love it! Subscribed!

I'm really loving Every team you build ! THANKS A LOT

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

The end of that second battle was such insane cooking that not even Gordon Ramsay could handle it. Can’t wait to try using this team

Leafeon got Solar Blade back! I’d like to see it with Choice Band and Chlorophyll on a Sun team with Gouging Fire

The evasion boost absolutely sent me. What a great play. I love Hydrapple, I love to see that it has some sort of niche strategy.

Damn you Footoo this was my next idea! I've been doing some Malamar + Hydrapple shenanigans 😂

The 14:55 Moment made me pop off. As soon as you clicked Skill Swap, even without you explaining it I knew exactly what was about to happen.

@tehjefey

7 ай бұрын

I'm sorry...that is disgusting....that is actually gross.

That first match was basically flawless lol. I love seeing such a fun strat pick up some wins! Don't know if it would make it far in best of 3 open team sheets, but for closed team sheets on cart ladder I bet it would be a lot of fun!

Wow,, I was not expecting this to be so fun!! What a strategy!!

Imagine Skill-Swapping Blissey's 'Serene Grace' ability onto Fickle Beam Hydrapple. I wonder if Fickle Beam's chance is affected like the chance to freeze from Ice Punch, or the chance to Paralyze from Thunderbolt?

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately from initial testing it seems like fickle beam does not get boosted by serene grace. It is not boosted by sheer force so the double damage activation is not treated like a normal secondary effect of a move

@ToadetteTails6969

7 ай бұрын

@@foofootoo Oh, well I would've called that a missed opportunity, but now I can kind of see that a 60% chance for an 'All-Out' Fickle Beam would be kinda busted. ^^; Still though, if it was affected by Serene Grace... man, what a monster Hydrapple would've been.

I don't play PvP in Pokémon, but i love watching these kinds of videos

You weren’t kidding, you absolutely cooked with this one. Can’t wait to see what else you have in the kitchen.

Foo is the goated guy when it comes to bringing out interesting interactions in vgc based games

i literally did this day of patch so proud to see a video on it

This looks so dope, please keep iterating on this team and give us an update. I really like the sinistcha idea that someone else suggested.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Since the game just came out I definitely want to try out other things first since there's so much I haven't even touched yet, but I might revisit it in the future. Tbh I'm happy to be the ideas guy and leave the iteration up to the competitive players getting results at tournaments

Great strategy, have always loved Malamar's design!

Lemme borrow this recipe chef. This is nasty work!!

Omgosh I literally just battled you!!!! In the trainer that had the Cincinno and sinistcha against your amoongus at the end

@wesleyhollingsworth4566

7 ай бұрын

As soon as I open my KZread I saw your video, and thought wow I just saw this combo just now, and what are the odds it was you 😂! Love that idea it was really cool I'm actually hunting to do it myself rn!

Holy hell, the buffed evil squid is amazing. Edit after finishing the video. THAT SWAP FOR THE EVASION BOOST?! WTF. This is incredible.

This was great i don't battle online but this was fun too watch ggs

You were thinking with 100% of brain power that second battle, i didn't even see that coming but i said to myself what IF, he swaps with the Incin😂 i hate your team so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣great video bro! and may we never cross paths in battles

a very cool built team i rly like it

Something I noticed with Hydrapple is that it gets access to Hydro Pump, which could work well for the same reason as Hypnosis on Malamar. May be a better option than Earth Power in terms of hitting Fire and Rock types, alongside Ground and Flying types

You put this evil into the world. Nice.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

MWAHAHA

Boys take your hats off. This may be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen

I used Malamar on my team for the BB League hoping to skill swap contrary onto Drayton’s Archaludon so the +1 sp atk boost from electro shot would be -1 instead, but he never used the move. It worked out in the end though since he wasn’t getting any defense boosts from stamina.

Bro this generation is offensively CRACKT good lord I’ve never seen so many powerful options!!

I absolutely adore Hydrapple’s design, I’m happy to see him be apart of some funky strategies. Gotta hunt a 0 speed one soon. I want that Minecraft Gapple on the team immediately

@AllegedlyHuman

7 ай бұрын

Something I learned recently is if a pokemon holds a power training item (for EV training), the offspring is guaranteed to inherit the specific IV of the parent corresponding to the power item. If you have a 0 speed Ditto or something compatible, it's a good way of going about it

This video gives me so much joy

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

😁

Now imagine, Contrary Victini with V-Create and overheat

Banger first team, absolute W

Nah this video was crazy- he was DEFINITELY cooking up something devious in the kitchen

i used a super sweet syrup skill swap strat in an almost any ability tournament and im glad to see other people using it

Man the lots of funny scenarios if the Skill Swap managed to get executed. It's literally funny, especially the contrary supersweet syrup

1:45 "My opponent leads with the _wet_ Ogerpon" I laughed so suddenly that I choked on air HHHHH 8:24 the Moltres trainer card!

I ran a similar set in sword and shield using Alolan Exegutor with draco meteor, leaf storm and overheat. Took longer to set up though and no one was really bulky enough, but glad to see the strat has become more viable again! 😅

This is such a cool team!

Really cool idea!

So much cuteness from one video

This is so cool!

Nice, been hunting Applins and managed getting an shiny Jumbo/Destiny marked one so gonna evolve it later after fixing some ribbons in SWSH

I just saw this on Twitter 💀 I’m definitely using this!

Great video

Aww man Im happy to see im not the only one who thought of this

Often times I feel like I'm playing checkers, and you're playing chess. When I watched this video, I feel like I was playing tic-tac-toe

Omg !! This is amazing Bulky n sweeper hydrapple

Genius. Might even use.

That evasion boost was so clever 😂

huh i didn't realize malamar got skill swap now that is actually insanely funny to just have easy access to contrary on a lot of pokemon now contrary and with it malamar has always been one of my favourite funny abilities and i was already incredibly excited to see malamar in the dlc the evasion boost from the skill swap intimidate is exactly what i mean, there was so much going on there just from that one move the synergy between the two alone is actually insane, but i am really hyped to see what other pokemon can do with contrary

The Hypnosis is genius to leverage the Evasiveness drops

I didn't even want to play the dlc yet, I have it but I was waiting to see something that was fun enough in doubles to build around .....

This is hilarious I love this so much can't wait to try it!

That second battle with evasion boost was pretty freakin' funny, and enraging for the opponent surely.

I was thinking of exactly this combination 😅 I am currently in the midst of adjusting my Spectrier team for Regulation F. And Hydrapple fits really well in there Type matchup wise. I have been looking for a good partner for Hydrapple and through process of elimination I ended up with two options: Malamar or Metagross. I ended up going with the latter because Steel typing is incredibly important with all the fairies and fairy Tera mons running around.

So glad to see that Malamar got Skill Swap to gift Hydrapple and Reshiram the Contrary ability. I learned today that Revavroom and Scovillain, among others, got access to the new, physical Fire-type attack Temper Flare. Additionally, Flygon got access to the new Psychic-type move Psychic Noise as well as the new Fairy-type move Alluring Voice. While Skeledirge also got Alluring Voice, it's weird to me that it can't be taught Burning Jealousy.

I need to see more battles with this combo please & thank you

I LIVE for this kind of Foo shenanigans

The prophecy has been fulfilled. Love seeing Malamar pop off again

I’m just starting to get into VGC and this build got me hype

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

Good luck in getting into it! Fun stuff like this is how I got interested in competitive too. Just don't get too demoralised if it doesn't work right away, it's important to learn the fundamentals before trying out the weirder stuff

If I were to use the team, should I use the code in the video with the Dusclops, or the Poképast one with the Araquanid. Also, are the EVs for the other pokémon on both teams the same? Finally: since I own Scarlet, would Cobalion be a good replacement for Iron Crown? Great video btw.

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

I think the paste performs better but if you want a ready to use rental for the game then use the rental code. I would suggest quick guard bullet punch scizor is a better replacement for iron crown because it can threaten to KO flutter mane before it attacks and still can protect malamar from fake out with quick guard

You sir, are an evil genius

I wanted to test skill swap malamar onto Hitmontop to get double intimidates and then boost defenses with close combat XD Looks like this is even better

WOW this is amazing!!!! & dangerous lol

Oh god malamar is even more sinister now, I love it

I tested this team, it’s so funny, and it kicks butt

I can see contrary spin out revavroom doing well. A 100 power 100 accuracy steel attack that increases the user's speed stat by 2 stages and revavroom has good attack and a speed stat of 90.

Who would had thought an apple would cause so much rampage😅😂

The evasion boost made me laugh out loud

Hydrapple is so good, it's definitely on the team

You win the matches because the oppo sees your team nicknames and laugh his ass off 😂

Does Serene Grace work with Fickle Beam? Can we give it a shot? Edit: I also remembered that Water Pledge + Fire Pledge stacks a buff on your side of the field for 4 turns which gives a serene grace type effect which stacks with serene grace multiplicitively, so it would be 30%*4= 120% meaning it would always go off. But that would require a lot of set up and probably wouldn't be worth.

@RULERZREACHF4N6146

7 ай бұрын

You’re an evil genius

@InternetChromer

7 ай бұрын

was also thinking that after hearing him saying the thing with the 30% chance ^^

@lukayaba4793

7 ай бұрын

I mean surely at that point you're better off using decorate on it

@foofootoo

7 ай бұрын

This was the first thing I though when I saw this move but I've dived deep into the murky depths of the smogon mechanics testing forums and someone said they had used Serene Grace Fickle Beam 48 times in game and got a 28% activation rate so it doesn't look like it works :( it's also not boosted by sheer force so the effect seems to be similar to knock off in that it's not a typical secondary effect.

@Missiletainn

7 ай бұрын

@@foofootoo Sadness...