Araquanid is BACK, & It's Secretly OP

[@Chris-re3lv]

I use these videos to get some spicy teams compiled before the next time I visit my brother. He lives 2000 miles away, so I only visit him every once in a while, and surprising him with these matchups is going to absolutely make my day! Keep the wonderful ideas flowing.

[@LetMeEatIt]

That's actually really cute

[@raoulgreco7887]

I feel bad for your brother

[@Chris-re3lv]

@@MirageUchiha I got Nintendo Online, but my brother dislikes subscription based services, for some odd reasons. We trade Pokémon on Home here and there, since that costs nothing, but I have been thinking of at least getting him a Nintendo subscription card, so we can battle online. However, for now, it's nice to have time to build up some teams, since I will likely be flying over to where he lives, in a couple months.

[@markitoss]

@@MirageUchihaif he says visit I assume local

[@ES-dp6tw]

I'll always remember the hilarious contrast in Araquanid's Pokedex entries in Sun/Moon. The former claims it straight up drowns smaller Pokemon in its bubble, while the latter offers Araquanid is caring and uses the bubble to protect weaker Pokemon.

[@lukefarrell1453]

Maybe it’s behaviour is affected by the time of day?

[@lionescrawl9861]

more likely its hunger and the enviroment.@@lukefarrell1453

[@pineappleudh6561]

If I remember correctly Ultra sun/Ultra moon was very similar, but instead of just saying it protects pokemon in the bubble it says that it "Puts things it wants to protect in its bubble, araquanids trainer must be careful as it may attempt to scoop them up into its bubble"

[@zikeibradley3472]

​@@lukefarrell1453I got that reference

[@HarveyMeadowlark]

Araquanid went to that beach to kick names and chew ass, and he’s all out of bubblegum

[@corystevens9604]

It can also be ran with assault vest which is what I did gen 7 and it did well. That being said the moveset was liquidation leech life poison jab and mirror shot for special attackers

[@chachase879]

I've always liked Araquanid, it hits so surprisingly hard

[@hera7884]

for a weak attack stat? Yeah it does. Just another example how how these numbers don’t actually matter because some Pokémon with the same attack stat and same stab doesn’t hit for half as hard. Not only the offensive stats but the defensive stats as well.

[@kuwandak]

@@hera7884 what part of "water bubble" did you not understand. the game you see is just a front-end for all the math operations done on numbers that "don't matter".

[@hera7884]

@@kuwandak Water Bubble only boosts water type attacks, nothing else. All water type moves are useless on Pokémon with Water Absorb, Storm Drain, or Water Compaction. And as I said the numbers don’t matter, especially when you’re fight pseudo legendary, mythical, and legendary Pokémon who have way higher base stats. I play ranked matches, Araquanid is one Pokémon I have never seen in there. Ranked Matches are for the best Pokémon and the best players. You’d know this if you had what it takes to be a Pokémon master, but you don’t.

[@nicolasromani3523]

​@@hera7884This is such a dumb opinion...if you are saying that a water type Pokemon with underwelming stats who's main role is to deliver a single specific water type attack is not suited for competitive play. Would you mind to explain to me how was Dracovish banned then? Because water absorb counters it, and yet it is a pretty big menace that even box legendaries struggle to deal with. You are such a troll fr.

[@jacksonville9642]

​@@hera7884 "You don't have what it takes to be a Pokemon Master" had me rolling fr, dude thinks he's an antagonist or smth

[@d.a.d.-ohgosh]

I remember using this fella in the Gen 7 days and always felt like Spidey boy is underrated. Water Bubble is such an incredible ability and Sticky Webs is fantastic support! Plus that Special D. bulk know what I'm saying!

[@colebailey2578]

Could you show us Breloom next? One of my personal favorites, Technician-loaded dice-grass tera Breloom is a monster. Double stab and technician buffs the 25 base power bullet seed to an astounding 75, and loaded dice makes it hit 4-5 times. It's practically a 300-375 base power move with that combo, which pairs perfectly with his ridiculous 130 base attack.

[@torchilicho]

Water/bug type is so cool. (Two of my favorite types)

[@crazydov]

My fav types are dark/ people

[@Supertaco619.]

​@@crazydov ?

[@who3584]

Based bug type fan

[@crazydov]

@@Supertaco619. what? U got a problem with dark people types?

[@Auwa-racist]

Surskrit

[@LimeLivesMatter]

Kingambit disrespected Rampados Took its Earthquake while sitting down, stared at the T.rex like "Boi" ✋🏾 and chopped the T.rex into fillet salmon 😂😂😂

[@tristiancook5821]

Not me having to google False Surrender, lol. Btw, it's an 80 bp dark type version of aerial ace, exclusive to the grimsnarl line

[@nintenzard3192]

Guys Meganium is buffed. TRAILBLAZE + SWORDANCE

[@naomiseadragon2676]

Completely agree; Araquanid is underrated. It's a good special wall and it sets up sticky webs.

[@jayperez7986]

Really enjoying seeing more than one match in a single video. Love the content!

[@GamingGuyTy429]

I've been trying to tell people about the ABSOLUTE TERROR that is offensive Araqanid with water bubble since it came out with Sun and Moon. Thank you for showcasing its underrated power 💪🏾 Also, day 3 of asking Haydunn for doubles content 👀

[@byronlee991017]

totem araquanid swept my team so many times when I was playing Ultra Sun

[@GamingGuyTy429]

@@byronlee991017 Those totem Pokémon and their random allies bring me nightmares 😭

[@betabugxyz6274]

Man I love these videos, having the full video along with the shorts is brilliant. I do wish you could post the builds for these Pokémon or a link in the description.

[@Bruhkake]

Yessss I would love the full builds too

[@SmokeMith]

Yo i've been running this with Primarina in doubles Araquanid gets entrainment so you give primarina water bubble + araq gets wide guard to protect from the surf spam + counters flutter with it Also you could switch Prim with Ursh and you remove the unseen fist but surging strikes with water bubble hits like arceus on drugs plus you cant get burned

[@sayzar9474]

Yessss love Araquanid. I know it’s not in this DLC but did you ever do Houndoom? I feel like no one ever talks about best boy Houndoom

[@trevorstevenson4038]

Much respect for Torkoal. After abusing gen2 in my childhood, I gave emerald a go and was surprised by how tough Torkoal was. Loved the difficulty increase

[@Godzillakuj94]

Happy I just got a shiny one yesterday. What's the recommended EV spread?

[@RobinoAB]

Congrats to the 300k subs, you deserve it more then we deserve your amazing content and comeback

[@B3FMandCProductions]

I used to love running this thing back in the Sun and Moon days. Glad to have it back and still be wrecking things 7 years later

[@duaneminett]

I always forget just how cool shiny Rampardos looks

[@philippefutureboy7348]

This video was absolutely great! It's really nice to see two players that play well against each other; in a way the stakes are higher, and clearly the intellectual level of play is higher as well. I like that, more of it!!

[@DevonRyeTheDragonfly]

Caught a shiny one and used it in my playthrough of the dlc, unbelievable tanky and solid attack for a tank. Ran it with substitute, leech life, liquidation and infestation along with leftovers, great mon

[@neotoxsin]

Love the fact that you do 2 battles now in your vids! ❤

[@joaogomes9405]

I genuinely don't get why hidden ability effects are still a thing. How hard is it to add "water type moves deal bonus damage" to the ability description.

[@Haydunn]

For real, why they gotta hide things from us

[@danielkelly2266]

Loving the 2 battles in 1💙content has been top tier as always. Keep up the good work :)

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

If you take sets from other, I ran back in Gen VII, An AV set, 252 attack adamant, 200 spdef and 56 def. Leech Life, Mirror Coat, Poston jab and Liquidation for attacks and this below shows that AV power 252 SpA Choice Specs Tapu Koko Thunderbolt vs. 56 HP / 200 SpD Assault Vest Araquanid in Electric Terrain: 240-284 (82.4 - 97.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO Timid Specs Koko in terrain never Ohko'd unless it was a crit, Tapu Lele with Psyshock ohkos in terrain but that's based off the 0 ev invested Defense, even Modest Psychic does 66.3% at most, 85.9 with a crit Add in the fact that Mirror is 2x damage dealt meant that Araq usually Ko'd most of its 1v1's if they used a Special attack. If you wanna invest slightly more defensively, then a careful nature and less SpDef Evs works as well, though you SEVERELY trade offensive power for special longevity

[@rafaelsoto4742]

I have an idea that might be a bit of a stretch. But do you think in doubles or against the right attacker, you could use power split to help increase his attack stat. For example, throw out slaking and araquanid, power split slacking to distribute attack, and then araquanid can hit even harder 😊

[@gregbellin6676]

I like the double videos. Helps show the utility of the mon

[@bleach-kun]

I love Rampardos, its my favorite fossil.

[@Bori225]

A shinny araquanid looks like Metroid Prime

[@Nameless.Hermit]

Haydunn: "showing love to some underrated little dudes" Me, an underrated little dude: 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

[@crazedloon1333]

Love to see a video about your favorite pokemon to use competitively

[@kennyford3168]

Tera water held item mystic water plus water bubble boosted liquidation....I had a whole team setup with movie and held items/abilities to boost them. The team was regidrago, Araquanid, Dhelmise, Sylveon, Bombirdier, and Aurorus. It was a fun gimmick team.

[@Auwa-racist]

I used Pelliper and Araquanid

[@mavillan6147]

I waited over an hour for League for this video. You better get a bag for it

[@jaytunamayo4677]

loving the longer content recently!!! just wondering, why run mold breaker over sheer force for rampardos?

[@jack3m988]

Damn this is what my first random shiny was when I first played SwSh, didn’t know he was built like dat

[@garyr3179]

And a beautiful shiny at that!

[@vann0716]

Always loved Araquanid during the Sun and Moon era! Happy having him as part of my team. 😁

[@coleslaw006]

Did your PokeDoku this morning, it rocked

[@brandonmckown9952]

I'm a simple guy. I see a Haydunn video, I watch it.

[@jpg-o-km]

I comment about a band liquidation tera water araquanid a few days ago and today he's the MVP of your match :D. Very fun to use, isn't it?

[@Speckmantelmade]

Choice Band Araquanid has been one of my favorite Pokémon to lead with during the last few weeks. People are never prepared for the high damage Liquidation, it's so funny

[@marshmallow5672]

I used to use water boi in my usum playthrough I'm glad he's getting some love

[@macattack382]

Love watching you shaft OU pokemon

[@jacobskidmore3067]

What are your thoughts on Registeel? Ive been getting surprise sweeps with a tera ghost, body press, shadow claw, curse, and rest/ chesto berry set lol

[@eriveltocosta4499]

It's so much more fun to watch these teams with unusual mons rather than an team full meta game

[@banjowanjo4718]

Tuocannon takes a ball।to the face and dies 😂 F'in hilarious.

[@xXSHADOWMATTERXx]

Love the shiny flygon, was my first shiny in emerald! Great seeing it

[@jeanosorio1]

Cant believe i have been subbed to haydunn for like 10 years lol

[@Haydunn]

You’re the goat for that

[@dygardion9130]

I appreciate the use of frank reynolds “ so I started blasting” line

[@TMT98]

Any chance you are going to compete in a draft league format again? Would love to see you again

[@greyborg3846]

Think you could do anything with Sandslash? It has been a personal favorite of mine since gen 1.

[@Insertnamehereplz]

This is why I always carry brick break and psychic fangs on my teams l

[@PlacestobeVG]

Do you use Pokemon Home to store all your trained competitive mons across generations? :)

[@olympusgolemoflight7198]

I never realized that Water Bubble boosted water moves. Just another reason why Araquanid is my favorite Gen 7 Pokemon.

[@liber2350]

I wonder if its ability could be used for say, tera bug or another type that is notably weak to fire without that downside?

[@KrautCat]

You, Pimpnite, and JustWeavile are the real underrated GOAT’s

[@wafflebroz]

I love Destiny Bond with Avalanche on Froslass

[@eekajmoneybaby9309]

Would love to see araqanid get a mega evo coming with ZA. It could resemble a oger spider by flipping it upside down with its water bubble and face it would resemble a false moon make dark/bug. Slow it down to 12 spd so it's better than stakkataka in trick room 160 atk 142 defs 68 hp it would be as defensive as a mega diance with the physically power of a slaking.

[@Juiceboks]

Double vids going crazy!

[@iliaskarakostas5432]

Is that true about water bubble gives more power ? Because that information is not in the description on scarlet Violet

[@Haydunn]

Yes.

[@grizz6693]

I'd love to see the choice band spider with some Trick Room support

[@loudlyspective]

I missed the gen this pokemon was introduced in, so I was in for a surprise when I saw how large it was lol I was panicking

[@virtualcolt]

This is one of the coolest designed Pokemon, and on top of that they gave it a badass shiny.

[@jaredharper19]

Loving the double games!

[@Flamingo97]

They look so scary swimming around tho

[@Blackheartgamer1]

It would be cool if you can showcase Entrainment Araquanid. I feel it would be powerful in doubles with a high attacking water type.

[@oathstar18]

I’m definitely going to try this against my friend

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

WeedleTwineedle has one or two videos of getting Water Bubble on other Pokémon, but not everyone likes their channel 😅

[@Necromancer4267]

Araquanid is aBACKuanid!

[@MasterSkippy117]

Congrats man on 300k. Always provide

[@エミル-p7r]

nearly spat out my drink with the nicknames loll 😅 Especially the Frosslass's

[@Bruhkake]

God I love your nicknames, so much better than any I've had before 🤣

[@jeramoomoo2203]

The crit on the creme was OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!! 😂

[@CristianRivera-b9f]

Good videos. Keep them up as much as you can

[@bleach-kun]

I remember my good ol Totem Araquinid from ultra sun/moon named sock. Good times lol

[@BigFizzy.-]

that switch to Flygon was siiiiiiiiick

[@RishavPOV]

Not putting the power boost to water moves in the description seems like a total oversight. It’s extremely relevant.

[@mel_101]

I love your videos! Is it possible to use one of the eeveelutions in the future? I just think that they’re cool

[@hozz1014]

Assault vest set might be good

[@greglajoie6770]

Literally caught a shiny araquanid 3 hrs before seeing this. I think it's a good mon too.

[@jferg2022]

thank you so much for this video! I love araquanid so much despite its stats not being the best

[@WiseOakDakota]

Always wanted to use this pokemon just going though game campaign, but I always thought it was underpowered… and why doesn’t the in game text bother to specify the most important aspect of Water Bubble???

[@YardiChef]

The endure custap Berry Araquanid puts in wrk too, caught me off guard today on BSS😅...nice mon doh

[@the_daemon_kraken]

Love, love, LOVE Araquanid! Spider boi is my boss man!

[@ninkachusalt7252]

I was literally saying how cool rampardos looks before he mentioned it LOL

[@ChrisPTY507]

Love the new 2 match format!!

[@masonkline2644]

does the rampardoes still have rock head

[@arurujay2056]

Use Zebstrika next, defs one of my fave mons returning! Sap Sipper makes it so that it has more opportunities to switch in, plus it has now new toys to play with in Supercell Slam and High Horsepower.

[@Nytrusdeathcyde]

what stats and nature for that first offensive one?

[@plaguekidd6902]

I love how they gave araquanid a legendary’s ability

[@Tyranitar-hd6hi]

You should use Leavanny with fell stinger

[@hanaki1996]

Im so scared of Araquanid swimming… This is such a cool tech though

[@Giratina575]

Kinggambits pose is the literal definition of i dont give a damn

[@brandonespinoza9279]

Misty would have a love-hate relationship with Araquanid, as it’s a much bulkier Golisopod!

[@Rex-The-Wolf]

I did the battle tree super modes to 50 rounds with araquanid, i hate spiders but i love araquanid! 😂, water bubble adds so much value to an otherwise low attack pokemon, it has decent defence! Tho i always struggled chosing how to spread the evs... always max in attack, but never could decide to either put max on defence or mix between hp and defence -_-, hp came with the upside of sp also getting more value but then defence would be low

[@CJones-pf3zf]

Ledian and Jumpluff have always been two of my favorite underrated mons.... Wish they were brought back and improved.

[@roddypiper7404]

Swords Dance Jumpluff was a lot of fun in the lower tiers back in the day. Obviously Sleep Powder is the main perk, but Infiltrator is pretty handy as well.

[@arthursdl]

I'm so ready for you to wreak havoc in draft league

[@omiahmed2520]

Araquanid is a nightmare! imagine coming across a dragon slaying spider

[@Mischievous_Moth]

I'm going to have to shiny hunt for one of these for my rain team.

[@devonchafe2764]

I'm hoping Haydunn makes it into PokeAims draft league, would be a great thing to see