HISUIAN Pokémon SHINE on this HYPER OFFENSE team • Pokemon Scarlet/Violet VGC Battles

[@freeflyonhigh]

I've been half paying attention, focusing on a project with this sort of in the background but looking over every so often. Out of nowhere I hear "So I just want to play really aggressively and tickle Rillaboom." 52:04. Caught me so off guard.

[@InvinciMo]

What I appreciate about your content, and you as a player is that you dont have an ego. You're easily one of the best VGC Players out there. But you're humble too, Not everyone takes a loss, and then reflects on what they can do better and give props to the opponent. That deserves massive amounts of respect. You are so skilled, yet not afraid to learn. 10/10 content.

[@k-dawgHI]

No protect is true hyper offense. This team seems really fun.

[@weasel_in_a_tophat]

No protects is WILD

[@BigThonk999]

"no protect we die like men"

[@shoto-3530]

He takes The best offense is the best defense to seriously 😂

[@the_gastrodon3797]

No reason for it if you aim to one shot everything 😂

[@IsraelSilvaXV]

Yes, and with a 4x weakness Pokemon in the team😂

[@VampiresAreRealGuys]

@@the_gastrodon3797 i would probably want it on arcanine to help against fake out and preserve sash

[@paulotruzzi3652]

Low power formats are so much fun. I love seeing the sheer diversity of pokémon being viable, makes me wish we had more metas with a ton of pokémon and no restricted/gimmick pokémon (like the UB and Paradox)

[@Ryan-gk6ko]

U have rain, sun, psyspam, stat building mons, dondoza etc. Before it was legendary+tailwind and urshifu lol

[@somebody4094]

​@@Ryan-gk6ko the paras are not that bad beside flutter obv

[@MrCactuar13]

​@@Goldeneye3336Meanwhile the most common cores are arch-rain, dondozo, mouseape, and hard trick room/sun. This team is just good ol hyper offense with no gimmicks, like yeah obviously it's using some top meta threats but that's honestly to be expected. Much more variety compared to when you had to pack specific mons to counter the overpowered legendaries your team matched up poorly against

[@MrCactuar13]

@@Goldeneye3336 I never said it wasn't?

[@MrCactuar13]

@@Goldeneye3336 bruh doesn't know what inference is, CONFIRMED

[@GoGoSqueezeWorksToo]

Just wanted to say you do a really great job with commentary! I often only listen to your videos while at work but I can still understand and "see" what's actually going on because you're descriptive in your explanations!

[@myth0s336]

What a perfect way to spend the next 1.5 hours; thanks as always Mr. Cybertron! ❤

[@DFPWeaponX]

Love the videos and love how Decidueye was called Braviary more times than decidueye lol

[@gamingwsmiles]

"I'm gonna play aggressive and tickle Rillaboom" is a funny statement out of context, haha!

[@darmon5735]

Bro you were absolutely locked tf IN this entire episode. Incredible plays and reads turn after turn. It's a joy to watch you play Pokémon. What a treat.

[@ark8021]

Ah yes, the starters from hisui: decidueye, samurott and arcanine

[@michaelblair7141]

Very cool that your last battle was against James Baek (99% sure, anyways) since that's his trainer card and outfit. Edit: Hopefully he showcases that team on his channel and is recording when he faces you so I can see if I am actually correct!

[@leanderstahulak4887]

Been checking every day for the last 5 days for an upload and he delivered let’s goi

[@terablast98]

huge shoutout to you really, this build lead me to the masterball tier, gholdengo survived from full to 6hp from a tera dark kingambits sucker punch leading to make it rain in return to both clefable and kingambit thank you really!!! ❤

[@loshy9040]

Enjoyed your commentary in the Baltimore Regional.

[@Shiradrenaline]

After a rough week, sometimes vids like this can really help keep you going. Seeing mons I love piloted by a great guy... and no Protects!! Thanks for making vids as always, Aaron ❤❤

[@Advers_Event]

Really enjoyed your commentary at Baltimore! It was like a live episode of Road to Ranked, you do a great job of breaking down what might be going through players' heads and what the relevant decisions are. I always learn a lot.

[@Zistheone2]

Congrats on beating Sejun Park at Worlds this year Aaron! It was so cool seeing you competing again!!

[@hiro120]

This team is truly go fast, hit hard. I love it

[@XxThe_ExiledxX]

I don't know why but I don't look forward to anyone else showing off ranked teams. I think it's because you go over the iv spreads and why they are the way they are. And overall just the good delivery of information

[@xdferocious6016]

James baek does the exact same thing and they share teams with eachother. Pretty cool. Also wolfeys the goat

[@phenomenonnarutokun]

Just preference. Many others do it just as well in their own way

[@coltonketchum6321]

This team is awesome! BESIDES no protect. I’m also using a focus sash Arcanine for this next online tourney. It was so good during testing so hopefully it can pull out some good dubs

[@Meru007]

Aaron ilysm for showing off a Samurott team!!! My goat gets some showtime!!

[@Greg-oc7dj]

Lmao I lost to this team on showdown ladder, then came to KZbin and immediately saw the thumbnail and knew what happened

[@sambews5679]

I’m really glad you talk about the EV spreads, that part is so much harder to understand than everything else

[@christopherbrooks5548]

Watched this video last night and tried the team out today. So much fun to use, just freaking attack is this team's motto.

[@Dannyvgeemen]

This team was amazing. So much threatening pokemon. So many fighting attacks. And decidueye fighting is so cool to see in scarlet and violet

[@treygreypaws3689]

Hisui Bias, I love the team

[@unoriginalandrew]

After the interview you had with Wolfe last weekend I'd love to see you try out his team on ladder!

[@Ryan-gk6ko]

U were far and away my favorite commentator in Baltimore. Hope to see you soon

[@GeorgeSuperstarMcAwesomeVille]

I like this team. All offense. No defense, no protects. Aside from whimsicott which is a support, the other five pokemon are just pure attackers. Just be the first one to knock out your opponent, then you win. Simple strategy, looks fun to play with too.

[@matthewtan9044]

What a team! Just shows how good Aaron is! I would never use a team with no protect! Also, you have done showcases on Empoleon and Toterra! But u haven't used Infernape yet! 😭 Please showcase an Infernape team in the future!

[@Foot751]

Huge fan of the vids and the commentary!

[@dariuslynard158]

I always knew Tickle offense was the future ! Using scarf on Decidueye Hisui is a nice way to circumvent it's speed issue 🤔

[@joecab1]

Wow that Game 5 was great - can’t believe you came back from that start to win

[@mr.goodcat1810]

Arcanine H also gets wild charge, it’s amazing coverage

[@berndbonobo2465]

Really nice team, love to see the hiusian mons getting some attention. One question: can we not just take night slash instead of ceaseless edge on h-Samurott since it also gets the sharpness boost and can’t miss if we don’t prioritize the spikes with that team? :)

[@jstrobel3620]

Man this is still the best format so far

[@SkyZprodutions]

You probably didn't notice, but in the description you have Choice Band Dragonite instead of Dragapult. Amazing video as always!!

[@Joeybanananas]

I'll give this team a try. I'm ngl I've been unable to have any fun this reg after loving reg g, but ill try this team and maybe I end up enjoying it

[@matthewkal5010]

Ik the game is all about picking your moments and careful strikes, and this team still does that a bit, but seeing the massive “unga bunga click delete button” energy with a few lesser seen mons is glorious.

[@Foot751]

Hey guys, Aaron Cybertron Zheng here, and he’s back with another episode of Road to Ranked, where he climbs the online Regulation H VGC ladder in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and provide live commentary as he goes. ❤

[@SergioRamirezpokemon4life]

That he is

[@kerantooccil9439]

Absolutely 🎉

[@xdferocious6016]

Do you like copying other peoples comments?

[@TransparentlyDuplicitous]

Seeing this Rock Head Arcanine set, I really hope that, in the future, Head Smash gets its accuracy buffed and Hisuian Arcanine gets the move.

[@SCGamingVN]

this is more of a team i like ! super offensive

[@NewThaiboy9119]

The past 2 weeks or so I have been trying my own team ideas or one from other players (or based on them). I'm more of a defensive player...alwasy have been since I was taught how to play competitive Pokémon in 2013, but I admit this team is impressive to me. If I try it out it might be not as good as your tries, but I'm willing to try new things.

[@NewThaiboy9119]

Also Ive have played against Luca myself...or atleast I do think so bc he/she had athe same team. I did it with a rain team myself, but I was definately very fun. XD

[@JosephGambit]

One of each choice item and an assault vest is crazy

[@yt-lh8kk]

13:08 your Whimsicott set up tailwind first earlier, so at best, the opponent Whimsicott speed ties your Whimsicott, which means your Arcanine is guaranteed to outspeed.

[@CybertronVGC]

Nice catch!

[@PME_FGC]

01:04:14 Weird looking Braviary 01:20:15 Also, that endgame looked really scary. If Incin Ghost Teras and Garchomp doesn't Protect to intentionally take a Dragon Darts for Incin, then Knock-Off could knockout Dragapult leaving only a Ghost-Tera Incin Vs a Decidueye that's locked into CC

[@CybertronVGC]

The Decidueye is Scrappy so we’d still hit Ghost Incin and would get one hit of Dragon Darts + two CCs into it so we should be good in that game regardless

[@PME_FGC]

@@CybertronVGC I completely blanked on Scrappy, you're right!

[@pokatana4130]

YAY! Hisuian pokemon!

[@TheRenaSystem]

great video as always! also wtf was that camera angle at 24:51 lmfao, sv is and always will be a mess

[@zashinunes8191]

I felt like running Rock Head Hisuian Arcanine without Head Smash is such a waste, this combination is so good, gets so many people off guard, does so much damage, and since you're running sash anyways, no need to run a defensive tera like Grass If I would use this team I would've definitely change the Arcanine set, to Rock Tera, Head Smash over Extreme Speed I think would've been more useful since you don't have band, or normal Tera anyways, and switch Close Combat to Protect to avoid Fake Out and some shenanigans, would've been definitely more useful, I don't think that's are many mons out there that make you prefer to use CC over the STABs (Btw I see in the battles that Extreme Speed, and CC actually was clutch in some games, but I still prefer to change it and have more consistency anyways)

[@noyakami7775]

Honestly, you don't lose a lot by running Rock Head > Intimidate, a lot of teams run solo special attackers or have Intimidate counterplay with Kingambit/Annihilape, Scrappy, Clear Amulet or even Weezing(-G). Especially on a sash set you want to play Rock Head. Imo, Extreme Speed is a must on such an offensive team, since you very much rely on ko'ing Pokémon and prio spam helps a lot with that, you could put Head Smash > Close Combat if you'd like, having super effective burst damage into Arch in Rain is rather important tho. Tera Grass is not only a defensive tera for matchups like rain but also an offense support type to dodge Spore/Rage Powder, while also having defensive benefits (e.g. Rain boosted Aqua Jet after sash is chipped, BlUrsaluna Earth Power + Indeedee/Farigiraf)

[@zashinunes8191]

@@noyakami7775 You had good points. Is actually hard for me to choose if I prefer my set or the team one then

[@zashinunes8191]

@@Goldeneye3336 Your opinion is bad, and I don't care about it.

[@zashinunes8191]

@@Goldeneye3336 Yeah it's a opinion, your opinion isn't a fact, you are not the owner of reason, you did not even try to justify your pointless comment, it's objectively bad, and you call this "insightful advice"?! lol Please go spread hate somewhere else, I won't entertain you anymore.

[@jordankeeter1339]

@@zashinunes8191 this guy has said in another thread that “you don’t need protect or fake out to win in doubles”. Glad you’re taking his idiotic comments with a grain of salt😂 I’m almost positive if he’s ever even played a game of doubles he’s never made it into top 10000 lmao

[@mr.truffles9294]

I like the lack of protect. The idea of steamrolling our way to road to ranked. Yeah baby!

[@mythicalwalrus6291]

When road to ranked leads to the Danger Zone

[@WTPokemonToons-rk7ci]

nice video, thank bro

[@czarnemo5195]

Game 7 would it have been better to go for Sucker Punch crit last turn rather than Sacred Sword since you def didn’t live?

[@bosteador]

I feel like this is a singles team lol

[@Caw50]

This team is bonkers jesus

[@juliancollinson8123]

No protect, all attacking moves… feels like being 10 years old again, and it works

[@ionikre]

No Drakloak was hurt in this video

[@underscore5708]

pincurchin team when?

[@lavender3084]

decidueye my dear please don’t be bad 🙏

[@jmh8817]

this team rules

[@honsly1]

So how does dragon darts work? E.g. at 12:42. I thought it's supposed to hit each opponent once?

[@polozyx]

From bulbapedia: “If either the original target or its ally would take no damage from Dragon Darts, both strikes are directed at the other Pokémon instead.” Since Whimsicott is fairy type, it’s immune so both attacks hit Dragonite instead

[@Mossbergg]

i am so confused how arc outsped a sash whims in game 1 lol. like who doesnt run 252 speed on a sash mon

[@TheRealNenharm]

wouldn't e-speed do more damage than a resisted close combat?

[@goodguygus2542]

Could you do a team of Pokemon that all have 4 legs?

[@nvo_beejay]

im surprised I haven't seen a Grimmsnarl team.

[@RK9collectibles]

No protects and three choice items is crazyyyyyy

[@mattyorshin]

Hyper offense is the eay to go

[@ケイレブ]

1:10:50 Would it not have been a win con to just get a sucker punch crit?

[@ケイレブ]

It took me an additional 35 seconds of thought to remember armor tail, my bad

[@slimebot3377]

Comment for the algorithm

[@LesterTriscuit]

Bro keeps calling Decidueye, Braiviary. That's honestly flying type racism. Or would it be Type-ism?

[@marsdouze]

But like...Decidueye isn't Flying type though. Neither of them are.

[@swaggyswaine1973]

1:10:40 you should’ve sucked punch you had a defense drop

[@erich5875]

No because of Armor Tail

[@ChimbzZ]

PX-0! Pacifista reference?

[@DatoKoppla]

First! Love your vids

[@alarminc651]

Maushold team next please after Baltimore regionals masterclass

[@rikho5963]

Babe wake up, Aaron posted another video for me to sit back and watch

[@zashinunes8191]

1:18:33 Very polished game lmao I think that bug specifically is only on that stage tho

[@eonblue9713]

1:14:58 Starting off with all three alola starters haha