Choose Your Starter... and Find The Fake Shiny!

[@GameboyLuke]

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[@gluttonousgoddess]

3:52 to skip a ripoff when earbuds are perfectly fine and you won't drop them, lose them, and/or step on them

[@stevendiggle5393]

If this does happen again, give 1 ability OR illegal move. Poor raid away+ got smoked too easily

[@alex53748]

Unfortunately that wouldn’t have mattered much, since Entei learns E-Speed naturally. That Tera Normal, Guerilla Tactics, Choice Band E-Speed was broken 😅

[@eeefe972]

Raid away always gets smoked

[@ResidentChef]

I very much liked the concept but it was just such an unfair match that I felt bad for Rich

[@sunnysilver8107]

Poor Rich got toasted that team difference was heinous 💀💀💀 loved the concept though

[@RealCutieMutie]

18:30 I'm sending the police to your house, not only you committed some kind of war crime with that E-Speed, Tera Normal, Gorilla Tactics, Choice Band, Entei. But you also reminded me on what Iron Valiant shiny COULD have being

[@kenzoventurella1559]

Should done that combo with ursaluna lol

[@taliclay]

Yeah, nah. Tera Normal E-Speed? Boring, get that shit outta here.

[@taliclay]

It’s like having pure power or shift gear on something busted, it’s boring to watch a sweep with no chance for a turnaround.

[@kenzoventurella1559]

Also raidaway could have gone tera normal, E speed, choice band ect

[@Joh-o1r]

@@kenzoventurella1559ursaluna doesn’t get extreme speed

[@Sacsofon]

bro brang a full legendary team, choice band, gorilla tactics, tera normal, e-speed entei, and still had the nerves to ask for a flinch, now thats crazy.

[@akshayaggarwal5148]

*brought. And he didn't ask for it, he just was laughing it might happen. Obviously e speed is broken. Pokemon company should fix it

[@paladrex]

bro gorilla tactic+ tera normal+ choice band makes e speed from 80 to 270 power it's insane

[@GoomsTheFirst]

@@paladrex not how that works, but sure

[@paladrex]

@@GoomsTheFirst I thought that gorilla tactics gives 1.5x, tera gives extra stab 1.5x and choice band also 1.5x making basically a 80 base power move as if it was a 270. But if that is wrong please explain I'll gladly learn more about how it works in the game

[@GoomsTheFirst]

@@paladrex Those all give 1.5x not to the move damage, but to the attack stat. the stab 1.5x is the only multiplier that adds to the to the move damage (in this scenario).

[@jamiedillon7803]

Yes 9 shinies next time.

[@alexgrissom3513]

Tavi is crying in the corner

[@christedford5332]

More shiny

[@tAhmeed874]

Also helps make the teams more balanced with more pokemon to choose from

[@Rizzarot]

Somehow i read that as "yes,9 inches next time" And i smiled and thought,oh a troll/funny comment but when i read it again i was like," No way i misread that,i swear it was different"

[@alexgrissom3513]

@@Rizzarot Freud would love this comment

[@thatpachirisuguy5861]

After the ridiculous RNG Luke got in the starter selection giving Luke an entire team of gods, the flinch in the second fight was just disrespectful

[@mTh352]

That was a boring fight. The picks were entertaining.

[@rexw2]

It would have been much better if all pokemon were non-legendaries or all of em were..

[@Pailers]

Everyone say 'Thank you, Tavi'. Thaaaaank yoooou, Tavi!!!

[@Cormag541]

Thank you, Tavi!

[@SwimmerChick3n]

Thank you, Tavi!!

[@Tavi]

🫡💜

[@j_atart]

Thank you Tavi!

[@benaube5946]

I can appreciate how good of a decision going Tera normal ESpeed is, but it feels so unbalanced that it pops up and wrecks house so often (across everyone’s channels). Personally I would love to see it get some sort of clause (for example you can only use it once or twice in the battle to have to pick the right time to use it rather than just spamming it) or be removed entirely when creating teams of Pokémon with custom/random moves and abilities, nobody really gets to enjoy what most of those unique mons have to offer in singles once it comes into battle.

[@anthonynguyen1289]

Entei naturally learns ESpeed so it had nothing to do with choosing custom moves. Tera normal espeed with guerilla tactics and choice band is just way too strong. With all the multipliers it should be around 270 base power.

[@Ramen4Days]

And +2 priority

[@benaube5946]

@@anthonynguyen1289 I kinda forget Entei naturally learns it. My comment was moreso something of a blanket statement since I’ve felt this way about a lot of Then We Fights. Even if it isn’t guerilla tactics it’s still always Tera normal with choice band. Whether or not the mon learns the move doesn’t really matter to me; Shedinja naturally gets Wonder Guard but that’s been restricted/banned.

[@NatePhan]

If it's such a common occurrence in then we fights, then he should have predicted it and made a counter with dazzling, queen's majesty or armor tail. He could have set up two shell smashes on his next mon with immunity to priority and swept Luke. Hard to blame this entirely on Tera normal, E speed, choice band, gorilla tactics when your opponent can make an equally powerful combo yet opts to make things with very situational abilities.

[@floatielle2.06]

Here me out; up the antie by separating the rules! If you guess the fake shiny: choose a custom move. If you can guess EXACTLY what is fake about the shiny: choose any ability. This way it's a bit harder to remember what exactly is up with some of these shinies, but also it leaves room for some of these Pokémon to be a little less broken. 😂

[@cassandradeiler9158]

Loved the battles, but can they make the fake shinies harder next time? The only one that tripped me up was the wartortle, at least until I saw the back.

[@theninetailedfoxvern9675]

THE FACE AT 11:32 HAD ME DYING

[@TheSpaceKnights]

6:38 anyone else thought that was a completely different person? Wow, did Luke dye his hair

[@raygunner87]

I didn't even recognize the dude in the reaction 😭

[@kindplanet1]

You should look at Luke when he was younger and SHADY. Omg Shady now looks so handsome, the beard really suits him. Back then Shady was 😭

[@JEDIMinja1]

So Luke says in one video that Huge Power is gross and Espeed/Normal Terra is just nasty and cheap. Also Luke: Proceeds to do that exact move and Terra to a broken legend. GGs on the adoption of a Hippo named Crit.

[@professorh9548]

I really like this style of videos where the viewers get to partake in the challenge too!

[@newpsie17]

That team balance is crazy. Rich had 1 mom over 550 while Luke’s lowest was 550

[@MitchBest]

Tavi killed it! Absolutely love this twist to 'And Then We Fight". Please do another shiny one like this Luke!

[@TheRealKamizura]

props to Tavi for his work on these shiny changes, some of them were so subtle but SO good!

[@Lillythepanda123]

Fun concept, but the battle wasn’t really fun to watch LOL

[@gongdhi6117]

Before they said "9 shinies next time" I was already thinking. We need more hype for all the effort Tavi and the editors do behind the scenes! ❤

[@dubhog]

Ngl that didn't look fun at all for rich lmao

[@original4934]

I honestly wish you guys would start restricting teams to 1 legendary so it's more entertaining also terra normal e speed needs to be banned

[@lochness2864]

I fully agree. The videos get a bit stale when the teams are so unfair

[@newpsie17]

Rich followed that rule in this video…

[@Piranhamatt]

Blonde Luke looks like 10 years younger

[@damiensanders7016]

it just didnt look like him at all. unrecognisable

[@SephirothLionheart]

Maybe If this situation occurs again, with teams so stacked, you could spin a wheel on the legendaries/paras and opponent who low rolled spins a wheel on non legendaries, then you trade. Can make it really good or really bad for the person who accepts the trade.

[@reddythepanda29]

Tavi is so creative- perfect person to ask about changing shinies. Great video by a handsome man- keep up the amazing work Luke

[@dominikkucz9919]

Not a great video really, it's such a one sided battle which is so boring

[@nolansaylor7710]

Probably works best in person, but do have the starter screen and all shiny pokemon. One is a fake shiny, whoever recognizes the fake shiny first gets to chose their pokemon first. The loser of course goes second.

[@ogan7043]

I loved playing along and being like "That shiny isn't right" and there were some moments where I was like "I think that's wrong?", like with Illumise. Definitely would love to see this kind of video again with more incorrect shinies

[@crappyusername69]

The fights are always so bad when the concept just gives the best pokemon of the bunch with bonuses.

[@deltaarcher]

I really wish you'd ban extreme speed, it makes almost every fight it's in non-interactive and boring.

[@thedestinydolphin4]

BRO THANK YOU.

[@NotSnak]

With that logic every priority move should be banned which just shouldnt be the case. Theres various things you can do to stop an e speed mon. Focus sash, sturdy, given its any ability one could run psychic surge queenly majesty or armor tail to stop priority moves. It comes down to building around the potential of priority happening. And rich just didnt really have many options for it (except the any abilitiea but he didnt know luke got an entei)

[@TampaBayGator20]

@@NotSnak Focus sash/sturdy would only work if you could do enough damage to the Entei: Its base power likely exceeds explosion with choice band gorilla tactics and Tera STAB, so you’d have to be able to one shot the Entei, which isn’t an easy task

[@ItsThePickle]

e-speed is fine. Normal Tera E-speed is broken. they need to ban it for the video qualitys sake.

[@NotSnak]

@@TampaBayGator20 dazzling queenly majesty and armor tail would stop e speed from working entirely

[@Eeveelution_Enthusiast]

I absolutely love the concept of this video... Turning it into trivia, yet still retaining the battle techniques

[@infamousinferno2506]

Where's Nokimon when you need him?

[@roadrunner9332]

So true! Would be a perfect collab. xD

[@Nunu.Dolonia]

It feels like I'm the only one who actually likes Iron Valiant's shiny, although I also believe it's the only future Paradox to make that chrome shiny scheme work. It looks and feels like the only good robot out of them all, and it gives the vibe of a suit of armour like you'd expect from a paradox of Gardevoir and Gallade. Almost all of the other future Paradoxes really suffer in their shinies though, poor Iron Thorns, what did they do to you

[@molly__bakes]

Rich had SUCH excellent strats to counter Luke's team and he's always so smart with how he battles. It's a huge shame that rng just wasn't on his side that day. That flinch WAS so disrespectful, DAMN, kick a dude while he's down, rng 😭

[@Pippy7182]

We've gotta have more of these! I've been watching Nokimon's shiny quizzes forever, and I love seeing more people do them!

[@Regeor]

YES RAIDBOYLUKE+ is back again!

[@elijahd212]

Congrats on 500k!

[@isaacstolte1536]

Luke looks so different with bleached hair that if it wasn't for the reaction I wouldn't have known it was him.

[@edfreak9001]

well it was definitely something to see the classic e-speed nightmare for myself

[@anthonynguyen1289]

I think Espeed should have a clause similar to the sleep clause where you can only use it X amount of times in a single battle. We've seen Espeed dominate on many channels and if the opponent doesn't have a counter it is always a wash.

[@drakonghost6967]

That Entei has to be illegal in every capacity, that's an absurd set very unfair lol

[@NintenRob]

You know what could be fun for one sided matches like this? A match where the person swept gets to swap half the teams

[@kenzielynne7078]

Man, the battles aren't even fun to watch when they're so 1 sided 😐

[@GameboyLuke]

it happens! bound to be an often occurrence with custom moves and abilities, and even randomized ones, but I’m listening to feedback and will make it more fair next time ◡̈

[@rileyackison4495]

@@GameboyLukethank you. I know it can be rough to be a content creator. TBF it’s kind of the nature of singles that it can easily turn into a sweep one way or the other. The randomized just make it easier to unbalance things. Granted if it was me I think I’d always have a priority blocking ability if I had the chance. Vgc has repeatedly shown how good it is.

[@Rex-8875]

@@GameboyLuke the best way to ensure it is that u ban Espeed with more than a certain multiplier or attack stat with ability (if its natural like if a huge power/or high attack stat pokemon learns it naturally than its okay since it natural) and also make sure u put a legendary limit and ban some abilities like huge power, pure power or wonder gaurd like these abilities that are just way to broken without any set back like i liked the blastoise simple shell smash stat but i still say its should be ban as there is no setback to it. Hope you listen to my advice.

[@Rex-8875]

@@rileyackison4495 but vgc is double battle based(i think you are talking about double) but since in double 2 pokemon are on the field and their format include support pokemon as main factor and these support pokemon mostly have priority attack or prankster its helpful but in single battle priority isn't that good since support pokemon usually arent major.

[@3dtoni]

Wanna make it fair? Then set the randomizer to no legendaries. I've seen a bunch of games anongst you guys recently where someone gets mostly legendaries/psuedo. Could you set the randomizer to have no legendaries for the first 5 rounds and the last round only be legendaries? Or some other ratio. It feel the last couple of months (who knows when recording) the balance has been once sided. Which every once and a while is cool but its kinda wild lately. And you know it might not be just a legendary thing but it's felt that way. @GameboyLuke

[@PokemonParadise2010]

Rich: I spent 20000 turns to get a shaymin shiny Also Rich: So what is Shaymin's shiny again?

[@Arcadifie]

These videos are sick. It helps me with shiny recognition on top of being fun

[@ReturnOfSilence]

You seem to be on a roll, Luke. Thank you for all you did, Tavi, and well done, Rich. Also, Zacian and Zamazenta are the easiest shines to remember if you know their names: The Cyan and The Magenta.

[@Tobehhy1973]

I love the concept but I definitely think it needs to be much harder. Since everyone got it right it turned into pick your starter with any one move and ability. With lovley new shinies. The concept is great but I feel the reward should match the difficulty. Great work by Tavi and great vid as always. Loved it all.

[@ShadowLordAlistair]

i'll admit that i stumbled across poke-tubers within the year, I think started with Vinny, and came to this vid from Shadys 1 day ago Vid. But the thought of you swapping from single to double battles mid set is not only interesting for the swap, but invigorating for the planning of a team for both single and double. I appreciate you, just because it tickles my theorycrafting fancy so much to plan a team with two separate game modes in mind.

[@phantomninja4862]

That polymerization Rich has is FIRE 🔥!

[@puffin7877]

I’d love to see this concept again with nine instead of six shiny Pokémon! It would give a bit more choice in who is brought for the team. (Also a rematch might help, poor Rich really got unlucky with this one x’D)

[@mwoody4247]

The polymerization shirt is goated 🔥

[@shinyregigigas8354]

Shoulda gone toadscruel, that prankster spore would have been insane

[@Emma-ol3ed]

I love all your games where the watching person can actually guess with you 😍 always keeps me engaged

[@GoldenPiggy56]

Luke is the ultimate try hard. Even when he has a completely stacked team he builds it to be the unbeatable. I didn’t even get half way through the video when I paused it to write this comment and now finding another video to watch

[@ethanel4222]

This is such a great video! This game brings back shiny hunting and random luck....just amazing memories with this game! Although the randomizer could've been a bit more evenly distributed in its choices

[@baronbread3796]

Loving this idea, I would love to see more of this! RIP Tavi

[@Krqze0Official]

Congratulations on 500K hope you reach 1 million soon ! ❤❤

[@tylerprince6371]

That second round was so fun. Looking from the front, I was like "I don't know yanmega's shiny, but I know wartortle's and Indeedee's shinys, so yanmega has to be fake"

[@ausoll1647]

Y’all should make all of them fake shinies, and then the one you pick, if you can guess the correct shiny colors you get the custom move and ability. If you are incorrect, your opponent can then pick either to give you a different Pokémon, or chose one ability or move for that Pokémon.

[@tyro5606]

Quick Tavi charge him double for all that work. Great descriptions too! Tavi popped off!!!

[@NeoHereYT]

I’m so proud of my gamers for not missing a single shiny. They really are the goats 🐐

[@Muffin_lad]

22:00 that was the most Pokemon nerd talk ever lol

[@freebird1621]

Rich saying Fairy is one of his favorite types hurts

[@SirPreyas]

Yes, I vote for more guess the correct Shiny vids!

[@majorblackrose7905]

Would be happy to see more shinys even though I skip to the actual fight every time but I am sure the audience would enjoy it

[@XGCRich]

Tavi really hit with these, he did such a great job! ❤

[@SwimmerChick3n]

Luke should get in touch with Nokimon, since he does such amazing shiny quizzes that are so solid, and would definitely trick any guest Luke brings on! (Example, relicanth…if you know you know)

[@SnoopFrogg13]

You should do it to where if you can’t identify the fake one your opponent has to chose your Pokemon. Love the videos keep up the good work!

[@probablyinsane9955]

Poor Rich. Great video though! Maybe for the next one u could do 9 rounds, and maybe just custom move for guessing the shiny? Since it’s so easy?

[@HanZufu]

More shiny videos like these, they are awesome as a shiny hunter, can test my own memory too :D

[@A.S._fn]

That Shaymin is wrong I have memorized his shiny as it's my favorite Pokemon 12:31 Also so glad that he chose Shaymin :) Poor Shaymin 18:19 Poor Shaymin again 21:39

[@MrKnowledgeZ]

Gotta start choosing Psychic Surge or Armor Tail or some other priority blocking ability lol

[@Great_SAGE_99]

You should bring back more of those "Custom Form Pokemon" videos

[@JoobMasterify]

Love the concept, definitely need 9 each though. Rich got absolutely bodied by the RNG, need more opportunities to balance things out. Also might be fun to do varying levels of difficulty through the rounds (first 3 easy, next 3 medium, next 2 hard and the last one impossible or something)

[@benjaminhoeckel7590]

Rich had two opportunities to give one of his psychic types psychic surge and just blast expending force

[@oka2924]

The idea is great, but I would LOVE IT, with VERY SUBTLE changes, it would make it so harder and confuse full time shiny hunters 🙏

[@Inferno_Yuki]

"Noone in the friend group rigs things" may I interest you in an asteroid video

[@iOS6Fan1]

I liked it only because of the effort Tavi put in

[@StaticPika]

Always look forward to your posts on Sundays! They are always very entertaining and laugh a lot during them! Love who you collab with and hope you keep creating more! 😄

[@lulabelle5452]

Seel being pink is actually pretty! Shiny dewgong pink would be so good! ❤

[@ginrodino8542]

The problem with the Iron paradox shinies is they all do the same thing. If one or two of them did the chromium thing, it would have been great. :(

[@mathybrain8]

Fun Fact! Zacian and Zamazenta are named after their shiny colors. Shiny Zacian is cyan, and shiny Zamazenta is magenta.

[@Umbra173]

It's always great when something changes inside of the games

[@tjm692]

Tavi is the GOAT for making those shinies, and Rich was a perfect choice to do this with. Would love to see more of these custom shinies.

[@ShayHusky]

Luke, you better have gotten super tricky with this one. I know my shinies and i wanna be tricked!

[@MobileTimebomb]

fantastic concept but it’s time to get trickier for round 2 like nokimon’s videos!

[@fadingdreamx]

The reason all the future paradoxes just become grey in their shiny is because they are meant to look like factory rejects without any paint on, seems lazy but it's actually kinda smart

[@limexylophone]

loved this, really hope you do more!

[@KonnerHumanDBZT]

"i know no one in our group cheats" did he forget frank is a thing

[@keithshaughnessy1730]

Yall gotta use Dazzling or Armor Tail with how often Normal Tera E-speed gets used.

[@thesunflowergirl731]

18:55 no but i do that so much when i battle my friends

[@SwagMikeOut]

Poor Tavi.. Im sorry, but we’re gonna need more new shinies bud 🤣

[@theryuyami]

I love playing along with these videos and as someone who doesn't shiny hunt I'm surprised at how many I actually got right.... be proud of me 🤣

[@StarsRShiney]

I was gonna say the Seel still didn't look that different from its base form (except maybe the tongue?) but then it was revealed to be pink. Colorblindness strikes again!

[@Stemorrow]

I think I'd kill it at a challenge like this. God, I wish I had a group of friends I could do this kind of stuff with.

[@pointeplusplus]

Gotta crank up those shiny change difficulties lol. And maybe add a legendary cap or something? 😅😵

[@N8tron97]

That Entei was an absolute menace 🤣 poor rich. But also, that’s how randomized choices go sometimes.

[@valeriedominguez607]

You guys should do this is reverse! Find the real shiny among fake shinnies! That would be so cool!

[@knight4472]

I rather see an e-speed Kricketune wreak havoc because at least it would be funny like Venomoth and Dylan. This was just sad to watch. Poor Rich