The COMPLETE Guide to Hyper Offense in Pokemon | Competitive Pokemon EXPLAINED

As we see more and more hyper offense in overused, I thought that a breakdown of the playstyle would be useful to newcomers looking to play as and against HO. Late disclaimer, but please keep in mind that everything I present in this video is just based on my understanding of hyper offense and is by no means the absolute or only way to play hyper offense.
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[@tyroneallen9452]

I still remember my favorite type of team. 5 random mons + Chansey

[@connorbutler5900]

Same but Blissey. Soft-boiled, sing, body slam and light screen.😂

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@@connorbutler5900 body slam light screen blissey op plz ban.

[@imab0t274]

@@connorbutler5900 body slam off that 10 attack gonna tickle your opponent 😂

[@Michael_Schumacher]

@@imab0t274 it’s used for the para chance

[@imab0t274]

@@Michael_Schumacher wouldn’t you just use t wave then?

[@Jack-id5gm]

1: rocks 2: mew explode 3: ninetales 4: profit

[@dtexdarkus]

3: Could also be Grimmsnarl. Faster and more reliable. Stronger offense, priority screens, and priority taunt to block defog.

[@shanecoffing]

@@dtexdarkus true, but it doesn't chip with hail and it doesn't set up screens in one turn like Grimisnarl does.

[@juddakooda9520]

@@shanecoffing Exactly. I try to tell people theres reason to use it over snarl but they think im some idiot

[@q1o411]

@@juddakooda9520 the thing compared to snarl is that the hail chip damages your teammates and it's slower, and someone would easily change the weather or priority that would kill it like BP or just a faster mon like a scarfer or specs pult with flamethrower, while snarl is better is because of its priority screens. It doesn't matter most of the time if it takes 2 turns to set up screens because you can tell from the mon you're fighting against, set up light screen first Infront of a special attacker or set up reflect first Infront of a physical attacker.

[@nuraidakhalid9092]

Try

[@MisterSleep1123]

I remembered my first OU win, and a complete accident when you mentioned cloyster. I accidentally brought my RU team at OU, and oddly, my opponent is weak to either ice ir rock. And my team of late Garde turned to cloyster hyperoffense.

[@mighark54]

This video gave me inspiration to turn my dumb ORAS OU sun team into a HO team. Went to test in on ladder and won a few games, but most importantly one opponent said I was bad and only swept his entire team because I was using a broken mon, which is the highest praise one can get. All thanks to your teambuilding videos.

[@ralphraymundo3256]

I loved running HO back in gen 7 UU with azelf lead, banded scizor, and belly drum azu

[@Vitheeshan]

Haha same man. And I remember how op contrary serperior was with leaf storm

[@shasan2393]

Holy moly, the quality in this vid is insane. You should have thousands of subs lol

[@ragpyldz1624]

Great. Now I know every team I made when I was new to competitive battling was hyper offensive. Awesome video as always!

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

Rain also deserves a special mention for being non-HO HO. The gen VII fundamental team consisted of pelipper, mega swampert, ash greninja, tapu koko, ferrothorn, and tornadus therian. Something you may notice about the last two are that they are defensively oriented pokemon. Pelipper is also quite bulky. But you can still see the fingerprint of HO in all of them. Leftovers? Not a chance. Ferro and torn are there to sponge a few hits to let in your sweepers. Ferro also never runs leech seed or thunder wave. Leech seed takes too long to do anything and recovery is not worth your time. Mega swampert outspeeds all but a few scarfers, and tornadus eats them for breakfast. Even pelipper, PELIPPER, can try to run choice specs to get a possible 2HKO on toxapex.

[@dhruvhosali2416]

Gen 7 ou rain truly is a beautiful and busted style thanks to the 4 mon core pelipper, swampert, ferrothorn and tornadus therian and honestly ash greninja is just too good to pass up most of the time.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@Nish The Great that didn't have swift swimmers though.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

it's amazing just how much 1 ability can skyrocket a pokemon from unusable garbage to godlike.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@Nish The Great what?

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@@dhruvhosali2416 i don't really care for greninja personally.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

love this channel. just great, in depth discussion that u dont see from many poketubers besides pokeaim. u rlly deserve more subs man, keep it up

[@davidbateman7695]

Thanks for making this vid, i use to play pretty passively but ive learned to be more aggressive with my plays and starting winning matches that i can say im proud of keep up the great videos.

[@leendert101]

Amazing vid! Actually explains :). Hope to see one like these on the other archtypes aswell!

[@bossdawg41]

Hey bro keep this going you give such good information and have an amazing soundtrack by the way lol but please keep this going I truly enjoy them I think I know how to be a better Pokémon gamer now because this is mostly definitely my style of play 😄

[@NOLOAF-AR]

a mon i rlly enjoy using is HO is claydol. he can spin, set up rocks, and get out of there using explosion once he's done his job. plus u can also run techs like colbur on him, or moves like eq, ice beam, or body press to cover any mons ur own team may have a problem with :D

[@NOLOAF-AR]

i wish they'd release custap :(

[@r3io4mf]

@@NOLOAF-AR they released custap

[@hamamudo3011]

Damn, are you gym instructor? You explain like one. sweet

[@matthiasnead1813]

amazing vids man thank you!

[@Campaign2024]

Just randomly stumbled on this video while searching "hyper offense pokemon". I may need to save this.

[@saathvikgowda785]

this guy is the Gotham Chess of pokemon. awesome vid!

[@BeeBwakka]

You really deserve more subscribers my man

[@daddy_lasagna5249]

This is a great video!

[@johnnyappleseed6599]

Amazing vid, subbed

[@MeMe-qv6ho]

Impressive, liked and subbed

[@Spitz973]

Love the content you put out man, def better than most competitive Poketubers. Just subscribed!

[@Restorix0Tension]

agreed，for me tied with pokeaimmd，wolfey and blunder

[@ParasocialCatgirl]

ty for explaining hyper offense

[@Nathan-ze8pl]

I’m here 3 years in advance as I used to play stall but now it’s unplayable in the mega so I needed to learn hyper offense 😂. Thank you so much

[@bigidiotbobo4323]

Great vid

[@TheSwirlyMango]

Great video

[@parantapmahadevia5004]

Good shit G

[@vintagestealth8802]

I’ve been experimenting with a lead. Aerodactyl -Taunt -Stealth Rock -Hone Claws -Stone Edge I’m having super fun messing with other leads with taunt and if it survives to set up a hone claws I can start smacking things with Stone Edge lmao Edit: If I can get some hits off on other opponents they get softened up for some of my other Pokémon.

[@eliyaskiya]

Aerodactyl happens to be a really good lead in STABmons too but with Brave Bird and Stone Edge instead of Hone Claws and Stone Edge. You'll also see the occasional EQ or Accelerock

[@sebasribas6961]

you deserve more subs

[@acetuberjason6730]

I got my first gen 8 ou win with a hyper offense team. Thanks!

[@nathanielbutler2553]

Hey, it's been a minute. Think you can do a weather version of this guide?

[@jordy7625]

How anyone thinks that a playstyle that punishes you quicker for playing lazily is "no skill" is beyond me.

[@broidkanymore-zc4lt]

its cuz of the usual noob that just makes teams with a bunch of legendaries and high dmg attacks and sometimes they mistake it for that

[@onarceus4969]

Ik this is an old vid but if you're in with helmet hippowdon vs suicide lead exca, you always click earthquake turn 1. Then you click stealth rock because they excadrill is at 1% and if they rapid spin they die to helmet (if you die to helmet/life orb as you rapid spin, hazards dont go away)

[@Ilikecheesecake24]

Thank you, i built a monstrous team and destroyed my friend in scarlet violet. Team is groudon, flutter mane, chi-yu, walking wake, fire mask ogerpon, and kingambit if you're wondering.

[@-nsxernos-6096]

My team is HO with an Aegislash wall (Gen 7 Ubers) Blaziken (Wallbreaker/Sweeper) Diggersby (Cleaner) Aegislash (Wall/Stall) Shuckle (Suicide Lead) Ash-Greninja (Sweeper) Shaymin/Ultra Necrozma (Sweeper)

[@ALANA-hu8qo]

I'm working on a Pikachu sweep team for Sword and shield

[@patrickma4220]

Gen 9 OU players: *furiously takes notes*

[@svx4401]

Lol, people say HO is brainless, n last gen the ladder was dominated by stall.

[@ia4049]

best channel on youtube

[@ahnadiri]

Great vid. commenting for algorithm 😤

[@NathanLikesChicken]

True fan 😍

[@synchrxny]

What distinguishes a wallbreaker from a sweeper? Also, what does HO look like in 3v3?

[@NathanLikesChicken]

It's a thin line. A sweeper wants to knock out several or all of the opponents' pokemon in a row, which is usually achieved by using a speed/attacking boosting move like shell smash, or sometimes an item, like choice scarf on a slow/strong pokemon, or a choice specs/band on a fast/weak pokemon. There's a lot more to it than that, like sometimes a pokemon like kommo'o can sweep without being fast by boosting it's DEF with iron defense until nobody can touch it, then sweeps slowly. But the general idea is they want to just smoke the enemy one pokemon at a time without much retaliation. A wallbreaker doesn't really care about its defenses or speed as much, and just wants to swap in, and be able to immediately hit the opponent really hard. Sirfetch'd, for example, doesn't have much bulk, or much speed. But it has so much attack, that even defensive walls like ferrothorn, toxapex, etc can't swap into it safely - letting it break open those walls for the sweepers to take advantage of later.

[@spinosaurusaegypticus8341]

i dont neccesarily think HO would work in 3v3, considering you cant afford to have leads

[@FireflyOnyx]

It seems my team is hyper offensive. I play Gen 8 National Dex AG, here's the team. Protean Greninja with Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Haze and Scald. I know alot of people run it for damage, but it's speed stat helps alot with set ups and I can get off at least two toxic spikes before it goes down and protean can be really helpful when I make the right calls on what type to switch to, I often go into spikes for the ground typing so it can't get thunder waved or hit with any damaging electric attacks. I actually had it use spikes and be immune to a electric z move recently, I think they walked away from their computer for a bit after that. Despite all this, these aren't the main reasons for the choice. I picked Greninja because of Haze. There's lots of strange set ups in Gen 8 National Dex AG such as Eevee with it's z move and Belly Drum Azumaril which get completely ruined by Haze, it's gotten me alot of forfeit victories and stops set ups that could sweep my team. Mega Charizard X with Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, Fire Punch and Earthquake. One of my sweepers, all it takes is mega evolution and one dragon dance and it one shots most things and two shots more bulky pokemon. It also lasts alot longer than most expect because I bulked it up a bit so it can't be one shot and very rarely two shot. I've sweeped entire teams with this one several times. Contrary Serperior with Leaf Storm, Giga Drain, Glare and Taunt. I was actually running it with scarf or specs until recently with a toxic stall + dragon tail set in the back, but I swapped to wide lens to not waste any leaf storms and glare and taunt help to shut down stallers, set ups and sweeper a like while it heals back up with a boosted Giga Drain. It clears out most threats with ease and anything it can't handle gets shut down with Glare. One of my favourite pokemon to use. These next two will be done in one go as they rely on eachother for the set up. Venomoth with Quiver Dance, Whirlwind, Baton Pass and Sludge Bomb. Espeon with Dazzling Gleam, Pyshock, Signal Beam and Shadow Ball. Both holding sash. This pair was an oddball pick, but I find it to be alot of fun when I get the set ups. Venomoth is mostly there to either tank alot of hits or only one as long as it gets up a Quiver or two before baton passing. Preferably two, Espeon is unstoppable with two. Espeon gets alot from these boosts and sweeps entire teams with dynamax to keep it around awhile longer. Sadly, I rarely get off the set up, I might need to play things a little different and figure out what Venomoth can easily wall to get off more Quivers along with possibly swapping Whirlwind or even Sludge Bomb for a high power bug move because of those all too common steel types. Actually, maybe I'll throw in hp fire, it could be quite the play. Well, at least it's a stall team's worst nightmare because status don't hit Venomoth very often and Espeon reflects them with Magic Bounce. Florges with Aromatherapy, Defog, Magic Coat and Wish. A brand new member of the team I just swapped in and fits absolutely perfectly. Aromatherapy gets rid of annoying status effects, it's a perfect wish pivot to heal up the team to lengthen how long they can sweep, has defog to remove stealth rock which break Charizard and Magic coat to bounce back annoying statuses and hazards. Before hand I was running Clefable, but all it really did was be a check for Mega Raquaza with fairium z, which I might have Florges do now by swapping Magic Coat for a fairy move and setting the z crystal. I've been working on this team for years and they mean alot to me, won me alot of games and been really fun to play. ^-^ Edit: Actually swapping back to Clefable after learning about Wish and Teleport. It can't defog like Florges can, but is a much better wish pivot. I might swap between the two here and there to see which one works better for my team.

[@quemuraa]

nice team

[@heartsy2838]

I am thinking of starting with excadrill Earthquake one time if I can then switch to regieleki/Grimsnarl set screens and either go to a Belly drum user or maybe zeraora and if I could probably squeeze in a Scizor for U-Turn

[@q1o411]

It really depends on the team of what you use in HO some use explosion landoT because it doesn't have to stay in for long, and you can quickly switch to your screen setters or your sweepers, uturn isn't good on HO because the point is to try to sweep as fast as possible and you don't want to uturn around for no reason.

[@heartsy2838]

@@q1o411 yeah I am just testing and I think scizor just takes a slot that I need maybe a tapu would help

[@supermashbros.7323]

I play NatDex AG, Here's my HO team: Galvantula (Suicide lead) Greninja-ash Volcarona Lucario-mega (sweepers) Garchomp (scarfed, haha get prenk zacian crowned) And zeraora specs as my cleaners

[@nightmarefalls4204]

Instead of specs I think band will be a better option as that way zeroara will be able to use it's signature move more efficently

[@PurpleRaven300]

hot video

[@jayson7536]

Some mechanics work differently in showdown than they actually do in sword/shield battles just thought I’d say that

[@alperd459]

“That was a big info dump I apologize” dude I clicked a 13 minute video on pokemon competitive strategy, what else did you think I came here to listen to?

[@rkr3761]

Noooooooooice bui

[@the1pomister641]

I default to hyper offense in all pokemon games

[@JeeReeAnimation]

Stall requires even less skill, y'know.

[@therealchristian1]

Kee-Yur-Em, not Kyur-ee-em :)

[@user-ud6xv1dd6i]

In spanish xd :c

[@emilygordbort7300]

I find this video offensive