I Built an Evil Mega Greninja Team

Nobody knows what to think about Mega Greninja. On the one hand, it is one of the fastest Mega Evolutions, period. On the other hand, it's kind of frail. On the one hand, it has a lot of points in both its attack and special attack, which isn't commonly thought to be very good. But on the other hand, it's actually one of the few Mega Evolutions that can be a mixed attacker

using both its attack and special attack stats. its ability. It's called Protan, and it changes Mega Grininja's type to be the type of the move that it's about to use. This used to be a very, very, very good ability. However, now I would say it's actually more of a liability than a help. That's because Protan used to work on every move, every time Grininja would use a move, it would change type. But now, it only works on the first move Mega Grininja uses every time after it switches in. Surely Surely you can hear that, that's so loud. I don't know if they're gonna stop. Okay, hello, sorry, they're doing construction. Okay, so Protan changes Greninja's type, but only the first time after Greninja

enters the field every time. And this is like not necessarily a huge problem, but it is a problem when you think about the fact that Pokemon are stronger when they use moves that match their type. So if Greninja's first move is a fighting move

or an ice type move, then that move will be stronger. So a big part of how good Mega Greninja will be will depend on which type it is in that given battle and which moves it even has access to. There's one move in particular that I think could be really strong on Mega Greninja,

and that's actually Blizzard. opponent's Pokemon, and it has a chance to freeze them. In order for Blizzard to be a hundred percent accurate, it needs to be in the snow, so we'll be adding a snow setter in a second, but the nice thing about Greninja is it actually gets a couple of fighting moves which can be used to take out Tyranitar, and Tyranitar is the natural predator of like every snow team. Greninja unfortunately doesn't learn any good water moves, it can use Ninetales, but it's actually not the most offensive snow type setter. Snow type, ice type, whatever, snow warning setter.

My goal here is to overwhelm the opponent with Blizzard spam from two fast Pokemon, and Ninetales just doesn't have the damage output. So instead I'll be using Vanilluxe. Vanilluxe is an ice cream moves. I'll be using four different ice type moves here. And with the choice scarf, it's actually really fast. Vanilluxe plus Greninja as an ice type using Protean Blizzard is pretty threatening, because not only will you be doing good damage to both your opponent's

Pokemon, even if they resist Blizzard, but each Blizzard that hits has a 10% chance to freeze, and so two Blizzards, the odds start stacking up really quickly. Now, Greninja and Vanilluxe are a strong combination, but the truth is that they have some trouble with super specially bulky Pokemon, and with a couple in particular. I'm a bit worried about Mega Floette, who does a ton of damage, hits Greninja for super effective damage, unless it changes type,

and also is just like one of the most popular Mega Evolutions right now. And I'm also worried about Mega Gardevoir for similar reasons. Normally people are going with Sneaselur, but I want a Pokemon that's immune to Fake Out, so I'm gonna be going with Gengar. Almost all Gengar right now are holding the Gengarite item, but I want to use the Focus Sash instead. This gives my Gengar a bit more staying power, and will allow me to use the move Destiny Bond, which is a very scary move that will

knock out unprepared foes if they just attack willy-nilly into Gengar, and the Focus Sash generally. The thing about having a poison type and like kind of two ice types is that steel type Pokemon are kind of a huge problem and we're gonna want some answers for them. I'll add Garchomp next, I'll add a bulky Garchomp here with the Lumberry item. Garchomp is nice because it not only helps with the steel type Pokemon that are causing me problems, but it's also really good into Charizard, unlike Tyranitar or Politoed. And Garchomp is not only super bulky, but also has access to the move Rock Slide, which will do tons of damage and probably one-hit KO most Charizard.

I mentioned earlier that Greninja doesn't learn any good water moves, so I won't be using one here, but water-type coverage would still be really nice, especially against the fire-type Pokemon that my ice moves really can't touch. physical attacker, and the most popular fire type Pokemon right now is Incineroar, who weakens all physical attackers every time it switches in. So I need something more for Incineroar for sure. So the fifth Pokemon on this team is Milotic. It's a really bulky water type that can support the team with icy winds, slow down opponents, and Scald, which can burn pretty much anything it

touches unless it's a fire type, in which gives it two stages of increased special attack whenever any of its stats are lowered. This makes it one of the best Pokemon to deter Incineroar, because while Milotic isn't that strong, like at neutral special attack, at plus two it becomes very difficult to ignore, and also very difficult to remove,

just naturally thanks to its good bulk. Speaking of Incineroar, the last Pokemon on this team is Incineroar. It pairs well with Milotic. It helps into some of the problematic steel types like Aegislash. And it gives us more tools against Trickerum, which is a bit of a problem given how fast our upper end is. And that's the team. You're about to watch three battles with this team,

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So yeah, if you want to subscribe to get more, that's good. But otherwise, here's the team. Here's me playing with it. Forgive my hair, I'll explain tomorrow. Bye bye. yourself, here are the stats. I will move my big ol' head here so you can take a look at that. But yeah, I'm really curious to see how this team does. Initially, my impression of Mega Greninja is that it wasn't super strong. I think it's got some stuff going for it,

but it's kind of awkward in that it has both a high physical and a high special attack stat and that can make it a little bit weird to use. However, in my practice games on Showdown with this team, I actually did quite well. So I mean, I think it's probably not, like it's probably not a top tier mega. I think it really does suffer because it doesn't learn a water move, but having stab on potentially every move is a really big deal.

I think that if it was old Protan, where it changed like indefinitely, rather than only on the first one, this would be a Pokemon that was definitely like more worth considering. I'm curious to see how it feels with Blizzard, because Blizzard is just such a powerful move and giving it the ice type and getting the physical defense boost

feels like it could be really big. So these are my first battles in Master Ball tier actually on this account, so that'll be cool to be able to play here. As we take a look at the opponent's team, I mean, they have Incineroar, which is scary. They also have Friggeraftlamora looks a bit spooky.

My Milotic looks good here. Kind of like to do Milo plus Vanillix here, maybe with Garchomp and Greninja in the back. This gives me, like if they lead poorly into this, I can just click Blizzard right away. And if they lead with Glamora,

which I think is like this lead. Yeah, I think I like this lead. It doesn't seem bad. My goal basically is to get everything, do enough work where I can just start spamming Blizzard. One thing I need to watch out for is Basky Lesion. It is faster than my Greninja and so, and my Scarf Vanilluxe by one point as well if it is Choice Scarf, which is not guaranteed to be, Yeah, better to respect it, right? They could go for like Koma-O in the lead, that's one option, though Koma-O isn't like so happy to see Vanilluxe in the lead, so yeah. Having, I guess it's only two Ice-Weak Pokemon, but like even Furiguraph and Vastulegion

take more than you might expect from Blizzard, so yeah, overall I think the Komo-O, the Furiguraf, and the Glimora are the biggest threats here. The nice thing is they can only bring four mons, and because I have Milotic, if they bring Incin, they're like kind of, well, they're not happy to see Milotic, but also Incin is one of their only Pokemon that wants to match up into Greninja.

So let's have a look here. Okay, Whimsicott and Komo, so I mean, I'm just gonna click Blizzard. To be honest, I mean, I have to watch out for Aura Sphere. I could just get like totally popped, right? But I think just Blizzard and Icy Wind seems pretty reasonable to me. Let's give it a shot, right? The thing about Blizzard is I can also freeze people.

If I hit Blizzard, if I get Blizzard off, then, oh, they go for Light Screen, actually. green actually that's really interesting okay so they're gonna make themselves a lot bulkier however this is still gonna do a fair bit of damage it probably won't kill the whims caught anymore but i mean yeah that's a lot of damage give me the freeze give me the double freeze oh man okay i mean they're setting up they're now plus one speed but they're losing a wait how are they dead to icy wind are they i think they're dead who else else think it? Dead, yes or no? Okay, well, that was a good turn for me. We drop them to cut speed, which doesn't really matter,

but we KO Komo with kinda no drawback, so yeah, I think that's pretty good is my current impression. Basculation comes out, okay, that's not great for me. I think we need to scald this thing and try and get the burn. Actually, I think I'd rather Icy Wind again, because I really don't want to give them speed control, right? The thing is with the snow defense boost, I'm not as worried about Basculation.

Maybe I should be. They actually switch out, so that's not good for me. Gleam Aura, okay, maybe this thing has Dazzling Gleam. They do have light screen up. Here's Blizzard. If there's Scarf, there'm gonna do it. I didn't freeze either. I've decided this game is actually a bad game.

And I took infinite damage. Hello. Okay, so here's what I'm thinking. Can I just Blizzard again? I know it looks stupid, right? And it probably is stupid.

But I think I need the chip damage on the Basket Legion. Okay, it is Mega Glamora. So it'll take less from the second Blizzard, but still not nothing, right? I have to watch out for Whimsicott coming in. I guess what I'm afraid of now is Flip Turn? Glamora's online. I have Garchomp as my last, so I'm doing pretty well into Glamora in the late game, right? I've done 66% to Basculation. Trillian dies to Dark Pulse, right? I haven't frozen anything. Why is the Basculegion faster than the Glamora, who's power gem? Okay.

So now what? Now what indeed? Okay, I have two choices here. I go into Greninja for sure. I can either go for Dark Pulse, which has the highest potential upside I think, and that it could KO Basculegion. The issue is they could just switch out out right? So I think what I'm gonna do instead is I'm gonna recover with Milotic and I'm actually gonna go... Jarvis? Why can't I Mega Evolve? Jarvis? Where's my Mega Evolution button? Um I don't know why I can't Mega Evolve. I'm not being funny. I don't know why. Did I give it the

wrong... Did I give it the Gengar right? Hang on a second, well that's gonna change things. Uh, recover Blizzard, I'm gonna freeze. I'm going for the freeze, baby! I also, ah, ah, I, ah, okay, it's fine. That's a great animation in this game.

Who else think it? Okay, well, my Greninja's now an Ice-type. Why can I not turn into Mega Greninja? If I was Mega Greninja here, I'd be so good. I killed the Whimsicott. Help, I don't know why I can't click my funny button. The thing is, am I dead to last respects?

The thing is probably Choice I dead to last respects? The thing is probably choice scarf, right? If I was mega glamora, I mean if I was mega greninja, I would think I could KO. Okay, hang on. Who's stronger? I have 155, which is really like, okay, I'm not stronger. Uh, that's not good. Protect and switch is somewhat reasonable here. I can still win this. Do I, did I get the genga right by mistake? I think I may have. I can't Mega Evolve. I wanted to show off Mega Greninja, but like, okay, just pretend. Pretend I could Mega Evolve here, because then I could turn into, ah.

Yeah, just pretend, just pretend. I made the wrong play again. I might be the Woat. I'm alive. Okay. I'm pretty sure there's Scarf, right?

Snow is gone. Light Screen's gone. Like surely Greninja takes it last respects here, right? Oh no, okay, they are scarfed. Do I live this? Okay, good job, Milotic. Although there is a problem here. I guess I could have stomping the other slot.

Okay, they are scarfed. If I get this Icy Wind off, okay, I should win. I should win now, unless they go for a really strange play here. but yeah, I lose my Loading, but my Loading more than did its job. I got minus two speed in the Glimora, and it got the Baskill Legion two, minus one speed, which is really important. So now I can go into getting Forfeited.

Okay, let's figure out why I couldn't Mega Evolve. I know I was supposed to show off Mega Glimora there, but I mean, not Mega Glim, I'm tier three now. I ranked up. Yippee! Okay, let's figure out what happened. Okay, taking bets now. What do you think the issue is?

Do you think the issue is the Mega Stone? What item do you have? How do I tell the item? It's the Gengarite. I gave it the Gengarite. Oh, that's not supposed to happen. Okay, I'll say that's my bad. That is super my bad. Ah, okay, okay.

Yeah, okay, my bad. That's my bad. All right, my bad, sorry. Okay, let's try again. It should be better. It should be even stronger this game

now that I have Mega Greninja. Hello, I want to tell you about a cool project that I've been working how I take notes in competitive Pokemon. Inside every notebook there's a QR code that takes you to a video that explains how to use the the layout so you don't need to know already. Anyway I spent like a year designing this and it's only available for pre-order for one more week less than a week at this point? Something

close. Put the date up on screen because I guess I guess a week is relative depending on when you're watching this. Thank you. I personally find note-taking to be super helpful in competitive Pokemon. I do it at literally every tournament. So if you have the means and it's something that you're interested in, check out vgcnotebook.com to learn more. There's also this video that you can watch

if you want like a more in-depth explanation, but yeah, that's probably it for now. Okay, back to the video. Bye-bye. Okay, I was against a Trick Room team. I decided to change Destiny Bond on Gengar to Taunt. So now I have another way of potentially stopping Trick Room teams. This is one of the concepts that I was most worried about personally,

is it's Sand. I added Garchomp. Sand plus Rotom Wash is kind of a nightmare. I do think this is a game where my Greninja can be really strong, but I need to be really wary about how I approach things. So I think I do one, two, three, four here. Garchomp is really strong. I need to watch out for Hydreigon for sure. I need to watch out for Excadrill for sure. I could lead with Intant, but I think into Sneaselor I really don't want to. I can Blizzard down Corvik has specs here, but I don't know for sure. I think my goal in this matchup is clear the Sneaselur,

clear the sand, go from there. Rotom Hydreigon on the leads. Okay, that's probably bad for me. That's almost assuredly bad. I guess only one of these Pokemon can be Scarf, right? No switches, so here's retain and protect. Get into my type,

Gardevoir protects. Hydreigon goes for Heatwave actually so it's if it's Scarf Hydreigon then it's locked into Heatwave and I go for Will-O-Wisp and Rotom. I think honestly this is fine um I don't really care about Heatwave here I'm not I was gonna go for Blizzard, but now I'm just gonna go for Mega Evolve and Dark Pulse here and then I'm gonna go for Dragon Claw into the Hydragon. Dark Pulse is not that powerful of a move, especially from Mega Greninja, but I think getting 40% damage on this Rotom

is actually probably worth it to me. Like, ultimately my goal is to low kick down the Tyranitar, right, which I suspect last one, I forgot. But yeah, it's probably Mega T-Tar, so I gotta be careful of that. They're thinking about it. I mean, it's a tough choice, right?

They actually switched Rotom out here, interestingly enough. Here's Excadrill. I mean, I'm quite happy to break a potential Focus Sash on this thing. I'm honestly just happy to get damage on it. Once again a water and dark type so heatwave is no longer threatening to me. It's a little strange that they've seen it with hydrogon though, maybe it's not scarf?

No it's scarf. Okay here's heatwave, we really don't want to get burnt here on greninja. I do have lumber and garchomp which is nice. They crit my garchomp, couldn't have been mattering later. They burn my garchomp, that matters say a pretty terrible turn. Who else think it? Here's Dark Pulse. Retain turned me into a pure Dark type,

so I lose my electric weakness and my fire resist. Dark Pulse does over half. Okay, that's pretty good. Excadrill, yeah, is now a range of another one of those. It's in range of Blizzard and they survive. Okay.

They switch Hydra Gun out. It is T-tar, so I think this is probably good for me, all things considered. I get Intimidate on both Pokemon, especially on Tyranitar, that matters. I do miss my Lumbery pretty badly, but this is okay. I get Intimidate down on both. Even after a Dragon Dance and a Mega Evolution, I think my Greninja's still faster,

but they go for Rock Slide. This now has a chance of flinch? Okay, I get rid of the Excadrill, so that means that their faster Pokemon are kind of slipping away. I think I'm in the lead now,

because I'm setting up for an end game where I can just low kick and Blizzard everything, right? Okay, it's Hydrogon. I'm just gonna completely fake out into this thing. They can switch out, really change anything, right? So I fake out the Hydragon, and I think I just go for Stomping into Ttar. I could Dragon Claw here, but if they switch out,

it's not such a big problem for me. What we wanna see is Tyranitar mega evolve. Once Tyranitar mega evolves, then our lives become a lot better because they can no longer reset the snow. I'm delaying bringing in Vanilluxe

until after they've mega evolved. I want to make sure that I win the weather war in the end, so I can click Blizzard with Abandon. They're minus one on the T-Turret, so that isn't sent up to switch, but the thing is, if Terranitar switches out, then I get Stomping Tantrum into Rotom, which actually doubles its power for the next turn. Stomping Tantrum. Should do over half. Yeah, 61%. What we're worried about here is Dragon Dance.

Okay, that's what we're worried about. So now the game is a little bit different, yeah? How fast is Mega Tyrannotaur? It's actually 10 points faster.

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Okay, here's the good news and I got bad news. The good news is that even at plus one speed, Tyranitar is not faster than Mega Greninja. So I'm actually still kind of okay. So I'm gonna go for Parting Shot here and I'm gonna go for Stomping Tantrum here. Because my theory is that if they attack, I have a chance, like they have to go for Rock Slot I guess. They're only, they're and go into Greninja and try and win that way. And actually I can lock my Vanilluxe into Freeze Dry as the final attack. Yeah, my Greninja being so fast, faster than plus one Mega Ttar is a pretty major deal, I think.

And this could be Adamant Nature Ttar as well. Yeah, I just need to make sure they don't get a second Dragon in top, which I can do by going for war, I was waiting for this. Oh, they're slow, they're bulky. And they go down, okay, cool. Very, very good, okay.

We have a hydro pump into my guard shop, I should survive that, I'm pretty bulky. Now the road to minus one, yeah, I think this was just kind of, yeah, I don't think this one was very close. Although, like, the thing is, if they'd flinched me with Rock Slide, then it would've been totally different.

Yeah, they forfeit, yeah. I think in this game, the really nice thing is that I had, like, I had the Tyranitar locked down because I had Mega Greninja present in the back. I think by having such a fast Pokemon with a super effective move there,

yeah, it wasn't, like, it wasn't needed in the end, it was, like, it was nice to have. I would love to get a game where I can just click Blizzard a billion times, that's my favorite way of using, like, a Greninja, just Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard. It's hard when they have weather, is what I'll say about it.

This team doesn't have weather. Should we try it? We definitely need Gengar here. And then last one, do you think they're gonna bring Incin? Okay, like this, Milotic is actually really good here. I should just bring Milotic, but like Milotic's not funny. You know what I mean? I'm gonna try blizzarding everything to death. Yeah, this could definitely backfire in a pretty major way.

I have no, this is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible strategy. have Incin if they have Rotom Wash. There's just so many ways that this can go badly. I guess I do have Freeze Dry as an option. God, but if it works, it's so funny. Yeah, not bringing Incin or Milo against this was definitely a choice. I just wanna Blizzard everything to death.

The thing is, if they're not very careful, I will be able to Blizzard everything to death. That's my theory, at least. Oh, well, this looks like Blizzard food. Actually, I can lock into freeze dry here if I want and get some big damage onto the Rotom. I can lock into, I don't need to Blizzard Blizzard. I can freeze dry Blizzard, right? I can freeze dry here and mega evolve in Blizzard.

Mega Greninja's not so bulky, so it's possible that a Choice Scarf Rotom Thunderbolt would really mess me up here. Okay, if it's Scarf, it's not that fast. Blizzard does 75, or Freezer does 75% to Rotom. And I go for Blizzard, I'm now an Ice type, so. I mean, Rotom resists this, and Komo's pretty tanky,

so I don't think I'll get the KO in either. Well, I was half right. Komo goes down to one Blizzard. Thunderbolt, okay, excellent, excellent, excellent. So I am now an ice type, which is a little bit awkward. I would love to just click Blizzard, Blizzard here,

but I'm gonna go for Freeze Dry into Floette. I'm gonna go for another Blizzard. Every Blizzard is a dream. Every Blizzard is a prayer. There aren't many healing on this team. So once I get likeflow out with blizzard and freeze dry, the healing is really not there.

And even if they go for calm mind, I have gengar in the back who could binge-ly clean up. My real fear here is that this is still scarf rotom, which would throw a bit of a wrench into the plan, but it's probably fine, right? It's just harder for them to reposition here. They switch Rotom out so something in the back is taking a blizzard. Probably AG? Yeah. Aegislash comes in. It's like, it isn't gonna look like much damage. They actually Mega Evolve as well. But it could matter cause like, none of my Pokemon can do that much.

Am I, is Glameon gonna kill both my guys? Sorry, I'm just thinking out loud. I think this is gonna do a lot to Floette by the way. Like, I don't think it's gonna KO, but it should do like, okay, nevermind, this is really bulky Float. Freeze, freeze, freeze, freeze. That's a lot of damage. Show me the freeze, freeze, please, please. I think I'm good at Pokemon. I'm so good.

Okay. Well, I'm just gonna freeze dry here and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna Blizzard again. I should probably Dark Pulse the Aegislash, but I think if I get rid of the Float, I'm gonna win. So I'm gonna go Freeze Dry plus Blizzard. I guess I could go for Wide Guard here, but okay, yeah.

They overprotect, but it doesn't work. Here's Freeze Dry. I have a chance to Freeze the Aegislash here as well, which would be very funny to me. Okay, here, cool. Yeah, I mean, Megafloat is good, but like, yeah, eating many blizzards is just too risky.

I'm probably losing them all in here, almost certainly. Almost assuredly, okay, but they go into my Vanilluxe, who survives, actually. They're thinking about it. Eh, heh, heh, heh, heh. They're really thinking, okay, they forfeit. Well, GGs, yeah. This is kind of what I envisioned with Mega Greninja is just click Blizzard a bunch

and hopefully win the game. And that's exactly what happened. So overall, I think Mega Greninja is a fun Pokemon. I think you can do some silly things with it thanks to its ability to change type. But I think that overall,

I don't think that this is its final form. I think the stats really are awkward and I think it probably is best in the closed team format, like we're playing here, because if my opponents knew that I had low kick and blizzard and freeze dry, they'd probably make a different decision. So I think it's a fun Pokemon.

I don't think it's the strongest mega evolution. I think if it's your favorite Pokemon of all time, you can use it. But yeah, that's kind of my current impression. I'm sure we'll see some Greninja I don't think it will be winning that many tournaments, but I think it's probably, I wouldn't be shocked to see it near the top. So, okay, thanks for watching.

If you enjoyed this video, you can check out the one from yesterday, which I think should be the video where I play without having any, like starting a fresh account with no resources and no trading or anything.

If not, there'll be another video here. Anyway, thanks for watching. Anyway, thanks for watching. Bye-bye.