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let's talk a little bit about Corviknight, now first off just for those that
might not know Gigantamax Corviknight
is available from today November 15th to
I believe January 15th, Gigantamax Corviknight is
available and players who have pokemon
shield are more than likely or are more
likely to see you whereas players who
have pokemon sword are more likely to
see Gigantamax Drednaw just letting you all know but Corviknight is a steel and
a flying-type or a flying a steel type
rather and that is incredible in terms
of resistances right it's resistant to
normal resistant to grass resists the
flying psychic bug dragon steel and
fairy and has two immunities in poison
and ground so incredible defensive
typing for Corviknight and only has two
weaknesses in fire and electric. now
we'll be using a defensive Corviknight
because in the OU tier or even just
in Pokemon in the meta game whatever
will happen excadrill is gonna be a giant
threat, excadrill has incredible attack
incredible speed with Sand rush and great
dual stab in ground and steel but
Corviknight defensively can deal very
well with excadrill and we'll talk about
why but we'll be using a defensive set
so an impish nature with pressure
pressure's an ability that when you go
for attacks you lose an extra power
point or extra PP
when you do it so if I go for let's say
flamethrower instead of using one pp
when I use flamethrower
I'll be using two when I attack Corviknight,
leftovers will be our item because it
gives us longevity we want to be able to
recover a bit of HP every single turn as
you can see the base stats across the
board, Corviknight has pretty good HP and
really good defense which makes it a
great excadrill check and even as a cool
moveset with body press and if you guys
didn't know body press is a new fighting
type of attack that takes your defense
into account when dealing damage so now
it has an offensive way of dealing with Excadrill as well so then
that Corviknight can really be used as
a defensive defogger
with body press, Brave Bird, roost and defog. defog, if you guys didn't know gets rid
of hazards on the field and by using
this EV spread max HP 200 defense you
are 4-hit KOd by +2 Excadrill's iron head
and the 56 SpDef or special defense
lets you take two Volt Switches from
rotom. alright it doesn't 2-hit KO
especially after leftovers recovery
one big thing is well about gigantaMax
and Corviknight is that if you do Giganta
max Corviknight and you use the Gmax windrage
not only will you be doing damage
with the brave bird obviously that's a
flying type attack, not only will you be
doing damage, but you'll also be removing
the effects of light screen, reflect,
hazards, but also terrains as well so
it's a boosted defog but we do have
defog on the set as well because
Corviknight is immune to most hazards
besides stealth rock and defog allows
you to better support the team so I
think this would be one of the more
standards sets on Corviknight, a more
defensive Defogging set, that actually
checks quite a few pokemon in the metagame mainly the ground type that is
going to be super good in excadrill
and having body press is such a cool
little thing for its arsenal however
there are a few other other options we might
see. Another option we might actually end
up seeing on Corviknight is a sub bulk up
set and this definitely takes advantage
of the fact that Corviknight does have
pressure and as I mentioned before
you're gonna be losing PP when you're
attacking for Corviknight and with
substitute you can actually avoid
status moves like will-o-wisp and thunder
wave
coming out at Corviknight. so the other set is to set up on potentially weaker and potentially
common Pokemon in the meta game like
Ferrothorn and Toxapex. Toxapex
does not break your substitute with one
Scald, Ferrothorn obviously can only
leech seed but if you go behind a sub
it can't leech seed you. We're using a
careful nature with 40 SpDef EVs
and with those 40 special defense EVs it
actually allows us to after roosting not
have our sub broken from Rotom and I'll
explain how that works basically
obviously you are being flying in steel
flying is weak to electric yes but when
you go for roost you lose your flying
type for that turn so Corviknight, which
with this EV spread of 216 speed EVs,
hits 224 at level 100 max, it allows it to
outspeed most defensive rotoms and even
the ones that are speed creeping certain
Pokemon and basically you can roost if
you're behind a sub they can't break
your sub with the volt switch and not
only that but they're also losing an
extra power point from Volt Switch by
going for that substitute so this
effectively can sub bulk up on you know
common cores in the tier that you may
end up seeing, defense cores being
Ferrothorn, Toxapex, Rotom,
that might actually even being that while
also still being able to set up on a
pokémon like excadrill even without
running defense EVs just because of
its great natural bulk and HP and of
course bulk up is slowly but surely
boosting your attack and defense at the
same time making this a potentially
better Braviary and the reason I said
is because Braviary does the exact
same thing except that it doesn't have
the pressure ability so it typically has
defiant which is cool because obviously
you get a boosted if your stats get lowered
but pressure is a little bit
better especially at stalling out your
opponent and yeah the final set that
we're gonna talk about then I'll talk
about a few other options but why I
don't think they're very good is
actually just the exact same set but
trying out spite, now I do think that the
first set is the best set and I try to
put these in order right, I think that the
first is the best set,
I think the second set is definitely
solid as well and we'll have a niche if
Corviknight eventually settles in lower
tiers rather than you know you know in a
higher tier right but this basically
abuses the fact that Corviknight also
has the pressure and it's the exact same
EV spread is before I figured being
faster than Rotom makes a lot of sense
and the idea behind spite is when you
use it your opponent loses
extra PP or whatever move they went for
so you can spite them and you can go
over pressure it's sort of stalling
tactic obviously but I do think that
this does make use of you know something
unique that Corviknight can do besides
the first set which like I said I think
would be the more standard set on
Corviknight now don't get me wrong,
Corviknight actually has a pretty decent move
pool. if you guys actually want to see
the full movepools you can go to Serebii
.net and go to the Pokedex and
they'll show you basically every move
that Corviknight knows in fact it will
actually even tell you how to get the
Pokemon though, if you play through
pokemon sword and shield I really hope
you know how to get a Corviknight, you
literally see the Rookidee in like the
beginning of the game and you just
evolve that boy
to a Corvisquire and you evolve
that into Corviknight at level 38 but
Corviknight does have a few other cool moves in its arsenal. in-game for example I really
like using hone claws plus power trip
and I think that actually like saved me
quite a few times because power trip
boost is based on the strength that it
increases the more your stats are raised,
right, so by hone claws you're raising
two stats at once and power trip immediately just getting stronger and stronger
I think Taunt is a pretty cool move that
could be ran as well with Corviknight but I
think on this set specifically it needs
to have an attack in Brave Bird.
Other options if you don't want to take
recoil is drill peck over Brave Bird
however the damage difference is immense and like it learns moves like iron
head for instance but I think that
flying stab is almost always better
nasty plot another move that it can learn
but I don't think that it can make use
of it because if it's very low special
attack stat and even if it did try to make
use of it it's just not super solid
however it does also have a hidden
ability which I haven't talked about.
I've mainly only talked about pressure but
it has two other abilities that can be
very useful in VGC. Unnerve is really
nice for stopping your opponent's
berries from activating and mirror
armor is a new ability that
Corviknight gets that bounces back only
the stat lowering effects at the Pokemon
receives so if an opponent has an
intimidate pokémon for example let's say
Incineroar comes out and I have a mirror
armor Corviknight on the field and they
go for intimidate I'll bounce it right
back at them however because we aren't
running offensive sets on Corviknight for
the most part, we're running defensive or
running sets that rely on multiple turns
to set up I don't think those sets are
necessary but if you did want to try a
choice band Corviknight set I would suggest maybe something like brave bird iron
head and from there it's just a toss in
a few attacks. another option is of
course a bulk up three attacks set 
with bulk up, brave bird, iron head, and
maybe power trip if you want to do it
but for the most part I don't think
that'd be it in terms of teammates with
the Corviknight if you want to go to
defensive route ground types are great
hippowdon is a fantastic
pokemon to use with Corviknight just
because first off Corviknight
doesn't take anything from sandstorm
damage because its a steel type, it doesn't take
sandstorm damage but also because Hippowdon does resist the
electric-type attacks, its immune rather to the Electric type attacks coming out at Corviknight
Ferrothorn is also a decent answer as
well for the electric type attacks but
obviously you're piling up on that fire
weakness in terms of offensive options
there's plenty of Pokemon that exist in
the Galar Region for example that prefer
or that really like the Defog, Centiskorch
can be one of them
Frostmoth as well obviously very
much appreciates the defog. appreciates
the resistances that Corviknight has
as well and yeah it's just it's really
like like I said if your
team is weak to excadrill right, if your
team is weak excadrill, I think Corviknight
is a solid pokemon and I do think like I said
the first, the first set in itself, will
be the best set and again if you want to Gigantamax it now's your chance
if you have Pokemon shield to go out.
But thank you everyone for watching, hope you guys all enjoyed
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live with Corviknight going up later
today and again I'm gonna start trying
to do Wi-Fi battles again if I haven't
already done that because I'm recording
this in advance if I have not already
done that just expect them really really
soon and when they come,
when the wifi battles start flooding, Ill start doing some max raids as well, and some my road
to master rank soon too. So, a lot
of stuff coming for Pokemon sword and
shield. Thank you everyone for watching I'll see you guys next time
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