yo what's up guys you got pokeaim here
with another Pokemon sword and shield
moveset video guide on how to use Duraludon now I'm actually a big fan of this
Pokemon just because of its steel and
Dragon typing which is only shared with
Dialga now I'm a really big fan of
that because I really like that they're
basically giving us Pokemon that are
only seen typically, the typings are
only seen a legendary Pokemon so I think
that's really cool for Duraludon and
basically a dragon type with the ability
to muscle through fairy types is really
really sweet so Duraludon has
base 115 defense base 120 special attack
and base 85 speed all this is actually
pretty solid in combination with its
strong moves like Draco meteor and steel
beam the first set I'm going to be
talking about is choice specs this takes
advantage of that base 120 special
attack and the set we're going to be
using is Draco meteor flash cannon
thunderbolt and dark pulse now you could
put steel beam over flash cannon if you
really want to but keep in mind that it
does basically take half of your HP just
for clicking it
the idea behind specs Duraludon is just to
abuse that special attack stat and
throw off strong moves like Draco meteor
flash cannon allows you to muscle through
fairy types it's actually a decent move
to click anyway Thunderbolt is really
cool for Pokemon like Toxapex as
well as Mandibuzz and more importantly
Gyarados being able to deal with those
allows the Duraludon on a solid chance in
the OU meta game as well as Corviknight I
think Corviknight is the biggest one though I would say that way the sub bulk up set
cannot beat you 1 V 1 because Duraludon
is actually naturally faster the
last move we have is dark pulse
unfortunately this pokemon does not get
flamethrower which really really sucks
because it would give it the ability
to deal with both Ferrothorn and
aegislash but dark pulse is their is
just the means of dealing with aegislash
because it does resist your draco meteor
and your flash cannon again we're
running modest max speed max special
attack and being faster than Pokemon
like Bisharp and Corviknight is such a
good speeds tier to hit with this
pokemon the next set we have is the
choice scarf set and we're actually
taking advantage of that base 85 speed
because it is faster than
Gyarados at plus one with the choice scarf
unfortunately we have to use light metal
by the way I didn't really talk about
abilities in the first one but I'll
talk a little bit real quick and then
we'll keep going basically this pokemon
has three abilities light metal heavy
metal and stallworth light metal as the
name suggests it you know it makes it
lighter so it's way is halved heavy metal
makes its way double and stalwart is an
ability that basically is good for
doubles it ignores the effects of
opposing pokemons abilities and moves
that draw it moves basically allows to
ignore things like follow me
rage powder and also if it had a water
move it would allow it to ignore storm
drain from Gastrodon in doubles and
lightning rod as well as something as
well that I can ignore so that's pretty
cool unfortunately it doesn't ignore
abilities as a whole like mold breaker
so it can't like really you know I can't
touch like I wonder guard Shedinja or
anything so we're gonna be using light
metal on most of these for the fact that
it weakens low kick which is a super
effective move on Duraludon and I
guess grass not to an extent which is
maybe something you might see once in a
blue moon but yeah we have the choice
scarf set because of its ability to out
speed Gyarados with a timid nature and
this is nice because we do have the
Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt allows us
to knock out Gyarados as long as they do
not Gigantamax we can knock them out
obviously being a steel and Dragon type
you also naturally resist Gyarados'
dual stab of water and flying and the
other moves we have are draco meteor and
flash cannon being able to out speed
Dragapult and being able to out speed
Hydreigon with the choice scarf set
really does allow really does allow Duraludon to be a decent revenge killer
Steel Beam is the last move honestly
it's there just in case you want the
extra umph I don't think that dark pulse
is kind of necessary on a scarf set
however with the way Dynamaxing works
you could you could potentially use dark
pulse on that set that way you can just
free up moves and obviously hit
aegislash a little bit harder I'm not
entirely sure about that though I've
only been using dark pulse on a specs set
thus far and again having natural
resistances, this Pokemon with its base
115 defense can also just check some
physical Pokemon in the tier it can
actually live like an icicle crash for
example from Galarian Darmanitan
a scarf Galarian Darmanitan and you
can deal with that it also lives like a
Fishious Rend from Dracovish which is
very very important considering its it's
a giant threat um I do want to notice
that I do also want to note
you could also use a Gigantamax Duraludon
if you wanted to and if you
use a dragon type attack it basically
reduces the PP of the last move used I
don't know if it's always necessary on
it but I guess maybe if you're like in a
stall war or something that can be
pretty cool
obviously Gigantamaxing Duraludon is an
option allowing you to get rid of the PP
on the last move that your opponent I
don't know if it's like a full depletion
though cuz I haven't tested that as much
I just remember it happening in the game
itself and it literally just came to
mind so I want talking about that but
I'm just talking about regular drop the
next set we have is using the rally dog
as an offensive stealth rocker because
if it's great natural resistances this
Pokemon actually has no trouble at all
setting up stealth rock day again you
can deal with Corviknight, its a stealth
rocker that beats Defog Corviknight with Thunderbolt It can beat the
fairy types it naturally outspeeds
Pokemon like grimmsnarl and threatens
them with a flash cannon which is very
important while also being able to take
like spirit breaks and dark type
attacks coming out from grimmsnarl as
well draco meteor stealth rock
thunderbolt and flash cannon I guess you
don't necessarily need flash cannon on
this Pokemon you could technically run
Thunder Wave as well like as it is this
is basically using it as an offensive
support Mon and stealth rock is
obviously already a support move in
itself but you could potentially run
something like thunder wave and
obviously that would slow down your
opponent's moves in general because they
are being
slowed down by Thunder wave
but the EV spread allows us enough
speed to outspeed Corviknight as well
as bisharp we do threaten Bisharp with
the Thunderbolt as well as Corviknight
obviously Corviknight takes the super
effective damage whereas Bisharp just
doesn't appreciate the thunderbolt
coming out anyway from a modest max special
attack Duraludon and then flash
cannon like I said is there for the
fairies the rest of the EVs were
just dumped into HP to maximize overall
bulk being a very solid Gyarados
check in its natural typing you do have
to worry about plus one earthquake but
you can live one however if it does
dynamax you are in trouble but I mean I
think the Duraludon is a pokémon that can
Dynamax in front of Gyarados and 1v1 it
most of the time with like max lightning
so the final set is an attempt at using
a physical version of Duraludon it
does have base 95 attack which is very
respectable and it has a cool
combination of a heavy slam and heavy
metal basically because it's weight is
doubled heavy slam should be very very
strong versus your opponent most of the
time and I guess the one big thing to
take away from this is though is that
you can't use weight based attacks on
Dynamax Pokemon I suppose the idea
behind that is that they're too big for
you to be heavy enough to deal with them
I have no idea what the idea is so
that's it but you can't use
weight based attacks on on Dynamax
pokemon so keep that in mind if you are
trying to beat a Dynamax pokemon 1v1
with Duraludon you're probably going
to want to either Dynamax yourself or
switch, you're probably not going to
beat it 1v1 right but the idea is
that this pokemon can set up on moves
like Ferrothorn's leech seed Ferrothorn's gyro ball and whatnot it's
not the heaviest it isn't the heaviest
Pokemon though to be honest it isn't the
heaviest Pokemon in itself it actually
only weighs 40 kg so you could
potentially use iron head I suppose over
heavy slam as well I don't know why I
said 40 kg it's 88 pounds anyway but the
idea is stomping tantrum is there for
Toxapex  but mainly Aegislash too so if
aegislash wants to go for kings shield
versus you get a sub you can swords dance up and go for stomping tantrum to hit that
thing with super effective damage again
I think heavy slam can be traded for
potentially I don't know something like
iron head for super reliable damage but
using leftovers to obviously get the
bulk back and basically
as I'm looking at it I I do think
that iron head is potentially better
because it's just consistent
eighty base damage for the most part but
yeah a sub swords dance stomping
tantrum and with heavy slam you can set up on toxapex's scald because behind a
sub you wont be broken at least
immediately and Ferrothorn is going to
take a lot of attacks in order to break
your subs in terms of teammates for this
Pokemon I think that spikers
are very important I think that things
that I think that Duraludon can
actually stack decently well with
opposing dragons as well just because of
its ability to deal with the fairy types
that those dragon types might not like and
if your team wants a stealth rocker that
can beat a pokémon like Corviknight, Duraludon might be your go-to Mon another
option though going back to the leftovers
set is potentially an eject pack set and the way that
works is that if Duraludon drops its
stats from Draco meteor, Draco Meteor
giving me the -2 it switches out so you
could potentially use it as that I'm
just gonna talk about these options you
could potentially use it like that if
you want to be an offensive stealth
rocker that doesn't want to be in with
its -2 special attack that's
potentially something but yeah Spikers I
think that Pokemon that can also just
take the special attacks aimed at
Duraludon are really important because it
has base 50 special defense so Rotom
for volt switch to get in specs is
pretty cool and I again I do like the
idea of running like double dragons
plus Duraludon so like Duraludon plus
Hydreigon could work or even Duraludon  plus Aegislash in the other side
like double steel could also work
especially if you're running like a sub
Swords Dance set but again you don't
necessarily have to run heavy slam on
the sub Swords Dance set I think iron head
might be more reliable most of the time
just in terms of overall damage but this
Pokemon has a lot of cool things to
offer I know the ingame on one of those
rental teams it was like dual screens
stealth rock and steel beam and again
the idea behind that was you get up
rocks and hazards and they can't defog
because you're killing yourself with two
steel beams but I think that a lot of
Pokemon can be better
dual screeners Grimmsnarl for one has
prankster and Dragapult also has the speed
and can u-turn as well so I don't
think that's necessary
but yeah thank you everyone for watching I hope you guys all enjoy it I'll be using this
Pokemon later today in a showdown live
and soon Wi-Fi battles are coming I'm so
excited oh yeah leave a like if you guys
did enjoy I'll see you guys next time
goodbye my frens
 
