how are your wonderful people doing my
name is Michael's known as third-gen
gamer and welcome to my top 5 video
pokemon sword and shield is 4 released
on November 15th it has become one of my
favorite Pokemon games of all time not
better in third generation my favorite
generation look at my channel name but a new
feature called Pokemon max raid battles
were introduced into Pokemon sword and
shield it involves teaming up with three
others to take down a Dynamax boss to
have an opportunity to catch receive exp
candies
TRS etc the higher the tier the Pokemon
the better rewards however when you're
by yourself it does get a bit difficult
to take on higher level raids since the
game requires you to have four NPC's
take the place of people who could
participate in the raid there are some
really good ones like Janet with a
Snorlax and especially my main man Oscar
this hawlucha man Oscar is quite the lad
I swear about 99% of the time Oscar does
things right but I digress when there
are good NPC traders there are also some
really bad ones in this video I'll be
covering the top 5 most frustrating raid
battle NPC trainers in pokemon sword and
shield now what determines the ranking
for this video I have 3 criteria 1 the
Pokemon stats to the pokemons attacks
and 3 the AI of each trainer now keep in
mind this ranking is based off of my own
experience with the raid battles thus
far so opinions could change in the
future or you may differ based on your
own experiences let me know what you
would add take out or move around in the
comments section down below also before
we get started I want to give special
thanks to Kanto's hero for the video
suggestion go check out his channel he's
just starting out and he's already doing
some really good work number 5
backpacker Emilia Emilia has Clefairy
which is a fairy type fairy typings
pretty nice says it's only weak to
poison steel types and it's strong its
fighting dark and dragon Clefairy has a focus
sash which means that it can live at 1 HP
if at full health it has the moveset
life do follow me dazzling gleam and
disarming voice Clefairy has some use
with follow me Clefairy is able to
direct attacks to itself since it has
focus sash it is able to take two hits
at that full health
this causes less damage to other pokemon
and it potentially saves you from losing
to total pokemon by being the only
fallen member and you can only have four
pokemon faint in a raid battle until the
raid Pokemon please then Clefairy can
heal the team with life do of everyone's
low in health which this doesn't seem
too bad of a pokemon but why did it make
the list it really spends a lot of its
time healing your team instead of doing
damage when you want to destroy barriers
during high to your raids Plus life dude
doesn't heal enough on each Pokemon to
be worth wasting a turn as you're only
getting ten turns in a max raid battle I
would say it it's all useful let's say
you're about to get to hit ko'd and it
just heals you just enough um in most
cases most of the Pokemon that go into a
raid battle just pretty much die in one
hit anyways or if they don't it's to the
point where life do wouldn't even help
and that itself can be a bit frustrating
number four Beauty Catherine now you
could say that beauty's the eyes of
beholder but looks do not determine a
trainer strength she has a togepi
a fairy type holding the focus sash and
it has the moves life do ancient power
draining kiss and swift
now this trainer has really no strategy
other than being a health support
pokemon and potentially taking out
barriers it's really unfortunate because
it has horrible stats even though it
wants to attack the red pokemon it
practically does nothing and without
follow me to properly utilize that focus
sash it's slightly worse than a fairy
the healing is subpar at best like a
fairy and there could be many other
options better than this Pokemon there
have been many times where this pokemon
could make or break the raid for you
that is very frustrating
number 3 schoolgirl isabella isabella has a
Magikarp now it's pretty obvious why
this is on the list is terrible stats it
doesn't have a ton of moves because of a
bad learn set it is a pokemon that is
practically a running joke being used in
max raid battles Magikarp carries the
focus sash and its move sets flail
tackle and a very powerful hydro pump
now this Pokemon has an all right
strategy to get in it it will most
certainly fall to one HP use the focus
ash then use flail for 200 power
hydro pump can do some damage since it
is a powerful move but it's special tack
holds it back with a special tax out of
15 now magic art can be useful with
shields are up every single move is an
attack versus most of the other pokemon
have a status move which they tend to
use a little too often however it
doesn't help when it's most powerful
move
hydro pump is 80% accurate more often
than not Magikarp tends to miss with
hydro pump when it really matters for
example whenever a braid Pokemon has a
barrier or shield up it tends to go for
hydro pump which tackle or flail will do
the same amount of damage as hydro pump
would because that's it takes out one
block of that shield and then next do
you know it hydro pump misses and
everything else 100% accurate and it
just wastes a turn and flail is only
useful when the focus sash has been used
and it seems to rarely use flail at one
HP but this is number one oh boy let's
see what's coming up next number two
kaby Alfie Alfie has a Wobbuffet yeah we
might already have an idea why this
Pokemon may be or may not be near the
top of this list Wobbuffet is a very
bulky pokemon I can take hits which is
nice to avoid losing a pokemon in these
raids however its move set is like every
other Wobbuffet in existence it has
counter mirror coat safeguard and amnesia but
it would have been cool to see destiny
bond this thing I wonder what would
happen in a 5-2 your raid come on game
for you should have let this happen
oh wait that would have been great and
why don't that would have not made this
list or it could have been a bit lower
the reason why this is on the list
because if wobbuffet actually had moves
and didn't require taking a hit in order
to attack or choose the correct move
between counter and mirror coat it would be
somewhat decent since that is not the
case Wobbuffet that mostly just sits there
and does nothing or just safeguards and
sets up Amnesia's the whole time
from my experience I've rarely ever seen
Wobbuffet get hit by a max raid Pokemon
unless they used a multi attack move the
game knows they can't do anything unless
it's able to be knocked out or in one
hit so the raid Pokemon avoids it at all
costs make sense it isn't like the AI is
doing the wrong
moves a mop effect but it's just a bad
pokemon for raids now that we're about
to announce number one we should briefly
mention to that just missed this list
but they could have easily been on here
first up is dancer Patricia she has a
Wishiwashi with liquidation aqua tail
whirlpool and brine it could have made
this list because of wishy-washys
abysmal base stats and its small form
but it has a solid move set and it
starts off in school form and deals a
lot of damage to begin the raid just
enough to be somewhat useful
next is polka kit fray out with Evie
Evie is holding the focus sash and if
the tacks are helping hand round quick
attack and bites but it missed this list
because that's helping hand helping hand
has priority which makes it go first and
it helps boost the power of one other
pokemons moves that itself is very nice
it can take out shields effectively Plus
and holds a focus edge but I would say
there is one downfall of Evie's that I
believe sometimes Evie does use helping
hand on the wrong Pokemon you think it
would want to helping hand the Dynomax
Pokemon
sometimes it just flat-out does it and
that is kind of annoying
number one gentleman Martin now here is
my inspiration to follow through with
this video
Martin is literally the worst trainer to
have for Dynomax rate sure he looks
quite dapper under covers of soul rock
which really isn't too bad of a pokemon
it has decent stats across the board
this pokemon is a decent move set with
cosmic power rock pearl psychic and rock
polish now this doesn't seem bad at all
but I swear the trainers AI is the
stupidest thing I've ever seen
Barton has two moves at his disposal
that does great damage but he flat-out
refuses to use them
Martin strategy is to set up rock
polishes and cosmic powers before
attacking to dominate against tougher
raid Pokemon apparently he's too
sophisticated to actually attack so he
polishes his rock instead now this
doesn't seem too bad but raid Pokemon
after a set amount of turns cancel all
stat boosts from the opponent this means
that everything he sets up is for
nothing and
he just sits there continues to set up
while rarely ever attacking leading to
more deaths in the raid I've had plenty
of times when his Pokemon would not
attack him on shields and set up and
that either I lose enough Pokemon or the
raid Pokemon please or I'm gana turns
when it's at low HP I cannot make up how
horrible this NPC is in the game
I've seen people rage about this Pokemon
on Twitter so it is not just me he is
easily the most frustrating NPC to raid
with in my opinion so what is the moral
the story please find people to raid
with locally or online the more that
people join you the less likely these
awful trainers show up on your screen
during raids nothing is more frustrating
than missing winning a raid with a
sliver of HP because an npc decides to
play stupid and not make the right move
just a reminder that this list is based
off of my opinion and from my
experiences so your list may differ so
let me know what you think of this list
and if there's anything else you would
change to this list
lastly tell me some of your most
ridiculous experiences with these MVC
trainers as well in the comment section
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