Beginner's Guide to Competitive Battling in POKÉMON Sword and Shield [2021]

Over the past year, I've gotten into the competitive Pokémon scene in Pokémon Sword and Sheild. I started with single battles, but found my love for double battles not long after, as a good friend of mine suggested I should try them out. It didn't take long till I got trained up in the double battle scene and was starting to get a lot of win streaks. I

I've had many of my friends and viewers asking me about how to start battling competitively. So I took it upon myself to create this beginner's guide to competitive Pokemon battling, so I can help people, like the friend that helped me.

#Pokemon #PokemonSword #PokemonShield #PokemonBattles
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Timecodes:
00:00
00:44 - Chapter 1: Banned Pokemon (Start)
02:13 - Chapter 2: Move sets
05:06 - Chapter 3: Abilities
06:53 - Chapter 4: IV's
08:48 - Chapter 5: EV's
00:10:49 - Chapter 6: Natures
00:12:15 - Chapter 7: Items
00:13:28 - Chapter 8: Dynamaxing
00:17:03 - Outro

Most of the music used in this video is made by the talented Zame, who kindly allowed me to use their music.

Intro music: Made this myself

[TheChaotiCake]

Wow...coming from only playing pokemon casually (finishing the game and that's it), last time playing about a decade ago, this is SO MUCH. Almost puts me off from even trying. But oh well, here go's!

Thanks for the video, it was very helpful for getting me started!

[AveryCreates]

I do love breeding them, but it's nice to have options to "fill in the blanks". This guide was incredibly helpful, thank you so much!

[SuperRetro]

Thank you so much for this! I’ve been playing since Gen 3 and I’m just now getting into competitive play. The methods have changed a lot, but it’s for the best.

[zholland]

I know some people are purists and want to do it the old way, but good God I'm so glad they put shortcuts in for most of this...

[PageWilson]

That moment when the Gigantamax Pokemon come out & Blastoise has another trainer rather than Kanto's OC

[KyubiDemon]

I've actually been into the competitive side of pokemon when B2&W2 so I've actually been thinking of returning back to it even tho I suck and only won like 10 battles lol

[vaulttraveler]

you deserve more view and likes, that was fun to watch and informative

[OnlyKiwi]

Pov season 13: when literally most things are allowed and your up against calyrex shadow and urshifu every game with no counters.

[TheChocolatBlanc]

The only thing I would add to the video are chapters and some reference website like smogon / a place where we can check out some teams, builds, strat etc …. .
Overall good video 👍

[leehenry]

This video was fantastic. So helpful, succinct but still informative, and specific. THANK YOU

[matthampton]

Nintendo made my competitive team go down a member from previous games by removing the battle god that is Bidoof

[jaydjin]

Keep playing ranked been hard into competitive but all I get is teams filled with legendary and mysticals

[kingfuruke]

I'd love to see more informative videos like this! I have recently decided to learn pokemon competitively and this video is the best one I've found so far! Short but extremely helping and as I said before, informative!

[GRFFRK]

you forgot the pokejobs for ev training its free just waste actual time

[LCordova]

But I thought that you can only use Pokémon at lv. 50 in competitive? So if I take a Pokémon to lv. 100 for the hypertrain thing . I wouldn’t be able to use it? Asking for a friend here lol

[divyaparashar]

How can i enter in competitive in pokemon battles

[RipperRaidenX]

So uhh this. My team has 6 ivs, perfect evs and perfect nature. All my physical attackers have a life orb. My special attackers have a scope lens. And for some reason I always perform bad in normal WiFi battles. And I’m trying to get into competive. Any advice?

[olorinstormcrown]

Ugh it's so complicating... Idk bout competitive...

[piinkksnow]

Omg, Mafuyu's voice is so cute. I wanna marry him

[jonathonsherwood]

You do know that Nintendo isn’t responsible for any of the programming in the game. So when you said why did Nintendo do that about the sharpedo it want Nintendo it was gamefreak