 Alola everyone and welcome to the channel. My name is PhillyB2 and welcome back to another Z showcase video. A series in which we go over all the various Z moves in Pokemon Sun and Moon and take a look at what we can use competitively in battle. If it is completely pointless, if it's going to be something really cool or something really fun to troll your friends with. But anyway, we take a look at all the various Z moves in this game. In this video, we're going to be talking about the move Z trick and exactly what happens. And of course, these videos are brought to you by you guys. This video is brought to you by the Toad Pichu Expert Whitaker saying, please do Z trick knowing my luck. This isn't getting chosen. Well, guess what my friend? This has gotten chosen and congratulations on having your comment being featured in the video. And if you guys do want your comments to be featured, make sure to comment down below what Z move you want to see in the next video. As well as being aware of what Z moves we did before. So make sure to check out the playlist as well so you don't repeat something in the comments that we already did. Without further ado, let's get into this video and see exactly what we're going to be doing when we're talking about Z trick. So here we are. I got my Gorgais rocking over here. It's rocking a Z trick, well trick alone, which we're going to be using the psychic Z crystal on. So you're going to need the psychic Z crystal to work with the trick in order to act with Z trick. We have Shadow Ball, Gyro Ball and Seed Bomb. And of course Gorgais is a ghost grass type Pokemon. So it's going to be pretty cool to see what the various things we can do with this Pokemon. But anyway, let's get into a nice Wi-Fi battle with myself, of course, to find out exactly the benefits of that. So let's head over right into that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are now here on the battle stage to see exactly what is going to happen when we do use the trick. Trick on its own is an interesting move because it does swap the item you have with the opposite Pokemon. In this case, our Gorgais has a psychic Z crystal, like we mentioned before, and Typhlosion has a life orb. So let's see what exactly happens while we do this. So I'm going to go ahead and go for the initial trick in general, just so we get an idea. And I'm just going to hit Swift on Typhlosion, which is probably going to fail because it is a normal type move. So Gorgais uses it and it fails, which is unfortunate. I was really unfortunate that Gorgais' trick failed. So we cannot swap out a Z crystal. It seems to not work. I mean, so we're going to try the Z trick now and let's see what happens when we do that. So let's go with the Z trick this time. Maybe that'll do something. Maybe that won't. Here we go. We're going to go with the Swift on Typhlosion. Again, won't affect our Gorgais. And we're going to go for the Z trick. So Gorgais gets all nice and powered up over here. It boosts its speed sharply using the Z power and it's unable to perform it. That sucks because it goes into the whole entire move. It like pumps it up and everything. It increases its speed and then it will always, by the way, guys, it will always say that Z trick failed all the time. Because unfortunately, you're not able to swap your Z crystal with another Pokemon, even if they have a Z crystal or if you have a Z crystal. So if either Pokemon has a Z crystal, you cannot do that. So in that case, it is completely, completely, completely broken in the terms of not allowing that move to work. But if the move were to work, you know how many interesting things would occur within the game? I mean, just imagine you're in a competitive battle and you know your Pokemon maybe has a Garchomp, maybe has a Gyarados. And you know one of them is going to probably do a Z move on you when they set you up for that right moment. And just imagine using a trick room to grab that move off of a Garchomp or grab it off the Gyarados and ruining your opponent's chance of knocking you out with that amazing Z move by just being able to trick that Z crystal off of them. How cool would that be? I think it would be actually a really fun strat in the game. But unfortunately, I think Game Freak and the Pokemon company themselves thought that this would be a very OP thing to do. So it seems like they took that out of the game for a reason and I'm pretty sad that that happened. But now you might be asking, alright Phil, so what exactly is the point of trick? I mean, it makes no sense. If either Pokemon hold Z crystal, there's no point. Does Z trick even have a benefit? In my opinion guys, Z trick is probably not a wise move to invest a Z crystal on your team into. But if you're really all about trying to get certain Pokemon. For example, some Pokemon are not able to use agility while some people are able to use Z trick to get those times to speed. That's something that you can do. You also have the option of baton passing times to speed by just using an agility on another Pokemon and passing it over to Pokemon that can't use it. So yeah, I wouldn't waste a Z crystal with that and it's pretty unfortunate that this is the case when it comes to that. Anyway, so let's take a look exactly at the sites when it comes to trick and when it does. Like we mentioned before, if the user is caught off guard by, wow my English is really bad here. But basically the user catches the target off guard and swaps its held item with its own. And like we said, the benefit of this is that the speed goes up by two. So your speed gets boosted by two stages. That's really the only benefit and in this kind of meta like I mentioned before, Pokemon are rocking Z crystals. So if you do use a Z trick or a trick in general and then they have a Z crystal, it's not going to work and it's going to fail. Now bubblepedia kind of made this a pretty good idea about it. Trick will also fail if the user or the target is holding a mega stone or a colored orb that could allow either Pokemon to undergo mega evolution or primary version or if the Pokemon is holding a Z crystal or a memory if either Pokemon has the ability RKS system. So you can't swap certain things off certain Pokemon which is unfortunate because trick would have been such a cool move to actually throw into the meta. So yeah guys, I'm sorry to disappoint when it comes in terms of the Z trick. I was hoping for something really cool just as you guys were, but that's how it goes and I cover what you guys say down in the comments below. So if you did enjoy this video and you now know that you should have made that mistake with Z trick, smash that like button. Of course, don't forget you can use trick when it comes to not using Z crystals or any of the stuff we mentioned below. And yeah, subscribe if you're new to the channel, comment down below what Z crystal move you want to see, Z move you want to see, and I'll be featuring you in the next video. My name is PhillyB2 and I'll be seeing you guys next time. I'm out.