I just wish we got 2 seperate sets of movelslots for setup/status/utility moves & combat moves. There are so many times I come up with a build that's 5 or 6 moves that includes 2-3 utility and 2-3 combat moves. And removing even a single move makes the build fall flat. And sure, those build might be absurdly gimmicky and probably aren't geat. But it'd be nice if I could at least use it for fun when playing against friends, or even the AI.

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I hate that the future mons are held back primarily by the fact the lacking distribution of electric terrain.

Can confirm that Miridon didn't change anything, if anything they are more irrelevant now because of the power creep.

My pokemon knowledge isn't amazing, but I think it might be a mistake to call purifying salt an outright superior version of other abilities that grant immunity to certain status conditions. If I'm running a rest/sleep talk set on a pokemon, it would be more beneficial for me to have magma armor, water veil, immunity, etc, rather than purifying salts. I'm not going to say that that's a likely or competitively viable scenario, but maybe for casual play. It's enough to say that purifying salt isn't strictly better in every possible case.

I have always felt unnerve should be special version of intimidate or there should be one but unnerve because it sounds like that’s what it would do

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One Pokémon I’ve been having a hard time picking moves for lately is my Forretress in Ultra Moon. The only reason I gave it an attacking move *at all* was because stealth rocks is an egg move for it, and a slow volt switch can come in handy for switching Malamar into boosted opponents so he can have the time he needs to do his thing before he goes down.

Surprised we still haven’t gotten a fire/fairy.

At this point I’m convinced they’re intentionally saving Bug/Dragon to be the last type combo to be added

let’s just take a moment to appreciate the cope of ‘iron fist isn’t worse than tough claws because of the punching glove’ as if an item slot for the sake of 10% damage is a good trade off for a total of 1.02x damage over just using an ability slot

i believe that it’s a feature and a bug where the animations do play, however, they only play under conditions with this being an example of an unintentional condition

Grimsnarl basically has 2 move slots because the main reason you run use him is to set up both screens.

We should have new categories. Light moves: flash cannon, aurora beam, light that burns the sky, signal meam, tail glow, flash, light screen, etc. Interacts with illuminate. Kicking: Blaze kick, jump kick, double kick, triple axel, trop kick, aqua step, axe kick, etc Piercing moves: horn and stings, drilling moves. Fell stinger, megahorn, twineedle, poison sting, drill run, etc Cosmic moves: space-time, extraterrestrial, other dimension. Cosmic power, moonblast, moonlight, moongeit beam, sunsteel strike, hyperspace fury, draco meteor, meteor mash, meteor beam, spacial rend, roar of time, gravity, etc. But also, includes the categories as a new attribute to pokemon. Every could receive until 2 of them. And if the move has the same category, adds 20% damage (that caps at 50% if stacking with the ability). Every slasher pokemon would get at least 20% more damage from these moves (even kabutops, parasect, ceruledge) Blaziken, tsareena, hitmonlee, quaquaval, pheromosa, mega lopunny gets 20% from kicking. All of that not spending their abilities.

Ogerpon is actually 80-154-84-76-96-110 (total 600) due to the 20% boost for all moves. (I did also increase the special attack for this calculation though it is useless, otherwise it still has 584 bst with the attack boost)

Draining moves were missed (triage, liquid ooze, big root). Mu fave category is slicing moves. Great video!

I'm surprised that Normal Bug, Fire Fairy, Fairy Ground, Bug Dragon, and Ghost Rock haven't been used yet, especially Bug Dragon and Normal Bug. An early-game Bug pokemon could be Bug Normal and a late-game Bug pokemon could be a Bug Dragon dragonfly.

I will never forgive the design of iron jugulis. One of hydriegon's prototype designs was that it became a tank, and when I heard about its paradox form in the leaks I thought for sure we were getting a badass hyrda tank. Unfortunately, all the final design amounts to is just LED hydriegon, which even then is a poor execution of a robot dragon. It's a flying type, why not give it jet thrusters or turn its tendrils into helicopter blades? As someone who likes dinosaurs I can tell a lot of the past paradox forms aren't that deep, just having "prehistoric" traits slapped onto them instead of being based off specific extinct animals (with a few exceptions, like the beasts). Even with those designs being only superficially ancient it's still a bit jarring how little effort a lot of the future paradox forms have by comparison. Iron thorn and (whatever paradox cobalion is called) are literally just the original designs but a robot. They really should've changed the design's silhouettes so that they came off as distinct ideas. Iron hands, iron moth and iron valiant do look cool though. The first two have neat detached body parts, and the latter is a fusion of two different pokemon! More of that would've been cool.

why does this guy sound like alex clark from linus tech tips

Great video, but you forgot dance moves!

i hear you *but* Meridon is gonna go brrrr when restricted is up

You're telling me Bug Bite is not a biting move?

Tapu Koko and Groudon get electric surge and drought respectively

Important distinction for Fur Coat: Fur Coat doesn't "Halve damage from physical moves", it doubles the defense stat, which does do that, but also has other benefits, like halving damage from moves like Psyshock and Psystrike which hit physical defense and not special defense, and doubling the damage of Body Press essentially as if they had Huge Power but just for body press.

I think the future pokemon are supposed to look corporate made and kind of the same

Well they have low base stat totals but how it’s distributed makes them really good as well

Pokemon is no stranger to living artificial pokemon, but their future mons didn't do anything with biopunk nor soft robotics at all? Incredibly lame

Smack Down is an accurate Rock type move which is not a signature move. Sure, it's pretty weak, but there's that.

One move that i just find bad is order up.. for starters you need 2 spesific mons in a double battle otherwise the move fails.. it also does not help that dondozo also has +2 in all stats (excluding evasion and hit rate) so order up feels underwelming.. also doesnt help that dondozo doesnt get a way to protect its stats

Missed opportunity of calling the counterpart of Unaware "Self-aware"

Toxic Boost I wouldn't say is strictly worse than Guts. Both you tend to self-trigger with Toxic Orb and Flame Orb respectively, so the specificity of the triggering is pointless besides maybe a real nich situation. Like you'd have to have the Orb Knocked Off, somehow get the status healed, and then get hit with Paralysis or something for it to matter. So while it's technically "worse" it has no meaningful difference for practical purposes

At some point I thought all the types had at least one 90 BP attack that was widely distributed (Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Moonblast, Thunderbolt, Energy Ball). I was surprised to find out that this wasn't the case (I'm not counting Surf)

I feel like Duraludon has more potential than the rest on here since Archaludon doesn't have much better stats anyway. It is basically forced to use the assault vest anyway because of the low SpD which locks it out of status moves, Archaludon will have lower defence until stamina activates (which may already be too late) and Stalwart is already an excellent ability in doubles battles.

Another important distinction between Air Lock vs. Delta Stream: Air Lock still bypasses the Primals’ weather effects no matter when the Primals switch in, so Rayquaza can still hit Primal Groudon with Surf or Waterfall even if it switches in and activates Desolate Land, but Mega Rayquaza cannot because Desolate Land will still be active and will just replace Delta Stream’s effect.

Nit only are they bad theyre also really ugly in design they looks like some shitty pokemon rumble upgrades This post was made by Ancient Paradox pokemon gang

Illuminate is a strictly worse version of run away because furret gets run away and I like furret

I still personally think Surf is a strong and consistent enough special Water move, although HP obviously more powerful and Scald more spammable with the OP 30% burn chance (thank god we no longer live in that timeline)

to be fair misty explosion is a godsend for fairy suicide leads Looking at you slurpuff

In the new games coming out I want Bug/Dragon Mega Flygon and Fire/Fairy Mega Rapidash!

As someone who mostly plays the older games, things like this practically insures I won't even bother trying the newer ones.

1:36 Guts is still not strictly better than Toxic Boost. If you crit a move with Toxic Boost it does a bit more damage than Guts boosted crit

all this video is telling me is that i need to find a way to get to the pokemon world. then i'll be able to optimally use Any pokemons entire movepool,

Fairy ground is an amazing offensive stab combo

Because they are better in singles

technecally, all abilities have atleast 1 situation where you would want the "infuerior" ability, even if its incredibly niche

I've seen iron jugulus get used a decent amount in vgc here and there for tail wind setting.

Ideally, all pokemon would have "four move syndrome" to force you to make hard choices.

Their effective BST is very high since their special attack stats are super low. Combined with the power creep of super broken abilities and signature moves they are broken as unrestricted legendaries

Technically fairy dragon doesn't exist any more. They should just make one non related to game gimmicks.

Arcanine might be another one. Great overall stats with great overall movepool, but making it usabel can be hard in a lot of gens bc it's hard to pick which coverage/support moves to give it.