I disagree with a lot of thing in this video but still : good work

I'm guessing the only one that gets robot privileges by default is Moraidon?

i dont follow competitive pokemon, but am i correct in assuming toxapex doesnt often use baneful bunker just because youd rather they be badly poisoned?

Okay, but hear me out. Purify knock off combo would be really helpful for man's that have guts

And then something with the Damp ability switches into it. . .

Coil Orthworm can do a lot with iron tail

Eiscue can be busted during 1v1s. Especially as a revenge sweeper/slow pivot sweeper Teach it belly drum, substitute, and whatever attacking moves you want. Send it out against a physical attacker, substitute the first turn and they break your ice, belly drum the second turn, and if you give it a salad berry, it has amazing stats for sweeping. Can give it a Terra ghost to resist priority moves like q attack, Mach lunch, and e speed, or offensive water for liquidation to wreck bulky neutral Pokemon, and it can be really hard to deal with if you don’t have a proper counter

Never forget defensive infernape to counter (iirc) bisharp in gen 6 ou

I thought rillaboom would use drum beating bc it's not that fast

Good video, thanks

Nice video

I’ll out myself as a stick in the mud. Eeveelution is not a pun, but a portmanteau.

"raikoh"

could you please go over the ways Pokémon needs rebalancing? (e.g. Fairy-types have two, uncommon weaknesses, and only 4 types resist it)

anyone else here the bonk noise whenever Wood Hammer is played?

Land's Wrath just seems like weaker Earthquake

Shedninja would be op with sturdy

8:42 due to an error in one of the Pokemon wikis, for a time Noice face WAS correct

Honestly, if they were designed to look like digimon instead of purely robots, i would have preferred their looks

5:55 ha pulito sua madre che era presente e non aveva problemi con la faccenda. lo dice nell'intervista e si vede la stanza piena PIENA OGNI STRA CAZZO DI ANGOLO AVEVA UN PRESERVATIVO

10:00 Used pressure in platinum to force encounter Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres... Not that it would stop them from flying away immediately though lol

Great video man this was awesome

You missed IV, EV, BaseStats

The “Legendary Giants” have an average height of 5’ 8.5 (1.74m)

justice for my dawg regigigas

One move that kept coming to mind was Spin-Out on Revaroom. 100 BP/AC phys steel STAB attack sounds good until you harshly lower your own speed. Revavroom’s most distinct niche is as a gear shift set up sweeper, and Iron Head’s lack of speed drops (and hefty flinch chance) complements this archetype better. +2 speed just isn’t always enough when you return to base speed after one attack. Revavroom can also reasonably run choiced sets, but again, there’s usually more value in maintaining your speed and getting two 80 BP moves in than just one 100 BP move. Eject pack sets would be redundant since you have parting shot for pivoting. It’s not useless, it does seem relatively better than RoT vs Draco, but it at least seems unpopular.

Pressure hustle and vital spirit should be higher in my personal opinion. You can use it to make roaming legendaries WAY more common

Toxic thread ariados

For Roar of Time, they could've made it similar to moves like Doom Desire and Future Sight but split the damage between the turn it's used, and the turn it hits later. Like, a Roar that does damage, through Time... would've been cool imo

There are of course a bunch of VGC specific fan terms like perish trap, etc

Well only Arceus doesnt use his signature move when you battle him (except for Legends Arceus) Cuz it learns it at level 100.

Kadabra and Alakazam are the only Pokémon to learn Kinesis. It's existed since gen 1, is an 80% accurate version of Flash and Sand Attack, and Kadabra only learns it through the move reminder in all generations except 7 in which it gets the move by evolving from Abra. The only other way to get it is by catching a low levelled enough Kadabra. In gen 1 it was unobtainable outside of glitches until Pokémon Yellow because gen 1 has no move reminders and Kadabra was only found in the wild in a high level postgame area. Yellow made it available in the wild earlier. Somehow this move has existed in every single generation so far that's had the Abra line.

Victini also never uses Searing Shot, since it can run V-create and Blue Flare, which deal more damage and its ability make them more reliable.

I have literally never heard any of those fanmade legendary duo names except the sea guardians lmao.

i do disagree for sure. You are correct that its inevitable and good when done in moderation, but its so clearly done in a way to drive sales, or worse, drive unnaturally level high levels of interest in the pokemon itself, so they can make the real money through merch/tcg etc. I also do think it is not done in moderation, and one of the ways they tried to combat it artificially was probably the dex cut, which was a decent attempt I guess. The biggest problem, as you mentioned is 100% the abilities, and there are heaps of older mons that have remained relevant, because they were given updated abilities, any other mons are left behind, leading to a more limited pool of viability, filling the already cut pokedex in games with what are basically 'filler' pokemon now. I think they need to get on top of buffs, and (I suppose nerfs in extreme cases), to try and make up some of these differences. I don't blame Game Freak, this has been the TPCI's model for years in regards to pushing out games with ridiculous deadlines and less quality control, and its definitely a major reason why i moved on from competitive mons entirely, and play any new pokemon games on emulators. Anyway, interesting dive, and I liked the comparison to real life sports, even if I disagree massively that Pokemon's power creep is done in moderation.

Pyukumuku at least had a niche Z-Purify set in gen 7, cuz using it as a Z power boosted all its stats and it had baton pass... not that that counts as actually using the move. :p Oh, Polteageist also gets the signature move Teatime which forces all Pokemon on the field to eat their held berry. It has the really weird quirk that if it's changed to Electric type (Plasma Fists or Electrify), Pokemon with Electric-absorbing abilities will gain the effect of the berry without consuming it. I don't think I've ever seen it used for any reason at all, even on a meme team.

Speaking of signature moves, a grand total of 6 Pokémon (not counting Smeargle) can use meteor mash

great video. I'd definitely be interested in a video about signature abilities

along with shiny- pokemon uses "radiant" to refer to shiny pokemon a lot in the tcg

First partner Pokémon will never catch on… must be a weird translation thing

Maybe Tar shot could lower speed and trap the user instead of increasing fire weakness. That way it's a trapping move and the user can't just swap out to remove the effect