A PowerPoint about Bad Pokemon

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[@Runer27]

You can usually look at a moves Japanese name to figure out its weird distribution. For heat wave its Japanese name translates to ‘Hot Wind’. This likely implies that many bird Pokémon learn this move as they are able to use their wings to blow hot air at the opponent. Kisses xoxo

[@XxDigitalDaftPunkxX]

Yeah, the localization team has a habit of changing move names so much that it no longer makes sense.

[@WhiteManOnCampus]

Yeah, localization should be focused on being as accurate as possible without sounding silly to the local audience. Blazing Wind or Cinderstorm would make more sense for a move based on burning-hot wind.

[@ConductorElcrest]

@@WhiteManOnCampus​​⁠​⁠​⁠But Heat Wave literally makes sense considering a heat wave can be caused by hot wind.

[@ConductorElcrest]

@@WhiteManOnCampus”This is common in summer in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This is because the jet stream 'follows the sun'. The high pressure area is on the equator side of the jet stream in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Weather patterns are generally slower to change in summer than in winter. So, this upper level high pressure also moves slowly. Under high pressure, the air sinks toward the surface. It warms and dries adiabatically. This inhibits convection and prevents the formation of clouds. A reduction of clouds increases the shortwave radiation reaching the surface. A low pressure area at the surface leads to surface wind from lower latitudes that brings warm air, enhancing the warming. The surface winds could also blow from the hot continental interior towards the coastal zone. This would lead to heat waves on the coast. They could also blow from high towards low elevations. This enhances the subsidence or sinking of the air and therefore the adiabatic warming.[31][32]” From wikipedia, but yeah Heat Wave makes perfect sense

[@WhiteManOnCampus]

@@ConductorElcrest You're not wrong, but it still feels a bit inaccurate to the original. Maybe the animation makes it more understandable? I don't remember using it terribly often.

[@ado-]

Heat Wave is a wind-based move, and procs Wind Rider

[@MaahirMomtaz12]

@@ado- But not Sandstorm lol

[@sonicwave779]

​@@MaahirMomtaz12 Would be awesome if wind rider behaved like speed boost during a sandstorm.

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

Also insane that Gen 9 made an entire new category of broken paradox mons and like 9 different absurdly busted "normal" mons and then made Squawkabilly and wugtrio in the same gen

[@MeatbagSlayer]

Squawkabilly screams: "We've made this shit on purpose so we can give it an evolution in Gen 11."

[@abrahammaldonado6037]

don't forget spidops. poor guy

[@jannizockthueedition252]

As far as i know squawkabilly is the only gen 9 mon that has no signature move or ability

[@MeatbagSlayer]

@@abrahammaldonado6037 Spidops has Gen 2 mon stats for no fucking reason. Edit: I just realized we don't have a new 3 stage Bug type this gen. Wack.

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

@@jannizockthueedition252 yeah I was literally looking that up and yeah pretty sure Squawk and Lokix are the only lines without any signature thing, and Lokix at least has the signature trait of being the absolute GOAT (and also the first and only Bug/Dark type too last time I checked) Like Oinkologne is close because only the male one has a signature ability and that ability is just reskinned Mummy (which is the second time a new ability is just reskinned Mummy lmfao) but everyone else has something, even if it's trash like Triple Dive

[@ohmygod7024]

The contrast between Squawk's stats and abilities it can have (Intimidate, Sheer force, guts) is hilarious 😅

[@mizuri1884]

Don't forget it can have hustle too since the different colors may have different abilities

[@inevitablecrit4869]

squakabilly cant even make good use out of sheer force, which is kinda sad. Despite being bad, alot of mons have something cool going for it but then there are mons worse than being simply outclassed. for example: fearrow and carnivine have like nothing going for them. If made in gen 9, carnivine would maybe be immune to bug and have a "freeze dry" grass type move to counter bugs. Fearrow is just an uninspired relic of the past (drill run and sniper + focus energy is kinda nice tho?). Maybe in the future, some squakabilly variant could get dancer or some new parot-like ability but for now, its pretty plain as well. maybe they can make all these terrible pokemon mixed attackers/ defenders or something so even if their stats are effectively badly distributed, they actually have something going for them via a higher BST. as for some mons like dustox, spidops, ledian, pukumuku, etc.) some new evolutions would do them some good since theres already a good enough concept established but simply not enough stats past early-game. medicham isnt even early game (lv 37) yet its spattk needs to be way better-right now for its current evolution level.

[@ohmygod7024]

@@mizuri1884 Three good abilities and hustle 😸

[@usernametaken017]

who tf is getting intimidated by a fucking squawk

[@sinteleon]

@@usernametaken017 A different squawk, which is how it developed it's abilities to begin with. :P

[@pugking5727]

a lot of flying types getting heat wave could be in reference to the fact a lot of birds use hot upward air drafts to stay afloat while spending less energy, that's my best guess anyways

[@grunkleg.3110]

If Chatot was allowed to have stats and/or Abilities, Chatter would be the most fucked up move in the game. A 100% confusion chance on a move that's 100% accurate, doesn't have any immunities, deals more damage on average than Dynamic Punch, and it can go through Substitute? Chatot got banned in Gen 6 AAA because of Gale Wings Chatter. As for Heat Wave, it's a wind move (called "Hot Wind" in Japan), and Flying-types like their wind.

[@AceAviations2]

Chatter is messed up, in Gen 6 PU CHATTER IS BANNED while Chatot isn't banned. A precedent the should have been used for Houndstone and Last Respects.

[@merouln700]

CARNIVINE MENTIONED, HOW CAN THIS BE I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE FORGOTTEN THAN MARACTUS

[@josephtripp1696]

Chatot - Boomburst is brought to you by anyone who has ever owned a cockatiel. Nothing that small should be able to make that much noise.

[@starlightsoiree]

RIGHT, they can literally hit the same decibels as riot sirens. I fucking love parrots, I was so mad when I couldn't move my shiny Chatot from LegArc to Scarlet :[

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

Chatot was so overpowered it inflicts confusion (and violence) on your real life opponent

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

Mostly unrelated but meganium got nerfed hard in HGSS by making it learn body slam at level 46 instead of 31 like in the originals and I'm to this day pissed about it

[@MeatbagSlayer]

Someone at Gamefreak inc. was laughing their ass off with that nerf. Either that or they didn't think about that.

[@vaughnrudy8084]

Game freak circa 2009 be like dang dude meganium is just too good. it shouldnt have body slam until after the elite 4

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

@@vaughnrudy8084 and because the game is so easy and levelling up is slow you're not even guaranteed to have it by the time you beat the game lmfao

[@paulelderson934]

Gen 2 movepools were a mess to begin with.

[@dse763]

The time Body Slam was a TM ...

[@Hweeson]

Bulbapedia: “Heat Wave (Japanese: ねっぷう Hot Wind)” it makes more sense but still now fully

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. To me, I see far more beauty when a monster in a monster collector justifies its existence not just in battle but with worldbuilding or certain features in the game. It's part of why I praise Yo-Kai Watch so much for doing that. With Pokemon, Chansey being a Nurse Joy assistant and Cubone's sad story leading tonthe Marowak ghost are probably the better examples. For recent games, stuff like Revavroom and Tinkaton removing the Corviknight flying feature kinda fall into that vein.

[@CaptainObliviousV]

I hold the same sentiment with world building. Lumineon may be one of the most underwhelming Pokémon out there in a battle, and is now renowned for being the most forgettable mon ironically enough, but I could count the amount of Pokémon ocean fan art *without* a Lumineon somewhere in the piece on a single hand. That sentiment is also why I have a visceral hatred for Pawmo lmao. The purest definition of Dex filler, no world building purpose and only hinders the reputation of Pawmi and Pawmot with how minuscule it makes the change seem.

[@gliscorpropagandaaccount1764]

As a digimon fan, agreed. I do like how a decent number of digimon are tied to certain groups or themes (ie, the deva serving under the four holy beasts)

[@lordgrub12345]

The only reason I remember Carnivine is because I had a card with her and thought since it was so cool looking and didn't have evolutions it was a legendary

[@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123]

The average childhood pokemon fan experience

[@user-ks1oh2wx6o]

I once had a fake cacturn card that just had 9000 health. Nothing else special, just a ridiculous 9000 health

[@lordgrub12345]

@@user-ks1oh2wx6o I had an oshawott card with like 6000. That's a thing with a lot of fake cards, you gotta emove two zeros for the hp values to make sense

[@whyareyoulookingatthis236]

I didn't realize normal/flying mons had sauce i thought all of them except staraptor sucked

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

Dodrio can kinda cook, and Swellow is pretty ok too in earlier gens (and also Swellow can practically solo the game it's in so that's gotta be worth something)

[@whyareyoulookingatthis236]

@@InsertFunnyThingHere i legitimately forgot that Swellow has guts and can nuke, and dodrio has a really good movepool compared to most other normal/flying mons, maybe the birds do have sauce

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

@@whyareyoulookingatthis236 also Swellow got boomburst in gen 6, and then got it's special attack greatly buffed in gen 7 after they realized almost everybody used Swellow for boomburst despite it having less special attack that Spinda pre-gen 7

[@WatermelonCar-rx8qk]

Noctowl is good but only as a Hazard Remover give it max Defense and HP the only way it can do damage is Night Shade Unless you Sacrifice your HP stat still good tho

[@saltator8565]

​@@WatermelonCar-rx8qkYou don't know what you're talking about. Tinted Lens Noctowl with Nasty Plot Hurricane is/was very strong in PU and ZU.

[@CBSnB2R]

Without bad mons, random battles wouldn't feel as fun to play as it is fun now.

[@Quadritzel]

conspiracy theory: they give mons, which are bad in vgc good cards so they‘re present in tcg

[@supermarilink]

The Rabsca Theorem

[@hesmycat]

Best explanation I have for so many non-fire flying types knowing heat wave is: "hot wings"

[@GoldGuard]

My theory for why a lot of Flying types learn Heat Wave is that they can flap their wings so fast that they generate heat🤷‍♂ (idk maybe)

[@binarycat1237]

i would assume it's because flying type is heavily associated with weather and air, and a heat wave is a type of weather

[@Berkut_FE]

bee moment

[@bugjams]

Combee and Vespiquen should learn it then :(

[@sharpfang3660]

there's a place in my heart for all the forgotten shitmons, and i will continue to use them no matter what anyone says

[@inevitablecrit4869]

forgotten by viability but not by my heart

[@deazee2288]

Squakabilly feels like GF trying to make another staraptor but ended up doing a physical chatot

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

I think you may be onto something there, Squawk is eerily similar to how chatot functions gameplay wise in-game too, like take away boomburst (which he didn't even have in the original gen 4) and give it an actually good ability and they're actually pretty similar

[@CaptainObliviousV]

That’s exactly what I thought when I first saw Squawkabilly, but I like Squawk much more as a design.

[@lucasgreer1736]

@@InsertFunnyThingHere squawkabilly also has exactly 5 more bst than chatot

[@rduddle]

gen 9 is so black and white for me bro, its like half the pokemon are broken and half are garbage, and I feel like there is a real lack of middle ground.

[@sunflower-tm1xh]

actually, black and white is gen 5. get your shit together dude

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

Ehh idk it's like half omega cracked, quite a lot of slightly above average mons that have like one cool guimmick and that's it, and then a few mons that I wouldn't call trash but just do nothing too special and have average or slightly below average stats which by the standards of gen 9 means they'll be unranked in ZU almost since release

[@carucath97]

Tinkaton and Lokix and Hydrapple are all well designed (visually and stat wise) but not OP

[@rduddle]

@@sunflower-tm1xh i'll eat you bro don't even play

[@bananabread162]

Why does nobody ever talk about chatot’s chatter??? 100% accurate move with 100% chance to confuse, especially on a frail Pokémon who needs to avoid being hit as much as possible? It’s so busted! (If only chatot didn’t have terrible stats)

[@mythpawlogy838]

Heat Wave is called ねっぷう or "Hot Wind" in japanese, so it makes sense that the flying types use it. I figured it was something that made more sense in Japanese rather than the localization

[@qsns_]

the beauty of carnivine is that i get it every damn time in my run and bun nuzlocke

[@chrisp5148]

You put my two favorite guys on the cover. Had to click!

[@PunishedFelix]

AG Chatot moveset I loved in gen 6/7: Timid nature, Focus Sash - Chatter - Heat Wave - Boomburst - HP Ice You would BP with Tail Glow Volbeat and possibly get a substitute in there and just mow everything down and confuse for joke points. Was such a funny team Volbeat is super underrated too after the buff it got in gen 6

[@doorbox788]

you should do a video on missed potential on pokemon. Like how aerodactyl gets rock head but doesn’t get head smash or brave bird. In fact it’s only recoil move is takedown and double edge if i’m not mistaken

[@jankowalski9039]

From my experience chatot is a menace in random battles due to high speed thanks to high level and chatter which is straight up unfair with that guaranteed confusion since gen6. It easily won me more than one unfavorable 1v1s.

[@michaelwhalen9084]

birds often ride hot air columns to assist in flight, might be a reference to that

[@irisstarsterio8960]

Chatot has one of the strongest movesets in the game that would be phenomenal if it had anything else going for it. Even chatter is pretty terrifying, imagine a guaranteed confusion 60 base power special attack on a tank or technician Pokemon??

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

I really want chatot to get an evolution first of all because it'd be cool and chatot deserves it and second of all because I want to terrorize random people with eviolite bulky set-up sweeper chatot

[@craniifer]

I like Carnivine mostly for its visual design. A grass type with levitate is cool in theory, but at that point it may as well get a dual typing as well. Jumpluff is Grass/Flying with some solid stats and makes a tanky support mon in story at the very least.

[@meeb_consumer]

Heat Wave is given to Fliers as a form of fire coverage that actually makes sense. Something with big wings being able to push hot air around makes a lot more sense than Flamethrower.

[@acesniped639]

I really like this video, and hope you make more talking about specifically how weak pokemon fall short of the mark.

[@dboyriles]

Thermals (if you're an Animorphs fan, I'm sorry) are updrafts of warm air that birds can use to gain height while flying. Heat Wave is visually and mechanically a wind move so I don't think it's a stretch to assume this might be the reason.

[@nahemiasalbo5927]

Since basculin is my favorite pokemon, i appreciate this video a lot

[@ttan7293]

basculin? Fierce looking fish I guess. Thats fine. Basculin can be cool too. My fav shitmon is garbador. Its..usable but weezing is 10x better. I still like it.

[@iissacc]

heat wave - birds look for hot spots in air to gain height while flying

[@overlordwinter4611]

Thank you for being a youtuber than never makes a video too long to watch on my breaks at work, never miss an upload for this reason. Keep killing it queen!!!

[@Yethegoat10]

I always just assumed winged mons that can learn heat wave just flap their wings really fast creating a heat wave or depending on their secondary type like zapdos,he uses electricity to heat up the air then flap it at you. Which also explains stab nicely cause they’re not using their natural fire they’re using other methods so it’s not as strong as natural fire type fire using it. Pokémon’s accidentally so smart.

[@MaahirMomtaz12]

To be fair, Chatot and Carnivine haven't had movepool buffs since Gen 7 (although Chatot getting Parting Shot in BDSP is excellent) so we don't know what new moves they could get

[@kayladecant7332]

Idk girl “No Numbers” might be your simplest, best joke yet

[@nicktheninja3166]

As someone whos second favorite crobat is nasty plot set. No one expects heat wave. They also dont expect giga drain to be unironically ran. The amount of swamperts and gastradons i bodied in gen 6/7. B E A utiful

[@EmuOtori3939]

Watmel berry my beloved

[@WatermelonCar-rx8qk]

Squakabilly could actually be a pretty good lead with max HP and Speed and a Choice Scarf with the moves: Final Gambit Taunt Foul Play Parting Shot

[@tdfhjd]

chatot, my beloved, how the mighty have fallen

[@the_gastrodon3797]

One of my girlfriends favorite pokemon is Carnivine I try so hard to make ou sets for him I always feel bad when he can’t keep up he will always have one fan though

[@The_D_ray]

The best part of "bad" Pokémon is the fun of coming up with crazy stupid tactics to make the very nich-ely work. Atleast, that's my (a Spinda enjoyer) opinion.

[@leonardobarbosatelles2779]

I guess the explanation for many Flying types learning heat wave is that they beat their wings super fast and generate a heat wave from that.

[@aetherswipeplus7301]

For heat wave, i always thought as the bird pokemon flapping there wings so fast it generates hot air for the opponet. Doesn't make sense but that's how my child mine rationalized it

[@ViashinoWizard]

It makes more sense than you might think: Heat Wave's original Japanese name translates to "Hot Wind."

[@frankwest5388]

Boomburst is such a weird move. It is so strong that it gives Exploud a niche in some early Gen 8 OU and UU formats by itself and even Swelot, a mon famous for being one of the fastest Guts abusers ever, used it in RU so much, Gamefreak buffed it’s special attack from less than 65 to 75 just so it can abuse the move better. Imagine the move on an actually somewhat fast/bulky mon with good special attack and STAB on it. Don’t bother we have a a worse version of the move and it makes Ursaluna bloodmoon a staple in OU AND VGC

[@hikar1_]

Heat wave animation looks cool on flying types

[@iceicicle3046]

I remember using specs swellow a lot and just nuking things with boomburst. Like I'd sent out first thing and just oneshot landoruses and shit

[@geodude671]

Natural Gift is also occasionally run by Groudon alongside Ganlon Berry in SS Natdex AG to give it a physical Max Hailstorm that it can use to hit things like Zygarde

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

carnivine has always disappointed me, it's a pretty rare mon which has a sick name and amazing visual design, but it just has zero stats, a meh typing, a mismatched ability and no interesting moves, you could give it +30 in every stat and it would still be garbage. they should make an evo for it with dark type, strong jaw, a signature grass biting move and all the elemental fang moves, it would still be pretty bad but at least it could be a fun wallbreaker

[@banditrests]

Squawkabily feels like it was designed by several different people who couldn’t agree on anything. What should it look like? Japanese greaser parrot. What color should it be? Idk, like four of them, randomly selected. What roll should it play? Fast physical attacker but it’s best stat is a 96 and for some reason we’re going to give it several of the best abilities in the game. Base stat total? 417, so like a middle stage starter but it doesn’t evolve so it won’t ever really be useful.

[@fortello7219]

If chatot got scrappy and was just a little bit better stats it would be a great rogue pick. On a similar note, I really wish Chatter was a 90 base power flying move, the type has really poor options as far as that goes

[@en-de-lis]

you can find a niche for type: null in any meta, even ubers with insane bulk and pivoting. It's kind of like ditto in that it's never horrible it just is a wasted slot for most team types.

[@coreyTR27]

The Japanese name for Heat Wave translates to "Hot Wind", and a lot of other wind/air moves are Flying type moves. Heat Wave just happens to have Fire type properties as well

[@coreyTR27]

Another thing to add, the list of non fire or flying type Pokemon is pretty limited, and mostly makes sense: - Weezing (both forms): floating ball filled with hot gas - Mew: basically gets all moves - Shiftry: only got Heat Wave in SV when it also got Wind Rider as an ability - Vibrava/Flygon: dragons with wings - Solrock: based on the sun - Groudon: created land, gets Drought as an ability, primal form is part fire (notably, only got heat wave in SV) - Arceus: is God, duh - Galarian Darumaka/Darmanitan: Unovan gets it, so fine and Zen Mode G-Darm is part fire - Druddigon: dragon with wings - Hydreigon: dragon with wings - Silvally: baby Arceus - Drampa: is a dragon with kinda wings? - Lunala: giant bat with giant wings - Guzzlord: is a dragon (not much else here honestly) - Naganadel: is a dragon with wings - Slither Wing: paradox form of Volcarona, which gets Heat Wave - Roaring Moon: is a dragon with wings and is the paradox form of Salamence, which gets Heat Wave - Koraidon: legendary Dragon that can set the sun with Orichalcum Pulse, and paradox name is Winged King - Fezandipiti: is a bird, so has wings Really, the hardest to justify is Guzzlord, but maybe it's his burps from eating too much, or it's just a thing that certain dragons can do, idk

[@SaturnStikGaming]

I really liked running Chatot on low latter nat dex AG on showdown a few years back because along with Boomburst and some coverage, it had Chatter which did okay damage and had a guaranteed chance to confuse. The confusion was the lynch pin of the operation since the opponent could no longer stay in with the same confidence and you would move first a LOT more than you think since Chatots base speed is exactly one point higher than the base 90 thats seen with most legendaries.

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

I read this as "the Beauty of Bird Pokemon".

[@WatermelonCar-rx8qk]

Most Pokemon Mentioned were birds so either one works

[@austinsetser6081]

Leavany actually runs natural gift watmel berry too back in BW! It’s a very funny pick

[@dustinbragg1921]

Heatwave is a wind move, and is often slotted into Flying pokemon movesets as a coverage option against Steel types, which they often have no other answer for the defensive prowess of, and Ice types, which they rarely have much coverage for either outside the occasional Close Combat/Superpower or _Steel Wing._ Some might be able to run Flame Charge as well, but let's face it you don't run _Flame Charge_ for the damage, and Talonflames aren't known for needing much in the way of speed buffs. Steels they can't really hurt, and Ices they can't allow an attack from.

[@MooseKINGstudios]

Carnivine really should have some cool ability that boosts ingrain. Because that what Carnivine is supposed to do. Maybe like, “if Ingrain is used, gain DEF and S.DEF”.

[@ViashinoWizard]

also isn't "Normal/Flying Guts sweeper" already Swellow's whole deal

[@ElectricWindGirlFriend]

Yeah swellow can do that too. I just wish they did something to differentiate it a bit, either make it stronger or faster

[@toniconge7003]

Lets go Chatot mention! I felt so big brained in Diamond version for 2v2 battles I would have Toreterra use Earthquake then Chatot use Mirror move letting it copy Earthquake 😅

[@eIIedritch]

the heat wave thing might be because of thermal currents, some birds will use hot air rising to help them gain altitude

[@tylerbarrios9762]

I cannot wait for Sound type to eventually be added (gen 15?) because it means big buffs for mons like Chatot!

[@EclipseKirby]

My assumption with Heat Wave is simply that it's a wind move, and flying mons can do amy sort of wind move by flapping their wings As for where the heat comes from, no idea. But then again, no one ever questions why a Mon with fists can just generate fire / ice / lightning in their fists, or why Mons with tails can just make them temporarily metallic. I always just took it as one of these things

[@hours4935]

I luv all of them. You are all awesome and amazing!

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I wonder if (Alolan) Exeggutor wouldn't use that Catnivine set better. Because it has Harvest, so he can uses it more than once. Or Tropius? Poor Tropius, it has a cool move pool, some amazing abilities, but its typing and stats are just too bad to get usable...

[@SoggyWafflesXp]

Squawkabilly also has intimidate tailwind and parting shot for doubles.

[@OnyxOblivion]

Shoutout to Chatot for all the RNG manip enabling, you are the most important part of many a non-hacked VGC team!

[@leonardobarbosatelles2779]

Fun fact, as of Gen 9, Chatot holds the crown for Strongest Stab Boomburst in the game

[@victorymudkip6942]

squawkabilly is mon that can just win games with no setup in random battley mayhem. boosting its stats to total base 600 is huge as its fast and strong as fuck especially with guts and stab facade. the inverse type matchups gives its ridiculous stab facade no resistances making it impossible to switch into.

[@Bird-wz7nx]

Ever seen birds circling? Everyone is bringing up the flappy elements of Heat Wave, but any soaring, flying animals IRL do and/or would have harnessed thermal currents in the air for that smooth, easy glide. A pokemon using Heat Wave IMO is most likely harnessesing some natural air currents and instead of riding them, is redirecting them at the opponents. ...Or their wing parts glow, they scream their name, and they shoot lasers. That's also an option according to the anime

[@godslasthope6021]

As a guy who mains chatot in National Dex Singles, we love to see it 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Specialshark]

I'm now realizing chatot's head looks like a musical note

[@dasamont8274]

I never knew that Type:Null has the exact same stats as Silvally except for a speed of 59 instead of 95 (Hahah, they swapped the numbers around, very cool :))

[@dasamont8274]

Also, you called Silvally a pre-evolution, when it is just the evolution of Type:Null

[@ElectricWindGirlFriend]

i thought i said it's the pre-evolution of silvally. either way it was worded a bit weird fs, mb

[@TaIathar]

Boomburst's Japanese name: 爆音パ means "explosive sound" so basically, the idea behind birds getting it is the shrill chirping noise they can make but extended instead of being a short chirp. It's more akin to something like a sonicboom but a sonicboom has a much deeper tonality and moves at a supersonic speed, hence the name. Boomburst is higher pitch, but less speed. That's my theory anyway.

[@wondaraptor]

I LOVE CHATOT!! I was surprised how... Not that awful it is when decided to use it

[@drthvrdr]

According to bulbapedia, the literal translation for Heat Wave's name is "Hot Wind", which simply implies that they are using their flying type abilities to propel already hot air, since hot and cold fronts exist. The same logic doesn't seem to apply to icy wind, but it translates as "freezing wind" so maybe its just... too cold for that?

[@sonicrunn3r895]

I love Carnivine sm, I wish it was better it's so silly

[@maxrbmc]

Heat Wave is "hot wind" in Japanese, so thematically it fits on flying types.

[@mothwizard3095]

Despite it not being good, Venomoth is one of my favorite Pokémon and has a decent special sweeping set so I still put it on some of my teams sometimes just to mess around with it :)

[@makenshao9886]

Chatot is a one trick pony but the combination of a decent speed/SpA and Heat Wave/HV/Boom always made it at least a little relevant in the lowest tiers. It folding like paper is what holds it back but hey that's more than you can say of most two/three stages 😂

[@srPy43]

I wish carnivine get some amazing buff in next gen :(( My fav grass type

[@slitheringswamp5352]

I think bad pokemon would work well if they were given to enemy trainers early-game, like mini-boss fights

[@Wenlas]

Chatot is one of my faves I always draft it when I can ❤ fun fact it can learn parting shot but it can’t on showdown in any format

[@TurboJesus]

I’ll keep saying this every time I hear Chatot slander: a 100% confusion move + boomburst and coverage is really all you need. I used it in gen 6 OU and against the unprepared it would very often pick up at least 1-2 KOs. Often would down half the other team with a little luck.

[@nobleneed]

Ah yes, type: null’s *pre*-evolution silvally

[@ElectricWindGirlFriend]

yeah that was a pretty dumb writing mistake lol mb

[@sycariummoonshine7134]

Boomburst == Boom + sounds. Birds screech loud and if they fly fast enough break soundbarrier. xD I think they are just combining both of these images into a "plausible ability". Ofc no one is naturally doing any of that and they aren't fast enough nor loud enough for that... but then again, no one is naturally shooting a hyber beam either, so.

[@Yoda_Gaming1738]

Chatot will give any random battles player ptsd

[@decadunce9205]

Id like to see a video on the history of rest?

[@EverythingInMyBrain]

Heat wave’s Japanese name lite3rally means”hot wind”.

[@TwoHeadedMeerkat]

I'm sure it's been answered already, but winged Pokemon learning Heat Wave is because of its Japanese name: "Hot Air." The user doesn't NEED to be adept in the Fire Type, so long as they can cleverly manipulate the air around them to direct heat toward the opponent.

[@lanceanderson8548]

The aircraft stock image used in your section on Chatot was produced via generative AI. Figured it prudent to inform you.

[@ElectricWindGirlFriend]

i was told earlier but thank you. I didn't notice at first, sorry about that

[@lanceanderson8548]

@@ElectricWindGirlFriend No worries! I thought only that you’d wish to know.

[@chickenwaffle123]

Heat wave is just called Hot Wind in japan

[@tayclark42]

Can't you start adding like the stats of the pokemon u are talking about so we understand morem i love these videos

[@zlectricute1906]

Wings can create wind, Heatwave is a wind based attack

[@xemiii]

Gamefreak really make kickass designs with Type: Null and Silvally, but then just went "make one Arceus but bad and make the other that but without multitype and worse speed. Like come on man, they're freakin cool ass, manmade chimeras. Even if their stats are mediocre they're still really cool conceptually

[@armorbearer9702]

I noticed two of the Pokémon mentioned are from gen 4.