The ADV Rock Slide Principle

[@BKCplaysPokemon]

"Don't let your intimate familiarity let you from thinking you're too good for the fundamentals. Yes, that's right--Pokemon teaches us life lessons once again." --David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (2007) [I think? I just remember doing the locomotion]

[@mmsnorby]

It's so weird seeing BKC dabble in KZbin Shorts.

[@Cobalt957]

If your Girlfriend - flinches pokemon to death - is immune to sand - has a fantastic design Then thats not your Jirachi Thats Aeroda*flinched*

[@stupidflandrs4856]

I assumed McMeghan's last was Swampert, and when I saw the Mag I spent a solid minute just shaking my head and chuckling. Great replay choice for the topic Edit: the replay also shows there are greater teambuilding sins than running Snorlax!

[@arkelon]

Me when I have intimacy with the metagame 😳

[@EmuMan1490]

You have inspired me to now think of TSS teams as Tim Duncan (aka the Big Fundamental) and his San Antonio Spurs from the 2000s and now I can’t unsee it

[@ShinyTillDawn]

Everybody gangsta until DD Tar flinches with Rock Slide twice in a row

[@glitchedoom]

Aw, I wanted another Rock Slide psychological horror movie.

[@johnsanko4136]

In baseball, there's a concept of "keeping your opponent honest." Making them play to basic fundamentals. Pitchers making pick off moves on baserunners who take extra large leads. Batters bunting when the defense plays deep. It's about a team trying to edge out an extra advantage that it's up to the opposing team to prevent them from abusing. Rock Slide is Gen 3's "keeping them honest" move.

[@esthersmith3056]

huh, i first came across the phrase in magic the gathering, had no idea it's from baseball

[@TheChron-kl8gf]

I'm decently sure that this exists in most competitive sports/games. A lot of people get too clever for themselves in chess were I'm competing.

[@reverie9358]

i love watching mcmeghan play and i have so much respect for him but about 30 seconds in i knew where this was going lmaooo

[@HighMightyWeasel]

Gen 8 has a similar principle. Every team needs to have a way to reliably check specs dragapult shadow ball. If your team has no answer to this, any competent player will bowl you over with pult.

[@GoTELuckyCharms]

BKC, I wanna take the time to appreciate your style of videos. The unscripted free flow infodumps you release are so intricately put together, that I legitimately could listen over and over again. It especially feels nice knowing that you're taking a bathroom break, allowing the audience to process the information you give. Never change, dude.

[@LotusTheWise]

Wise person of the showdown KZbin channel, we need this to be a philosophy channel with slight hints at Pokémon. Tell me why we're all here while somehow you make it be about how magneton is overrated in ADV OU or something (i dont even know that much about that meta dont take it personally)

[@fahad468]

Ae[REDACT]yl

[@melanie735]

Aerodactyl used Ryan Slide! It was super Gosling!

[@et34t34fdf]

BKC with a 13 min video? Folks, this is insane

[@LevelsOTT]

Appreciate that BKC shouts me out in every vid 🚗 🙏

[@honjon666]

If you live by the flinch... THEN YOU MUST DIE BY THE FLINCH!

[@tecul1]

we love aero

[@Circ00mspice]

Nah not a fan of the chocolate

[@sharpfang3660]

one time i was 1-2, aerodactyl against a regirock and a camerupt, guess what happened, 6 rock slide flinches in a row, truly one of the mons of all time

[@dilliondantin]

Bro hit the gas mask before pressing record

[@rubenbartezzaghi6382]

I'mma be real. 20min long videos are the sweet spot for bkc who's so discoursive. Seeing 1h+ long videos can be challenging and I never finished one. I hope bkc is going for a shorter video format since it's content it's actually the cream of the crop within the youtube gen3 ou growing landscape

[@birthdayninjah]

Bring Krock Cresists

[@DGFTardin]

0:32 is BKC trying to turn us into gods?

[@tuberialolicon-tanuki6533]

Another day laddering, another day using "spikeless offense" and suffering against gengar/starmie, another day not learning the lesson.

[@hansoskar1911]

its very funny how you can afford to take these kinda risks against good players more often bc those will often try very hard not to depend on a rock slide flinch.

[@paulh462]

The miss-chance of nearly all physicall offence moves & the low power of them makes physicall offence a bad playstyle. It is quite good in gen 3 Ubers, but that is about it

[@amberhernandez]

The exposure keeps getting cranked up on these thumbnails. Can't wait for the eventual pure white thumbnail you can kinda see an outline on!

[@Peabnut]

i got #4 on the ladder back in december thanks in part to DD rockslide mence. i'm pretty new to gen 3 OU but i understood that rock slide wins games

[@miko8493]

Babe wake up new Gen 3 discussion topic dropped I hope this means the next video will be along the lines of “Why Stone Edge is Good and You should Use It” or something along the lines of that propaganda

[@feelsokayman5656]

Haxerodactyl

[@nSenuh]

BKC

[@solomonpnq]

BKC

[@bomoose]

what language is this

[@Cobalt957]

The language of gods

[@amadora48]

blazing kicking chicken

[@usernametaken017]

I disagree

[@whatahoot1185]

Thank you BKC, I now believe that registeel is more viable than starmie in adv ou

[@frogwhisperer4268]

Rock slide is a healthy gatekeeper. Swampert has probably the most important defensive role in the tier. It's very customizable and is also clearly targetable. May be scrubby but I think it results in much better gameplay than if, say, Milotic or Jirachi was the best defensive Pokemon instead.

[@Butterfree_hater]

Any plans to talk abt the rby vr?

[@BKCplaysPokemon]

good idea!

[@Butterfree_hater]

@@BKCplaysPokemon goat...

[@ZGOBRU]

What kind of team is Undisputed using here? it looks really cool

[@BKCplaysPokemon]

old dekzeh team from 2013! it was quite popular for some time

[@ZGOBRU]

@@BKCplaysPokemon Thanks! would the exact list be available anywhere? Sorry, i'm kinda new to this

[@BKCplaysPokemon]

it wasn't a team posted publicly, just the kind of thing that good players passed among each other, but the specifics aren't really important bc of how many variations it had anyway. I would say lum dd tar and lum mixed metagross (psychic mash fire boom) are the most important bc of how much of a pain willowisp gar is otherwise, and if you use that meta you really have to be careful around opposing dd tar and aero, so a physdef invested lax with counter or brick break is a good idea, maybe hp fighting aero too honestly (you'll have to REALLY be careful around other aero though). the team has good ideas but I wouldn't use it for more than practice now bc it's not quite covering everything the way it needs to. a more modern version would probably use celebi over lax and then a lefties meta which frees you up a lot

[@ZGOBRU]

@@BKCplaysPokemon Thanks BKC and thanks for your amazing content as always

[@Izuhra]

Sussy

[@bobforeman8924]

Write a script boy

[@BKCplaysPokemon]

CHAPTER ONE: Why I Wish Ryan Gosling Starred in Too Old to Die Young (2019)

[@michabaron4129]

dude its ok to type out a script for yourself

[@closefomo]

First

[@ShinyTillDawn]

Not first :(