How GREAT was Articuno ACTUALLY - History of Articuno in Competitive Pokemon

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@fgggbsdbsdb3507 10 ай бұрын

I caught that stream of Kantonian Articuno being used in gen 9 VGC and this video didn't give enough credit to what a truly evil pokemon that thing was. It wasn't just the evasion boost that made it infuriating. Between the support from Aurora Veil, the new defence boost ice types get from snow, and Articuno's already incredible special defence, combined with roost, meant it survived forever. The true cherry on top was that it used all those extra turns to spam Blizzard, which with its spread move and perfect accuracy in snow, meant it had an alarming tendency to freeze at least one opponent per game. The player who used it said in the interview after his win that this was probably his last VGC event ever and just wanted to use his old favourite pokemon. Truly living up to that infamous Karen quote.

@Pd0nZ 10 ай бұрын

I'll still probably play again at some point, but not the full grind of the circuit, which means I probably won't make Worlds again. Playing almost every weekend can be tough at times. But if that's my final chapter, I'm more than content to end it like that. Articuno still has what you wrote above going for it, but I wonder if it can handle Regulation F. I guess time will tell.

@MasterMarik 10 ай бұрын

@@Pd0nZ I really want to use it on a snow team myself. Any chance you feel like chatting and sharing stat spreads and such?

@marcelosandoval4206 10 ай бұрын

You can use your favorites to win AS LONG AS YOU BUILD YOUR TEAM AROUND A SINGLE POKEMON and not just, build a monotype with no regard, ev training and thinking that Swords Dance is just a fun animation because it deals no damage on something like a regional Event is way harder, but strategies like this actually can take many players off guard and win because, lets be honest you dont really do calcs for EVERY pokemon, you mainly make the important ones, and something like Honchkrow... to live a Icycle Crash From Chieng-Pao and K.O. Back With Dual Wing Beat (Hello Moxie Boosted) or MY Cosplay Pikachu Icycle Crash (Yeah, that's on my ORAS team)

@kvltofsobek90 Ай бұрын

Compound this with the damage potential of blizzspam with tera Ice and specs

@turkeyguyorsomethinggobble3639 10 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: in gen 5, Articuno is classed as ZUBL alongside such metagame giants: Trubbish, Whirlipede, Omanyte and Regigigas

@Monroah 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely losing it at Regigias managing to barely scrape out of Untiered.

@butteredsalmonella 10 ай бұрын

Must've been an honor to be the Ace Pokemon of the second Gym Leader of your generational game and being tiered alongside two Legendaries.

@iss2075 10 ай бұрын

I can understand Whirlipede has Speed Boost, Omanyte has Shell Smash and Swift Swim and Regigigas has 670 BST, but how could a Trubbish be banned from ANYTHING?

@garretnordlund1979 10 ай бұрын

@@iss2075probably because of toxic spikes, if i had to guess

@RestingStitchFace0 10 ай бұрын

@@Monroah Too good for Untiered, to terrible to be tiered. I can't imagine a worse purgatory

@calebolds9609 10 ай бұрын

Articuno is one of Sugimori's greatest designs. So simple, so elegant, so good

@MaxAveris 10 ай бұрын

especially the galar form

@A.Froster 10 ай бұрын

@@MaxAverisgalar is wack

@autobotstarscream765 10 ай бұрын

@@A.Froster Galarian is just Articuno becoming Tuxedo Mask.

@edchanful 10 ай бұрын

@@autobotstarscream765more like "I need to speak with ur manager, now!" face hahaha

@sirsuffer3461 10 ай бұрын

@@autobotstarscream765galarian is space chuck

@bobobombastisch 8 ай бұрын

BREAKING: Kantonian Articuno won the Utrecht Pokémon Regional Championships 2024 (March 2-3, 2024) Quarter finals had an Articuno mirror match between Emir Abdulovski [NL] and Nikhil Reddy [NL] with Nikhil Reddy proceeding to take the title in the end. Even more shocking was that the person Nikhil beat in the finals had a clean 16-0-0 record in the tournament (Aurélien Soula [FR])

@SpaceElvisInc 8 ай бұрын

crazy thing to wake up to honestly, we back in red and blue baby

@mattiacicchetti3778 Ай бұрын

@@SpaceElvisIncThat's why gen 1 is the best

@waitingfortheequinnox 8 ай бұрын

Checking into this after witnessing the specs SheerCold Articuno in a Reg. F special event is wild

@KrizzlerYT 10 ай бұрын

I remember that Articuno is the first legendary I caught. I enjoyed the strength puzzles and surfing to it's little place in the Seafoam Cave.

@eisendrag 10 ай бұрын

I remember i used my masterball on it as a kid because it was a legendary

@KrizzlerYT 10 ай бұрын

@@eisendrag understandable. I swear I used mine on a ratata

@nousername191 10 ай бұрын

Yeah it was my first legendary too and I still have a soft spot for it even though I prefer Zapdos.

@rell660 10 ай бұрын

Hmmm I never really thought about it. Articuno was probably most of our (people who were young during RBY) first legendary. Zapdos and Mewtwo were out of the way. Articuno and Moltres were there in your face.

@deathserpent9747 10 ай бұрын

I remember playing the moemon rom hack for fire red and loving articuno's design. Although all the designs for that rom hack are god tier

@therealegr 10 ай бұрын

Imagine if we had Articuno had 125 Special Attack instead of Special Defense, it would have made it a better mon

@vaporterra 10 ай бұрын

Would give Zapdos a little more competition for best of the trio

@et34t34fdf 10 ай бұрын

In classic gamefreak style, they made the Mon with horrendous defensive typing "bulky".

@Abyss_WaIker 10 ай бұрын

@@vaporterraZapdos would still be much better. Ice/Flying is just such a bad type

@somebodyrandomly 10 ай бұрын

Holy crap, it's EGR

@mightywaranvil2912 10 ай бұрын

Shame that Ice-type contributes further to our Antarctic pal's disdain for Rock damage.

@pickle7499 7 ай бұрын

Crazy coming back to this after the latest regionals lmao

@Upotrex Ай бұрын

Lmao

@alexemp6201 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Being stuck at home with a fever in christmas without the mental capacity to even play videogames really sucks, but this helps very much

@QuintonHollinger 10 ай бұрын

Stay strong brother 🌲 hope you are having a blessed christmas

@alexemp6201 10 ай бұрын

@@QuintonHollinger thanks man. Even though we're both sick af, at least me and my father are keeping company to each other

@noamarie2072 10 ай бұрын

The Zapdos remake is near I can feel it

@enoyna1001 10 ай бұрын

I already got paralyzed by its presence.

@skeetermania3202 10 ай бұрын

Get ready for more than an hour of coverage then!

@SmokerFace12 10 ай бұрын

@@skeetermania3202im ready

@Goldi_27 10 ай бұрын

If articuno had its special attack and defense swapped in the later gens it would be a really good offensive ice type for the lower tiers

@musiyevonchilla6769 10 ай бұрын

I kinda doubt that tbh bc of the lack of speed while having that bad typing

@RubicXK 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, it would be too similar to Zapdos if that were to be the case

@nousername191 10 ай бұрын

@@RubicXK There would still be differences: Zapdos would be faster.

@Boarbatrice 10 ай бұрын

@@RubicXKAre you implying zapdos would be In a lower tier?

@vyor8837 10 ай бұрын

@@nousername191 and Articuno would still have Blizzard.

@franslair2199 10 ай бұрын

Moltres's chance of inflicting a burn in gen 1 is a double-edged sword. While it's good against the likes of Tauros, it's actually incredibly bad against the likes of Chansey, Alakazam and especially Starmie, who can all recover the burn damage, do not care about the attack reduction, and become permanently immune against worse statuses like freeze and sleep. Oh, and attacks that can inflict burn will also thaw out a frozen opponent. Imagine essentially resurrecting a frozen (basically dead) Snorlax or Rhydon.

@charizardpropaganda 10 ай бұрын

Nobody would switch Tauros or Lax into Moltres. Burning Chansey is not as bad as you think. You can just spam Fire Spin afterwards and put it to down to Hyper Beam range

@BardOfXiix 10 ай бұрын

Funnily enough, the Articuno stall in Gen 7 UU had its roots in Gen 6 UU. There was a few months where there was a commonly used dual-bird pressure stall of Articuno (roost defog haze freeze dry) and Moltres (roost defog will-o-wisp hurricane) due to how they matched up against all the tier's rock setters--either Moltres or Articuno could 1v1 every rock setter, so you could keep the field clear. It was common to also run a spinner, in addition to both birds having defog. Very interesting style of play, abusing pressure as much as possible. Some variants also brought Suicune, to have triple pressure.

@kuitaranheatmorus9932 10 ай бұрын

Remaking this video was a good choice cause Articuno is just such a great pokemon by design and competitively Overal this video was absolutely amazing.

@AndyStarzs1 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t say it’s a good design. They made a bulky ice type…. That’s the most terrible design choice to exist.

@winter9242 10 ай бұрын

@@AndyStarzs1 design aka appearance not the stats though

@pokeoh1831 10 ай бұрын

@@winter9242 "and competitively" I know you're a pokemon fan bu you'll need to learn how to read eventually man

@winter9242 10 ай бұрын

@@pokeoh1831 dude the reply only mention design and even repeated it. Before correcting others maybe you should also learn how to read :)

@pokeoh1831 10 ай бұрын

@@winter9242 Please use context clues! It is common sense that design can also mean mechanics designs in gaming! The comment that is made is very specifically clearly talking about game design! It may be using a different word but any competent individual would be able to read between the lines and see that they are talking about the competitive side of things!!! It is silly to say "This is cool, both design wise and competitive" "I dunno... the way it was designed (a bulky ice type) is pretty bad" "They didn't talk about competitive dumbass" "They did you illiterate" "Um but checkmate they said design and not competitive so I'm right" Please realise you did not actually counter my point! The specific wording used does not detract that their statement is valid!!! Please educate yourself immediately!!!!!!! Reading is an important life skil!!!!!!!!!

@Steve_A93 10 ай бұрын

Buff both forms by replacing Freeze with Frostbite from Legends Arceus. Also implement the mechanic that boosts frostbite chance when in snow, and buff the frostbite chance on Freezing Glare to 30%, making it a slightly stronger frostbite variant of Scald (which seems fair for a legendary's signature move). That way both forms gain a lot of defensive utility as well as offensive.

@SonBlackHeart22 10 ай бұрын

Woo Articuno. Also crazy how it went from the worst Legendary bird to a good Legendary Bird.

@TheCoolguymanly 10 ай бұрын

A good bird in the lower tiers where it's fighting Pokemon like Crocalor and Clefairy yes haha. It's a bit funny that FSG these days does genuinely try to uplift Pokemon that have solid places in lower tiers, even putting GREAT in their video titles (though that might just be the "remake video" indicator) and not just dunking on them for not being OU viable. But a little bit of that creeped into this Articuno video with the part about Galarian Articuno being used in Gen 9 OU, until people realized it was "actually still bad" lol. They do followup by saying it was good in NU, but yeah it was a slight pulling the curtains back moment haha. Regular Articuno is still pretty bad even with the buff to Ice types, and Galarian is better but not by too much.

@AgsmaJustAgsma 10 ай бұрын

I expect the Zapdos remake to be 1-hour long, based on this one's length.

@edwardkelly1262 10 ай бұрын

personally I thing the easiest buff you can give is the ability snow warning, especially now that snow increases special defense and gives it 100% blizzards.

@mrboost4186 10 ай бұрын

It raises physical Defense but yeah

@jacobnguyen8372 10 ай бұрын

I very recently started playing Showdown for the first time and my current VGC team features Articuno on my Snow Team!! Perfect timing!!!

@vaporterra 10 ай бұрын

Articuno had one of my favorite mid Johto episodes! Merry Christmas FSG!

@lucqq3792 10 ай бұрын

Still hoping someone one day subs johto journeys

@bdt2002gaming 10 ай бұрын

My favorite memory of this Pokémon involves this cool rug that some of the main characters in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs have in their house. As it turns out, this rug has some plot relevance to it in that it eventually leads to Articuno’s location in the region being discovered.

@mandalorianhunter1 10 ай бұрын

Omg another gen 1 and legendary remake, I wasn't expecting this so soon. Amazing

@mofoprada 8 ай бұрын

The resurgence of Articuno continues with an amazing VGC Tournament win to start March 2024. ❄️🦅

@thel-iteralone4592 10 ай бұрын

Kanto's ice bird sadly had the misfortune of getting pelted by lumps of coal from Gen 4 onwards.

@SYKim_94 10 ай бұрын

Articuno’s design is divine, yet it’s typing leaves a lot to be desired 😭

@bryanc1772 10 ай бұрын

Articuno is a laughing stock when it comes to stealth rocks 🪨

@tyranidswarmlord9722 10 ай бұрын

What i would give to have Articuno and Zapdos' derpy design switched...

@khub5660 10 ай бұрын

@@bryanc1772laughs in heavy duty boots

@josephbulkin9222 6 ай бұрын

Well what type would you give Articuno, if you were so smart?

@ianr.navahuber2195 10 ай бұрын

I remember Articuno. The first legendary pokemon i captured outside of using master balls.

@thatnickwalker 10 ай бұрын

merry christmas false swipe team, thank you for what you do :D

@Z_Icey_ 10 ай бұрын

Been watching for about 2 months now I really like the way these videos are set up, keep up the good work!

@RadiantJustice 10 ай бұрын

That gen 1 sprite for articuno is gorgeous

@GaryODST117 10 ай бұрын

Atricuno just got released in PokeMMO and now I know the sets to watch out for

@kefkapalazzo1 6 ай бұрын

My boy won a regional not long after this was released I think

@elderhu72 10 ай бұрын

The fact that he said that there's a 90 percent chance you will be enveloped in a blizzard signifying blizzard's 90 accuracy in gen 1 is genius

@unaffectedbycardeffects9152 10 ай бұрын

It was the chance of dying in one if it enveloped you, but yes. It is a pretty nice detail.

@elderhu72 10 ай бұрын

@@unaffectedbycardeffects9152 yeah you're right

@topher8670 10 ай бұрын

Zapdos was my fav of the birds as a kid but Articuno might've taken that spot as time has gone on. Design is 🥶

@marcelosandoval8719 10 ай бұрын

Finally one of my favorite legendary pokemon, Articuno I just love his desing i wish it had some better stats And the Galarian form is pretty solid too but the same problem unfortunately Thanks Mr. False Swipe the remake I wanted for this Christmas 🎄🎁😊

@cameronwarttig1732 10 ай бұрын

I don't always watch, but I love the comfort food of this channel's consistency

@Rider339 10 ай бұрын

I remember when I played pokemon Yellow, my best team had an articuno, it was one of my 3 strongest pokemon in my team alongside Mewtwo and Gengar.

@skeetermania3202 10 ай бұрын

Odd that this came out just after a Scott’s Thoughts video featuring all the birds. Also, anyone notice this is the first video to cover all 9 generations?

@melidor2198 10 ай бұрын

My favorite mon...became a part of my team instantly when I found it in seafoam back in pokemon yellow. Really wish it kept some of its power and that ice could be buffed in general

@DylanSwag42 10 ай бұрын

Galarian Articuno dropping from OU to NU in Gen 9 just shows how much the meta tosses and turns constantly

@FunBox. 10 ай бұрын

That gen 1 explanation was crazy

@pingufan1239 10 ай бұрын

Six years have I waited

@joekewl7539 10 ай бұрын

How to buff Articuno: *Snow Warning* Crank it's bulk to even higher levels, boost Blizzard's accuracy and power, and its even thematically appropriate. Instant rocket back into OU.

@dan240393 10 ай бұрын

Its one of the things that I can never work out about the Gen 1 designs... Articuno looks timelessly classic, but its just a blue pigeon. But its the best blue pigeon.

@justindekoning9988 10 ай бұрын

Simple fix for Atricuno would be to take some base stats from attack and put them into speed and special attack. Then its somewhat fast somewhat strong and tanky but is balanced out by its bad typing. And give it heat wave too. I dont care if heat wave doesnt make sense for Ice type. It also doesn't make sense pidgey can learn heat wave so just let artiucno have it

@marcelosandoval8719 10 ай бұрын

Is so unfortunately sad or hilarious (if you're cruel) that ArticUNO is the least viable of the trio Moltres is surprisingly solid and can work on mid thiers and Fire is amazing for offense And Zapdos is a monster on Rain and a VGC staple because has the best typing of them on Electric/Flying

@petrie911 10 ай бұрын

Articuno's Yellow sprite looks so nice. It made me love the Pokemon immediately. I also had a fun ice team in mono-type ADV. Since this was so long ago, OHKO clause wasn't a thing and Mind Reader/Sheer Cold is a great way to finish off an attempted last Pokemon sweep. It's such a shame gamefreak decided to give it 125 base special defense. 90/100/95 would still be quite reasonable bulk and Ice STAB off 125 sp atk is good in any generation. They could have at least given it Snow Warning instead of the useless Snow Cloak as a hidden ability. With the new snow weather condition, it would be quite the tank.

@josephbulkin9222 6 ай бұрын

Snow Cloak is useless? Huh, when i had to face Candice, i didn't get that impression. Quite the opposite really.

@craigyeah1052 10 ай бұрын

Funny thing is that it's stat distribution is what helped it get usage in VGC 2023, which between that and Jamie's recent placement I imagine prompted this remake. With Snow Cloak, it's natural Sp. Def, and it's Def boost in snow Articuno can take most any attack when it hits and spams blizzard which isn't super powerful but is spread and threatens freezes.

@iantaakalla8180 7 ай бұрын

I would really like Aurorus to exist soon because it really can take advantage of setting Snow to be an offensive threat now

@guyguywailord5496 10 ай бұрын

did anyone else notice the double freeze dry on the screen at 20:16

@EstebanWolf1986 10 ай бұрын

Sick to see Jamie Boyt mentioned, he is one of my GOATs. His videos do so much for the VGC community!

@JDcooper37 10 ай бұрын

Been my all time fav Pokemon ever since Blue version waaaay back in the day! So stoked to see this on Christmas Day!

@jwanie366 10 ай бұрын

I immediately thought of Patrick Donegan when I saw this video lol. Glad to see him featured here!

@couchieplay3668 10 ай бұрын

Articuno was my favorite in gen 1 and 2, but then I realized that I was in love with ice type's attacking coverage. Still love that big blue bird tho.

@93earthbound 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas False Swipe!

@AwakeningShadows 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas everyone!

@Victoria3WorldConquerer 10 ай бұрын

The fact that people called for Articuno to be banned to ubers is hilarious. To think that Articuno could have been banned while Kingambit was running around.

@timmytigerz699 10 ай бұрын

I was not expecting to see articuno and great in the same title.

@Rarest26 10 ай бұрын

Tbf pretty sure you can only expect it when discussing masters ex

@alimirza4608 10 ай бұрын

he uses that term for remakes, doesnt really mean its good

@furiouscorgi6614 10 ай бұрын

@@alimirza4608meganium

@IndiraDevi-tq2wq 10 ай бұрын

Meganium did get remake and its not great@@alimirza4608

@Syogren 10 ай бұрын

We really just need to buff the ice type's defensive matchups. There are lore justifications for it resisting Dragon, Electric, Flying, Fairy, and Water. Giving it any of those resistances would give ice types more switch in opportunities, giving them more chances to hit the field. Rock weakness would obviously still be an issue, of course, but this should even things out a bit.

@makokx7063 10 ай бұрын

I remember being like 10 when the first pokemon games came out and every single kid ran the 3 birds, mew, mewtwo and usually their starter. None of us had any understanding of the mechanics beyond type weakness and no one used buff/debuff skills or switched out. They seemed like wastes of a turn. Those were the days.

@jamesw2831 10 ай бұрын

This just makes me want the Zapdos redo so bad. This was a great Christmas video

@skeetermania3202 10 ай бұрын

Probably one of the hotspots of next year (April or July)?

@justintime2461 10 ай бұрын

@@skeetermania3202Imagine if he does Moltres in the Spring, and Zapdos in the Summer since they're associated with those seasons.

@CryoDagger 10 ай бұрын

from its design all the way down to it's cry, Articuno has been my all time favorite pokemon. may be simple, but articuno always had this beauty and regal-ness that made me love this pokemon. never seen galarian articuno's shiny before, but got to agree with you on it being that fantastic. Just wish that Gamefreak didn't give it the short end of the stick with the transition between gen 1 to 2, and then crushed its hopes and dreams with a bunch of rocks.

@papajeff6259 10 ай бұрын

Hope y’all’s Christmas is going well no matter where you are

@Jet-plane 10 ай бұрын

19:40 I noticed that roost is listed twice

@MTF_Epsolon-9 10 ай бұрын

Our fav stealth rocks victem let's gooooo!

@snapclub8751 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas everyone. 🎁🎄

@hichemtebbi9547 10 ай бұрын

I remember using it in the battle frontier of gen 3 with the combo mind reader-sheer cold and won many battles with it

@y.kennard3381 10 ай бұрын

"With the best shiny ever" YES ! ! ! I was never interested in shinys. But when I saw this one... I thought "ok, for this one, I could reset during hours to get it..." (I was so glad when I learnt I could get it just by participating in an online competition, haha)

@ForestX77 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you too those at FSG and to all watching !

@nyrambler23 10 ай бұрын

A Christmas miracle: a remake video for my favorite pokemon. The only untiered legendary this side of Regigigas!

@MegadeathAdams 10 ай бұрын

My favorite of the legendary birds. Still remember pulling a neat full art card of it, made for a nice afternoon.

@mofoprada 10 ай бұрын

Love the newly-updated Articuno video. 👍🏻 **Game Freak simply has to recognize that they screwed the Ice Type from the game’s inception.** Give Ice Types immunity to Ice, with resistances to Flying, Water, Bug & Dragon. Also, make Fire and Ice neutral to each other & you will see Articuno easily overcome its original poor-defensive stats. If the goal is to make Articuno a wall for many teams, increasing its speed by 15 points would also allow it set up its defensive plays before Rock or Steel threats can surface early in games.

@ResurrectedElvenMonk 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas False Swipe. My favorite legendary bird of the original trio, thank you for this video.

@flaviusarcadiusvibes 10 ай бұрын

MERRY CHRISTMAS FSG

@casualcraftman1599 10 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to the future Christmas where you remake Delibird Christmas story.

@nathanrailsback9667 10 ай бұрын

Way back in 2000, I actually used Articuno as part of my team in a Pokemon Stadium official tournament. Because I figured out the basics of EVs before seemingly everyone else, mine was trained ridiculously high in HP and speed from killing Route 1 foes to go from 50 to 52. That Articuno got me to the finals match, and it ended up all coming down to my Boreas versus the other guy's Dugtrio. Everyone could tell that if it missed, it was getting destroyed, and if it hit, I might actually live Rock Slide anyway. It crit and I lost, but that wasn't the fault of best bird.

@AerialHoopGuy 10 ай бұрын

I'd buff both Articuno variations with Magic Guard. Articuno is one of my favourite Ice types, but being a legendary, I feel that it's too weak, and both variations have abilities that, while fitting, don't imply mystical or enchanting.

@adolfojuangarcia1906 10 ай бұрын

Great Christmas present.

@punkysnarks 10 ай бұрын

Articuno is funny to me, because it has the beauty of stain glass and goes down just as easily to rocks.

@goldennugget2562 10 ай бұрын

FSG just casually reuploading how good was stealth rock actually and expecting us not to notice

@FalcnPWNCH 10 ай бұрын

*_Articuno: because even being a legendary pokemon doesn't save you from how god awful the ice-type is_*

@PKMNwww411_MkII 10 ай бұрын

Articuno with Blizzard is overpowered as heck in Gen I especially the Japanese version with the 30% freeze chance. Gen II nerfed it a little making it a wall. Its Galarian cousin is amazing.

@aigis4231 10 ай бұрын

two and a half decade? God, I'm old :(

@daverowe1081 8 ай бұрын

I'm not surprised some players saw fit to include Kantonian Articuno on Doubles Snow teams, as the new Snow mechanics would buff it's already impressive Defense and allow it to function as a pesky mixed wall, especially if you got an Aurora Veil up. You could run supporting moves like Icy Wind for speed control, Helping Hand to buff ally damage and some combination of Protect/Roost/Blizzard/Tera Blast in the final move spots.

@RebelTrooperHoth 10 ай бұрын

really underselling gen 9 ou articuno, he wasn’t just a gimmick

@Primarina. 10 ай бұрын

imagine when G-Articuno gets Esper Wing? it'll be my new favorite G-bird pokemon

@skeetermania3202 10 ай бұрын

Speaking of which, Braviary is so long overdue.

@LoreleiVieshvelle 10 ай бұрын

Being a pokemon thats lore says it bringd blizzards. I think to help balance Articuno it should habe a hidden ability smimiar to mega rays, where it removes ice weakness while on the field. To help cover rocks, and fire/rock weakness

@kyouhei7731 10 ай бұрын

My favourite way to use Galarian articuno is the iron ball set woth expandong force and trick room in a psyspam team. It's really fun to use

@NathanWinn-v9r 27 күн бұрын

Fun fact: Articuno, months after the making of this video, has succeed in winning a regional for the first time ever.

@MasterAbeer101 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays FSG!

@Strixer-gk2kz 10 ай бұрын

I never noticed before, but I prefer it's pre-gen 3 design with the blue talons and beak. Post-gen 3 looks more like a regular bird.

@BladeRabbit 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas

@sarasaland4709 10 ай бұрын

Gotta love how the bird that was given the defensive stat spread has the worst defensive type.

@SerDerpish 10 ай бұрын

Most ice types are defensively oriented, unfortunately. Only Weavile and Froslass are actually correctly designed as the glass cannon archetype that ice typing is meant to be 🤦🏽‍♂️. Which is a damn shame because I love Avalugg, Walrein and Abomasnow 😭

@josephbulkin9222 6 ай бұрын

Worst defensive typing? Two words. Iron Defense. Even the nastiest Stone Edge wont be enough to crack a really tough Ice Type.

@staren1991 10 ай бұрын

how to buff Articuno ? we could easily hyperoptimize the stats by lowering attack by 80 and adding 40 to both sp. attack and speed, as well as giving it a new ability that sets up Sleet, a new weather that slows down non-water & non-ice types, and makes hurricane & blizzard ignore accuracy checks

@Pd0nZ 10 ай бұрын

I do remember how mesmerized I was as a kid when I caught it in Red. I also remember it being good that gen. Glad to see I wasn't merely misrembering! The love persisted, and that's why we eventually got the Worlds set years later. Definitely some things I didn't know about it since I focused on VGC (like being a Defogger), but they make sense. It had a better time in Singles than I thought. For years, I wanted it to get Snow Warning. It made sense with some of the Dex entries it had in the past. Go figure, it's Snow Cloak that ended up working for me in the end. Would still be nice as a 3rd ability though. Thanks for coming back to update the Articuno video. It was a good watch. ❄

@JohnDoe-no9oq 7 ай бұрын

You really went cold turkey... sorry, I mean you went with Articuno.

@oteris2924 10 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the only time i've ever gone to a video game tournament. Decades ago, when gen 1 was still the only game. A mall in my area held a Mew event and a tournament. I joined the tournament, with the team of Mewtwo, Charizard and, Articuno. I ended up getting disqualified after 2 rounds because of a rule the tournament had in place. "You can't paralyze/sleep/freeze 2 of your opponents Pokemon at the same time". I get a freeze, he switched out, I get a second freeze and right away he calls over the judge and I'm gone.

@franslair2199 10 ай бұрын

Wow, that's an incredibly bad rule. Clicking a sleep move is one thing, but ice type attacks have a random chance of freezing, were you supposed to not click blizzard against dragonite because it might freeze?

@oteris2924 10 ай бұрын

@@franslair2199 Yea, it was a very bad rule to say the least looking back on it. Maybe if I was not a literal 10 year old at the time I would of been able to argue the rule. Because I'm pretty sure both Ice Beam and Blizzard could both freeze.