How Powerful is PLANT? Rancher Rundown EP 19 - Competitive Monster Rancher 2/DX

[@pokopoko14]

I love when they fly around at the ranch lol they should’ve incorporated that in Plant’s techniques.

[@Antifrost]

I do love Plant, though I've never been sad that it sucks. Granted, I'm not a competitive player, and as you mentioned the single player experience is very different. I guess I've often been drawn to monsters with unusual designs or game plans.

[@Talbot-8520]

I'm here for the Simpsons references. Every Rancher Rundown episode is such a treat. Thanks for making these!

[@eyeh0]

I frickin love Plant. They're so cute in this game.

[@LimitBreakr424]

Finally bought DX. Picked "Rush - Power Windows" and got Raggae Plant as my first DX monster. Lets goo

[@jamesreveley5998]

Funny I was just talking about making a competition plant and here is a video on how good/bad they are.

[@screwtokaiba]

The best trivia about Plant is the fact that its one of few monster in the series who is canonically considered the strongest monster in the world in 2's entry. Those Scientsit making Muu and Phoenix do be feeling silly now "We dreamed of creating the strongest monster, and its failsafe when all we need to do is to take a weed and paint an anime kawai face on it"

[@hakkbak]

man these MR2 rundown vids are so good. my two favourite things on KZbin/Twitch right now are the Rundown vids and the MR2 Nuzlockes. Did we manage to complete the full Nuzlocke btw?

[@Moosebones]

you'll have to wait an extremely long time for me to upload the whole series to find out! (yes)

[@hakkbak]

@@Moosebones woop woop 🙌

[@MrAlfred0512]

Already playing MR 2 for a long time, but cant play it in switch cause cant afford it lol. Yesterday tried raising plant-pixie as first monter, but quite surprise it is a good monster. Event though the moves that usefull are seed gatling and toxic pollen, but both of them are very usefull. Use seed gatling to reduce enemy hp, it may not deal big damage but ut is sharp tech which mean have high crit ratio. It has stable crit ratio, mosly deal crit damage. And use toxic pollen in 1/3 last duration to prevent the enemy using any tech, especially monster with slow guts recovery. But i think this is quite advantage too, reducing chance to use bad moves. But since competitive isnt controlled by the player, it is quite risky i think especially when you only raise the INT. I dont know it can be a good mons or not to competitive playing. But i reccomend using it not as your first monster, cause it need patient to raise lol Its fun to play with plant, kind of underrated

[@Mapleknight12]

MR2 Plant is like a full course meal, but everything already has a bite taken out. All of its techs feel a little too weak, after learning about MR1 plant, it becomes glaringly obvious that it was nerfed.

[@teawch]

Balancing is really hard, but having a variety of monsters with different strengths and weaknesses is part of the game's charm right ?

[@bradwig]

gotta love how you are subtly sowing the seeds of your intrest in fighting games. MR and street fighter? great taste, I'm in!

[@IfYouInsist]

Absolutely adore the intro to this one.

[@dracomocchi8092]

Great video, really love these monster rundowns. Hope to see my boy Ape eventually, even if there's less to talk about.

[@SevansVII]

I like Plant and I'm sad that it sucks. You know what doesn't suck? The VS series' Captain America theme song.

[@Moosebones]

MSH has a perfect soundtrack

[@rubinixjones9510]

Always a blast watching your videos.

[@stoneharvey1017]

Love these vids! Also crazy happenstance that you release this vid right after I added Plant to muh fan game. I love Plant! Always have.

[@stoneharvey1017]

I love battlebots and robotwars btw

[@defmos630]

Le quality. Tres magnifique!

[@verakeyes9675]

Thank u for this break down. Plant is my favorite 😍

[@nameunavailable07]

2 plant is a great mix of cute and weird. Great vid as always!

[@root5329]

Love it’s guts generation, fun mon to poke around with

[@DanteCrowlley]

🌱

[@aburabr]

SF1 is Wright Brothers, SF2 is Santos Dumont!

[@joecelbetonio7110]

I thought the rancher rundown is done for. Im really looking forwsrd for my favorite monster (Centaur) to be featured!

[@QCCBigZam]

I love Street FIghter 1, it's funny tight inputs on special moves means most people punch the air and struggle. It's great. Funnily enough, check out SF1++ sometime. It's a relatively old mod that lets you select the other characters by holding a button combination when starting the game. Even as overtuned as some of them are (IE Sagat), Ryu and Ken are still the top two characters at high level play due to the invul on their dragon punch. It's amazing. Big fan. Oh, Plant's cool too. Shame it sucks.

[@Moosebones]

Yes! I originally had a section talking about ++ but i cut it out because the intro was already too long. Really fun mod.

[@MrPodaky]

"Battle bots is the best IRL sports is battle bots." I cannot agree with you any further.

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

My favorite example of the impossibility of balance is StarCraft 2, the most popular RTS of all time. Even tho no official content comes out for it anymore it gets updated every few months depending on the current meta because the people who play it 1000s of hour will always find exploits. The Zerg players are dominating because the Queens do too much damage to air units, so they debuff the queens but all of a sudden that makes hellions completely useless since their purpose was to deal with queen harassment in that meta. And that’s just one example in a game with HUNDREDS of unit types and potential strats. Turn one dial one way it turns a separate one the opposite way.

[@Booster_pack]

So which tech should i get as a beginner? Just one tech for each slot?

[@Brutetank]

Every time I see these vids now I think of when you mentioned brain worms and then my brain goes brrr. :)

[@NsEndandFriends]

Glad to see Ken-E in the b roll, really need to finish my last monster. Also Durahan when?

[@braydenb1581]

I wish the remaster collection had tbe battle card game

[@worngspelling5720]

can you make a video on combining monsters?

[@danielshamlian2800]

Makes me want to face drill

[@rileystokosa2459]

Let me tell you how much better I got at fighting thanks to you saying build up your guts

[@sterquiliniis7583]

Battlebots is objectively the best sport. Avid enoyer.

[@Order-Sol]

I have to ask a weird question. Is Mock a decent monster to play as on MF2 these days?

[@Moosebones]

Casually hes a lot of fun, in competitive play he has some serious issues

[@raulfores8679]

hello new to the community. played MR in the 90s as a pleb and would love to learn more about the game. any discord groups anyone would recommend joining?

[@Moosebones]

Theres a link in the description to mine!

[@carlodechosa4219]

The imbalance of Queen Plant is even referenced in its MR2 card info.

[@Moosebones]

Canonically the strongest monster in FIMBA

[@ProdyP]

battlebots analysis when?

[@FakeLifeGames]

I love plant even though it sucks. PhlowerTrip's strict 2997 brother has fun abusing all the speed monsters in the JP meta until it runs into the 9-1 matchup that is tank Ripper. (Or the 8-2 matchup that is any other decent tank.) Some of Plant's power techs also conveniently knock it back into the better slots you'd usually rather be in. Root Combo knocks you back to slot 2, and I think both the slot 2 Heavy techs knock you back into slot 3. But the basics and Root Attack leave you in the same slot so your Plant can waste all its guts on them.

[@jhonviel7381]

i smoke plants