The Most Damage Possible in Every Generation of Pokemon

[@KingTheLuck]

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[@ggaattyy2]

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[@bmeht]

congrats on yet another scam sponsor

[@blueyandicy]

​@@bmehtI mean, he used it himself in the video. There's not much more you can ask for... Also, I literally went back to watch the ad bc of a comment that mentioned it, and yea it was cool :)

[@ballsofsalsa01]

2:44 so not even a fiberglass from a Moltres during sunlight does more damage? Is there no weather in gen 1?

[@tHEsTIQ]

@@blueyandicyI might be wrong, but i think the thing with manscaped is that they use already existing razors from other brands but for a higher prize.

[@drkspace]

I'm supprised you didn't spend 10 hours trying metronome to see if electrify would be called.

[@sinthetale8354]

it seems there about ~800 moves metronome can call, which would mean after only 1000 metronome calls you'd have a 71% chance of calling any particular move so you could be 71% sure electrify is/isn't callable

[@GAALsbrr]

He falling off

[@axilia203]

​@@sinthetale8354you're almost correct, you're either 71% sure it can't be called or 100% sure it can

[@Notconceitedjustbetterthanyou]

SURPRISED you can’t spell SURPRISED. Absolute fucktard

[@anthonymacconnell8817]

Best ad read I've seen, at least in a long time

[@eeveewithcoffee9554]

Just started the video and can’t wait for the discovery that crits don’t stack with attack increases in gen 1

[@eeveewithcoffee9554]

I’m disappointed

[@HuneeBruh]

A KZbinr? Not doing research on what the videos supposed to be about? more likely than you’d think

[@ReaSeBy]

also disappointed, the bulbapedia description says it right there too (“for a critical hit, all modifiers are ignored”)

[@Nitosa]

​@@ReaSeByit's really silly since it's a big part of gen 1 battling which has been parroted to death. he probably assumed it as "all defense raising modifiers ingnored" but he definitely underestimated the gen 1 jank balance.

[@walterkipferl6729]

Then again, maybe he considers this a crit and thus ignores it, like integer overflows? And rollout storage?

[@Phoenix00756]

Half of the pokedex is made up of walking nuclear bombs at this point

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Imagine how other half feels...

[@Sequencer37]

nah it's just a certian painter dog

[@usernametaken017]

​@@Sequencer37do NOT ask where smeargle was in 1939-1945

[@orangeposting]

In generation 1 critical hits ignore all stat changes, even ones that would increase the attack's damage. You doubled it for the critical hit, that means you need to divide dodrio's attack by 4. Obviously you should just halve the damage and remove the critical hit. EDIT: I think it's also worth mentioning that for the target Paras to exist, you'd need to breed it in gen 2 then trade it to gen 1. Otherwise you could only get a level 8 paras.

[@mjdxp5688]

You'd probably want to attack a level 8 Paras anyway because of the badge boost glitch. Badge boosts don't apply in link battles.

[@gordoteton9830]

also, in gen two all stats (or a least attack) are capped to 999 regardless of boosts

[@TheEiric]

I was going to reply the same thing about crits ignoring your own boosts

[@awesomelink2347]

@@mjdxp5688 You can have a wild Ditto transform into your level 5 Paras that you breed and transfer over. Copies all stats aside HP.

[@rickytickybobbywobbin055]

Trainer Fly glitch has entered the chat

[@plutonicattic7995]

guys KingTheLuck posted its time to investigate the video and find every little flaw so he makes a sequel

[@pulim-v]

Okay so from what I've seen so far there's: * crits ignore stat boosts in gen 1 * stats are capped at 999 in gen 1 * -Deoxys- Rhydon is only at +4 * eggs only started hatching at lv 1 in gen 4 [EDITS] * Electric Terrain only provides a 1.3x boost in gen 9 Anything else?

[@CabeliotCometier]

@@pulim-v electric terrain is calc'ed at 1.5x in gen 9, when it's 1.3x

[@gavinyeet5821]

@@pulim-v Actually Deoxys was at +6, it just appears as x4

[@irmaoscabral3880]

​@@pulim-vI think the stats cap at 999 at gen 2 too, but I could be mistaken

[@pulim-v]

​​@@gavinyeet5821 OH I mixed Depxys and Rhydon for a second lmaooo Rhydon is shown at +4 in 7:40

[@_DewGaming]

I could have swore that Eggs still only hatch to Lvl 5 in Gen 3. I thought that was a change made in Gen 4.

[@sambauer4094]

you would be correct

[@Sightnado]

that is correct; the issue that likely made them decide to make eggs hatch at level 5 was fixed in gen 3 but eggs still hatch at level 5 in gen 3

[@JoeSmith-db4rq]

This is correct!

[@PtylerBeats]

@@Sightnadowhat was the issue that they fixed in gen 3?

[@Sightnado]

@PtylerBeats one of the experience groups caused some pokemon to have negative XP at level 1, which would cause them to instantly grow to level 100 if they gained

[@yourenbytemmieverse]

Terrain give a 1.3x buff instead of 1.5x since gen 8

[@erikcarp9359]

Yup was just about to comment that, but you beat me to it!

[@jarofpiss1408]

🤓

[@13kevyaga31]

Unfortunate that the early gens were rushed: - Crits ignores stat changes in Gen 1 - Gen 1 and 2 caps stats at 999 - You cannot get a lv 1 Yanma in gen 3, only lv 5 For some gen, there are some glitches that allows for truly degenerate damage rolls.

[@haidynwendlandt2479]

This is ignoring stat caps and overflows I believe just to create the mathematically highest damage. All this is correct obviously through

[@Potato15461]

You can breed a yanma

[@haidynwendlandt2479]

@@Potato15461 in gen 2, bred pokemon are hatched at level 5

[@Potato15461]

​@@haidynwendlandt2479the relevant gen was 3. However youbare correct anyway

[@13kevyaga31]

@@Potato15461 go hatch an egg in gen 3 and tell me what level you get (hint: it's always level 5)

[@DarkenedAuras7653]

How much you wanna bed he kept these flaws in the video on purpose because the engagement is through the roof as a result?

[@tomrejor4842]

My personal bet is to believe that the video is made in good faith, and just that considering the time it takes to make the video, a bunch of more niche stuff were missed without realising it. I'll also note that, not sure if it has anything to do with it or not but it just happens to be released on the last day of November with a sponsor, so there is a chance, that it was also pushed by time if the sponsor was for November but also possible that it has nothing to do with it at all.

[@dacknostrum]

"Do you like Hurting people?" "Yes, I like mathematically seeing how much I can possibly do to harm someone as much as possible."

[@pacmanboss256]

Gen 1 crits ignore stat boosts so technically that multiplier is ignored

[@lafusion6695]

Smeargle didn't do the cut to gen 8, meaning that you cannot use Smeargle in the Gen 8 damage.

[@TheNeraum]

It's in BDSP

[@thatcloveplant]

it's funny that we're celebrating not getting a new game or release this year lmao

[@SaintoftheHonest]

Small thing: The change for eggs to hatch L1 mons happened for gen 4, not gen 3. Your Wynaut Egg from Lavaridge Town hatches a L5 War Criminal

[@Auwa-racist]

Killing steven's metagross with wobbofet was so satisfying

[@RebL3333]

1:35 “Psyspam” means a team made up with a lot of Psychic types. Psyspam is also commonly associated with teams built with/around Expanding Force and Psychic Terrain though. Some examples include Indeedee Armarouge, Indeedee Hatterene, Indeedee Exeggutor, and recently Male Indeedee solo (hm I’m starting to see a pattern). Psyspam is known in VGC for being a “haha funny nuke go brrr” team which many people frown upon due to the spammability of Expanding Force under the right conditions. 16:34 Also, wasn’t the Terrain boosted nerfed to 1.3x at one point?

[@kubomagico8853]

The terrain boost nerf happened in gen 8 Gamefreak decided that since nobody was using terrains in gen 6 they would make abilities to set them up (the Tapus) but they became too strong, so they nerfed them (except misty terrain)

[@TheNewRobotMaster]

3:30 I think this joke could have been much funnier if you kept Shuckle's silhouette but just put Rhydon into it

[@haydes1285]

Gen 1 crits ignore ALL stat changes, even beneficial ones. But this can be made up for by the badge boost glitch, at least in the actual game, wherein every time the player’s Pokémon has its stats modified, all stats (assuming all badges are held) are increased by 12.5% (I’m not sure if there’s a limit or what it would be to this boost)

[@haowenzhang6000]

16:24 Bro disliked his own vid

[@Giga-lemesh]

Lol, well spotted

[@mjdxp5688]

According to Bulbapedia, Electrify cannot be selected in a battle for Gen 9, so it almost certainly cannot be called by Metronome.

[@DkKobaADV]

bulbapedia is not a reliable source for in game mechanics

[@DanteDelahaye]

Many moves like this could actually be called by metronome, toxic thread for example if is only learned by the Ariados line, and that could be called

[@devilman4723]

It can't be selected because no Pokémon learns it. Doesn't mean it's not in the game files and callable by Metronome

[@awesomelink2347]

If all overflows and caps are to be ignored, I actually found a setup for Gen 1 and 2 (I don't think you could do it in Gen 3, as wild Double Battles don't exist there) that'd do more; have a wild Ditto transform into your Paras/Yanma as part of the setup, so that badge boosts apply, including the type-based ones in Gen 2. Oh, and, a level 5 Ledyba would be the best option for Gen 3, since at the minimum it'd have 7 Defense, which would become 1 at -6 stat stages.

[@twoloavesofbread]

Wild pokemon can't swap into other party members, though, so how would the existing Gen 2 setup with substitute work? Or does that still do more than -6 defense?

[@awesomelink2347]

@@twoloavesofbread Ah, you're right, I didn't consider that. Technically, it IS possible if you get super lucky and have Rhydon use Metronome (by teaching it as a TM in Gen 1) to call Defense Curl, and have the Ditto copy your Yanma that knows Endure and have it successfully use it four times in a row (a 1/64 chance).

[@Maelmc_]

Also Badge Boost is fun and all but Attack stats are capped to 999 in gen 1 and 2, so after 3 swords dance you already reached it and the badge boost does nothing (at least from my understanding of badge boost)

[@awesomelink2347]

@Maelmc_ I know, but I'm ignoring that here, like all overflows, just as a hypothetical.

[@Maelmc_]

@awesomelink2347 Oh bruh yeah, sorry I cant read

[@DkKobaADV]

a correction for gen 3: eggs hatch at level 5 still. It is gen 4 that dropped them to level 1. I used to do a lot of breeding for battle frontier so that fact is burned into my brain :)

[@skotiaH2O]

I think it might be possible to get a better number for Gen 8... you can have a Pokémon that's 32× weak to fire by using Tar Shot and Forest's Curse on a Snom with Fluffy or Dry Skin. That would make V-Create a 5760 base power move, as opposed to Rollout's 3840.

[@thesharpestknife]

Heat Crash with the doubled damage from the target using Minimize is even stronger than V-Create, effectively 7680 base power. We choose Fluffy over Dry Skin because the multiplier is higher, but Heat Crash usually makes contact, which would cancel the Fluffy bonus. To avoid this, we hit a substitute, because that never makes contact. If I've done the math right, this comes out to 1,081,085,184 damage.

[@skotiaH2O]

@thesharpestknife nice thinking!

[@Ralyx0]

You miscalculated for Gen 1. Critical hits ignore stat increases.

[@nickm5924]

dude that was a cute ass ad.

[@makiah_s]

It really was, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@sippingthe]

that’s a thoughtful way of putting it. i just call it propaganda 😃 i hate ads so much

[@HuneeBruh]

⁠@@sippingthepretty dramatic description for an ad for razors that takes up less than like an eighth of the video

[@sippingthe]

@@HuneeBruh you’ve been normalized to seeing them. it’s going to get worse. i hate to be a pessimist but youtube has gone from one 5 second ad to 2 unskippable 15 second ads. videos have become vessels to sell you stuff you don’t want or need at a cost much higher than you could find online. i know im being dramatic and it’s a necessary evil to provide revenue to the creators that are otherwise giving their videos out for free. but i wish the internet wasn’t so hyper commercialized.

[@Izandaia]

@@sippingthe That's not what propaganda is. Misusing inflammatory words like that doesn't make people take your opinion more seriously, it makes you sound ridiculous.

[@CuddlyTheMadElite]

Electric Terrain is only x1.3 boost to electric attacks. It’s been like that since Gen 8. Also BBND was absolutely reasonable. The National Dex is one of the only reason why you’d play Pokemon over other monster catching games since Pokemon was the only game franchise that let you use literally everything from before. Additionally we were promised better animations and other means of compensation for Dexit that were ultimately false or never came to life.

[@DoctorNovakaine]

Those false promises were hiding the real reason Dexit happened: because they were still refusing to break from their ridiculously crunched 3-year schedule despite the fact that they were clearly incapable of keeping up with it. It was a way to cut down on the amount of testing work they had to do, because they still weren't willing to accept that they needed a fundamental change in release schedule philosophy. MAYBE they've finally learned. Even if they have, they're probably still not going to have a mainline game with all Pokémon available, but maybe not forcing a 3-year turnaround will at least let the games have better technical performance.

[@CharlesHarrisonIsColorBlind]

The terrain boost is only 30% and not 50% in gen 9.

[@dmlppspringtraplover]

Yeah I've noticed that too.

[@awesomelink2347]

No, Metronome cannot call Electrify in SV. If you hack something in with it, you can't use it, and unusable moves can't be called by Metronome.

[@agenderwitchery]

You don't have to hack anything in to test this, just transfer a Smeargle that knows it.

[@awesomelink2347]

@agenderwitchery But don't moves get reset when transferring to SV through Home? Or is Smeargle an exception to that somehow

[@caligos1379]

It would be fitting if Game Freak, though leaving out any pokémon that learns it, left electrify in the game and had it be metronomable (great adjective)

[@damieny8526]

Can't you have the Pokémon getting hit use Counter to deal (effectively) double the highest damage possible?

[@HORSECONSUMER]

1:35 psyspam means using psychic surge indeedee and spamming expanding force since it becomes a spread 120 bp move before the 1.3 psychic terrain boost

[@Infindox]

All of a sudden in Gen 8 there's Doma Castle music, approved. Good video though, good to know what it is for every gen.

[@mjdxp5688]

Were badge boosts counted for Gen 1? The badge boost glitch specifically could massively increase the damage dealt.

[@chaoslordmissingno]

I wonder if you did everything right, you could overflow as you could have stat increasing and reducing moves from the user and wild pokemon. That makes me wonder how the badge boost would work for items. Like a scenario where an enemy pokemon uses leer twice, the trainer uses x defend. Does the X Defend nullify the badge boosts or could you go infinite?

[@chaoslordmissingno]

Figured out my own question. Stat cap as people have mentioned would result in this not being an issue.

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

It can't since you still hit the stat cap (which is 999, and he screwed up by not including it)

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

13:45 ironically Silvally is actually in sword and shield

[@PKFat]

Thumbnail: Gen 1 Mewtwo Reality: Gen 1 Dodrio I'm not even 3min into this video & my expectations are shattered

[@ops_united]

3:52 jumpscare

[@Kivamusicchannel]

Eggs in Gen 3 hatch at level 5, not level 1.

[@Berttheturt314]

A final graph of all the gens would have been nice

[@malemailmanman]

GIVE US THE MAXIMUM DAMAGE MANSCAPED AD GIVE ITTTT

[@awesomelink2347]

Saying this ahead of time that the base damage in Gens 1 and 2 is capped at 999, though possibly with other stuff like STAB or type matchups boosting it from there. In the former case at least, STAB is applied first, then type matchups, so the real highest damage is 5992. But hey, big numbers make brain happy, and what's REALLY more important at the end of the day? Also, if you wanna be REALLY pedantic, the Gen 1 and 2 ones are wrong regardless, since stats cap out at 999 almost always, and due to some weird quirks I won't get into, attempting to replicate this in the actual game would make the game SOFTLOCK since it tries to divide by 0. Oh, and not to mention, eggs still do hatch at level 5 in Gen 3. It wasn't until Gen 4 that they hatch at level 1.

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

and he put a crit in gen 1, which ignores stat boosts. You can't have both stat modifiers and crits at the same time

[@awesomelink2347]

@HopUpOutDaBed OH TRUE I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT (I'm working on my own max damage in each gen, not counting overflows and stuff but taking into account other mechanics like many of Gen 1's bugged ones lol)

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

Don't you mean hardlock?

[@awesomelink2347]

@mr.cauliflower3536 No, since that refers to a crash. The game still RUNS when this happens, it just can't proceed and forces the game to be reset back to the last save.

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

@@awesomelink2347 The game runs but isn't playable. That's a hardlock. A crash is a crash.

[@AriaHope]

I think the easiest way to test if a move exists in any particular game would be to use a ROM of it, use pkhex to edit a pokemon to have this move (pkhex does not care if the mon can naturally learn the move) and try it out in game. (Yes you have to try it in game, the pkhex and the game will absolutely let pokemon with non-existent moves exist but will only tell you that it won't work once you try to use it in battle)

[@BobSmith-tm2kj]

wow, implying the actual king isn't smeargle who absoLUTELY enables all of this BS in every gen

[@idkwhattoputasausername3397]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but apparently you can use Mega Pokémon in Gen 9, they just have their sprites replaced by a Pikachu if you try to add them in. You can use most of them in Balanced Hackmons on Showdown.

[@robertm5110]

For gen 2, couldn’t you also give Rhydon the Hard Stone to boost the damage further?

[@silvercrownt]

Wow the king of luck

[@thebattle7000]

In gen 7 you can perform the Rollout Storage Glitch to get the 32 times multiplier to damage to any move you can by simply hitting a Mimikyu with Rollout/Ice Ball to break its Disguise, then lock out of rollout by successfully using it for the next 4 turns. And now your following attack will have a 16 times multiplier without defense curl and a 32 times multiplier with.

[@Smores_AreAwesome]

13:45 the funniest part of this joke is that Silvally is actually available in swsh

[@sniim]

The Stormblood music in here had me doing a triple take LOL

[@musicalsystem927]

... yeah, the animated model doesn't leave much to the imagination. Glasses, smooth face, a nice roommate who was willing to let you use them for your ad read.

[@KungisComing]

?

[@agenderwitchery]

When's the extended director's cut where you spend like 20 seconds on every individual step for each gen

[@BobJones007andahalf]

Very funny to me that Silvally didn't get dexited and was chosen for the joke, highlighting even more how silly the #Dexit crowd sounded

[@shiruotakuno28]

"No Yanmas were harmed during the making of this video."

[@danielprice4163]

1 minute in and there’s a clip of NL, a man of culture I see.

[@Mijzelffan]

Bunch of mistakes in the video, at least that means you have enough material to make a follow-up correction video again :)

[@ArmundJay]

1:14 i've been playing a lot of Balatro lately since the apple app store release and i feel directly attacked

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Did Inverse Battles ever open up possibilities?

[@SUPABROS]

7:45 why +4 not +6

[@hamdiman5692]

Its not +4 but ×4 since thats the multiplier, it just makes it easier to see

[@lemons3621]

I might be wrong but in gen 2 I think the max a stat can be is 999 and would overflow if it was higher

[@crimsontrickster6636]

@@hamdiman5692 I think they mean +4 stages, which results in a x3 multiplier. You can see rhydon only has a x3 multiplier instead of x4. And I assume that’s just an error on the visual representation. He says x4 while explaining the set up and showing the math. Yanma was dead no matter what so it’s a pretty minor detail

[@hamdiman5692]

@@crimsontrickster6636oh ok I didn't catch that

[@lightery6724]

Basically it's cause the game's max attack stat is 999 due to a bug, can't be more, and if you go over 1024 attack the game will reset it down, like if your attack is 1032 it'll become 8, that's why boosting further would've dropped his attack, so +4 it was

[@chaoslordmissingno]

I was blindsided by the NL inclusion at 1:14. You get a like from a former he's bald enjoyer.

[@Alienldr]

Talking about fire blast moltres, it would be cool to see another list of strongest unboosted physical attack and special attack in each gen. So on most targets, fire blast moltres and blizzard articuno would do more than psychic mewtwo. And self-destruct snorlax would do more than earthquake rhydon or hyper beam tauros. Boosts, type match-ups, and the opponent defense stats would be ignored, and no set up required. I'd love to see what the other gens are, outside of the first gen

[@kalosianporygon]

Finally someone who covers the first few generations in terms of damage dealt.

[@kalosianporygon]

Now please redo the first three gens, you got some stuff wrong. :)

[@blueyandicy]

BALATRO REFERENCE!!

[@mcgrewgs]

I really appreciate that, rather than just throwing the number and relevant Pokemon up, you actually go through the process of making each of these happen in a battle. While they might not be realistic or likely scenarios, it's really nice to see that they are actually at least possible.

[@Ajdin_1103]

Bro made Sponsor very entertaining

[@Magic_Ice]

Not as much damage as being flinched when you were about to win a fight.

[@pageclayton6850]

Unfortunate doesn't begin to describe my series

[@Magic_Ice]

@ unfortunately you forgot how it went

[@lordmudkip7344]

Dragonite can use sky attack with mimic and X attacks if that makes you happier

[@awesomelink2347]

Well, then it couldn't use Swords Dance, since you can't use items in link battles, but non-link battles would be better anyway because of the badge boosts. Plus if you really needed to, Metronome is an option.

[@RealDudeFortitude]

1:14 BALATRO MENTIONED RAHHHH

[@yourconscious]

Your roommate's use of physical comedy is impeccable

[@SWISS-1337]

In gen 1, did you consider the badge boost glitch?

[@ReboTheVaporeon]

In gen 9, is it possible to skill swap supreme overlord onto smeargle and boost it's attack even higher?

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Incompatible with Helping Hand. Also never exceeds Huge Power.

[@g00dbyemisterA]

my guy has entered a high pantheon of youtuber, someone who can make ads sincerely entertaining enough that regardless of product, i will watch it for content purposes

[@mayac69]

It feels like there's a small , tiny mistake in every other gen that throws off the math and I'm aorry for all the comments you'll get about it. But it boosts interaction so I'll bite too and comment for the algorithm gods.

[@BrendanGeormer]

If you're using the Metronome item for the damage boost, wouldn't that mean you can't use defense curl before your rollout, since rollout only lasts 5 turns; therefore you wouldn't get the max boost from the item?

[@MrLordZenki]

Click Rollout twice and have the 10th hit land on the target

[@BrendanGeormer]

@@MrLordZenki Does the Defense Curl boost persist through rollouts, like the second one still gets the boost even though technically Rollout was used before the second one?

[@MrLordZenki]

@@BrendanGeormer I don't know but I have to assume yes. I think otherwise King would have mentioned it

[@agenderwitchery]

Rollout only cares that you've used defense curl at some point during the battle and haven't switched out. It doesn't get consumed and it doesn't expire.

[@BrendanGeormer]

@@agenderwitchery Ah, okay, thank you

[@potassiumfeldspar]

These videos are always nice to watch, even though they answer questions I have never once asked. I learn a lot about game mechanics and the funny things you can do with them. Also, I appreciate the effort put into making an actually enjoyable ad segment and making it bearable.

[@MrMonkey2475]

This is the one of the rare times I didn’t skip past the sponsor bit, that was a true joy to watch 😂😂

[@zachpro5475]

0:02 the gen 9 epilogue

[@DBeaupre-tj5om]

For Gen 1, did you consider Tradebacks from Gen 2? Just curious, it allows some funny shenanigans

[@michelleslay2701]

why yanma in gen 2 over ledyba?

[@plutonicattic7995]

dunno, ledyba can be lvl 3 as well as having lower defensive stats.

[@Johan-ct3xg]

Who knew the highest damage in gen 2 would be against KingTheLuck's roommate's eyebrow

[@thatoneguy3840]

He did not. Cut. ANYTHING.

[@cryochick9044]

So I am working on a (currently ice boxed for other projects) fangame and I just realized you'd salivate over a new ability I'm adding Draconic pressense Increases dragon move power by 1.5x Opposing fire electric grass and water moves deal damage with a halved offensive stat while ice dragon and fairy deal damage with a doubled offensive stat It basically is adding dragon type. It is skill swappable, and it works on dragons. Noibat with it and forests curse would take 32x ice damage

[@LegacyKricketune111]

Between Shuckle and Yanma, never underestimate the Bug type's ability to stay relevent to highest damage discussions; whether it's by dealing or recieving it.

[@russellw6872]

As someone who looked at doing this before, here's my notes: Gen1: Has attack cap. So a lot of Pokémon meets the requirement for max possible damage. I'll note it but assume we'll ignore that since we're already ignoring damage overflow. Crit ignores your attack boost, so we don't want that. Badge boosts are applied to non-link battles, twice if the mon has Burn/Paralysis. My set-up didn't have it though. I had Solar Beam Exeggutor, vs. Lv.3 Geodude. Since Psychic is the only way to lower Special, I have an defender side Jigglypuff lower my Attacker side Jigglypuff Special, to not ohko Geodude, then swap Geodude in lower its stats. Rest on both side as needed. The two options are: 110 Dodrio, 140 Sky Attack, and lv.5 link Paras, or lv.8 wild Paras 125 Exeggutor, 120 Solar Beam, and lv.3 link Geodude (wild Geodude would die lowering Special) I did not do the math, so I don't know which is higher. Gen2: There's a 5992 cap, 8988 cap with sun/rain. I did not write in my notes what the cap exactly is, but Bone Club Marowak is mentioned. I'm ignoring the cap again here. Lv.3 Ladyba as the target, but that's about it. Gen3: Eggs are still only lv.5 at the time. A level 2 can use Mimic/Assist to call Transform, giving us a lv.2 target in this gen (but still has a stat of 2 with -6 modifires from a lv.5 Ladyba). I had Rydon again here, I didn't think about using Color Change. 68,627,896 using Rydon. Gen4/5: Yeah Shuckle has been long figured out by now. Gen6(XY): There's no Calc done for this gen, but read gen7. Gen6 (ORAS): Allows us to use inverse battle Normalized Flying Press for more damage (32x type multiplier against Aron with Trick-or-Treat). But it involves secret bases, a limit of 3 Pokémon on each side (max 4 if a double battle is used instead of Triple), and the foe to be controlled by the ai. The post from reddit had 1,188,311,040 damage, but there was more optimizing that could of been done. Gen7: Power Trip Me First Electrify Pikachu does more damage, with Charge and Electric Terrain boost. 645,647,908 damage for this game. Gen8: Electric Terrain is now 1.3x multiplier. Gen9: While it has a description, Electrify has the flag set to false on being usable. It also has the flag set to false on being called by Metronome. If the above wasn't the case, the few Metronome exclusive moves can be Sketched, so it's something that can be prepared beforehand. I get confused on where the different boosts go, so I'll let someone else do the math. Edit:fix ORAS part.

[@russellw6872]

And of course that doesn't include Glitches like Rollout Storage and stuff like that.

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

TIL the boost on Rollout from Defense Curl is permanent as long as you remain on the field and doesn't need to be used immediately before each Rollout to get the bonus.

[@discgolfwes]

Are you including the badge boost glitch in Gen 1?

[@mghgames3809]

Smeargle wasn’t in gen 8

[@zacharyplace7482]

Flex Seal guy: “Now that’s a lot of damage!”

[@Tare_lifestyle]

I have beat witney twice and she has never even clicked rollout [rock] even with a Quilava [fire] and Golbat [flying] infront of her.

[@HulkBuster-j3d]

slight error : eggs started hatching at level one gen 4 afterwards, not 3, before that they just hatched at lvl 5

[@JcFerggy]

I loved this video, but it made me wonder. What would be the max damage if there was no dexit or removal of moves? What if, in a hypothetical scenario, that our trainers had access to all gameplay modes and gimmicks. What would a triple battle with terastalization utilizing the entire National Dex look like? My other thought was: What about O-Powers and the other generational gimmicks that increased your power? How would that affected each total?

[@dragonslayerz2220]

Gen 1 has a few issues: First, 999 stat cap, meaning any pokemon that can hit 999 offense is optimal. Second, Crits ignore stat boosts and are therefore suboptimal. Third, Crits are not a 2x multiplier.

[@dragonslayerz2220]

Gen 2 appears to have no issues, aside from the still-present 999 stat cap.

[@dragonslayerz2220]

Gen 3 can't get a level 1 yanma due to eggs still hatching at level 1. No more stat cap though!

[@harrisonmccullough9450]

In Generation 1 you could Mimic to copy Mirror Move and then use Mirror Move to copy both Swords Dance and Sky Attack. With this you could use Dragonite with its higher Attack stat.

[@RealYaoi]

1:16 cant even watch pokemon without getting NL jumpscared

[@Redthewolf2012]

I HEAR THAT DOMA CASTLE THEME, YOU CAN'T HIDE IT FROM ME

[@jakko_]

King The Luck in real life? He looks exactly like his avatar! So realistic!

[@rubenbartezzaghi6382]

On the gen 7 record you could use a lv1 ditto to transform into altaria, effectively increasing the dmg output since levels are factored in when calculating dmg

[@onesywashere]

Turning pokemon into a typical disgaea game with damage numbers

[@NathanMays-sm5pe]

Thanks for showcasing the absurdity of power creep in pokemon I watched the whole video and I was curious about how absurd power creep was in pokemon hopefully in generation 10 they will undo the massive pokemon and move removal.

[@GrandDuchessTaco]

I didn't know about Ice Ball being gone in Gen 8! That was Spheal's whole...Spheal! I'm mad!

[@BeaverKrieger]

Nice of you to include your grandma in the video.

[@fitz9806]

You can't call me out like this i literally paused my run for you 1:14