Pick These Pokemon Stadium Rentals!

What's the matter, trainer? Can't navigate the Pokemon Stadium rental market on your own? You're in luck! Our expert team of Gen Winners is here guide you through the process! We'll help you identify the winners and stinkers of the rental roster, victory in Round 1 guaranteed!
This is a PSEUDO Tier List (600 BST!!) where we'll be going through topics instead of ranking everything, mostly because 90% of the rentals are either complete garbage or hopelessly outclassed.
Ownership is best, of course, but renting can be a great stopgap for trainers trying to find their footing in the world! They'll add support for imported teams someday, right?
Let's! Renting!
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Timestamps
00:00 Hello Our Stadium
02:20 Pokemon Stadium Mini Review
07:43 Gen 1 Mechanics
18:26 Arena Traps (Do not pick!)
27:50 Gen Winners (Always pick!)
37:37 Niche no Kuni (Sometimes pick!)
46:21 Fierce Foes (Beware!!)
#pokemon #pokémonstadium #gen1

[@spindash64]

Stadium Announcer gives me life. Find someone who’s as excited about you as this man is about a random snake slinging a turd at people

[@ImportedCheese]

RIDE THAT SURF!!

[@spindash64]

@@ImportedCheese ROLLLLL THAT ROCK SLIDE

[@SuperHeroZX]

In the french version Stadium Announcer voices also Jerry from Totally Spies

[@lssjvegeta7103]

@@spindash64 A MASSIVE EXPLOSION! WOW, GOING DOWN! THEY'RE DOWN! THEY'RE BOTH DOWN!

[@a1ace1991]

So it ends blizzard!

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Werster's "How To Beat Pokemon Stadium Using Only Rentals!" serves as some good supplementary material to this. It's a quick guide on how to beat the game quickly. It will only take 30 something hours initially, if you go fast. And if you want to speedrun it, you can't stop to sleep or take care of other biological needs. Not a big deal, though, just abandon your mortality and ascend to godhood. No big deal.

[@ImportedCheese]

yeah, only a casual would give up on round 2!

[@CesarTorres61296]

@@ImportedCheese I'm going to complete Round 2 of Stadium 1 once I either get a new Pokemon Yellow Cartridge or repair my old once which has stopped working.

[@borby4584]

Snorlax was also at least top 3 in Gen 1, as a member of the holy trio. it's amazing how all three of them show up on the Noob Trap tier here.

[@ImportedCheese]

rented...

[@misirtere9836]

3:42 "The backgrounds look completely hideous" *shows a shot that would not be out of place in Legends: Arceus*

[@ImportedCheese]

Sadly true

[@ray0064]

8:15, Gen 4 is # 1 forever. Classic cheese and his love for Sinnoh, so inspiring 🥲

[@ImportedCheese]

Delete this comment

[@darthmaul5413]

@@ImportedCheese Gen 4 as a whole is A- pokemon platinum and pokemon heart gold and soul silver are good but pokemon diamond and pearl sucks so hard and i started with diamond and pearl when pokemon platinum out i never look back at diamond and pearl

[@mrwillard95]

gen 4🤢

[@alanhumid6938]

Why do they suck xd

[@darthmaul5413]

@@alanhumid6938technical issues completely outclassed by platinum npc teams issues looking at you flint no down button on poketch gen 4 evolution locked before national dex

[@PK_Smokey]

Wild how Aerodactyl has a custom animation for Earthquake in Pokemon Stadium 1, even though it doesn't learn the move until Gen 2.

[@ImportedCheese]

Is the stadium 2 animation different?!

[@MazterP28]

@@ImportedCheeseyes I have a video of aerodactyl in gen 1

[@MazterP28]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIS0g4tjgbGFmq8 - aerodactyl Pokémon using earthquake in gen 1

[@musicstuff6310]

It still has earthquake as a legal move since tradebacks exist

[@piratebear3126]

​@@musicstuff6310Beyond tradebacks, Mimic is a TM that almost any Pokemon can learn and lets them use any move fairly easily. A bunch of Pokemon have nearly unused animations because of this, although EQ Aerodactyl is one of the easiest to see.

[@stagelights_]

unironically i like the way hyper beam works in rby more than i do in modern games. it provides an interesting bit of risk vs reward, especially in multiplayer. unfortunately the "intended" way hyper beam works is basically giving your opponent a free turn with little to no benefit to you

[@ImportedCheese]

I don't think there's a single person who disagrees

[@ShinyTillDawn]

Choice Band Hyper Beam would fuck with modern generations.

[@madison_hailstorm]

glad you shouted out big yellow, she’s easily one of my fav channels rn

[@ImportedCheese]

They only make successful videos! i'm not jealous, ok?!

[@madison_hailstorm]

@@ImportedCheeseit’s the luck of the irish, in the most literal sense possible

[@Dante...]

Seeing Tentacruel survive a Mewtwo psychic and return fire with "instant death™" was pretty awesome. Remember to not fall for the super effective swindle!

[@ImportedCheese]

120 base special, baby!

[@joshtheryuk]

When the N64 game has better animations than your Switch triple AAA blockbuster...

[@ImportedCheese]

GameFreak vs HAL lmao

[@slyfox7452]

To be fair its only 151 pokemon compared to the 400 pokemon from sv

[@ImportedCheese]

@@slyfox7452 Yeah, they could never have a game with 400+ mons and good animations!

[@Zyklon_B_still_and_know_God]

​​@@slyfox7452this is pure cope. Just look at the size of team and development time vs any other GOOD major release. This is a result of greed.

[@joshtheryuk]

@@slyfox7452 Remember when they said Dexit was needed to make animations better? * ♬ Why you always lying... Why you always lying... Stop fuuucking lyiiing! ♬ *

[@ralphbeez1411]

Finally, a game where Jynx wins out, truly her time to shine after being denied a lousy 4th gen evolution alongside Magmotor and Electrivire. Isn't it neat how many Fire, Ice, Electric trios there are in Pokemon?! Actually...I think that stopped with gen 5's cover legendaries.

[@ImportedCheese]

Justice for Jynx

[@lucasgreer1736]

just a minor correction, submission isn't the highest base power fighting move in gen 1. the jump kick moves are more powerful, and due to bugged recoil damage they have effectively no downside. the issue is that they're on hitmonlee, which crumples to anything with a special move. seismic toss, counter, low kick, and double kick are all examples of decent to good fighting moves, it's just that they all either don't deal conventional damage or are only on bad pokemon

[@ImportedCheese]

let's jumping!!!!!!

[@PerilousParadigm]

Not be a stickler to a stickler, but by virtue of availability, i would say submission is the strongest gen 1 fighting type move that applies fighting type damage. Why didn't primeape get jump kick, as a acrobatic unhinged monkè it tracks it would jump and kick lol

[@sussy3778]

38:58 One thing I noticed is that the Slash animation for Scyther is different, it's only one red line, while Persian has three. Pretty cool detail.

[@ImportedCheese]

High quality animations?!

[@iamtechnicallyasandwich566]

I played PS1 and 2 SO MUCH when they originally came out. They were my absolute favorite games for a while. Very disappointing that only rentals are available on the switch, but it was fun watching you play it! Luckily, I found a way to get around using rentals on my PC 👹

[@ImportedCheese]

Nintendo ninjas on their way right now, hope you know how to play sekiro 危

[@wizmudkip]

Gee, I sure can't wait to use my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon Tauros, Exeggutor, and Snorlax in this amazing 3d game!....

[@ImportedCheese]

All FANTASTIC!! (if you can import )

[@goombrosaustrosity4277]

As long as your playing rentals only all are still good.

[@DeitySkullKid]

Flying Snorlax, GO!

[@dumbpro555]

I had no idea pokemon stadium looked that good, the graphics still hold up to me and the animations are infinately better then the recent games. Just wish the rentals had actual movesets. I hope Game freak will make another stadium but I doubt it, it wouldn't make as much money as gen 12 or pokemon home premium subscription plus.

[@ImportedCheese]

Battle Revolution for the wii looks even better! Sort of...moving to attack the enemy looks kinda lame

[@EsoiTheGrumpyMawile]

To be honest, watching the streams and seeing you have fun with pokemon like AAHHNNIIXX and Electrode was... pleasent, glad you enjoyed stadium. Also seeing Skawo and Karma Von Plague in the chat was a nice surprise as well.

[@ImportedCheese]

We should just play good games! I wanted to be a good dragon...

[@EsoiTheGrumpyMawile]

@@ImportedCheese you'd think, but you do have to play some bad or dissapointing ones before you can truly appreciate the good ones

[@vaiyt]

Because sleep can last 0 turns, in stadium it's beneficial to be slower when using sleep as you get at least one free turn. Wrap can be used as a pivot move as it allows you to switch without the opponent attacking you - but your opponent can also do the same if they switch while you wrap. Normal is the best type in gen1 cartridge - stab on body slam and hyper beam, immunity to body slam paralysis, usually great coverage, the fighting type sucks so counters weren't common.

[@ImportedCheese]

It's definitely better to be faster, you can lock them down forever!!!

[@scottlittle4884]

That trailer is really good wow

[@ImportedCheese]

My ARTISTIC VISION realized! !

[@newrallyxeviousgamer]

After beating the game with just rental mons. Watching vids like these are so satisfying. Btw, the Parasect rental is surprisingly useful in Gym Leader Castle! You can abuse slow spores to get free turns of Growth and restore HP with powered up Mega Drains. Making it some type of mini-wall. It even has Dig to hit mons with weaker defenses! It’s a bit of a high skill gap though but the payoff is worth it. Although you have to adjust to a bit of a slow playstyle. Eitherway it works when the matchups are just right.

[@ImportedCheese]

The 40BP mega drain is just so weak...

[@newrallyxeviousgamer]

@@ImportedCheese I know, it’s not the best but it’s at least good enough to wall some enemies in Round 1.

[@flygtamer32]

man, always love a good imported cheese vid! love you talking about pokemon stadium, such great games! terrible nintendo striped the transfer stuff, so dumb

[@ImportedCheese]

Stadium 2 someday soon....ish...

[@finnvaneekelen4966]

Gotta love how the only move on tauros you whould ever consider in actual gen 1 competitive that the rental gets is fire blast, and even thats probably the worst of tauros’s good moves lmao

[@ImportedCheese]

Where blizzard

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

The extra 1 attack for Ditto would have been too busted

[@ImportedCheese]

Glad the devs had some restraint

[@starmangalaxy2001]

10:40 I think it's because of this system that fires are immune to burn and ices are immune to freeze as to my knowledge there are no off type moves that apply those status's (Tri Attack had no secondary effect in Gen 1) This leads me to think that it's intentional as it may just have been easier to implement than making each type have its own unique properties.

[@ImportedCheese]

As long as fire is good

[@bluegum6438]

I'd imagine with the very limited memory space they were working with, it was easier to just tack on a check during the damage calculation routine that says something like, "if attacking_type = defending_type then skip secondary_effect subroutine". I reckon you're right.

[@D461Sage]

Which would explain why twineedle poisons Poison types

[@mirkwood579]

Good video, with additional YTC research besides the streamed playthrough- Very nice, fun edits, good intro.

[@ImportedCheese]

YTC Institute providing true information as always

[@romulomendes445]

The editing leveled up

[@ImportedCheese]

Shorter video, so I stuffed more edits in! Pls share

[@aciddownpour2185]

god i love your editing and humor its so perfect your content is so fucking good please never change

[@ImportedCheese]

Well hopefully we will get BETTER right

[@douglastaylor6072]

I really enjoyed this video! Gen 1 has a ton of really interesting jank compared to modern Pokémon, so being able to abuse it in an odd context like this is pretty enjoyable! You were right on almost everything, but you made an error regarding crits in gen 1. Not only is the chance you get them inconsistent, being dependent on your base speed, the damage they deal is also inconsistent, only this time being dependent on your level! When landing a crit, a Pokémon's level in the damage formula is doubled. The Level multiplier of the damage formula is (2*level*crit/5)+2, where crit is a 1 if you don't get a crit, and a 2 if you do. This results in you dealing just below 2x damage at higher levels, and significantly below 2x damage at lower levels. (some numbers for scale: 95% more at level 100, 90% more at level 50, 80% more at level 20, 50% more at level 5. Funnily enough, a level 1 Pokémon would deal no additional damage on a crit due to the way rounding works in the older games! Obviously you can't obtain a level 1 Pokémon without glitches, but it's still worth noting. Technically you also missed that crit rates in colosseum are a bit different than they are in the gen 1 carts: numbers were adjusted slightly so that slow Pokémon will crit slightly more often than before, and fast Pokémon will crit less often, with the equalizing point being at base 76 speed when the attacker isn't affected by focus energy. This change also means the minimum base speed needed to crit at the maximum odds with a high-crit move is lower, at 52 base speed instead of 64. I've really been enjoying your videos! I've watched a bunch of em' multiple times, since you do a great job at keeping things entertaining and engaging even through multiple watches. Now I just need to get into fire emblem so I can start enjoying those videos too, since as of right now I don't think I'd enjoy them without fully understanding fire emblem's mechanics and systems.

[@ImportedCheese]

Be sure to look up fire emblem crit mechanics

[@douglastaylor6072]

@@ImportedCheese oh actually, is there a particular fire emblem game you'd recommend starting with?

[@A_dem]

i've been waiting for this premium and i'm glad i caught the live, godspeed ゴウダさん

[@ImportedCheese]

EXCUSE ME my name is spelled グーダー

[@cernanwinterfox85]

I love your videos, theyre fun and suprisingly informative. I mean im genwunner myself and i never knew about that same type secondary immunity until this vid.

[@ImportedCheese]

I steal my knowledge from the YTC instiute!

[@alishegamer8490]

God i love that i'm playing Binding Blade in the background and actually seeing characters from it appear in your video. Pretty neat

[@ImportedCheese]

Binding blade will never die! Roy's our boy!!

[@dan5974]

Who would’ve thought that years of peddling crap and it being bought in the millions would let Nintendo get away with very below average materials

[@ImportedCheese]

At least they never tried selling cardboard boxes as a game!

[@Eldenloss1220]

Still crazy that after a year of watching Cheese’s content I haven’t heard his opinion or even him talking about Pokémon mystery dungeon , also no membership but 🐡 still

[@ImportedCheese]

I only played pmd1

[@itswaterlily]

I played this game for the first time a few months ago & fell for like all the arena traps was not expecting those movesets

[@ImportedCheese]

I should have disarmed the traps earlier

[@bennconner1195]

I sometimes wonder if gamefreak made a mistake by making all ghost moves physical and all dark moves special in gen 2 & 3. Especially when all the dark moves in gen 2 and 3 became physical in gen 4.

[@ImportedCheese]

I blame lick for physical ghosts No idea why Dark was special tho

[@bobfrank7339]

I blame Umbreon for for dark type oppression since all the eeveeloutuons types are special they chose gimmick over practicality

[@daben7145]

this video made me wanna play pokemon stadium again, last time I played it was over 20 years ago :D

[@ImportedCheese]

You can play it now OFFICIALLY! Thanks Nintendo

[@kaotic300]

the rental charizard is one of the few fully evolved pokemon with swords dance and a STAB physical move

[@ImportedCheese]

too bad it's f*y

[@ogjalena]

That… was a beautiful trailer. Definitely going to win awards with that!

[@ImportedCheese]

See you at the Oscars!!

[@svansiian2050]

Real good edit !

[@ImportedCheese]

Aggressive cuts!! Under 1 hour!!

[@bananaspice1967]

Imported Cheese importing fresh content into my area replacing the previous boys I used to crack open with the cold ones

[@ImportedCheese]

Cold ones?! Good in gen 1!

[@bananaspice1967]

@@ImportedCheese The cold ones are the best at cracking open the boys with their ice cold sneezes

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Anyway, these are more interesting to me than the main games these days. I'm old and too aware of my mortality, so I don't have patience for baby games, and just want challenging battles. Not getting that out of the main series, that's for sure, from those you just get many hours of pressing A, mostly to skip unskippable cutscenes. But from Stadium, sure, it is possible to acquire fun from that. I should play that more. If anything just to use Seaking, because I have never once used that. In fact, as far as I know, you are the first human to ever use it in the history of the world. Kind of a shame that the main series never got battles that make strategies like that necessary. Or that they didn't just keep making Stadium games and making them well.

[@ImportedCheese]

I think Battle Revolution proves that JUST a battle sim and nothing else doesn't quite work...needs the Stadium heart!!

[@Invisibool]

I have to be honest, I think the latter parts of Scarlet and Violet, especially the final DLC, did a pretty damn good job at providing challenging battles for the player to face. I definitely think the Stadium games are interesting, but better than modern ones...? Definitely not. Sure, they're more challenging... but in all the wrong ways, since esp Stadium 1 operates on busted mechanics, and you're probably gonna be totally hamstrung by the rental system. It's challenging because the options given to you are mostly just really bad, and imo that's a pretty bad way of balancing a game like this

[@buzinessdog]

the love I have for this game is out of this world

[@ImportedCheese]

Stadium 2 is even better!!

[@silver.64]

Can't wait for Stadium 2!

[@mrsuperheatran2794]

I kinda hope we get Stadium 2 before Mario Party 3. We've waited nearly 4 months for this.

[@ImportedCheese]

soon if this video does well

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

13:30 the Everymart theme from Yo-Kai Watch oddly works perfectly for this section

[@ImportedCheese]

All according to keikaku

[@randydodson1570]

On my original cartridge all it took for mewtwo from rentals was an electrode and a dewgong. Dewgong never missed horn drill after mewtwo was paralyzed. Awesome review! Never could round 2 without my own pokemon.

[@ImportedCheese]

I didn't even attempt round 2,what a casual

[@randydodson1570]

@ImportedCheese haha! If you stall out mewtwo's moveset with leech seed, -6 accuracy drops, and a light screen mr. Mime, his struggle animation looks really cool.

[@AniGaAG]

You should really play the Prince of Persia trilogy of Sands of Time, Warrior Within and Two Thrones! The gameplay is very fun (peaks in the second in my opinion), and it's overall probably one of the most coherent and well-executed closed, finished trilogies we got in gaming (not Xenoblade levels, but then what actually is). Very nice and finished story, very fun to play! Ah, the times when Ubisoft still... well, did things. _Sigh..._

[@ImportedCheese]

but they nerfed Persian!!

[@Bacchus325]

I'm with you on that Eevee bit. People's obsession with the Eeveelutions is so god damn annoying. I GET IT UMBREON HAS A NICE SHINY

[@ImportedCheese]

I HATE EEVEELUTIONS (pls forget this comment by the time the XD premium tier list releases )

[@thegreatscribbles960]

i like how he says pokemon was best back in the old days when it was even more broken

[@ImportedCheese]

was it really MORE broken tho?

[@yaellramirez69]

Woohoo!! So hyped

[@ImportedCheese]

Hope you enjoyed the video!

[@LordXemnas13]

I really enjoyed the opening the soundtrack for majoras mask is so good

[@ImportedCheese]

Final Hours...

[@chadkirk925]

I haven't played this game in like 20 years. I just got it on the Switch and it's hard as hell. I can't believe I beat this as a kid. And from what I remember, my team was pretty much exactly what you say to pick in this video lol.

[@ImportedCheese]

It's much easier if you can import

[@cocomunga]

I love your edits

[@ImportedCheese]

Thank you! This one took a week

[@mateobonavento3939]

To be fair to Tracey, his Scyther was old and lacked the stamina for more than a few attacks so he had to default to the chonky mouse.

[@ImportedCheese]

Pathetic! He should evolve it into Scizor, then!

[@fernando98322]

I used Swords Dance Farfetch'd in R1 Petit Cup and that was very fun

[@ImportedCheese]

Don't crit

[@windwaker0rules]

You say that the announcer is Tracy, but he has hints of Giovanni in his performance so i like to think that stadium is a Team Rocket front.

[@ImportedCheese]

Oh!! It's Joevani!!

[@windwaker0rules]

@@ImportedCheese Hidden lore, its actually Joevani in the castle, the real leader of team rocket is doing the announcing watching over you and you are actually doing training for mewtwo before the first movie. Which is why the final boss of the game is mewtwo and why his son is the final boss of stadium 2.

[@taylorking4011]

I casually quote the announcer from ps1&2 (and NBA Street but thats a different story) all the time and no one ever knows what I'm talking about. 😅

[@ImportedCheese]

what's the matter, trainer?!

[@taylorking4011]

@@ImportedCheese And there goes the battle!

[@mrwillard95]

In your opinion, what's the best stadium or battle tournament pokemon game?

[@ImportedCheese]

Pokemon Stadium 2 for sure!!!

[@Taurmega]

What is the music playing at 0:33? It sounds like it came straight from one of the Stadium games, but I've scoured their OSTs and couldn't quite find it. It's such a good mix, and I've heard it in multiple videos before!

[@ImportedCheese]

uh I think it's the free battle theme from stadium 1

[@M3rtyville]

55:04 Mewtwo's image in the bottom right corner looks funny. Like imagine this is Mewtwo's social media profile picture.

[@ImportedCheese]

I wonder what their follower count is

[@BingBongFairy]

God if only hal made the Pokémon games though. They'd actually be kind of hard, and have good, character filled animations

[@ImportedCheese]

HAL vs G*nious Sonority

[@JacobMcBaggins]

tbh, I think they shouldn't have made Electric types immune to non electric paralysis moves

[@ImportedCheese]

I'm fine with full paralysis immunity, although it is kinda weird with stuff like glare and stun spore...

[@buzinessdog]

amazing video please do this for Pokemon stadium 2

[@ImportedCheese]

Making one for Stadium 2! Live recording soon! kzbin.infoij-Sx7U459g?feature=share

[@orangeposting]

Of course I've seen krabby's stats, I've beaten Pokemon Blue with only Krabby. It's amazing. The physical attack only 5 points below mewtwo's is amazing. Crabhammer also is a boosted crit rate move, though krabby has low enough speed that it's only like 80% crit instead of guaranteed. Still a good move though. Well, it is coming from krabby's pathetic special but it works for rock or ghost types.

[@ImportedCheese]

Engineered at the Steam Crab Labo!!

[@MiguelSantos-gz7gj]

Seeing Tyranitar in RU hurts so much

[@ImportedCheese]

Bring back pursuit

[@peternicholas3719]

23:56 Hell yeah brother! I love Big Yellow, and Imported Cheese

[@ImportedCheese]

same color

[@lektornese]

Another banger

[@ImportedCheese]

Explosion is good in gen 1!!

[@AwakenedL]

LAB MAN approved.

[@ImportedCheese]

Labman emote might survive the stadium streams, not sure about swimmer

[@Taurmega]

11:47 LOL thanks for using the funny 10 minute Diamonji Tome sprite. Can I have a shoutout in the description for that?

[@ImportedCheese]

You're on stream now!!! Sure, what should I add?

[@Taurmega]

@@ImportedCheese Oh damn!!! Hi stream I guess. Just a note in the description that I made the particular thing will suffice! And I guess a link to my NG.

[@ImportedCheese]

Is NG...newgrounds? Pls send it to me on discord

[@Lv27MarkerMan]

With Tauros for the Poke cup specifically you're forgetting that Double edge doesn't deal backlash in this game if it finishes an opponent off. Charizard can be useful specifically as a safe switch into Razor Leaf. (This isn't common, but it does happen) Nerfed sleep? If you're faster than the opponent you can very safely stunlock them to death (Jynx can beat that Mew this way). With Chansey you should at least consider how it would fare against Mewtwo since Seismic toss would be a 4 hit win on its HP. You're overhyping wrap in this game since switching cancels it.

[@ImportedCheese]

Surely no recoil on KO on my one move will make Tauros the king of this game!!!

[@whyisthomyorke]

Pokémon stadium 2 is where the mini games pop off lol

[@ImportedCheese]

True!! Immense jump in quality!

[@Lita3O2]

the rental market was not kind to aerodactyl! i always played with pokemon from cartridges as a kid so i never realized how bad the rental model is. the poor fossil! nice job on the editing and graphics. the charts and silhouettes of the pokemon you were talking about looked great. it is a shame that when porting this game to the switch they didnt add the ability to pull from pokemon box or home or whatever its called now. ...or revive the good old transfer pack haha.

[@ImportedCheese]

I love aerodactyl's fainting animation, he faints at 130 base speed!

[@faye49347]

time for a A Cruel Ette's Thesis

[@ImportedCheese]

Dr. Tentacle

[@ignisbad9158]

10:04 So that is interesting because it is not actually strictly true. You see, Gen 1 (definitely cartridge, and I am almost certain Stadium also does) has a distinction between primary status moves and secondary status moves. Primary status moves always work; secondary status moves never work on pokemon of their type. This works for freeze and burn because there is no primary burn or freeze move, means that poison types can be poisoned by exactly Twineedle because Toxic is hardcoded to not work on Poison types or something (Gen 1 Jank) and breaks apart with paralysis because it means Electric types are inmune to thunderbolt and thunder paralysis, Ghost types cannot be paralyzed by Lick and Normal types, to meta defining consecuences, cannot be paralyzed with Body Slam, but Thunder Wave uses the regular type inmunity check and so ground types, but not electrics, are inmune

[@ImportedCheese]

[@ignisbad9158]

And I just advanced to see that bit. Well derp. It still means that, if Will-o-wisp were a gen 1 move, it could burn fire types

[@zyouri121]

I've only played Battle Revolution and it's my favorite spin-off game. Does it hold up as well as the Stadium games seem to? I'm interested in trying them out

[@ImportedCheese]

Unfortunately I'd say no... Aside from the Honchkrow fainting animation, which is the greatest animation in the franchise, the game is suuuuuper barebones and the rental pass system is god awful

[@zyouri121]

@@ImportedCheese But it looks good tho! And isnt graphics all we Pokemon fans care about?

[@yoso378]

Battle revolution is just ok sadly. While it's similar to stadium, the different modes aren't like how they work in Stadium. Stadium's modes are different restrictions that require you to use different team compositions and are surprisingly well thought-out for the time, and feel like actual competitive formats. Battle Revolution's game modes are very gimmicky by comparison and involve things like "you randomly swap some of your pokemon with your opponents based on roulette results" and "this battlefield is foggy and no where are we going to tell you this lowers the accuracy of attacks". BR has some surprisingly good music though!

[@Kyouma.]

Is there a damage calculator for Stadium/Stadium 2? Like the ones used for nuzlockes in rom hacks

[@ImportedCheese]

If there is that would have been nice to have... I just used a gen 2 calculator with rental Venusaur and Brock's Omastar's stats plugged in

[@el_cores]

14:58 If double-edge KO the opponent you don't get recoil damage

[@ImportedCheese]

SURELY that makes Tauros viable!!

[@vitorgamesdaterrafinal5579]

You got some nerve to say Venusaur is a trap. I like that nerve

[@ImportedCheese]

Hey, it would be good if it had razor leaf

[@CassiDS]

The Stadium duology isn't so much "new Pokémon games bad, old Pokémon games good" so much as it is "mainline Pokémon games bad, Pokémon spinoffs good"

[@ImportedCheese]

Ok but Pokemon Channel is a spinoff and is bad, so ALL spinoffs must be bad!

[@CassiDS]

@@ImportedCheese TV's Finest™️

[@moonblaze2713]

I only object to you saying gen 2 is closer to gen 9 than gen 1 because I think its pretty clear the dividing line is gen 3. 2 is still really close to 1 because so much of the underlying code is the same. Like, Special Def was introduced in gen 2, but it still shares it's underlying DV with Special Atk because it being a single Special stat wasn't something they couldn't change. Gen 3 is when a lot of things that I associate with modern pokemon got introduced, especially abilities. Gen 3 is closer to gen 9 than gen 1; that I'd agree with. Honestly, the point is still solid even if I'd move the line just a bit. I just wanted to talk about this because you brought it to mind.

[@ImportedCheese]

Anything to make Gen 1 unique

[@ericlizama8552]

Rental Butterfree can also solo a paralyzed Mewtwo by fishing for Special drops with Psychic!

[@ImportedCheese]

30% special drop fair and balanced

[@AstrumKitten091]

Those minigames were better than the entirety of gen 8 excluding PLA. yes, SWSH and its dlc and bdsp. I don't just "hate new things" (gen 9 is giga) i do hate bad things though.

[@ImportedCheese]

I hate the new things because they're bad!!! Including PLA and especially gen 9!

[@gayjolteon]

I will forgive you for the eeveelution hate. It has nothing to do with all the jolteon screentime in this video (lies)

[@ImportedCheese]

Best eeveelution in this game at least

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Dolphin from Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings appreciated.

[@ImportedCheese]

I believe I can fry

[@jsilvuh6194]

AHHHNIX's sacrifice will be remembered...

[@ImportedCheese]

never forget

[@RTtheman121]

I'll regret the day Cheese gets too big to reply to literally every comment, but that day will be very much deserved 🙌🏾

[@ImportedCheese]

We'll see...that day is not today

[@_Pikahiiri_]

I was Lovely Kissed by a Jynx once. I woke up 3 turns later in an Ice bath missing a kidney.

[@ImportedCheese]

Max sleep turns, unlucky

[@TaranzaTripleDeluxe]

I own both games and a copy of gold and yellow, that is the perfect n64 time

[@ImportedCheese]

Wish online had pokemon transfers...

[@faye49347]

oh no, have you always used Yokai Watch music in your videos?! I feel like I've been missing out having not played it until recently.

[@ImportedCheese]

I have!! But mostly in shorter videos (like this one...less than an hour lmaoo )

[@Quicksilvir]

You ever watch a piece of media by someone and feel like they have a really similar life reference pool? Pokemon, Fire Emblem, self-aware jokes, and detailed information on mechanics of 24 year old games... I'm sticking around!

[@ImportedCheese]

You should watch my mainline games tier list! It's all about being 29!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnPFmp-dhMt8fbs

[@SpliffingBrit]

Wow a video!

[@ImportedCheese]

Use your masterball before it flees!

[@Kaspar502]

Jynx with Psychic and Ice Punch is essentially the least bad Mon in rentals haha

[@ImportedCheese]

I wish I had blizzard...

[@xaropevic7918]

But Cheese, akshually, if I am spamming psychic and it drops special, crits ignoring defensive drops does matter

[@ImportedCheese]

You gotta PREDICT the RNG

[@XellosNi]

Tentacruel was the goddamn Eminem of his time.

[@ImportedCheese]

Lost his flow in gen 2

[@Tinil0]

I don't think anything could take your Gen 1er card away after you display such insane, egregiously insane opinions about Pokemon. You are truly the king of loving an objectively terrible gen.

[@ImportedCheese]

Objectively terrible?! I sentence you to an eternity in Paldea! Farewell!!

[@canaldecasta]

When times used to be better for once

[@ImportedCheese]

If only the good times continued (like wrap )

[@ultimapower6950]

(The Attack Continues ) well there’s always rom hacks at least

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

44:05 Das me!

[@ImportedCheese]

when will u reach level 6

[@darthmaul5413]

pokemon stadium 2 rentals only is probability harder

[@ImportedCheese]

We'll find out someday... Rental ttar...

[@ultimapower6950]

From research it seems that the rental economy in stadium 2 is even worse than it’s predecessor as across the board movesets are horrendous

[@darthmaul5413]

@@ImportedCheese pokemon stadium 2 little cup round 2 rental vs PokéFan Rex chansey and Scyther good luck

[@TheNadroj10]

Rental Ttar is traumatic. They gave that man moves such as bite, leer and sandstorm🤢🤢🤢

[@ultimapower6950]

@@TheNadroj10 and as if rental tyranitar’s moveset wasn’t bad enough it also has Mud-Slap

[@juliamavroidi8601]

Oof minigane hate... that Imported Cheese is never afraid to drop hot takes

[@ImportedCheese]

I dunno if it's hate, it's more....not love lol

[@rhoa3952]

I thought this video was serious until i saw that rhydon was a good pick like no just the pre evolution or graveler

[@ImportedCheese]

? Rhydon has way better stats and gen 1 dig is 100bp

[@canadiandynamite5834]

Everyone! Let's Renting!!

[@ImportedCheese]

We'll own someday...