The Competitive Crimes of Mr. Mime

Pokemon Competitive Singles in Gen 3 is a metagame where Baton Pass remained unrestricted for a long time. This game breaking move has proven banworthy in many tiers, and one player named Mead would push the mechanic to its limits in Gen 3 too.
Mr. Mime turned out to be the key to an almost unbeatable strategy that plagued the ladder, and it returned to break the game again after multiple alterations to the rules.
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[@jimothycool]

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[@hydroturd]

I think Jim meant to link his ADV Revival playlist for anyone confused

[@suly5836]

Mead was like that recurrent villain that always came up with a new plan to defeat the protagonists, being defeated but returning over and over, until the players had enough.

[@arno7163]

Nah, more like the villain who won but the system kept shackling him so he just coming back with new loopholes just for the lols

[@g6iii]

Sounds like Dennis

[@tempestgreen1125]

I like how this banning baton pass is like “killing” someone, which the heroes have a moral code to never do. So mead taunts them, urging them to kill him so his philosophy wins, and yet the hero’s prevail, their moral code intact

[@cryptooooooooo]

He's gotten other stuff banned too like sand veil Cacturne

[@gysim264]

Sounds like the gen 3 OU community are full of sore losers tbh.

[@0vos]

Mr. Mime deflects the bans with his sickly sense of humor *A clownly power*

[@appelofdoom8211]

He gives suicune a coupon for new phasing moves but it is expired. *This is a mimey joke*

[@hv433]

"I have never listened to a rule, that is my rule. Do you hear? I don't." -Mr. Mime

[@Dr.J42]

“I got that reference” moment

[@dinosaurusfeta]

Ttar throws skarmory at Poliwrath. Poliwrath flips skarm like a coin. Skarm lands heads up, which means poliwrath goes home.

[@sephikong8323]

"Exploud looks around for his Baton Pass boosts, but they are still banned"

[@shoogles_]

I laughed so much at this video. The editing, the storytelling, Mead obeying the letter of the law while also being the biggest troll possible. It's brilliant.

[@realmdarkness]

As they say in the awesome show Suits, "He may not break the rules, but he'll bend the shit out of them!"

[@marcorodriguez8792]

I like how in this story, Ubers is a jail which means Mr Mime was probably getting beat up by all the inmates in there. Poor Mr Mime

[@hambor12]

It’s like that one coach in the early days of the NHL who is directly responsible for several rules to professional hockey, by being as obstinate/disruptive but Within the Letter as possjble

[@zakpotato8666]

Funny how Mr. Mime, such an unassuming pokemon, had both a broken meta in VGC and in the trading card game.

[@lucasfellegger5185]

What happened in tcg

[@xuanathan]

@@lucasfellegger5185 In gen 1 TCG, the mr mime card was pretty much the face of stall decks. He has an unassuming 40 hp, but his ability causes all damage done to him to just be negated unless its 20 damage or less. This meant both that a lot of cards just couldn't hurt him, and those who could would have to do so in 2 hits. This damage could also be healed back with both potions and the poke centre card which discarded all your energies for a full heal on everyone. In a stall deck this didn't matter, as you wouldn't be attacking, just waiting till your opponent decks out.

[@smogon3215]

What happened in VGC?

[@cutecombo8496]

@@smogon3215 nothing, OP is confusing vgc with singles

[@leojustice3367]

I'd also add that Mr mime was also a war criminal in Pokemon unite. Being called a "support" but dealing more damage than certain attacking pokemon

[@kalarse]

Are you saying then, that Mr Mime could be associated with Iron Muguilis and Chugilis? As he once terrorized an entire meta?

[@jaketerpening3284]

It was years ago. They probably just take inspiration from him. He's still in a maximum security prison with no contact with the outside world.

[@kazuichisouda2026]

2:50 Also Whirlwind Skarm isn't common because it's incompatible with Drill Peck (breeding weirdness). If you want to run a phasing move on Skarm, you don't also wanna tell your opponent if you have Drill Peck just because you're running Whirlwind, so most just run Roar.

[@sephikong8323]

On my way to run Whirlwind just so Heracross thinks it's safe to stay in and FP only for it to get smacked by HP Flying

[@Blanktester685]

Id just use hp flying instead with whirlwind

[@CaptainJLinebeck]

@@Blanktester685 issue with that is then you can't use Hidden Power Ground to take care of Magneton

[@azeria1]

​@@CaptainJLinebeckyolo skarm isn't that common though

[@bbbbbbbbbbbrbbrb]

skarmory. its name is skarmory. it's literally insane how lazy people are

[@ForestX77]

The Mr. Mime Mead used was the criminal one from Detective Pikachu isn’t it.

[@chess_fella]

This is truly insane Jimothy.

[@Gravalite_N]

I remember when baton pass teams were considered a meme back in gen 4 and eventually evolved into being a problem many years later. Crazy.

[@gigalodon14]

Also notable, Skarmory doesn't like having to run Whirlwind since that means it can't run Drill Peck which is like its only usable attacking move bar HP

[@JamvadAcademy]

Paid attention to this channel since last year. Kudos for continually putting out creative content that not only stays true to your interests and who you seem to be, but also engages the audience. That’s no small feat! Congrats on the rapid growth

[@AdminAbuse]

Paid*, kudos*

[@SeatedOfficer]

Mead could be secretly under control from Iron Mugulis after it went back in time

[@kayoh9364]

Gardevoir has had a 100% success rate in enabling Belly Drum Extremespeed Linoone with double screens/Memento. Kinda funny considering Mr. Mime did something almost identical and went to jail over it.

[@cryptooooooooo]

That's a lot more interactive and is a lot weaker to phasing. You can roar Linoone on his BD turn, there's stuff linoone can't KO at +6, you can roar out or kill the gardevoir before they get both screens up - much more counterplay.

[@IDidntWantAHandleYouTube]

“100% success rate” lol…

[@Michelle_Wellbeck]

When I played pokemon I nicknamed my Mr. Mime to "The Joker" from Batman. Now I found out that he really was insane 🤡

[@diggledwarf]

I praise Mead for what he did. He had his big brain steaming when he cooked up those builds. The dude was one fire

[@azeria1]

He has sound proof as he is deaf to our calls for justice

[@fontain935]

Lol at tyranitar escorting mr mime to jail in his little hat

[@techknight3753]

I think that part at the end is what a lot of people forget. SOMEBODY needs to step up and prove just how broken something is, or it will forever become a scourge upon the given meta. (This is true outside of Pokemon aswell)

[@danielmee3938]

The competitive crimes of Mr Mime in Gen 3 are nothing compared to the war crimes of Mr Mime in Syria.

[@carissapeacock]

mr rime was such a delayed evo because they only just let him out of prison for what he did to that family in Siberia

[@danielmee3938]

@@carissapeacock Excited for the Netflix documentary: 'Mime Jr. - In the Mind of Sinnoh's Youngest Serial Killer'

[@carissapeacock]

@@danielmee3938 i still cant believe how he managed to kill that many by the age of 2

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@carissapeacockIncluding his older sibling when he was barely a month old

[@connorbosley4431]

Galarian mr mime is definitely on an offenders register

[@kuatokuatokuato]

mime was one of my favorite PU pokemon through gens 6 and 7. Technician icy wind, charge beam, magical leaf, gleam, sometimes psywave as a joke. hes always been fun as a low tier spattacker

[@azeria1]

Soundproof working on heal bell is funny

[@cynamothcyclopsyt]

Mr. Mime has done many cool things. Also we need a video about scale shot, it's basically changed all gen9 formats Dice hydreigon cool

[@THEGREATMAX]

I used to run Baton Pass Mr. Mime with Magic Bounce Espeon back in Gen 6. People forgot he was part Fairy now, so I used him to wall out a lot of Draco Meteors and set up.

[@noishfanboy1141]

So mr mime got banned because he got them airpods

[@pookiegaming75]

Mr. Mime and Mead are insane

[@balancemaster55]

this is interesting as the ladder I'm most used to is balanced hack mons and prankster haze (haze affects the field so dark types don't stop this) is a staple there so it's interesting to see how other meta games deal with boosts.

[@pokelypsenow]

The OG Bad guy of competitive Pokémon. Even wxorse than Old Money. Mead was also a War criminal lol.

[@autobotal7253]

This was a fun video! Great work Jim

[@6fathom117]

What people dont like to mention is the series of crimes in 1997-2004 that Mr. Mime seemingly was nowhere to found during.

[@enyajungle]

Great work on the editing. Video quality is top notch

[@shevankaseneviratne1724]

Awesome video! I hope u cover the sand veil ban as well altho vapicuno and bkc have done so as well. I feel with the influx of new players its worth revisiting such a broken strategy of the format in your style!

[@joesizzle10]

"Finally Smogon decided that the best course of action was to wipe Mead off the face of the Earth"

[@myilmazalper]

Digging the freshness of the thumbnail Mr. Cool. Great work as usual.

[@AceAviations2]

I've NEVER agreed with the full ban on Baton Pass, my idea would be to ban Baton Pass with ways to boost stats and trapping moves. This would allow for dry-passing and passing Substitutes, allowing Celebi to escape Pursuit (since Baton Pass doesn't trigger Pursuit like U-Turn). My favorite team that I've made was a 6th Gen VoltTurn team with a Mega Lopunny that carried Baton Pass as a means to pivot, I also had a Choice Band Talonflame and a Defog Mew, so I could get away with sacrifice Quick Attack. Now I can't use it because Baton Pass is banned when there was a solution to allow non-toxic uses of the move.

[@AnomalyDocs]

I've really been enjoying your dive into this niche competitive history. I remember when NetBattle was still the thing.

[@TitanBait]

I do wish we could still baton pass, even if it is restricted to no stat boosts. There are many good defensive pivots that would really benefit from a slow baton pass

[@radishhat5736]

even a fast one is good! because baton pass lets you react to if the opponent switched out or not that turn

[@joshuabradford8206]

Taunt exists I don't see why it was banned in general there's counterplay to pretty much any move so I find a list banning certain moves and Pokemon to be unnecessary and limiting. I get why it's a thing in something like Yu-Gi-Oh cause ftks are a thing but it's not like someone can't be prepared for boton pass when taunt exists. It's just a great utility move to prevent setup in general so it boggles my mind why anything has to be banned

[@radishhat5736]

@@joshuabradford8206 In gen 3, Taunt lasts a grand total of 2 turns. also, it's blocked by substitute, which BPers are going to do anyway, Also, if they're faster then you because they say, D danced, then taunt will fail to prevent the bp, and they'll probably run you over, so you have to premptively taunt before they do any boosts, at which point, you're playing a 50%50% where nothing happens to them, or they get a free hit on you. taunt is powerful, but its not good at all at stopping bp

[@IDidntWantAHandleYouTube]

@@joshuabradford8206It boggles my mind that terrible players like you still go around saying this after all these years. There’s a format on Showdown that doesn’t ban anything; evasion, baton pass, Uber pokemon etc., can all be used, and there’s no sleep clause or anything either. And guess what? It’s a completely chaotic shitshow and was pretty quickly shown to be uncompetitive, with many matches being decided in a coin toss with player skill having minimal impact on the outcome. Pokemon is a poorly balanced game in a lot of ways, especially where the singles format is concerned, as the only competitive aspect the devs put consideration into is doubles/VGC format. And unlike most games where the devs will routinely patch in buffs and nerfs to keep the meta as balanced as possible, Game Freak has zero interest in doing so. So if you want to get into pokemon singles, you can either go with your idea of a completely free reign game with little competitive potential, or you can do your best to build a healthy meta with the broken pieces GF has given us with some bans and clauses. Not surprisingly, most top singles players think your idea is trash.

[@oscen335]

​@@joshuabradford8206my taunt mon when their +2 speed baton passer taunts it first then passes to celebi (its not looking so good all of a sudden)

[@Koraidon576]

Some, dare I say, call him Mr. Crime

[@b6oy1004]

mr mime and iron mugulis will get along very well in jail

[@StepBaum]

Enjoyed the little animations also great video

[@dastardlydwarf6909]

Mr mime these stat boosts

[@MrShadowThief]

The edit in the banned part was just amazing.

[@dullededge1395]

if i was a player and in was getting targeted by the mods this hard and every time i changed my team to adapt to a ban they banned it again i would get pretty demoralized. like the mods made the right call don't get me wrong but if i was mead man i would feel bad

[@funkymachine]

Trust me, mead is doing fine with a real team

[@Blanktester685]

You could be the best player on Smogon that's not really the point he was making.

[@cryptooooooooo]

he actually does this on purpose to bring attention to broken stuff and get it banned - he is a very good player and uses real teams on ladder all the time

[@funkymachine]

@@cryptooooooooo this

[@Bullet76_]

As Mr Mimes lawer we will not take this slander laying down see you in court MR "Jimothy"

[@BiffTheBanana]

Thank you Mead, this is insane.

[@Malphoria]

I played against Mead tonight! I beat him twice, but I had the honor of getting swept by his belly drum Marowak the final game even when I knew it was coming.

[@Xtreme-qk5qg]

"mr mime does not seem like a very threatening pokemon." Pokemon unite: "allow me to introduce myself."

[@Super_Top_Secret_Area]

In my opinion, this would justify an entire Baton Pass ban, that reaction to Hypno seemed petty and unjustified. Well, such is the nature of complex bans and considering how things ended up anyway, it was a pointless decision. I know it will be hard to convince an old format to change at this point, though since every other generation agreed that Baton Pass is a game breaking move, they might be onto something.

[@cryptooooooooo]

calm mind pass and SD pass aren't broken - they're actually very dynamic and fun strategies but they have a lot of counterplay. for example, you can't just calm mind pass willy nilly if they have blissey or snorlax alive, you have to 1) remove their special walls and 2) actually find an opportunity to spend turns calm minding and batoning without getting ko'd or phased. dry baton passing no boosts is also really healthy for the metagame - it allows you to escape trappers, gain tempo, but at the cost of an entire move slot. so the complex ban preserves all of this really interesting and fun stuff but gets rid of the 1 dimensional chaining strategies.

[@Relisoc]

Thank you for all your hard work. You are putting yourself at great risk to deliver us the truth

[@qweschuning]

Such a goated outro

[@mctankies]

Mr. Crime is my favorite regional variant.

[@YoungSimbaFGC]

Very good video i need more stuff like this

[@dispergosum]

This video spoke to the innermost aspects of my soul

[@jaecasino7048]

This adds a whole new meaning to "the mead runneth free"

[@danielorr7675]

Jimothy breaking out his finest Donkey Kong albums from his record collection. You love to see it.

[@kyliekeding9739]

Very well put together video as always

[@qweschuning]

I miss baton pass. So many mons have it and no access to other pivot moves.

[@globalistgamer6418]

"We live in a meta" - Mr. Mime

[@swissmagic]

sick video, i love gen 3 🎉

[@LRXC1]

JUSTICE FOR EXPLOUD

[@landoftheninja]

Mr. Mime is responsible for the team I use now. I built it to beat that team and it just beat almost everything else 😅

[@benjulesrun9057]

thank you for the lesson jimbo, I was wondering what the current rules were after I saw some mild baton passing in the tourney

[@canasnewell3089]

Pokémon: Baton Pass Jimothy: Battin' Pauss

[@amale441]

I can't believe stand-up ADV OU citizen Poliwrath got involved in such criminal activities.

[@SogaNightwalker]

Can't escape the Maplestory music

[@alexestiverne3523]

The amount of baton pass teams I have to face in scarlet Wi-Fi battles is nuts

[@LRXC1]

I actually love this

[@Chikien-me2df]

nah man went from groodon to ba'on pass

[@ghghghh727]

Thank you, Mead.

[@shironeko1843]

Mr. Mime and Hypno, parteners in crime.

[@ceumadorgas9407]

The crimes of Mr. Mime?! More like the crimes of MEAD THE PASSING MENACE

[@13kevyaga31]

Exploud and Electrode being punished for Mr Crime

[@JacobIX99]

I've been rolling with Mr. Mime since Pokemon Red. This is such a fun Pokemon with fun design lol.

[@eziarc2080]

Everytime you find a good strategy some baby has to cry for the nerf

[@ursaminor2732]

great thumbnail !

[@ck11032]

It is insane how much this mead fellow was willing to do to not play the game

[@cryptooooooooo]

he also got sand veil cacturne banned lol, that shit has made me want to punch my monitor on many ocassions

[@ck11032]

@@cryptooooooooo THAT WAS THE SAME GUY???

[@cryptooooooooo]

@@ck11032 yeah he's actually doing community service by bringing broken stuff to light

[@saltlakeatrocity9771]

Knowing smogon has the capacity to fundamentally alter mechanics for stuff like sleep clause, it makes me wonder why they don't just alter the move baton pass to not pass more than one "move's" worth of stat increases at a time, and perhaps to make those stat increases go away if the user further stat boosts after recieving baton pass boosts.

[@breloommaster12]

Pretty sure the sleep clause and freeze clauses are based on precedent, as the Pokémon Stadium games have actually done this "fundamental alteration of game mechanics" first. So yeah, smogon doesn't just change game mechanics however they please; they only replicate what is actually possible in the games. In fact, the entirety of Smogon's tiering system is simply a "documented gentlemen's agreement" on what players want to follow, and their bans/clauses are no different.

[@saltlakeatrocity9771]

@@breloommaster12 i know changing things whenever they want would be disasterous. But id argue complex bans can be just as bad for similar reasons: alienating players by straying too far from the source material. I wasn't suggesting this as a simple fix, but more curious if it was even on the table for the community as a whole to decide upon together. At the end of the day pokemon was not made with competitive fairness in mind---and at times sticking to the source material may be diametrically opposed to even the loosest definition of competitive fairness.

[@CivilizedWasteland]

@@breloommaster12 in real life you could just have the players switch in and out to reset rule breaking. They could have easily made it work like that or just banned Mr mim from using baton pass or anything else. Seems like Smogon is not the brightest bunch we also went a year with houndstone being banned because they didn't want to ban last respects because reasons...

[@breloommaster12]

@@CivilizedWasteland when you start to get too complex, it easily wanders into "favoritism" territory. "Banning Baton Pass from only Mr Mime" has the same energy as "banning Speed Boost from Blaziken", "banning Fishious Rend from Dracovish", "banning Thousand Arrows from Zygarde-50%" and _literally countless_ other examples throughout history because there's always some way to "nerf a broken Pokemon to become more manageable". If this kind of specific ban were to be applied to Mr Mime, why shouldn't other Pokemon share this privilege? Rest assured that it won't end with just Mr Mime; *everyone* would suggest for their own complex bans to be applied to whatever Pokemon they want to remain in the meta and not be banned outright. The Houndstone ban is a part of this; Smogon does not ban moves until they have proven to be broken on MORE THAN ONE user, but since Houndstone was literally the only mon available at the time, they could not go through with banning Respects and had to wait for other Last Respects users to be released (aka the Basculegions) so they can go ahead to ban the move as a whole. You may not like this system, but it has already proven effective at discerning which aspect of a Pokemon/move is actually broken. Take Cyclizar for example, who broke the meta with its fast Shed Tail + Regenerator combo so they banned Cyclizar. However, later Orthworm proved that it was Shed Tail itself that was enough of a problem even without Cyclizar's superior traits. Smogon's system of "widescale banning" is effective at identifying problematic elements of the meta instead of trying to "manually cherrypick" what is deemed to be broken or not.

[@CivilizedWasteland]

@@breloommaster12 I don't need you to regurgitate stupid arbitrary decisions that they barely follow. Last respects was obviously broken there was no reason to wait on a pokemon that wasn't even in the game yet.

[@charsage1036]

Mr mime loves doing mr crime.

[@AutumnReel4444]

Mead was the hero we needed.

[@sjaakbakker9944]

Baton pass is the complicated example of the emu war

[@jasonbarry3301]

Say it with me Pokémon community. “Survive any hit.”

[@PunishedFelix]

ADV gen lore is wildin

[@ethan4life732]

Just wait until the Future Paradox form of Mr.Mime, Iron Jester, finishes repairing his Time Machine with the help of his current Katoninan and Galarian forms of Mr.Mime in order to return to the Gen 3 OU and delete the baton pass restrictions in order to wreak havoc once again.

[@michaeldwane4192]

Mr mime and hypno being the giga chads of gen 3 ou

[@pikapac2281]

thanks alot this video really helped me with my lil thing i wrote about mr mime

[@octoring4199]

Mead is such a menace.

[@WhoWatchesThis]

Whenever someone used this strat on me on showdown i just pulled out my primal grudon and used psyche up so that i could easily get past most things.

[@marcorodriguez8792]

Seeing Metagross wearing a cop hat is the funniest and cutest thing to see

[@bankblanshee4553]

You should do a video on why Mew is banned in ADV!

[@FabsterCola]

Things like this made me wish there was a way to have Baton Pass to be exclusively Dry Pass (no stats being passed) without a complex ban. However that's unfortunately not possible

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Another point in Mimes favor is that, if it becomes necessary, its perfectly capable of just spamming Psychic with all those boosts. I also love how Cradily was usually the recipient of all of this as it had Suction Cups, so you couldn't Phase it, and it had natural healing with Giga Drain

[@cryptooooooooo]

octillery also

[@mismagia]

LETS GO THATS MY BOY MR.MIME THE GOAT

[@AleksHM]

With a title like that how can you not click this vid

[@deadboyspoem2]

i remember getting to top 5 OU with 2 steel/4 dragon it was in gen 5

[@donkassadin2014]

Delicious gen 3 content. Are there any plans for chess Jimothy comeback content?

[@feelsokayman5656]

7:20 lmao, i love Jimmy

[@regretgames5580]

Baton Pass is just perfect for creating a force of destruction

[@blakerenimu9033]

Could this be... Funny Guy's origin story?

[@Uranium-jj7le]

6:44 Belly Drum, screens, and sub? Sounds like some G9 Stuff

[@hydroturd]

BP was one of the things that has singlehandedly kept me off ADV more than once. I've tried to convince people to push to ban speed pass and taunt pass, but few are convinced that they're still overpowered (I think Hclat is the only person I've found share my view) It's at this point been proven many times that it's possible to have over 80% GXE with it and above 1500 rating. It's almost all flow charting gameplay and not interactive. During the BP voting, I tried to qualify with a BP team (I don't think I understood the conditions).. In doing so I actually prevented Mead from qualifying to vote (of all people) as he told me he was on his last match. Fast forward - they changed the BP rule and I modified one thing on my team and the next day I again went on a streak to 1500+ before it got boring. My team was pretty similar to what Vapicuno made a video with a while back. This is also similar to the team a user named "hunter" + some numbers used to get over 1500 on multiple accounts -yogi bear

[@chefdunsparce4254]

I was scrolling matches on showdown Mead is using a baton pass and sand attack set He might get sand attack banned ngl