Wall-Breakers in Competitive Pokemon.

Competitive Singles has seen many different Wallbreakers throughout the years. Join me as I go through the most prominent and memorable examples from each Generation.
Only JimCool knows such coveted information.
0:00 Intro
1:13 Gen 1
5:26 Gen 2
8:21 Gen 3
13:40 Gen 4
18:23 Gen 5
24:26 Gen 6
28:18 Gen 7
33:39 Gen 8
37:48 Gen 9
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[@jimothycool]

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[@jarrellbrackett4104]

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[@jarrellbrackett4104]

42:26 42:26

[@AttitudeIndicator]

42:26 42:26

[@DragapultRules]

Jim I think you messed up the chapters in the vid. Gen 8 goes into the Gen 9 chapter.

[@joefarrow1599]

OH ITS MAGNETON

[@Yousef77077]

What if you wanted to be a wall But gamefreak made you a rock ice type

[@usernametaken017]

or rock steel or rock ground or mono rock with no recovery...

[@orangeaurora]

but when hisuian avalugg switches in on an ice beam. oh man.

[@iantaakalla8180]

You can be a wall that is a rock ice type. Simply have an ability that restores hp to full upon switch and legendary stats, and a decent healing move. Then make the lore such that that Rock/Ice wall is a pretender god with one trick that makes it seem like it is godly, and that is massive secret healing and that it stole power from an actually defensive legendary Pokemon. The well-known weaknesses of Rock/Ice type prevent it from actually being that good, akin to Hero Zamazenta.

[@shimogane2474]

what if you want to be better blissey, but gamefreak gave slack of to you nine generations too late

[@gregorymirabella1423]

​@@shimogane2474 Snorlax still doesn't have it.

[@inaccurategameplay5766]

The best wall breaker is the kool-aid man

[@Chaos_Contingency]

OH YEAH!

[@cloudleoricrivera5010]

OH YEAH!

[@maralli6940]

OH YEAH!

[@Ned_Zeppelin_324]

OH NO

[@VendreadMike95]

True.

[@providethesauce9770]

Sturdy defensive Pokémon that are difficult to eliminate are nicknamed walls by the competitive singles community.

[@KinsectWings]

These are pokemon with high defensive stats, reliable forms of healing, and usually utility or status moves that help out your team. They’re like a wall, blocking the enemies attackers from getting through.

[@donttrustnoone3921]

​@@KinsectWings Walls are a fundamental part of competitive Pokemon

[@byeguyssry]

​@KinsectWings Bad grammar is a super effective attack

[@tongster789]

@@donttrustnoone3921 and are a common way to handle enemy offensive threats.

[@marcelomelo9977]

​@@tongster789but some pokemon specialize in taking down these walls

[@CodeMilkMan]

Wallbreakers are very fun. You click one button and a Pokémon explodes or takes a ton of damage. It doesn't get simpler than that folks.

[@zdelrod829]

*Adaptability boosted Poison Jab from a Mega Beedrill against Unaware Clefable intensifies*

[@Dave_Chrome]

Using wallbreakers can be very complicated though You have to get them in safely and sometimes that's a whole game in and of itself Look at Choice Band Crawdaunt. It's frail, it's slow, and it takes hazards. Incredible when it can click though

[@Luna-Lux]

@@zdelrod829 adaptabilty rain boosted choice band crawdaunt crabhammer go brrrr

[@necoyama]

"These are WallBreakers, and their job is to punish greedy teams." Executive Producer Dick Wolf

[@tecul1]

they break walls

[@TheBfutgreg]

no

[@infinitydesu]

They wall breaks

[@AndrewRKenny]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@tigerlover2853]

No way! I thought they broke floors.

[@cartervoltfire4933]

This makes Bastiodon and Stakataka even worse concepts than they already were. Aggron at least looked cool. That means Probopass is the only Ok Rock/Steel type

[@timothylawrence8929]

Crawdaunt is such an epic mon bro. The risk/reward of having to position it correctly but getting a free KO (or at least guaranteed significant progress) pretty much every time you do is so fun, satisfying, and yet balanced. I knew he was the one when banded Knock did 70% to Melmetal back in Gen 8. We love Mr. Craw 📞📞📞

[@mr.sandman7339]

Crawdaunt is a good, honest mon. It obliterates stall, supports its team with Knock Off (when it doesn't just KO something), has a STAB priority move, but it's still balanced by being easily revenge killed. Hall-of-fame wallbreaker right there

[@LEGEND-sp9ev]

Hoopa Unbound is my favorite wallbreaker oat. Honorable mention - mamoswine, conkelldur and kyurem (all forms)

[@jimothycool]

Forgot to mention that one.

[@usernametaken017]

kyrem black is trying his damn best (not enough)

[@Raizekusu]

@@usernametaken017wym bro got ISpear and DD in gen8 and loaded dice in gen9

[@mr.sandman7339]

Hoopa seems to be a wallbreaker despite its typing. On paper, its stats make it look like it should be permabanned from OU so that makes up for it having relatively weak moves and decent but not amazing typing (not bad offensively but only has its psychic immunity going for it defensively). Mamoswine is a wallbreaker because of its typing. Ice/Ground STAB is one of the hardest combos to switch into. Mamos stats are pretty fair tho. If it were much faster, it would easily find itself in OU more often than not.

[@tylergoerlich9494]

I love TR DB hoopa-U

[@10carflo22]

Don’t do it Jimmy, hunting Iron Mugulis is too dangerous and basically a death sentence! 🍵

[@thepokesannin4434]

Don’t give up on him yet! We must give him our energy

[@heliumpai7627]

​@@thepokesannin4434if you want Jim to succeed in his parlous quest against the malevolent mug, give him your likes and subscribes for more power!

[@KillMiimkyu]

Iron Mugulis is my least favourite wall-breaker, being able to use his Quark-Drive boosted Sp. Atk STAB Thunder to break through staples like Skarmory; a wall-breaker having a broken heal move, in his signature move Half-Full, is too broken GameFreak!

[@nouon4220]

Oh yes, gen 7 definitely introduced the terrain mechanics :)))

[@SinNun-tx5jp]

Just like how weather was added in gen3!

[@Farrise]

And how Outrage was introduced in gen4 😂😂😂

[@nullpoint3346]

Nobody notices a mechanic that doesn't revolutionize the game. Follower Pokemon in Heart-Gold and Soul-Silver.

[@JJJ_67]

Have fond memories of Banded Terrakion back in BW, before Lando-T was released. That CC 2hkod max defense skarmory most of the time

[@blindgaming3615]

The unexpected Balatro music out of left field combined with how quiet it was really fucked with me I won't lie

[@TrollingJar]

Shout-out to the goofy snowman Darmanitan-G for the brief period it was OU. Absolutely ridiculous.

[@stefperb9531]

Brief time it was in OU? In natdex it's Ubers so I wonder what's so different between the 2 metas that makes it so much better there

[@therealeternalzoroarketern9018]

fun fact: Mega Gardevoir is actually a good wallbreaker in gen 6 as well. It can punish Chansey with Psyshock, and has a very strong one with 165 special attack. It can punish Latios with Hyper Voice, and it can use Will'o'Wisp to get in chip damage on pokemon while punishing physical attackers like Bisharp. It also can punish steel types with Focus Blast or even HP Fire or Ground, as well as Taunt stall pokemon out of using their recovery or status moves.

[@victory8928]

There was a reason why aegaslash was so popular in gen 6 OU it turned fairies like Mega Garde into fodder

[@hippityhoppitymycommentisn6360]

I like to run Attract, Thunder wave, Encore and Disable with just enough speed investments to outspeed common mons. Rest goes into bulk. I may not win but I will definitely make someones day worse. Lol

[@Rose-ez7yn]

​@@victory8928it was also a hilariously broken wallbreaker lol

[@Dave_Chrome]

​@@victory8928 to be fair Wisp Mega Garde can make progress on it when it switches in

[@Luna-Lux]

@@hippityhoppitymycommentisn6360 attract twave swagger encore for max annoyance

[@Chimera-man-man]

Mega-Mawile will always be my favourite wall breaker fairy/steel typing with effectively the highest attack stat in the game was wild honestly.

[@dumass804]

"The competitive singles community" sounds very funny out of context

[@juanpaz5124]

I reckon there's a significant overlap

[@et34t34fdf]

Moltres can be something of a wallbreaker in gen 2, sunny day+fire blast+charcoal, one of the few special attackers that can threaten lax.

[@Rhy2412TitanGamer]

Dragalge is such a flavorfully done wallbreaker. Adaptability on it makes lots of sense. It started as a ambush based water/poison type disguising itself as rotten kelp. By becoming dragon/poison (a worse typing compared to its pre evolution), it keeps its water resist, more than doubles its damage output against the surrounding water types, & no longer needs to rely strictly on that to feed. 252+ SpA Dragalge Sludge Bomb vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Deoxys-Defense: 67-81 (22 - 26.6%) -- possible 5HKO after Leftovers recovery. 252+ SpA Adaptability Dragalge Dragon Pulse vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Deoxys-Defense: 86-102 (28.2 - 33.5%) -- 88.2% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery. Dragalge would need 146 base special attack without adaptability to deal this much damage. That's an insane boost of damage. Anyway, pokemon is LOADED with wallbreakers. Kommo-0, Dragonite, Flapple, Goodra, Hydreigon, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Azumarill, Gallade (Gen 9 gave it Sharpness lol), Flutter Mane, Chandelure, Aegislash, Basculegion, Ceruledge, Armorouge, Palafin, Clawitzer, Gyarados, Araquanid, Nidoking, Excadrill, Lando-T, Torterra (Gen 9 buffs were legit huge), Diggersby, all forms of Volcarona, Minior, Hisui Arcanine, Kleavor, Hisui Sam etc. It's such a fun archtype to play.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

What sucks is a lot of wall breakers need

[@RisingJericho]

What's funny about Gen 6 is that, despite the power of Mega's and wall breakers, the defensive values are almost as high up there. The omnipresence of Scald and Knock-Off combined with threats like Ferrothorn make sweeping really hard to do.

[@hotcoldfire8273]

Terrains were actually introduced in Gen 6, the abilities were just introduced in Gen 7

[@iantaakalla8180]

Did anyone ever use Terrains in Gen 6 or were they just there because they were not immediately set?

[@furiouscorgi6614]

@@iantaakalla8180 there was a Xerneas set that used Misty Terrain's status immunity to get around Klefki's Thunder Wave

[@DarkAuraLord]

every time I see that Raikou sprite with timbs and choice specs on, I recoil in fear.

[@deviousdieselmusic]

Nice Tim🅱️s, 🅱️aikou

[@Drby_]

New favorite jim quote “Monkey with big drum. I can get behind this.”

[@GoldGuard]

Nidoking is the coolest wallbreaker imo because he uses his lower attacking stat which isn't very common

[@malemailmanman]

"May they cup runneth over. (Not)" Thems fightin words

[@tsawy6]

Hes so /evil/

[@hammsterminator]

My name is Gary Heatran and the walls of my room have been shattered

[@Weareonenation303]

Dracovish makes every other wallbreaker seem like a joke, just imagine if Water Absorb didn't exist. Fishous Rend and Bolt Beak where designed by a 5 year old, I have no idea how these moves got passed R&D when making gen 8.

[@GravityIsFalling]

They were designed by people who only think about in game and VGC Obviously they break a fan made singles format

[@akshayreddy4071]

Chi yu:

[@furiouscorgi6614]

In singleplayer, the only Trainers you'll probably have them for is like Leon, and in VGC, it both only kills one mon and Dracovish isn't necessarily fast enough, and Dynamax can give Speed to move first, Sun to weaken the hit and take weather, etcetera.

[@lucasgreer1736]

the moves were supposed to be balanved by being on slow mons that need to use their abilities to go fast but they didn't make dracovish slow enough, arctozolt isn't too good iirc

[@michaelbowman6684]

@@GravityIsFalling They really should make the mainline games primarily doubles focused, it doesn't make sense for the competitive scene and the single player experience to be so drastically different from each other, it's a completely missed opportunity and an easy way to introduce new players to the competitive scene in a way that if they ever decided to try competitive out in any capacity, they'd be better equipped to understand what is even going on and have a better mind for strategy from the get go, rather than having to learn the entire game essentially all over again.

[@Dave_Chrome]

I love that you switched to Donkey Kong music when you covered Rillaboom lol

[@dudemeister955]

I really like this type of video. I just want to have Dr. Cool hold a lecture about a random aspect of competitive pokemon.

[@janamohr448]

Its bizzare feeling describing Tauros as a wallbreaker. Tauros is defined by its fragility, its needed for so many endgames (barring some pocket zam team) You just described general offensive mons rather than something approaching a tool to break walls. Especially including something like persian feels bizzare when it struggles to do anything against most things with recovery when they are at full health. Its very much a cleaner. There are those tools though. Physlax is a great example. Exeggutor is a great example, being able to end some defensive key point with sleep or explosion to open up the rest of the team.

[@SPZ-gv2on]

Yeah I was surprised by that, also by the general lack of early gen boom. Nothing says wallbreaking like banded metagross ohkoing skarm with resisted boom.

[@daeriko9726]

I’ve always wondered what wall breakers did. Thank you Jimothy, very cool.

[@WipZedKay]

Wall breakers when wall fixers walk in

[@ValianceGames]

Just wanna shout out gen 9 Sharpness Gallade. Gallade is my favorite mon of all time. The feeling of shredding opponents with Choice Band Sharpness Boosted Sacred Sword and dealing 60-70% to high phys-def mon while they switch in makes me tingle with joy.

[@kushgodreturns5873]

Respect Mr. Fish. The greatest wall breaker

[@robraf12]

Not mentioning Clamperl for Gen3 Wall Breaker is absolutely outrageous!

[@tmg1993]

I just discovered your channel recently, great content! Also I love the DK64 and OSRS music in the background 😅

[@ss-wc7kf]

you have a great speaking voice. glad i found your channel!

[@ImSchue]

Loved the video! That being said, not talking about Mega Mawile is what some people could define as being criminal

[@chefinabottle]

Another big fat jimothycool video to save for later at work

[@bdellovibrioo5242]

Ms. Gorebyss, tear down these walls.

[@LimitBreakRoom]

I'm mostly used to VGC doubles so it's cool to see archetypes from the singles perspective.

[@R_K_S2401]

I really like using Choice band Aggron along with rock head and head smash.

[@Almond19912]

Nidoking was my favourite wallbreaker, it didnt look crazy but sheer force boltbeam coverage with surprise superpower for bliss/chanc was so much fun, especially when webs became a thing.

[@panzerldr5724]

So hyped for the Jimothy Cool vs Iron Mugulis cage match.

[@LukeA471]

Early bird gets the Jim

[@crmarcus63017]

0:35 Can we talk about a psychic type being the Mon of choice for breaking a steel wall? Tapu Lele was BUSTED!

[@Elijah-hz9ls]

Focus Blast Alakazam Fire Blast Azelf Earth Power Celebi Superpower Deoxys Fire Punch Jirachi Earthquake Metagross Brick Break Mew Aura Sphere Mewtwo Heat Wave Xatu

[@tehrik0020]

It's worth mentioning about Tauros' Hyper Beam in Gen1 that Speed counts for crit chance, courtesy of his high speed Tauros had a 21% approx. chance of critting Hyper Beam.

[@joysmileyay]

hey jim. nice video. something id love to see is pokemon in gen 3 ou that you think are under-explored. i know youve mentioned hoppip (bc of encore) and exeggutor. i wanna hear about some others!

[@creeperman1295]

Good vid as always! I just feel that in the earlier Gens, especially 1 + 2, that Explosion and Self Destruct should have been at least touched on in halving defense and ending the turn, meaning the opposing Pokémon can’t even predict something like a Recover or a Rest to make up for that damage a bit. Definitely one of my favorite wallbreaking uses alongside Adapability mons like Crawdaunt lol

[@jheckie14]

Just noticed I wasn't subscribed! Sorry, been watching you for quite a while too. Here's another sub for the crusade against the Iron Abomination.

[@ErinLynagh]

To get you closer to 70k I hit the subscribe button twice 😌😎😎

[@CrystalHakurei]

You mentioned jolteon in rby but its even more so of a wallbreaker in stadium 1 due to focus energy working and giving it like, 75ish% to crit, and in a gen with 2x damage crits and amnesia boosters, its quite useful

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Wow, I don't believe I've ever been here this early. Anyway, I do love the off meta choices for Wall Breakers, they can be hilarious when they come out of nowhere. I trust Jimothy to talk about a few oddballs.

[@delta_power3049]

14:53 Superpower is not a gen 4 move but a gen 3 one! And to this day, it has remained completely unchanged, a testimont to its balance!

[@Zweih]

"This thing could one-hit your entire life." I felt that. That's a hard line.

[@hansoskar1911]

my favorite Wallbreaker is Mega Heracross. murdered so many Stall teams with it when everyone complained about Stall. slow U-turn or double it in, then click sub or SD or predict on anything and murder everything.

[@Napalmxxx2]

Kartana is my personal favorite wall breaker for two generations and actually was what helped shape my team to the way it is today but with Flutter Mane as its spiritual successor

[@mbmproductions9217]

dracovish broke the walls to my heart ❤

[@Isabelle-mp8rk]

for gen 1 wallbreakers i feel kingler should have been mentioned, 130 attack and swords dance means it can 1 shot chansey from full

[@danielsmith5032]

With what attack?

[@lrodshrek6086]

@@danielsmith5032hyper beam

[@Mijzelffan]

Mr. Salamence, tear down this wall

[@haydenfreeman7685]

In the ORAS hay day I had a fun time using choice band victini and life orb crawdaunt on the same team

[@alviabtahi5440]

He might be PU now (which seems like a stretch tbh) but I love using Staraptor in Gen 9 lower tiers. Reckless Tera Flying Brave Bird just feels like a "Delete Enemy" button in the late game

[@blaydee4982]

Crawdaunt gotta be one of my favourite mons of all time Go ahead Switch into my Adaptability, Choice Band, Crabhammer, I implore you.

[@tinfoilslacks3750]

Back in gen V, my absolute favourite wallbreaker was the goofiest Kyurem-B set, subroot/hone claws/dragon tail. You would just set up on anything that didn't break your sub, and infinitely phaze things with the game's strongest dragon tail.

[@zarzu4]

Specs Chi Yu was an insane wallbreaker before it got rightfully banned

[@goragarx]

Melmetal looks goofy and that's epic. Just a blob that with some cogs that also went to the gym. Trully inspired

[@ryanhamilton7664]

29:43 I think terrains had existed in gen 6, but you could only summon them manually.

[@canaldecasta]

Long video? Hell yeah.

[@DragapultRules]

Lol I remember running Choice Banded Metagross in Gen 3 and when I lead with it my opponent took like 5 minutes deciding what to sack to a possible CB Explosion.

[@bronsolo6941]

My favorite has always been spped boat Blaziken. Yeah it's like, always in Ubers, but i love that guy

[@moyai5317]

I love that moltres can 2 hit ko lax in sun with fblast and spikes

[@M3rtyville]

I don't see any talks about tanks in current day Pokemon discussions. Are they looked down upon or not worth using for that role?

[@Rubentus-]

Hi Jim. Thanks for the content. I want to ask you. Pose the question. What is your favorite piece of MapleStory OST (Original SoundTrack). I'm partial to Showa - Battlefield myself.

[@tecul1]

big fan

[@Rubentus-]

@@tecul1 hi

[@MAYOFORCE]

Breloom's my favorite but it's my favorite in general for having a lot of gimmicky sets. But what really gets me going is running counter on Blissey, because in the right circumstances it instantly deletes a powerful physical threat, making Blissey's presence even scarier, and from experience can cause psychological damage you'll never recover from. It's a wallbreaker breaker.

[@kalarse]

I know this is more singles focused, but the fact that in 7th Gen VGC, Kartana was able to survive things it shouldn't was amazing, and still hit like a truck despite no atk investment. Just HP, SDef and some Speed and AV and you got a survival machine, add some Rain and Intimidates and you got everything. Also I love the funny Fossil Fish

[@twilightsilver6230]

Hoopa-Unbound is insane as a wallbreaker, if only it was good against hyperoffense as well...

[@tecul1]

if a wallbreaker is fast, it's banworthy

[@weredingo]

Crawdaunt is my favorite too, I have a sort of ptsd from Sableye on the battlespot when prankster still worked on dark types (Sad face)

[@jeythegrey]

Mega mawile was also a menace... that thing just tore through everything

[@SPZ-gv2on]

Dracovish is my favorite. Nothing like a massive beatstick that deletes anything not immune. Honorable mention to tapu lele for similar feats.

[@volzuloof]

I am curious what would happen if Mamoswine was in Generation 3 OverUsed. This is now, in fact, information so vital to my life that I cannot live without it. Someone, be it friend or foe, please inform me what would happen to the meta if Mamoswine was in Gen 3 OU.

[@FioFiorello]

I thought I was hallucinating the Balatro music at first lol

[@JavierNS4]

Where are both Darmanitan? Fire Darmanitan was a menace on sun teams during gen 5, the only thing that barely stopped it was Slowbro with rocky helmet and you still had to suicide it or a member of your team to send Slowbro again (regenerator) so he killed himself with flare blitz recoil + rocky helmet. Flare blitz, U turn, earthquake (for Heatran) basically the other move was pointless. This thing only spammed Flare blitz until it killed himself by the recoil. Fun ol times!

[@lildannyboi13]

have you done an ability tier list? or held items?

[@electoon2910]

thought I was going insane when I heard the balatro music

[@jlachman381]

Is Paralysis 2:28 for Tauros is less of an issue since the body slam discovery?

[@MountainViews90]

Mamoswine is also a good setup mon with stealth rocks and ice shard.

[@Epzilon12]

Nidoking post sheer force might be my favorite. Dude hits way harder than their special attack would ever give away. If only it had a better physical movepool.

[@darko-man8549]

Ans: Mammo Infernape Recently Crawdaunt

[@blah9500]

Wait, we're just skipping over the 69k sub milestone? JimothyUnCool

[@blah9500]

Not to be confused with Uncle Jimothy

[@RangerJackWalker]

Describing Kyurem-B as the most ignorant Pokémon ever made was very amusing.

[@evanedwards4598]

God I love Persian. I hated playing into reflect lax when I first started playing gen 1 ou, and it's such a nice check for a very funny pokemon.

[@jamiegetty7011]

Every time he says "hits like a truck", take a drink.

[@androsp9105]

I'm surprised no mention of rhydon in gen 1. It can 2hko alakzam and boltbeam chansey so they can't reliably heal off the damage. And it can switch in on a predicted twave or heal.

[@larsweise8315]

Remember Choice Band Gouging Fire scoring a 2hit KO on Dondozo in the Sun?

[@Jackledaman]

Do you consider gen3 breloom a wall breaker with spore focus punch sets?

[@thekrampusclaus4148]

When I think of wallbreaker I think of Mega Heracross. It’s slow, but it hits disgustingly hard with its 5 hit multi hit moves.

[@boop53]

I used a webs team once with Chandelure + Mega Heracross and it was NASTY

[@WhyCatsCantFly]

was that 3ds wifi music in the background? start of gen 2

[@hamishcoles1379]

Mr craw will always be the GOAT of wall breakers