When Game Freak UNBANNED Mythical Pokemon...

[@immortaliron2475]

Series 13 was the vgc equivalent of watching a room full of toddlers slam into each other with shopping carts. It was pure chaos and I hope we get it back soon

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

More like a free for all school fight

[@ThighdeologyVX]

that analogy made me laugh so much harder than it should've when i pictured it in my head lmao

[@jkattack2640]

Imo they should put a restricted limit just so people are forced to use some other options. The true Timmy team is like 2 rayquayzas an overleveled starter, and 3 mythicals, not 5 box legends

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

@@jkattack2640 No I love me some Kyogre cuz' he dolphin and he water and he orca

[@waitingfortheequinnox]

We’ll most likely get these kinds of formats after the final World Championship of a generation; as there is no longer money to be earned from competitive between Worlds and the next generation’s release, why not let people have fun?

[@HeliumHasPassed]

Pokemon technique: Fleur Cannon

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

"Through kanto and paldea, i alone, am the geared one." Klinklang line: ok....

[@Endershock1678]

@@ChucktheSpicyChicken I’m sorry Victini. I can’t even feel sad about you right now? I bear no grudge against anyone. It’s just the world feels so… wonderful right now.”

[@Zero-c5v]

Gojo only won cause of plot armor. He awakened RCT out of nowhere because the author wrote himself into a corner.

[@Actually-Insane-]

⁠@@Zero-c5vnononono hold up (disclaimer: i have not read the manga or anime, so excuse me if i am wrong here.) according to gojo himself, he actually HAS been trying to learn rct for a while but he hadn’t been able to get a hold of it. however, assuming he tried to do red as well, this practice would lead to him learning it against toji because it was a life or death situation. he focused entirely on trying to use rct. we can come to a non asspull conclusion that the adrenaline rushing through him and how alarmed his mind was caused his body to reflexively preform rct by itself (this is possible because hakari has instinctive rct during jackpot because of the high amount of cursed energy. cursed energy is generated by negative emotions, and if a normal human can sometimes see a curse during a life or death situation, then the nervousness gojo had could’ve possibly triggered this.), allowing gojo to remember that experience and replicate it. think of it like a musician playing a piece for an audtion with a measure that they hadn’t finished practicing. they had ALMOST got it, but they never got it right. on the day they have to play, they are very nervous. they try their VERY best on their performance and manage to just barely do the unpracticed measure right.

[@kallum39]

@@Zero-c5vTell me you have no idea about JJK without telling me you have ABSOLUTELY no idea about JJK Not even the authors name lmao

[@quipo2029]

Cursed Techinque: Indiscriminate Baning

[@mariotaz]

Batman fears it

[@bendrowned8506]

@@mariotazthe cursed chiropractor

[@leahdrook5161]

No shadowing banning

[@mariotaz]

@@bendrowned8506 LOL!

[@jt2249]

Urshifu's RCT - Sliding out of the top 10 to avoid damage

[@BiggestBlunder]

I would really like a format where they allow mythical but not legendaries but ofc I would want a way of any player being able to obtain said mythicals

[@notprogamer6]

You do realize that arceus would be allowed

[@BiggestBlunder]

@@notprogamer6 Yes.

[@NotSnak]

​@@notprogamer6good

[@conorb.1901]

​@bigkermitboi563 in this hypothetical format, I honestly don't think Arceus would be super amazing. I'm not saying it would be bad, it just doesn't have some of the oomph that other more modern pokemon do. And in an era of open team sheets, it wouldn't be a guessing game for what plate Arceus has either. Take my opinion with a grain of salt though, I'm far from an expert and mostly just keep up with vgc because I find it fun, even though I suck at it.

[@GravityIsFalling]

@@conorb.1901 In this hypothetical format you can span Arceus normal e speed next to chien pao without having to worry about shadow rider or zama crown That’s broken beyond belief

[@smollmoth6376]

I gotta say, banning the top ten most used pokemon is so funny in how absolutely random and brutish it was. I wish I was a vgc player and got to see basically an alien metegame

[@DCBiscuit]

That’s what I’m saying. It’s that kind of stuff that makes memories for players in any game. Like when everyone in Mortal Kombat X was playing Alien. They nerfed Alien into the ground and a better meta was born from it. Or when R6 banned having fun, it completely changed the game.

[@General_C]

​@@DCBiscuitYou say that as if you CAN have fun in R6.

[@DCBiscuit]

@@General_C Hey, the single player challenge operations were really fun. When they removed those, I realized that I had no reason to play R6 anymore.

[@captainmega6310]

​@@DCBiscuit What's R6?

[@DCBiscuit]

@@captainmega6310 Rainbow Six Siege.

[@Mxi50]

When Gamefreak wasn't afraid of success

[@雪者]

Tell me about it

[@iancastro1327]

I hope they let us use them again when SV is about to die

[@infinityheart_tm9270]

That period of time doesn’t exist… I mean it did for like a generation and a half. But that’s about it.

[@Will-uv9kx]

It's the other way around now. They have their success, they are scared to alienate the casual player for the few that play competitive and lose it. Gayfreak sucks don't get me wrong .

[@yesbutno2378]

Holy crap battle cats profile picture

[@ksd12345100]

Dude I’m an afterschool coordinator, and when you drop those lingo…I was like “Huh?!”.

[@TransparentlyDuplicitous]

I wish we had a format with Mythicals without Restricteds. Most Mythicals are not any stronger than unrestricted mons, especially those of recent generations. Mythicals have a lot of unique properties that would make them fun to use in a format without the substantial overshadowing caused by Restricteds' ridiculous stats.

[@YoJoRockThaBeat]

I really really want to use Pecharunt so bad lol

[@victorlinares4137]

Deoxys and darkrai be like

[@reneantoniorodriguezippoli7561]

*''The skies clear and a mystical flute begins to play''* Arceus theme: *start*

[@jirehtheprovider]

Can we be degenerate with using Jirachi in a format like that? Ohh I love the opportunity to go nuts with her old degenerate Iron Head Flinching strat.

[@wizard5552]

? I dont want magearna in vgc

[@Hunter_6430]

"Just go ahead and try to get ahold of a Hoopa or Marshadow nowadays." meanwhile Diancie literally hasn't gotten a single distribution since Gen 6 yet for whatever reason still being programmed into both SWSH and SV

[@carucath97]

Hopefully she’ll be available in Legends ZA?

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

There's worse examples. As seen in DOU formats, Jirachi is probably the best Follow Me user... but the only way to get Follow Me on Jirachi is from an in-person event in 2013. Which was held for one month in August. In Japan. At ONE SINGLE store in Tohoku. Good luck getting that legally LMAO.

[@Hunter_6430]

@djboyce88 that's Original Color Magearna, not Diancie. Standard/faded Magearna also has a continuous distribution, but that only matters for as long as Bank stays active.

[@jaxonanderson7220]

They can be brought in via Pokémon go but that’s it.

[@henriquecarballoaranha9100]

8:21 i'm sorry but Ludicolo casually T-Posing to assert boiling water took me out

[@discordmodder8846]

"Play those games nowadays and tell me if you really want any more of that" That was a based comment

[@SuperM789]

based gen 4 hater

[@rngcupcakes]

smeargle is just a reskin of darkrai back in sun in moon

[@stigmaoftherose]

You mean gen 6 right?

[@EmjrRockz]

Isn't sun and moon gen 6? I mean there's the green legendary in sun and moon. Plus the previous games literally have to be gen 5, since they're the last games in 2d. Yk, X/Y coords? That was before 3d, which is why they are called X/Y. Pretty cool, right?

[@bumibomber]

​@@EmjrRockzX and Y is gen 6 dude

[@veryfamus5687]

@@EmjrRockz X and Y was 3D

[@pushyrummble8625]

I hate smeargle because he's the reason darkrai dark void got nerfed into oblivion.

[@cyphate]

2:06 I listened to this about 6 times before realising you weren't saying Porygon

[@typemasters2871]

I think it would be interesting if there was a VGC format that was “No mythicals, legendaries, ultra beasts, paradox Pokemon, or sub-legendaries”, in essence what a “realistic” real world VGC format would look like because most trainers in the Pokemon world would never get the opportunity to see, let alone catch, mythicals, legendaries, sub legendaries, ultra beasts, or paradox Pokemon I would consider it the “Ash Ketchum” format but Ash used an ultra beast and a mythical to become Alola’s champion

[@itztaytay2]

That was Reg A

[@typemasters2871]

@@itztaytay2 Right, I suspect that it was regulation A but the video made it sound like sudo-legendaries besides the treasures of ruin were allowed (but thinking about it now, the treasures of ruin were the only sub-legendaries at launch)

[@itztaytay2]

@@typemasters2871 It is a bit of a shame that old regs are just... not playable anymore. Would be nice if they lasted at least a while whenever a new reg dropped (or for the current gen, etc). Only having 1 format at a time does keep the playerbase condensed at least

[@dimensionvisitor7689]

7:00, it's funny how wolfey made like 3 videos talking about how dynamax is the best mechanic pre tera

[@MoxieBoosted]

He's definitely in the minority with that opinion. They were pretty controversial videos upon release lol

[@dimensionvisitor7689]

@@MoxieBoosted when somebody said "a pokemon world Champion would like to talk to you" and send me the link when I was renting on max forms about 2 years ago I was just like "ain't no way this is what the majority of competitive community agreed on"

[@MoxieBoosted]

@dimensionvisitor7689 yeah lol. Love wolfe but most people hard disagreed on dmax

[@bonkerswonkers22323]

@@MoxieBoostedwah I love dynamax😦😦👎😒

[@scottcrysel]

I firmly believe that Series 13 would have been a GOATed format if they had left restricteds limited to 2

[@unknownname3703]

i want to see a format where its 1 restricted 1 mythical. that could be interesting imo

[@ZeBanded]

Actually, there was one series 13 event, being 2023 taipei regionals. It also contributed to worlds, as the top 2 both got auto qualification to day 2 of nationals. That said, mythicals werent very popular, the the highest placement they got was victini at 12th

[@ZeBanded]

Also silvally placed higher than victini

[@Dazzelem]

2:29 “septemer”

[@Endershock1678]

Do you rememer, the 21st night of septemer

[@mothmyszalgo]

"Buy game, get guy" love that

[@SushiSpider-tw5ro]

I think it would be cool to see a format where you can use only one mythical and one or two restricted legendary pokemon

[@HorizonOnDaHorizonYT]

“Throughout Alola and VGC, I alone am the Soul-Heart one, imaginary technique: Fleur Cannon” -Magoatna, probably

[@1originalaccountname]

VGC Little Cup sounds like a fun format

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

Mienfoo remains the Chosen One

[@Ray-wz8sg]

dude each game of that would be the best 7 turns of my life

[@EyeWasBored]

5:35 "Based pokemon, Cringe pokemon, truly strong trainers win with their favorites" - Karen, Brainrot type elite 4 trainer

[@hailthequeenFM]

12:27 Funnily enough Little Cup originated from the Pokémon Stadium games, aka official GameFreak and Nintendo creations.

[@Ultradragon16]

Given that some mythicals have actually become easier to obtain, it wouldn't surprise me if in the not too distant future we start seeing them legal in more VGC formats

[@chocoboko123]

I deadass thought you were making a joke when you brought up Let's Go VGC. I've never seen it before and I'm shocked that it's real

[@ravensoott]

the way that smogon never bans pokémon for high usage in the first place. pokémon can rise or fall based on usage, but never get banned. this is why pokémon like great tusk can attain 60% usage and still be in the tier

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Eh... that's arguable. The number one reason for banning Greninja in Gen VI was that it was overcentralizing and literally everyone was running it.

[@ravensoott]

@@RabblesTheBinx in the same vein, snorlax is arguably overcentralising in gsc but that never got banned either. plus, greninja wasn’t just banned for being a central mon, it was the combination of being centralising AND insanely difficult to deal with thanks to perfect coverage always coming off of stab

[@hailthequeenFM]

Not really, Greninja got banned because it basically chokehold the format into a very specific playstyle. GSC Snore have had a 100% play rate​ for over 15 years yet it's not banned.@@RabblesTheBinx

[@timelessmoron]

5:44 awfully specific way to feel called out today. I guess that’s enough internet for today

[@VerbalLearning]

If Piers was a Heavy Slam-cel in Gen 8 then he'd be a Supercell Slam-cel in Gen 9.

[@jakedempsey3809]

I really wanted to use some ultra beasts with terastal, even just for a little bit. It'd just be fun to have the chaos of them without so many 4x weaknesses for a little bit

[@demi-femme4821]

Tera Water Kartana: "Yeah, this is a great idea! I think Game afreak should do it!"

[@patatanavidenya]

@@demi-femme4821 or tera fire so u can't get burnt

[@fogwzu]

​@@patatanavidenya Specs Tera fire Blacephalon Mind Blown

[@sephikong8323]

Tera Fighting Stakataka on his way to Body Press you to victory

[@marcelosandoval8719]

I think VGC would be way betting they held tournaments with special rules Like Alolan Cup where you can only use Pokémon that are instroduced in Alola (Not that you can catch in alola just the new Pokémon) Or maybe something fun thing like the Electric torurnament and Magikarp we need more of that

[@StickMaster500]

I’d definitely expect them to do something like this again when it comes to the end of Scarlet and Violet Regulations

[@daponagegoogenburg807]

Honestly id love to see more goofy ahh formats like these all the time, would be really fun

[@fatyoshi696]

the banlist format having usage-based bans sounds more like a vgc uu, a format like this could absolutely work but the difference is singles has a way lower usage threshold for stuff to drop a tier (if a mon gets under something around 4-5% usage it drops to the tier below, which ends up being everything outside the top 40 or so mons instead of just the top 10) which ensures basically all the clearly stronger mons are banned in the tier below which makes for a completely different landscape, and they also have separate strength-based banlists alongside the usage-based ones in case something busted does slip through the cracks

[@greenking9124]

5:05 fun fact in Native American mythology it’s the person in the bottom of the pole is is the most important (aka carrying the team)

[@Squaredasher]

OK you joke about Magearna being a menace in singles but once you look past everything it’s done to OU when it’s legal there, it’s actually been a rather healthy stabilizing presence in gen 9 Ubers UU

[@SmeargleStuff]

Tbh I think the idea of banning the top ten most used Pokemon is a bad long term idea but I feel like it was a cool way to keep the game fresh

[@ARDIZsq]

I'm gonna be real, having an official format where the top most used Pokemon are just banned is kinda cool. As a spectator, it means we finally get to see some different Pokemon being used that might not have otherwise been considered for a VGC setting. Though that really only works if they ban more than like, 10 Pokemon. Anyway, they should give us an official way to play Little Cup in SV or Z-A.

[@poppyfrancis7338]

I wish I'd gotten all the mythicals back when they were releasing them all again leading into generation 7. I only got Mew, Celebi and Jirachi from it, and I lost my Deoxys from OrAs. But between PLA and the Darkrai event from earlier this year, I'm only missing Deoxys and the gen 6 mythicals. I even have both the original event Zeraora from GameStop and the shiny one from the raid event

[@wolfekupo5651]

the only mythicals I am missing are Zeraora (I was on break during its release in gen 7 and I completely skipped gen 8, only got Sword at the end of march this year) and Zarude (which is funny since I am basically the only person that remembers it exists) Good news is if Z-A is like Legends Arceus, Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion will likely be all available in it permanently (even if you need a save file from another game)

[@Ultradragon16]

​@@wolfekupo5651Hopefully. It feels like then Gen 6 mythicals are some of the more elusive ones. I've managed to miss every opportunity for Volcanion which is the one I had the most interest in

[@ace88bf]

@@wolfekupo5651 I don't even remember how but i have 4 legitimate Zarudes lol. 3 of them are the Dada Zarude. Unfortunate that it's hot garbage

[@LaserfaceJones]

This was the only format I've ever personally laddered in, and it was just to get the Master Rank ribbon for my shiny Mew.

[@burstvgc]

The thing is, there WAS a regional held in series 13. The Taipei regional in October 2022 was the only event held during that time, and it was won by Chuang Yu-peng running Kyogre/Zacian/Yveltal/Dialga/Lunala/Regieleki.

[@chenklazer2069]

5:35 This is literally the best thing you've ever said in any video you've ever uploaded. Only True Darkcels would understand. Total Dynamax Death

[@TehAJ34]

I got jumpscared seeing myself appear in this video at 1:16

[@Glitch_Man42]

You know, a VGC series with a ban list is conceptually good. But yeah, the way they did it was shitty. Some Pokemon are just bad for the health of the game, I'd like to see them try it again (but better, which is honestly a pipe dream tbh). There is no world where Gigalith being the only sand setter is a good one.

[@Endershock1678]

Sometimes I agree with this (god I hate seeing Urshifu and Amoongus everywhere), but at the same time, VGC with no ban list is quite diverse and has a lot of variation. Yesterday, we saw a Umbreon make top 4 and a Chandelure make top 16, and this is considered a relatively more centralized format than the previous 2, so I’m not sure bans will improve much.

[@unknownname3703]

i would like to see it for another rotation at least, while just banning specific pokemon like Urshifu and Incineroar. temporary rulesets can give way to some interesting metagame diversity. not just diversity in what pokemon are viable, but diversity in the rulesets themselves. similsr to the variety of smogon other metagames, like STABMons and AlmostAnyAbility.

[@IronVigilante451]

10:44 Dusclops with the Ally Switch was an amazing play!

[@therealnova120]

Domain Expansion: Max Starfall

[@trick6pokemon624]

Series 13 is why i started playing vgc and continue to til today. I look back on the chaos fondly.

[@edmg7]

What this video has taught me is that I have very different tastes than other competitive players. Dynamax is my favorite gimmick and I loved the series that banned the top ten most popular Pokémon.

[@sirknightjcb9310]

4:58 Wolfey would like to know your location.

[@Gettenhart]

Having dinner while watching your videos just hits different 💯

[@madjester9844]

3:17 Meanwhile Walking Wake and Iron Leaves:

[@KellyChan123]

2:30 Ah yes, my favourite month "Septemer"

[@veeetox]

You missed Sword/Shield Series 10. The series where the main mechanic of the generation (Dynamax) was banned

[@peeenguinne3858]

It went from "time when gamefreak unbanned mythical pokemon" to "different formats of vgc" real quick

[@dasamont8274]

The VGC banlist format sounds like it needed to ban more pokemon. Imagine if every week throughout the series, they banned the top 10 most used pokemon. A meta would never develop, because anything popular would be gone in a week.

[@TFFurryMaster]

8:26 *pillar men theme*

[@PenumbraVIII]

5:47 thank you for calling yourself out too, but damn... that hit hard xD

[@malik.a4125]

Ah yes my favorite non terrain or weather battle field effect, sun room.

[@RiverWilliamson]

I first started thinking about PvP during Gen 8, Series 13. I was very confused

[@jpnf007]

The only way that I have seen to get mythicals out of event time is to play Pokemon GO and give them money(I still got some mythicals free because of events), for example if you pay 18€ now you can get marshadow, before you could get a victini and a shiny mew, it's scummy because you basically have to buy the mythical, and the only way to transfer them to the base games is to have a friend in Pokemon Home that will trade you theirs for yours(unless you find someone generous enought to trade their mythical with you).

[@schaffs2]

Banning the top 10 most used Pokemon without nuance sounds like such a Pokemon Company move

[@arininquotes8396]

As I remember it, the mythicals format was super fun to watch, but I never wanted to play it because I didn't know how to get half those mons myself, and I knew I wouldn't be very good at it anyway. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing them. Bring back a variation of it at the very end of each game's life cycle if it works out like it did between gen 8 and 9.

[@lumica888]

Dynamax adding HP allows players to not sacrifice their best card if they lose lead. Tera type allows you to change your type once, and mega evolution is a temporary better stat boost for one pokemon. I like hyper offense with some risk involved to win the game very early. I have access to so many mythical that sometimes I get bored knowing Pokémon home exists...(I practiced during the pandemic really hard)

[@ItsDaNewGuy]

Melmetal getting the recognition it deserves

[@Zylefer]

5:42 I will never leave the internet, I got shadow tag locked

[@machAcab]

gen 8 was my introduction to competitive vgc, i liked dynamax... i didn't realize it was so hated.. :(

[@cornonjacob]

I hope we get a "chaos format" after this worlds bc reg G has been out for a bit. The format I really want to see is the base SV dex: base game + dlc dexes only, no paradox forms or legendaries. Basically reg A if the DLC was included at launch

[@GeorgeLennon77]

Hope to see some of this in SV too

[@crispiecord]

Glacial Lance's animation goes incredibly hard.

[@rjd1922]

I imagine Stealth Rock was OP in the Let's Go metagame since it's the only entry hazard available and there's no Rapid Spin or Defog. Game Freak apparently loves Charizard, but not enough to let it be good again competitively, even for one game.

[@SJrad]

They should’ve allowed deoxys, for the oras and gen 7 formats, keldeo for the series after crowned tundra, and now meloetta for the series after indigo disk

[@Megadaxo]

Thank you for saying that bc I just remembered I never caught the SV meloetta

[@makinnak3010]

I am new to ranked battle. Need some options on my team. Scizor (safety goggles) Hisuian Zoroark (choice spec+trick) Regieleki (covert cloak) Vaporeon (acid armor/baton pass) Blood moon (assault vest) Zamazenta (body press/wide gaurd) Basically trick specs onto set-up mons while passing acid armor to zemazenta. Regi speed control scizor for flutter and bloodmoon sweeper/ghost killer Been winning about half my matches, but wondering what I could be doing better. Not to good at predictions or big brain reads.

[@carlsoll]

The *2nd half* was pretty interesting, about brilliant diamond & shinning pearl 7:40 totally different line up :o

[@marilynlucero9363]

5:43 I guess that's enough internet for the day.

[@silent7159]

They should try implementing alternative formats for online play. Maybe have a standard format and some alternative formats like one with a ban list or one without the generational gimmick(gigantamax, megas,terra, etc.)

[@trainerlsw]

I find hilariously ironic that when top tiers get banned, players will just make new top tiers.

[@91Caesar]

People confuse usuage with over-centralisation when talking about smogon bans all the time. In all reality suspect test rarely consider usuage at all. I think a big part of this is the trickle down effect of the smogon tournament scene. The raw usuage that pumps mons into top 10 usage comes from regular play on the OU ladder, where as the meta shifting teambuilding typically occurs between tournament players trying to find even the smallest team building edge they can. So something does well in the tournaments and next thing you know, everyone on ladder has seen it and is using it. However, sometimes the smogon vets who manage the meta will catch things between this transistion from tournment to ladder, recognise it as over-centralising and remove it before it has a chance to climb up the usuage stats. That said, it would be interesting to see what a similar 'top 10' ban would have on OU. A core component of what smogon is looking for what they ban is how much a pokemon's precence limits team building. Would snapping the top 10 OU mons out of existance limit team building the same way it did in vgc?

[@itztaytay2]

Snapping the current top 10 OU would be interesting and make for a pretty chaotic format for a while haha. One of the first mons that will really rise up is Iron Treads as Great Tusk (and Lando-T) would be gone so it'd be the defacto new best spinner and ground pivot. Darkrai and Deo-S would both probably explode in usage since no speed booster I-Val or Dragapult to speedcreep and overshadow them, and no Glowking to stifle them. Kingambit being gone would be celebrated by a lot of the casual players.... until setup sweepers suddenly start cropping up all over without a 5 fallen sucker punch to keep them in line (Volc was just banned recently but there are plenty like Latias that will become an issue). Oh and Gholdengo being gone means that Corviknight might debate slotting Defog again, Mandibuzz would probably also rise from UU to deal with Ogerpon-Wellspring which suddenly finds itself one of the fastest and strongest in the metagame and can Defog as well (the only 2 good ones left since gen 9's removal of transfer movesets and lack of defog tm destroyed its distribution). Overall a very strange meta indeed

[@worldiefeard8396]

11:30 "As it turns out, banning the top 10 most used pokemon just gets them replaced by the next 10 in an even more centralized metagame" I wish people would understand this instead of just arbitrarly QQing to ban the highest usage pokemon in a given format.

[@joshyotoast]

That was peak vgc imo.

[@goGothitaLOL]

VGC Series 6 Retrospect starts at 9:04 A.K.A. The Only (VGC) Format with Usage-Based Bans like Smogon Side-Note: You forgot Excadrill 10:09

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

i think they really ought to make mythicals accessible to everyone and allow us to use them in vgc (with arceus added as a restricted), it would add a lot of variety. e-killer arceus with clear amulet or arceus with the type plates would be significant new options for restricted formats, deoxys-speed would be nice counterplay to speed crept mons like zacian and caly-s, deoxys-attack is one of the scariest attackers of all time but drops to quick attack, and all the other fun ones like zeraora, victini, magearna, volcanion, marshadow and meltmetal just to name a few would add a lot of very unique options. zeraora would be a funny partner for ground types since it makes normal moves turn to electric with plasma fists, magearna is a great trick room setter, hoopa hits through protect but only with one move, etc

[@danielbischoff133]

Darkrei is still OP The Dark Void is still OP It needs to be weakened again. Because there are enough ways to improve its accuracy. (Gravity/Sweet Syrup) Because 50% accuracy is actually way too good for a double sleep train. If you're lucky, all 2 of your opponent's Pokemon will sleep and you'll have an incredible advantage. Dark Void is still OP, for doubles.

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

@@danielbischoff133 you're not wrong, but there is enough counterplay now that it would be manageable. back when smeargle terrorised gen 6 there was no terrain, but now there's two terrains that deny sleep completely. darkrai has no matchup into miraidon and would be borderline unusable if the tapus came back, especially since electric terrain has gotten a gigantic buff with the future paradox mons being released. the only consistent way to get a gravity buffed dark void on turn one would be using scarf indeedee-m as a partner, and that's way too much commitment for a gimmicky strategy that doesn't even guarantee two sleeps

[@enafunnyperson]

Good to know that I have one thing over Moxieboosted, which is having every Mythical and Legendary.

[@ezzzzyyy]

Reverse cursed technique: Heatran

[@corey2232]

Yeah... I still call them all Legendaries 😂

[@bigj5401]

This series would have been so much better if they would have played a cap on the amount of legendaries you could bring.

[@mukatte4755]

You mean a restricted format?

[@bigj5401]

@@mukatte4755 I mean that in this format there was not a cap on the amount of legendaries you could bring. You could bring 6 restricted mons and not even one mythical. It was effectively, a no holds barred format. If there would have been a limit on the number of restricted’s and mythical’s you could bring to battle, then it would have been fun. In this format it was really common to see teams w 6 restricted’s and not even 1 mythical. Which pretty much defeats the purpose of the format in the first place.

[@jygein4663]

gonna watch one of these videos to wake me up one day with those alarm sounds u got pinging

[@masterhand177]

I have a hoopa to spare dude

[@senpai2.054]

this format was so funny to watch unfold

[@andymemeray3134]

I’m clearly in the minority but I loved Dmax & Gmax my pokemon. It was also the first time I got into competitive. Pokémon that made me try the other formats, but sword, and shield was my favorite. Competitively speaking

[@priceprice_baby]

Dynamax was really good in doubles, I'm surprised you are hearing otherwise

[@mukatte4755]

Good but not hated, that's what he meant

[@IOSARBX]

Moxie Boosted, I liked this video because it's awesome!

[@ryanhacker5259]

I liked dynamax :( it was certainly better than z-moves at least and it was less centralizing from what I could see compared to megas. Being able to do stuff like dynamax whimsicott to win a tourney is sick! I could understand why people didn't like it much but as a casual player and a frequent viewer I loved it

[@abhilashsridhara6343]

Honestly dynamaxing is a much better mechanic than z moves

[@Heroice18]

Dynamax > Z Moves any day of the week. Dynamax bred so much life into so many underused mons that it's partially the reason I came back to competitive pokemon

[@MoxieBoosted]

Said life: weakness policy + max airstream

[@Heroice18]

@@MoxieBoosted Or how about Durant winning a regional?

[@MoxieBoosted]

@Heroice18 that'd be a fair point if hustle pokemon weren't the only group of low tiers benefitting from the mechanic. Like the list is Durant, dracozolt, and maybe flapple. Beyond that it was just weakness policy airstream. Also dursnt stopped being good once the dlc dropped cause of all the older strong mons being dropped.

[@Heroice18]

Yeah Max Airstream and Weakness Policy were good strategies to use with Dynamax but there were plenty others too Using weather ball in max form to get a max geyser/flare, Max Guard prankster to set up trick room, Max Quake + Stamina to create a body pressing machine, etc.

[@Heroice18]

Z moves provided one turn where you either delete a pokemon or it goes into a protect which is always anxiety driven and feels more like a coin toss Dynamax is a lot similar to Terrastalization where you choose which pokemon you want the game to win around and you pilot it to success

[@deadeyez0132]

Can you do a history of "themed" formats and competitions, like that time they had an online comp that was Halloween themed? That was SO fun and different. I think it was called Spooky Cup

[@djimonmcdonald9085]

5:45 Why.

[@galelululu]

Clearly this man has never heard of Japanese Pika Cup

[@KingKuron_]

Should've referenced Shiinotic in the opening bit 😔

[@kentkarslioglu5828]

iirc at one point during series 6 they announced players cup 2 qualifier, and they made that be played in series 5 rather than series 6, so even TCPI knew not many people liked the new format

[@unknownname3703]

i wish S6 was done in a more sane way. TCPi really did the laziest way of making a banlist and it backfired. if we instead just banned specific pokemon like smogon, like Incineroar, Urshifu, etc, it would have been a lot more interesting

[@booradley6832]

NGL making a metagame out of taking the top 15 most used pokemon and banning them actually sounds pretty cool. Incineror, landorus, tornadus, fluttermane, urshifu, ogerpon, dondola and its little friend, rillaboom, iron hands, farigaraf, Kingambit, annihilape and more all banned sounds like the game....could actually be fun to experiment entirely new setups with instead of having to do the "I want to try a pokemon I like so I slap it into a team of 5 of the most popular, dont actually use it the entire time and say the build is off meta" TL;DR- imagine a world where everyone had less than 570 effective value of stats, reasonable typing and not insane move pools. Looks beautiful, doesnt it? Although yeah I agree with everything you said in the video it needs to be done with more care and actually assessing who is getting banned. IMO Ithink just Fluittermane and Urshifu need to go and that would change the metagame to an acceptable degree. Not having to specifically build because of those two would give so many more options. 15 is too wide of a net to cast and would just be taking out a lot of support pokemon that arent the actual problem. But top 2-3 removed for one of the regulations might be fun. But what do I know? A VGC tiering system could be cool, but just Overused and Underused. Would make a lot of people happy to be able to get their favorite toys out and not watch it get killed immediately by a 135 speed, 135 power moonblast.