Why Garchomp is on 50% of Pokemon Teams

[@chompy_YT]

Shoutout to my Discord members and Queen Bean on the UU council for their help ❤!

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

It may be garchover but the good old garchamp has slashed its way back to viability in UU

[@gamedominatorxennongdm7956]

Regular Kyurem knows how that felt.

[@Turtletalksaboutstuff]

GarchOUver

[@Blade.5786]

​​@@Turtletalksaboutstuff But it's only Garch begUUn.

[@christophercarroll6997]

Would love another how good was garchomp actually

[@usmanya5110]

did it stay this time or is it stil uubl?

[@mandalorianhunter1]

Yep Garchomp has fallen from grace, but is still thriving. Also you were wrong about both Ogerpon and Iron Treads, both are high usage now in OU. Lol freaking Excadrill fell to UU. My boy Skeledirge fell again but he will be back. I'm hoping Bolder doesn't fall off.

[@javiervinas77]

Skeledirge is like Clodsire and quadsire, they move tiers when they’re needed

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@javiervinas77 yeah and it's sad Quagsire has fallen into NU

[@sloowbroo]

What i think is crazy is that lando t is now used as a special attacker, maybe a vid about that? Edit: i appreciate the answers, but ik why it is that way, it just was a vid suggestion

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

Tusk. The answer is tusk, also arch but it gonna banned

[@jamesgiles4517]

I did that when home was released

[@why3994]

Lando T special sets have always been a thing

[@btu1734]

It’s bc its physical sets were nuked. Both in the sense of its movepool and its competition. It lost knock off and superpower, which were both good physical movesets. But also, if you want a strong physical attacking ground type, use Great Tusk. It does the job better, better versatility in move options and hits about as hard as lando t due to Headlong Rush and Close Combat. But more importantly than all of that, special is kinda better. Hits great tusk harder, hits arch harder (when it was in the tier), and id say most importantly, matches up very well into gouging fire

[@sloowbroo]

@@btu1734 ik why, thats why i said its a vid idea. I read the finch tweets

[@Interiorcrocodilealigator10838]

We need kings rock and sand veil unbanning to shove chomp into OU

[@bananaspice1967]

Do not, unban Sand Veil.

[@olivergro7105]

Yes please unban sandveil. Gen9 OU is already a clownfiesta thx to finchi so why not make it more of a clownfiesta? Maybe it's fun then..

[@AlvinIatauro]

Nah we only need dragon dance maybe 😢

[@dewantouhid116]

Chomp should get a new ability such as skill link, and give him dragon dance

[@imperadorpilaf1098]

​Choutouts for flygon vc if chomp gets DD, it won't have a single thing going for it over chomp lol​@@AlvinIatauro

[@jaycobobob]

I like gen 9 uu. Reminds me of gen 6 ou without the megas

[@YourBoyNobody530]

I like catching people off guard with banded garchomp because nobody expects you to rock up with a outrage when fairy types are around, and boy do I love it when people don't run fairy types.

[@pokeplazagamer]

garchomp in uu still feels wrong

[@zoomsuper6484]

Can you do a video about the reverse power creep of Gen 9? I think everyone and their mom knows Gen 9 mons are very minmaxed or have insane kits, but something a lot of people seem to overlook is the fact movesets finally lost their near-impossible legacy sets, and thus, versatile mons like Lando and Mew kinda lose a lot, or how Scald, Toxic, and Knock Off pretty much lost at least half of their users.

[@royalgelly8948]

That's not reverse power creep mate. Thats straight up power creep. Not just lando and pex, Zapdos, Dnite, Blissey, Scizor, and a ton more all lost a ton of tools

[@megatennepster3833]

That's more nerfing than power creep. Reverse power creep was gen 8, where the loss of z moves and megas meant the power level was way lower.

[@rapmetaldemon09]

Wait Zapdos and Tyranitar can't keep up anymore? That's a shame. They both had such long lasting legacies. Zapdos to this day is such a unique Pokémon that I never thought it would be fully pushed out.

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

TTar detests Great Tusk who genuinely ruins every set it would feasibly run. TTar's usualy only used for Sand Rush Excadrill, who itself isn't the most consistent thing around. Zapdos is unfortunate because it's still really good, but it gets wrecked by Iron Boulder and Raging Bolt means you have little reason to use Zapdos in many teams. Unlike TTar, you can use it to good sucsess, but Raging Bolt is just usually prefered due to Thunderclap. Believe me, I ain't happy about this either. Zap and Tar were my goats in gen 3 OU. Silver lining, they're doing much better in UU

[@rapmetaldemon09]

@Gold_Gamer_100 Damn, that's definitely a shame. Those were also genuinely 2 of my favorite Pokémon, so it was kind of validating to know they were both basically good from the very beginning to what seemed would be the very end. Also, for whatever reason the idea of Gchomp/Ttar/Excadrill da rude sandstorm teams constantly come into my head despite knowing damn well it's spotty. Thanks for the info, I'm really out of touch with battling. Especially after the DLCs dropped and the pool of Pokémon exploded.

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Tt has good stats and a good movepool, but its ability just isn’t useful, and its typing is straight ass. Also lost pursuit

[@rapmetaldemon09]

@kefkapalazzo1 I absolutely hate when a Pokémon has a move or ability for so long and then loses it. If Tyranitar is doing so bad in this particular meta, then there was never really a reason to remove pursuit from it IMO. The second it loses it it goes from an ever reliable staple to not even being OU viable

[@et34t34fdf]

Zapdos at least was OU for a time, maybe it could rise again, idk.

[@opaarcher4930]

I just started playing pokemon a year and a half ago because my family members were playing the mobile games like pokemon go. And I didn’t really ever get into pokemon because well… i didn’t have a desire to buy one of the games. But I did play pokemon unite because…… idk I just thought it looked cool. And I remember that my favorite pokemon back then was lucario because I used to played super smash and he was my main. So one day I had saved up enough in game currency to buy a new Pokémon in unite. And I was planning on getting lucario but ended up asking a family member about garchomp and they said, “oh yeah that Pokémon’s really strong” and I ended up taking the risk and bought him instead……. To this day…. I remember that moment as the day I met the love of my life. AKA garchomp is now my favorite pokemon. and he’s the reason I got into the fandom. And if anyone’s wondering the first actual main series game I bought was legends arceus and it didn’t disappoint! Now I’m a huge fan of the game franchise with a huge stash of garchomp figures and plushies! =D

[@monkeman8759]

I mean part of the reason so many new sv pokemon are so good is because they were designed with tera in mind, meaning that their kit is better suited to the use of terastalisation, while many past staples had to experiment to find a good tera, many of the new sv mons have a definitive BEST tera, such as tera fairly kingambit, tera fighting gholdengo, tera flying garganacl, etc

[@lenoon3814]

Kingambit literally has like 12 different “BEST tera” what are you talking about.

[@monkeman8759]

@@lenoon3814true, he's anything but a steel dark type

[@vanjagalovic3621]

@@monkeman8759 Nah, Kingambit also likes using black glasses and tera dark

[@Haaaaaaaaahe]

Very good content, I can see you being big. Just try to make your voice clean, idk if it’s the Mic, the edit or just the dictation. But if you improve that you can go places

[@chompy_YT]

Appreciate the kind words thank you ❤️

[@aldwych285]

So I recently heard that Iron Treads just moved up to OU after many months of being UU But why is that?

[@mandalorianhunter1]

Raging Bolt, Gholodengo and more mons it checks.

[@spand9043]

It is a staple on rain and rain was overpowered in the archaludon meta. Treads will go back to uu now since arch got banned

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@spand9043 nah not really, it's going to stay for or a long time. It took a long time for it to drop, it will take a while for it to do it again.

[@雪者]

Glad to see Garchomp doing better down there. 😊

[@Underscore_The]

It's shrimple. The people who don't know how to pilot it use the spikes stacking set, and the people who know what they are doing run the scale shot SD set with a Tera type to beat mandibuzz

[@roychaosreaper4688]

Well, at least Meowscarada stays in OU. Otherwise, Garchomp would lose usage stats thanks to Meowscarada outspeeding the former, using Triple Axel to counter it. I’m theorizing out.

[@Xenon-id5gq]

Galarian Weezing is having the time of its life

[@PiggyBonkers0309]

Never thought I’d see Dragapult over Roaring Moon

[@virtualcolt]

The state of the new ou really shows that Paradox Pokemon where a giant mistake. I dont like to sound like those fans that love complaining, but Paradoxes did not need to be this broken, they outclass even legendaries to the point of making them feel like your averege common Pokemon. And they made most pseudo legendaries feel like they're trash.

[@davidmandel8960]

This hits different after the trial video

[@DairyBastardGOW1]

Half the garchomps i've faced just set up stealth rocks and die

[@sondre5703]

I climed to top 10 on showdowns OU ladder with phydef garchomp before the first dlc came out

[@shayminorchia-yg8tz]

Fun Fact: The 4 best mons in uu viability wise (Garchomp, TornT, Latios, Zapdos) are all weak to ice Running tera blast ice on multiple pokemon per team is a viable strategy 💀

[@indiradevi8136]

It's important to note that the premier fairies are ground weak tinkaton and Azumarill which don't generally ev on ph. Def unlike something like primarina or toge kiss which aren't in the tier/game who can ev on oh. Def significantly easier. Geezing is also not as splash able as those two. Ribombee is a good check but it is almost always lead or the very rare sr weak specs set so it ain't great either. The waters of the tier are a lot more offensive like gren keld and offensive mabapht while the bulkier ones like mabapht doesn't pack recovery or is slow king which is a decent check but not at all perfect. Foul play mandibuzz is the best most splash able defensive check.. Chomp is not broken though. The tier has very good faster scarfer like latios and kd aswell as embody aspect base ogerpon making sure chomp is fine. It's a lot like great tusk and previous gens Lando of ou

[@valiantchris6456]

Can't believe Garchomp went from Gen 4 Ubers to Lower Tier Powerhouse.

[@AI-DreigonGPT]

Mew got worse bruh 💀 ( NU rn )

[@rip_morn2569]

Garchomp is very good with its base stats, and ground dragon is a good combination leaving garchomp only 3 weaknesses and has great speed and damage to out speed pokemon with base speed of 100 since it has 102 Mega garchomp is considered worse cause it makes garchomp slower and players need its speed to sweep

[@foodmr2022]

It cant be helped garchomp is becoming less decent in the Ou tiers now due to new pokemon

[@AdminAbuse]

Why don't you link to Haydunn in the description and just have his name there?

[@chompy_YT]

you're right, mb on that, just fixed the description thanks for that!

[@gold_leader9288]

Ok gamefreak time to give it dragon dance

[@fromis_96]

I wanna know how Alomomola got such a placement in OU

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

Balance and stall.teams appreciate it's utility as a Wish passer with Regenerator. It's also one of the few pokemon with Scald which helps greatly detter physical attackers. And it isn't very reliant on tera at all, so you can usually go several games without needing to Tera

[@uribevaldezargenis8862]

It is one of the few mons that still have scald

[@alkaspoon9282]

BEACUSE IT'S GARCHOMP, IN UU, I'm more surprised he doesn't have a higher usage rate

[@byotch72]

Mega Garchomp coming back with scale shot will destroy UU next year

[@jeancarlosdonis8897]

I wonder if garchomp gets dragon dance it will be usefull again in OU

[@certifiedicecreamtruckmoment]

Nah, needs an ability that isn't ass for offense.

[@Ludovicus444]

I have a question on showdown latias is in UUBL but latios is in UU why is latias banned but latios not

[@olivergro7105]

Latias its support movepool is just better suited for its stats compared to Latios'. Latios is usually HO throwing specs DMs. Latias could do that, but usually you take latios if that's your goal. But Dragon Spam ain't that useful right now so latias has more usage when Dragon Spam isn't needed for the metagame.

[@Gspoink]

Latias have better versatility. In uu, Calm mind agility stored power latias was a cancer to play with, not to mention it can run weakness policy with its sufficient bulk.

[@Gspoink]

​​@@olivergro7105uubl ain't even linked with usage lol I think you got the wrong idea. Latios was rarely ran with dragonspam anyway lol.

[@TheOtherNeutrino]

Like Espathra before it, it leveraged Stored Power with Tera to become a deadly wincon.

[@Mepphy99]

because It Is still good

[@MrJohnReviews]

I mean UU gen 9 resembles the previous OU from the previous generation

[@certifiedicecreamtruckmoment]

UU of gen 9 resembles OU of gen 9

[@blazie42069]

Garchomp might be banned from UU in the future, it's currently on the radar

[@certifiedicecreamtruckmoment]

I think it's healthy for UU, like Gen 2 Snorlax.

[@ml_aken_ttv1703]

Wezing-G completely shuts it down

[@rantman2276]

Why is iron boulder falling

[@GibleMann]

💪🦈

[@hipstersephiroth3722]

For God so loved the world he gaved his one and only that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life John 3:16

[@afriendlycampfire260]

who noticed the shiny garchomp

[@jizo619619]

Orserk is the GOAT

[@asabovesobelow1362]

One of the best mons ever is still good? What the frick?

[@Poptomist]

(Because people want it back in ou)

[@rubenduenas5881]

IT'S NEVER GARCHOVER! EVEN IN UU!!!

[@NamelessViking01]

OU this gen is so shit. Everyone rusn the same 4 broken mons. There is no creativity at all and its really boring. This is the first gen where i dont play out but just use the mons I like.

[@quiverdancervolca]

it may be garchover but it's not garchunder