You're missing my favorite one: Metagross' hidden ability is Light Metal, which cuts its weight in half. You might think this is good to decrease damage taken from Low Kick or Grass Knot, which deal more damage the heavier the target, however, Metagross is so heavy that it takes max damage from these moves even with Light Metal
Another one with Light Metal that makes no sense in the situation, though is easily fixable or completely avoidable. In BDSP, Ramas Park pokemon have their hidden abilities. Registeel's hidden ability is Light Metal, and when you catch it there, its lone steel attack that it knows is Heavy Slam!
Fan rotom, a flying type, has levitate. Flying types are immune to ground attacks. Levitate negates ground attacks. This pairing is like washing your car in the rain.
The Rotom forms really should get different options if they were ever given Hidden Abilities. Levitate would be hard for the others to give up but Fan Rotom needs something new. Even if it's just, say... Shield Dust?
Or even for 1-2 turns, or perhaps nerfing it as a 1/4th attack & speed for 5 turns Halving it for 5 turns is too much of a downside for something that *shouldn't* be, you're getting punished for using a great normal physical attacker for no reason at all Edit: corrected his typing, confused Regigigas for Registeel
SPACECAT 069 It only works on the Pokémon that has mold breaker so if it’s a double battle and there is a levitating Pokémon on one side and a mold breaker Pokémon on the other side only the Pokémon that has mold breaker can hit the levitating Pokémon with a ground move. It also doesn’t work on some specific abilities like Shadow shield, full metal body, shields down, etc. pretty much mold breaker Pokémon can ignore the ability themselves but this neutralizing gas just flat out erases all abilities on the field (tho like I said I think they might make it so it doesn’t work on some abilities like Slow start and truant). I would say defeatist but that one seems like an ok one to be able to neutralize.
@@Joseph_Drew_III Hi. I'm making a quick poll. Say, do you have time for a bit AND do you have knowledge about what attacks are good fit for specific pokemon?
@@slevinchannel7589 Not the person you asked but I have some suggestions. 1. Run a Steel Type move on any Dragon Type, especially Hydreigon and Kommo-o
There's also Stunfisk with Limber. Since electric types can no longer get paralyzed, Stunfisk is kinda in the same boat as Rotom-Fan, so much so, that Pokémon Showdown random battles where you get a Stunfisk (non-Galarian), will always hold a Cheri berry. You know, so that you REALLY won't get paralyzed. xD
1:41 Here's why Durant has Truant: Pretty much all (worker) ants live very short lives (queen ants can live for decades while workers only live for only weeks or months depending on the species) because they are overworked. As a result, they constantly have to take power naps that last only minutes long while they work. Most likely, this is why Durant has Truant, cause it is referencing a worker ant's horrible sleep schedule that leaves them weak and sleep-deprived.
@@aghitsaplane4262 that's funny and true. I guess i should have said 3, but i meant 1 Pokemon and 1 move name, and gastro acid is 2 words, but it's still 1 move. That's why saying 3 words sort of felt wierd. Also i REALLY had fun with that slaking strategy. If you want it to work almost guaranteed, accelgor should also know protect and hold focus sash. (in case of fake out.)
Notable thing about the Rotom's is that in Gen 4, they didn't change types. So Fan-Rotom was still an Electric/Ghost type. It's probably why it maintained Levitate.
In that generation, it was actually worse for Carnivine to have Levitate because it's always been a pure Grass-Type. It would therefore resist Earthquake without the ability.
I have a theory about slow start: The other Pokémon in your team get jealous of regigigas so they break his legs to cripple him and it takes five turns for him to recover
HERE'S a question for you! What about in the wild, when you first encounter him? Does he break his own legs to give you a fighting chance or do wild pokemon come out of the ether to break his legs before the fight begins?
Let's not forget the worst of all abilities: Ash's *Once achieving slight success, this Trainer will not win the Pokemon League for plot reasons.* Edit: Well this did not age well
Should've given Regigigas a new abilities but keep it's speed start at 50: Architect: Doubles speed and ATK against Steel, Rock, or Ice types Destroyer: Doubles Speed and ATK against Electric, Dragon, and Ghosts
@@ezequielmiranda5927 Yes, you're right lol. Maxed out Adamant Slaking EQ may as well just be able do it on a high or even Ok damage roll, and Slaking will practically always go 1st in Competitives
@@MayoAddict475 Legendaries and mythicals are exactly what they should be cutting from the game for the most part. Very small amount of players actually use them and they're end game pokemons anyways, I'd much rather have as many normal pokemon in the game as possible. Legendaries have never been important aside from the story ones and shiny hunting. Most people stop playing the game when they finish the story and end game content so there's no real point in having that many legendaries in the game.
Honestly slow start is a really cool ability in concept, I just wish it worked differently. Something like this: Regi starts off the battle with -2 or -3 speed and atk (not affected by neutralizing gas) but then just like speed boost it gives you a +1 in speed and attack every turn. Completely underwhelming in the early turns and would still have counters but if you can survive with it for a few turns running mind games you could get a really hard hitter. That's what they were trying to do with attacks like fury cutter and rollout but regi could actually pull them off and punish stall teams
I think regigigas has slow start cause it's been asleep for oh so long, causing it to need to "wake up" or adapt to the battle That's just what I think, so if makes sense to me
Or you could use moxie pyroar to setup an 11pokemon sweep for garchomp. If you’re wondering what I’m talking about go to pokemonshowdown and look at the fun replay called garchomp sweeps 11 pokemon
10:30 It makes it very nice for shiny hunting, and since Frillish is fairly easy to get, you can avoid a shiny with an explosion move from killing itself. Other than that, yeah, but it is not useless in all situations.
Some other effects should apply to the useless abilities, making them no longer or sort of no longer useless. For Defeatist, it should give the pokemon doubled attack stat in its first half of HP. For Illuminate, it should multiply light based move damage. For slow start, make it only apply to the first three turns in battle. These are just my thoughts.
@@soappacket2342 I like emergency exit when it works (you smack something super hard, get clipped below half, and swap into the best possible counter). I hate it when you go for an attack, get outsped because golisopod's speed is laughable and you were trying to heal with leech life and get shunted out without your consent.
@@soappacket2342 yeah it's a really bad ability, I feel like giving it an equal alternative like defeatist, A risky ability like swarm, Or even something as insane as Speed Boost, Would not make it broken, but at least it'd be usable.
@Sundae the Espeon The ability allows the user to run away from the battle, not switch out. I might be stupid, but I don't think that would work for switch training. My only knowledge of Run Away is using it on an eevee once so chances are I'm wrong tho.
@@Robin280497 I know, I was saying that's why run away might not work. Although looking at the comments now, i realise it's about changing run away, not how it currently is 😅
If I recall correctly, Slow Start used to be three turns, which was much more manageable. Also, Durant having Truant makes sense as it is saying that "This ant is the one out of many that is lazy" which actually happens
Durant. True - Ant = Trueant The true ant, that covers itself in metal to survive to heatmor. (Funnily enough it's great because becoming a steel type made durant 4x weak to heatmor.)
Durant with truant ability is a reference to lazy ants Some researches point out that some ants in the colony just wandering around and do nothing So to me Durant with truant as hidden ability makes perfect sense
Hidden ability too. Meaning a lazy and is harder to find. I liked to think that Durant didnt quite forget the anthill mentality so sometimes in battle it'll start looking for food for the queen.
Some changes I would make to two of the last three abilities that I am surprised they haven't made; Run Away - Now let's you switch out for free. Regardless of Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Wrapping moves, etc. This would make it ACTUALLY usable in battles. Illuminate - Now acts like Intimidate but with Accuracy. This will be annoying and likely not used competitively but I think that would be so fun! Also, I feel it should be like Flash without having to use Flash. I suppose.
that Illuminate would actually be pretty strong in my opinion, especially with moves like U Turn and Volt Switch. It's probably way better in double battles though. If a pokemon gets hit by that twice, or the Illuminate user uses a move like flash or double team, it could be hard to beat. I guess moves like Aerial Ace and Shock Wave exist, so it's not unbeatable. Intimidate can already force a physical attacker to switch after 1 or 2 applications. Also, it'd be nice if it passively illuminated caves like you said.
@@CatsLeMatts Maybe make more unmissing moves, or add moves that help raise accuracy as well to balance this. Focus Energy, Focus Punch, and a few can do that. Also abilities like Inner Focus and Oblivious can avoid this reduction. Just thinking out loud on the internet I suppose. 🤔😅
Also give the ability to Illumise, *for EFF's sake!!!* It's literally in its name and even its counterpart, Volbeat, has it! Why not Illumise then? This is soo incredibly dumb! 🤦♂️
As i always say, Run Away should have the effect in battle that the user can switch whatever happens (in other words, Run Away Pokemon would be immune to trapping like Ghost types does)which actually would be pretty decent instead of being completely useless. Also Illuminate should boosts Electric type attacks cause well it uses light.
I think illuminate should be a quick claw where it activates sometimes in double battles and draws fire, could be neat. Also honey gather could lower the enemies evasion, like a permanent sweet scent
@@tuxpengu9138 Yeah it's more something for Rotom Fan to distinguish itself from the rest. Levitate won't get to help unless it gets Soak'd or something.
Gotta make sure that ground legendary shiny mega gigantamax Pokémon doesn’t use its signature dynamax move and do 1 damage to u if u don’t have all the immunites possible
@@courtneyevie I'm denying the assumption I missed a joke. People should stop bastardising r/whoosh and use it properly. Me adding a fun fact about how I have beaten Ultra Necrozma with Ledian, doesnt imply that I didnt get the fact the OP was joking. I was playing on it.
@@vojtaane you're thinking of the special stat split, wherein gen 2 made pokemon no longer just have 1 special stat and split it into special attack and special defense. The physical/special split was introduced in gen 4, making moves physical or special individually, rather than all moves of a type being either physical or special
@Arpan Saha how so? what gain would a Pokemon with 120 special attack have with Hustle when it has a 50 base physical attack? Especially considering its other basic ability, Serene Grace, is so good. Serene Grace + Air Slash makes for incredible cheese potential.
what they should of did with the slow start ability was have it so regigigas would regain about 20% of the attack and speed stat that has been halved per turn until on the 5th turn where both of it's stats are the way they should be.
Hell no. Regigigas has the same amount of base stats as freakin Groudon and Kyogre, the diference is that they have a positive ability while Regi has a negative one. Either remove this ability (which doesnt make sense) or buff his stats to monstrous levels (like 800+).
@@walaceandrade4046 Make it half his stats for 2 turns. This encourages the trainer to have actual strategy to keep it alive. After the time, max out Regigigas' attack, sp. attack and speed for the rest of the battle. This includes if you switch it out. If taking Gigas' stats to max is too much, give all his stats a boost of 1 level and make all of his moves get STAB. This may be a bit OP, but Pokémon made Mega Rayquaza.
I would wonder if at one point Slow Start was supposed to then double your attack when the counter was up. I can't imagine a situation where anyone would think a normal type with middle of the road legendary stats and a weak move pool would be usable with such an awful ability.
"Middle of the road legendary stats" That would be like 600, not 670. 670 is like the upper echelon of legendary stats. Still, having a 160 base physical attack Pokémon with a type that hits absolutely nothing for STAB S.E. damage be nerfed is just plain silly.
The reason why delibird has Insomnia and vital spirit us because on Christmas eve kids have trouble sleeping because they're exited and want to see santa and delibird is based off Santa
@@SaberStrike-p2 Santa has christmas night insomnia since he just never seems to need to sleep when delivering toys and the kids are using their will power and vital spirit to stay up as hard as they can and see him.
@@cowrocks3630 Hi. I'm making a quick poll. Say, do you have time for a bit AND do you have knowledge about what attacks are good fit for specific pokemon?
The thing about slow start is, that it actually could've been good. Instead of hindering Regigigas for five turns, it could've instead boosted all of its stats at the end of each turn, making it so that it slowly gets more powerful throughout the battle as it wakes up. That would have been awesome.
@@sharkshrek4154 Until gen 8. Also, that doesn't fix the problem. You have to waste a slot on a move whose only purpose is to stall out Regigigas' terrible ability. And in the meantime, opponents could use that turn to set up.
@@samuelsoliday4381 if regigigas could learn counter, that could help, honestly they should let regigigas learn movies to support with it's bad ability like more moves that do damage from it's defense, weight, or it gets hurt, stronger moves or let it use recover.
I think illuminate has a simple "fix". Keep what it already does (because some people can find a use for it) but also add the effect of lowering the opponents accuracy. It makes perfect sense to me; illuminate implies a bright light, and a bright light in my face while trying to aim would definitely make me worse lol. I have a burning passion against slow start in particular though, it singlehandedly turned a really cool legendary into the laughing stock of battles.
@@justas423 I know that, I'm saying that rotom fan would be the only rotom still retaining immunity to ground type attacks with neutralizing gas on the field.
For ledian, litleo and cherrim: sleeper stats. Opponents expect your phy attack to not be good until you start setting up. Obviously having to set up is still a pain
As much as you say that Flower Gift is poopy, I want to believe that there is some crazy Competitive trainer that managed to reach a top cut or win a regional using a super combo of Groudon and Cherrium (Groudon can summon sun and benefits the most from gaining more Attack and Special Defense).
I always thought that the abilities that boost atk were meant to actually help a Pokémon with poor atk in the first place. Like Ledian for example Iron Fist can be beneficial when combined with Life Orb. The only draw back is you have to heal Ledian every few turns. There's also Metronome. Boosting attack power at the cost of repeating an attack isn't such a big deal unless an enemy uses Torment on Ledian
@@LRM12o8 I like use use Nuzlocke rules when I play. Sometimes I impose a rule that forces me to use pokemon weak in certain stat areas. Naturally because of that I'll use any loophole available. Combining items with abilities is a perfect means to help you during a Nuzlocke run.
@@LRM12o8 It's not like Ledian's Special Attack is anything special either. I don't know the numbers, but it's entirely possible that an Iron Fist Ledian actually is better with physical moves than special moves. ...Oh wait. None of the punching moves are as strong as Ledian's STAB Bug Buzz. ...Yeah just use Swarm.
Literally just a gimmick for electric gym leaders in double battles. Lucky me, since I actually like Klinklang and Plusle/Minun, and also love triple battles in B2/W2, I can actually make some use of those abilities.
Plus/Minus also let you benefit from Magnetic Flux and Gear Up in doubles (+1 to both defenses and +1 to both attacks respectively). Being able to Cosmic Power and/or Work Up both Pokemon on your side of the field on top of the Plus/Minus synergy can get real crazy, especially with Role Play and Entrainment opening up your partner options tremendously (I've seen somebody run a doubles strat with Mega Charizard Y getting Plus from a Plusle, and then throwing around Plus boosted, sun-boosted, Helping Hand boosted STAB Heat Wave, an effective 500 base power attack that hits both opponents, after only a single turn of setup). Being primarily useful in the doubles format =/= useless. Using Damp to prevent Explosion can be useful over immunity-ing the hit and letting them faint, because if you trap something that you otherwise wall completely, they can't Explosion out of desperation just to get out of the unwinnable matchup and prevent you from setting up a sweep. They get to just sit there and watch you pile on whatever ridiculous setups you want. Same if you trap something that wants to set up for its team (hazards, screens, trick room, etc.) and blow up to get off the field. It's like the move Grudge: it's worse than Destiny Bond on paper, until you find an extremely specific setup that can buy you truckloads of momentum to totally clean somebody out. Like if you have a Rock/Ground opponent and you can Grudge away its Rock option, it stops being a threat to Flying types and could become setup fodder, and that free time could give you enough room to click the "gg" button. Very specific =/= useless. And Moxie Pyroar is covering up a weakness, not doubling down on a strength like other Moxie users. Like how Rotom Heat is using Levitate to cover up a double weakness, while Carnivine is using Levitate to cover up a resistance. See, if you pick something off with Pyroar, even if the KO comes from a special attack, then both of its attacks are roughly even, and it becomes much harder to just plop a Blissey in front of it and laugh in Pyroar's face, something that non-Moxie Pyroar is much, MUCH more vulnerable to. Especially when you have Moxie and Wild Charge to threaten Water types that would otherwise wall you completely. And if you can score a second knockout, Pyroar hits HARDER on the physical side than it does on the special side. Flower Gift is good on Cherrim for basically all of these reasons. It boosts physical attack because THAT ONE is the one that Cherrim needs boosted, so it's not totally helpless against special walls, AND juicing up your partner in doubles shouldn't be totally counted out, especially if Cherrim has Helping Hand. Flower Gift + Helping Hand hits harder than Pure Power, and that's not counting the boost to fire moves from the sun, AND Flower Gift is also basically a free Light Screen. It's very specific, but can be absurdly powerful in that specific context. Sorry for the giant wall of text; I'm a bit of a Pokemon scientist, so these are the things that jump out at me. Most of the rest of the video is reasonably on point. Even with Swords Dance, Iron Fist Ledian is a joke. Slow Start takes entirely too long to get going when Regigigas ALSO loses access to Rest and Protect, so it can't stall for time AND needs to switch out to Heal Bell away Toxic because it CAN'T get its act together otherwise (with Protect and Rest, it would probably be "okay". Not "great", just "okay"). Levitate on Fan Rotom is just there for consistency, so it ends up being redundant. And Illuminate having NO effect in PvP is just stupid.
@@sudeeppednekar8355 Klutz is beautiful if you're clever. You can use Entrainment to turn off their item and ability with one move, Trick them a Choice item at your leisure instead of being forced to do it turn one (which also means you're immune to being tricked a choice item), you can Trick an Assault Vest to permanently Taunt somebody (something basically impossible to do otherwise), you can outspeed somebody to Trick them a Lagging Tail or Iron Ball, and so on. You can really ruin somebody's day if you hit the right target. 99% of people using Blissey would hate to end up with an Assault Vest, because most people run it with Toxic, Protect, and Softboiled. Nobody wants to run Blissey with Seismic Toss and nothing else. Lagging Tail makes you go last even in Trick Room, so you can even screw up sets like that. Anything holding a Lagging Tail is just going to get revenge killed by basically anything. Klutz is a huge commitment, and takes a lot of planning, but it can completely destroy the keystone holding somebody's team together if used right. It can work out like Damp, but Klutz is way easier to use because it doesn't just counter one move. But Limber on Stunfisk only saves you from Paralysis if you get Soak'd, and I cannot imagine somebody going into a battle with the intent to Soak a Stunfisk so they could Paralyze a slow Pokemon for some reason, instead of using Soak to hit Poison and Steel types with Toxic. Or, you know, a Water type just smacking Stunfisk senseless with a STAB Water move. Pokemon can get really technical and there's a lot of room for finesse, but sometimes a big, dumb "slap as hard as I can" works better.
@@PixieOfTheSewers In short: Pokemon is an extremely complicated game with literally millions of combinations. Some things are very narrow or hard to use, but almost nothing is COMPLETELY useless. Sometimes a slightly-less-good option can work better than "the best" option, because it's harder to predict. Even if an ability is completely redundant or outright bad on purpose, technically anything could theoretically BECOME useful in doubles, thanks to Skill Swap and Role Play. Elements in Pokemon tend to be "very niche" or "difficult to use", not really "completely worthless".
Actually, because abilities were removed from PLA, Fan Rotom is only rotom form that keeps its immunity to ground in that game. So it's not ENTIRELY useless anymore
then the question is if it was obvious that they were changing the typings between them since for the most part gamefreak notices these little things then why the hell did they leave something so obvious in
No. Just defeat the Weezing or force it out of battle to make those meme teams crumble. Smh at everyone overestimating Neutralizing Gas, it's nice but won't save the Slaking gang.
There's a fable about a lazy grasshopper and a hard-working ant, and how their lives get different because of their work ethics; some variations of the story just have two ants, and I think that's where the idea came from for Durant.
Even better would be to lower evasion, as you're shining a light on them to be able to see better. Imagine a Starmie or Lanturn with 100% acc hydro pumps, or Lanturn with 93% acc thunders. If they ever bring back Spotlight and made this change to Illuminate Lanturn would be scary in VGC.
Just wait until Slaking us revealed for Sword & Shield. Just pair it with a Neutralizing Gas Weezing in a double battle. Now you can destroy gods! EDIT: Wow, so much likes! Thank you all
9:00 that makes it harder to hit it with ground type move, since you now need to pop the air balloon, use skill swap or trace on it and then use magic powder or give it protean from greninja, and then you can hit it with ground type move.
Well then congrats man but then again point remains moxie ain't as useful on pyroar as on the other pokemon who get moxie cuz it suits them that much more
Fun fact: Fan Rotom's Levitate ability used to not be useless! In Diamond and Pearl the only way to change Rotom's form was through an event item called the Secret Key and in those games when you changed Rotom's form it didn't actually change Rotom's typing, staying Electric/Ghost.
My idea to fix Regigigas: Make it so that after one turn, either its Attack or Special Attack unlock (randomly or in a set order), then on the next turn the other Attack stat, then on the next turn its Speed. Would still get the _slow start_ idea across and actively hinder it but you could then actually see how it manages to be the boss of the other Regis.
The thing is, Regigigas has stats of legendaries... as a legendary... it hasn't grossly inflated stats like Slaking. It didn't need any nerf, especially not one that strong.
15:20 It's also useful for grinding but you would have to switch out unless the Pokemon you're leveling up is holding an exp share and is weaker than the illuminate user
One thing you forgot to mention is that, when Rotom's Forms were first introduced (in Platinum version) they didn't gain new types, they all stayed Ghost Electric type. The type change came about in gen 5 likely to give STAB to their new moves they just gained, and to farther the point that a physical object is being possessed.
You're missing my favorite one: Metagross' hidden ability is Light Metal, which cuts its weight in half. You might think this is good to decrease damage taken from Low Kick or Grass Knot, which deal more damage the heavier the target, however, Metagross is so heavy that it takes max damage from these moves even with Light Metal
Hahahaha good one.
Another one with Light Metal that makes no sense in the situation, though is easily fixable or completely avoidable. In BDSP, Ramas Park pokemon have their hidden abilities. Registeel's hidden ability is Light Metal, and when you catch it there, its lone steel attack that it knows is Heavy Slam!
Tbh, light metal and heavy metal are just bad abilities. Heavy metal so prob better bc of Heavy slam but that's situational
wrrr
Not so light metal after all, huh? 😂
Fan rotom, a flying type, has levitate.
Flying types are immune to ground attacks.
Levitate negates ground attacks.
This pairing is like washing your car in the rain.
Exactly!
Give it an Air Balloon
And then hack in Magnet Rise
And then it’s like Washing your car in the rain while your neighbor helps by using a hose
It’s like wearing a pair of pants, on a pair of pants
The Rotom forms really should get different options if they were ever given Hidden Abilities. Levitate would be hard for the others to give up but Fan Rotom needs something new. Even if it's just, say... Shield Dust?
It's like putting a hat on a hat
Pokémon logic:
Gives Regigigas “Slow Start”,
Makes Mega Rayquaza
Nate Cruz mega ray is pretty balanced tbh
@@ilikeoranges8784 true its 4x weak to ice, weak to dragon and fairy makes it fair slaking is only weak ti fighting
@@exarkun3080 mega ray ability only makes it 2x weak to ice
@@richraichu1370 and delta stream makes rayquaza only 2x weak to ice? Instead of 4x?
@@bananalana1764 yes
If slow start halved regigigas' attack and speed for 3 turns instead of 5, it might be somewhat useable in lower tiers
Or even for 1-2 turns, or perhaps nerfing it as a 1/4th attack & speed for 5 turns
Halving it for 5 turns is too much of a downside for something that *shouldn't* be, you're getting punished for using a great normal physical attacker for no reason at all
Edit: corrected his typing, confused Regigigas for Registeel
Yeah 5 turns is almost the average 1v1 length
@@pokelordomega2414 fr
Or just 1 turn and it’s attack + speed is 3/4ths for a good legendary
I'd rather just replace it with Moxie.
Regigigas, Slaking, “we ain’t never gonna get our spotlight....”
Galarian Wheezing: “I’m about to start this mans whole career”
Brittany T I think they’ll make it so it won’t work on certain abilities like that.
Isn’t Mold Breaker already a thing or does it not work like that
SPACECAT 069 It only works on the Pokémon that has mold breaker so if it’s a double battle and there is a levitating Pokémon on one side and a mold breaker Pokémon on the other side only the Pokémon that has mold breaker can hit the levitating Pokémon with a ground move. It also doesn’t work on some specific abilities like Shadow shield, full metal body, shields down, etc. pretty much mold breaker Pokémon can ignore the ability themselves but this neutralizing gas just flat out erases all abilities on the field (tho like I said I think they might make it so it doesn’t work on some abilities like Slow start and truant). I would say defeatist but that one seems like an ok one to be able to neutralize.
David Stratton ok that clears things up thank you
Not if you don't use it ,)
Durant gets Truant because it's a "true ant."
You're welcome.
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@@toyota68ful :c
I'll be here all week.
@@toyota68ful But that's the genuine reason it has it. Why are you booing him?
"Damp does nothing on Jellicent"
Shiny hunters: "Hold our Shiny Charm."
Misty Explosion: Allow me to introduce myself
(Laughs in Aftermath)
@@Joseph_Drew_III Hi.
I'm making a quick poll.
Say, do you have time for a bit AND do you have
knowledge about what attacks are good fit
for specific pokemon?
@@slevinchannel7589
Not the person you asked but I have some suggestions.
1. Run a Steel Type move on any Dragon Type, especially Hydreigon and Kommo-o
@@goldenhydreigon4727 but why, is it to counter fayries?
There's also Stunfisk with Limber. Since electric types can no longer get paralyzed, Stunfisk is kinda in the same boat as Rotom-Fan, so much so, that Pokémon Showdown random battles where you get a Stunfisk (non-Galarian), will always hold a Cheri berry. You know, so that you REALLY won't get paralyzed. xD
how about glare? i thought it affected electric types
@@sofiev5542 I think before gen 6
I’d give Stunfisk Sap Sipper instead of Limber, for Grass immunity.
Glare, stun spore, Tri attack, etc still can paralyze stunfisk without limber, but still that's kinda situational
@@Supalayzee Only in Gen 5, as Gen 6 saw Electric buffed to be immune to paralysis.
Galarian Weezing out here blessing all of these sad bois.
Tristan Neal
Yaaa
A triple battle with Regigagas, Slacking and Galarian Weezings - we're in trouble.
Tristan Neal plot twits: none of these pokemon will be in galar
I feel like that thing is going to be OP and OU in doubles, especially with Archeops, Regigigas, and Slaking
yes lol
1:41 Here's why Durant has Truant: Pretty much all (worker) ants live very short lives (queen ants can live for decades while workers only live for only weeks or months depending on the species) because they are overworked. As a result, they constantly have to take power naps that last only minutes long while they work. Most likely, this is why Durant has Truant, cause it is referencing a worker ant's horrible sleep schedule that leaves them weak and sleep-deprived.
Or maybe it’s because the ability is called “true ant”
@@enfyts7544 you're not Sans. Your puns do not amuse me...
Nyeh he he
@@cybo_vampire9145 no they are quite....humorous.
Literally me lol
Actually it's a Dream World ability. The Durant in the Dream World was tired of always working and wished to be lazy.
I remember how much fun i had with slaking in triple battles. 2 words...
1. accelgor.
2. gastro acid!
bUt tHAt'S tHRee wORdS!
@@aghitsaplane4262 that's funny and true. I guess i should have said 3, but i meant 1 Pokemon and 1 move name, and gastro acid is 2 words, but it's still 1 move. That's why saying 3 words sort of felt wierd. Also i REALLY had fun with that slaking strategy. If you want it to work almost guaranteed, accelgor should also know protect and hold focus sash. (in case of fake out.)
I always give mine skill swap. Then first turn, use it on opponent Pokémon lol
Or Simple beam Linoone if you're monotype
or just mold breaker?
Notable thing about the Rotom's is that in Gen 4, they didn't change types. So Fan-Rotom was still an Electric/Ghost type. It's probably why it maintained Levitate.
In that generation, it was actually worse for Carnivine to have Levitate because it's always been a pure Grass-Type. It would therefore resist Earthquake without the ability.
@@JCDragon2819levitate also has other uses like immunity to entry hazards
Or in other words, it's a vestigial ability.
I have a theory about slow start:
The other Pokémon in your team get jealous of regigigas so they break his legs to cripple him and it takes five turns for him to recover
LOL
You know what? That’s canon now
Now Imagine casually walking around grass and every single time a wild pokemon appears this happens to him
@18_Raj Thakkar_VIII_C woooosh
HERE'S a question for you! What about in the wild, when you first encounter him? Does he break his own legs to give you a fighting chance or do wild pokemon come out of the ether to break his legs before the fight begins?
Let's not forget the worst of all abilities: Ash's
*Once achieving slight success, this Trainer will not win the Pokemon League for plot reasons.*
Edit: Well this did not age well
Is a chance ash will win the alola League tho expect if gladion sweeps him in the finals 😂
Oresti Ismaili I’m ready for the Golisipod sweep.
@@rueblie2627 lol 😂
LMAO
If ash won an aloha League versus island kahunas his ash ability is depleted.
Actually, back in Diamond and Pearl, Rotom forms were ALL Electric/Ghost, so Rotom Fans ability had use
DJ Tile Turnip This mainly talks about USUM.
woobat and swoobat have levitate
@@vaesmoons no, they don't
Chxcx blz Woobat and Swoobat have Simple?
@@tofuuuuuuuuuuuuu You Again?
I feel so bad for regigigas specifically in legends arceus, since abilities arent in the game. Yet they still gave regigigas slow start still.
IM SORRY WHAT!!!!
@@charadreemurr4839 ye
Should've given Regigigas a new abilities but keep it's speed start at 50:
Architect: Doubles speed and ATK against Steel, Rock, or Ice types
Destroyer: Doubles Speed and ATK against Electric, Dragon, and Ghosts
@@joseguadalupemartineztorre9702 TRUE
Someone really hates Regigigas
high five to people who use Slaking with Skill Swap
You're the devil. Get out. Lol
Norman in rematch
Nah it’s a fist bump to people who use mummy
Did you mean: Entrainment? Make people suffer.
Lunar Flare: or simple beam
Galarian Weezing: Hi Slaki-
Slaking: *So you have chosen, death*
bye Slak,, *gets Mega Kicked into space*
@@netweed09 But if he dies on the first turn, then there is no difference at all
@@ezequielmiranda5927 Yes, you're right lol. Maxed out Adamant Slaking EQ may as well just be able do it on a high or even Ok damage roll, and Slaking will practically always go 1st in Competitives
Catching a white smoke Slakoth in my randomiser was just great
Imagine regigigas, slaking and galarian weezing being in a team against a shedinja and two other Pokémon that require their abilities to work well
...Regigigas and Slaking probably won't even be in the game :'D
@@yiangaruga4928 all legendary pokemon should BE in game
Epicbr0 Gaming wishiwashi lmao
Nico Kupiainen they shouldn’t, I want a less legendary competitive scene
@@MayoAddict475 Legendaries and mythicals are exactly what they should be cutting from the game for the most part. Very small amount of players actually use them and they're end game pokemons anyways, I'd much rather have as many normal pokemon in the game as possible. Legendaries have never been important aside from the story ones and shiny hunting. Most people stop playing the game when they finish the story and end game content so there's no real point in having that many legendaries in the game.
Honestly slow start is a really cool ability in concept, I just wish it worked differently. Something like this: Regi starts off the battle with -2 or -3 speed and atk (not affected by neutralizing gas) but then just like speed boost it gives you a +1 in speed and attack every turn. Completely underwhelming in the early turns and would still have counters but if you can survive with it for a few turns running mind games you could get a really hard hitter. That's what they were trying to do with attacks like fury cutter and rollout but regi could actually pull them off and punish stall teams
I think regigigas has slow start cause it's been asleep for oh so long, causing it to need to "wake up" or adapt to the battle
That's just what I think, so if makes sense to me
3 turns would be enough tho
@@alexbrown8900 I wont argue with that
No no no 1 turn would have been enough like wtf game freak ITS A LEGENDARY WHY IS IT SO BAD
My
Body
It would be even funnier if Delibird's Hidden Ability was Early Bird.
Special Agent Washing Tub
What does that do again
@@jackmiles655 The Pokémon is more likely to wake up from Sleep earlier.
Mosspath297 thx
I wish
Poor delibird
“It would be foolish to run physical attacks on a Pyroar due to this stat difference”
Pimpnite: *Hold my salt shaker*
Pimpnite wish minutes later: give me that salt now
YES!
pimp pokemon? wow.
Or you could use moxie pyroar to setup an 11pokemon sweep for garchomp. If you’re wondering what I’m talking about go to pokemonshowdown and look at the fun replay called garchomp sweeps 11 pokemon
lol
10:30 It makes it very nice for shiny hunting, and since Frillish is fairly easy to get, you can avoid a shiny with an explosion move from killing itself. Other than that, yeah, but it is not useless in all situations.
Game: *Slaking is loafing around*
Game: *Regigigas can’t get going*
Galarian Weezing: am i a joke to you?
Regigigas and slaking: we gonna be in ou
what is GALARIAN weezing’s ability
Axndrw too bad they aren’t in SWSH
[8B] Mebo it cancels the affect of all other abilities on the field
i dont have an switch but why galarian weezing?
To be fair, Rotom didn’t change type when it was introduced. It remained an electric/ghost type.
so its only useful in gen 4 but rly who uses rotom fan
@@Derpzling LMAO. no. Rotom wash is the best one.. like, objectively. look it up on the smogon tiers lmao
@@Silas_Silvestre It's useful in inverse battles in Generation VI, because it makes it immune to one of its weakness.
@@sn0wsparks rotom fan, ice types and rock types aren't very used aswell
@@SUPABROS rock type rotom isn’t a rotom
originally, the rotom forms didn't change type, which would give a tad bit of sense for why fan still had levitate
I don't know why he didn't say this if he explained the plus and minus through generations stuff :c
Yeah it would be weird To Give it an exclusive ability
Also, since all of them have levitate, it would be unbalanced or whatever, if Fan had something else, like Cute Charm.
StarDust yeah
Sousuke Y umm no don’t act like that just because you don’t like him
Some other effects should apply to the useless abilities, making them no longer or sort of no longer useless. For Defeatist, it should give the pokemon doubled attack stat in its first half of HP. For Illuminate, it should multiply light based move damage. For slow start, make it only apply to the first three turns in battle. These are just my thoughts.
Yup. Emergency Exit pretty much ruined Golisopod for me because it switches out in the heat of battle...
@@soappacket2342 I like emergency exit when it works (you smack something super hard, get clipped below half, and swap into the best possible counter). I hate it when you go for an attack, get outsped because golisopod's speed is laughable and you were trying to heal with leech life and get shunted out without your consent.
@@soappacket2342 yeah it's a really bad ability,
I feel like giving it an equal alternative like defeatist,
A risky ability like swarm,
Or even something as insane as Speed Boost,
Would not make it broken, but at least it'd be usable.
Illuminate would become pretty op for battles though
Okay Choice Band/HDB Archeops would be insane
Well, being fair, all of Rotom's forms were Electric/Ghost in Gen 4, so Levitate was beneficial.
It changes in Generation 5.
618 That changed in Platinum, not Gen 5.
@@ThighFish No, that's when Rotom got its alternate forms. They were still Electric/Ghost until Gen V.
@@codename618 Oh, you're right.
I always found that odd, thankfully the rom hack Renegade Platinum fixes this
Totally Toxic Well, that's good for the Rom...
...too bad about the rest of the series.
I would love if they revamped Run Away to allow you to escape trapping moves and abilities.
Or not being affected by pursuit maybe
@Sundae the Espeon The ability allows the user to run away from the battle, not switch out. I might be stupid, but I don't think that would work for switch training. My only knowledge of Run Away is using it on an eevee once so chances are I'm wrong tho.
@@elizabethemm6361 Yes, but Steven mentioned Pursuit, a move that is boosted when the target is trying to switch out.
@@Robin280497 I know, I was saying that's why run away might not work. Although looking at the comments now, i realise it's about changing run away, not how it currently is 😅
Galarian Weezing:
I’m about to start this man’s whole career
everyone gangsta till you notice slaking archeops and regigigas won’t be in the dex
@@guappy2saucy752 At least Golisopod was comfirmed.
@@cintronproductions9430 was barbaracle?
@@meltyanimations2672 I haven't seen Barbaracle in any trailer. Hopefully it's in, cuz I've never used one.
@@cintronproductions9430 barbaracle has a body like golisopod and I like both!
If I recall correctly, Slow Start used to be three turns, which was much more manageable. Also, Durant having Truant makes sense as it is saying that "This ant is the one out of many that is lazy" which actually happens
It was always 5
@@ThatOneWeirdFlex It was, well guess I remember wrong. Thanks
Durant.
True - Ant = Trueant
The true ant, that covers itself in metal to survive to heatmor.
(Funnily enough it's great because becoming a steel type made durant 4x weak to heatmor.)
@@francomoreira4222 I never noticed that, it's a great pun
@@francomoreira4222 the japsnese game makers did not give durant that ability for a pun in english.
Durant with truant ability is a reference to lazy ants
Some researches point out that some ants in the colony just wandering around and do nothing
So to me Durant with truant as hidden ability makes perfect sense
Those ants are living the good life.
Tru-ANT
Hidden ability too. Meaning a lazy and is harder to find. I liked to think that Durant didnt quite forget the anthill mentality so sometimes in battle it'll start looking for food for the queen.
The lazy ants like the minecraft villagers that dont trade with you.
"dippin dots of doom"
this is it. this is the best thing ever uttered.
This is dippin’ underrated
Yw 🤗🤗
@@goroufromgenshin57107 *BOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOO*
I laughed so hard when he said that
"it's a flabebe!
IT'S A FLABEBE!"
That cracked me up.
Some changes I would make to two of the last three abilities that I am surprised they haven't made;
Run Away - Now let's you switch out for free. Regardless of Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Wrapping moves, etc. This would make it ACTUALLY usable in battles.
Illuminate - Now acts like Intimidate but with Accuracy. This will be annoying and likely not used competitively but I think that would be so fun! Also, I feel it should be like Flash without having to use Flash. I suppose.
I think making illuminate makes all dark type moves do half the normal damage because it makes so much sense
that Illuminate would actually be pretty strong in my opinion, especially with moves like U Turn and Volt Switch. It's probably way better in double battles though. If a pokemon gets hit by that twice, or the Illuminate user uses a move like flash or double team, it could be hard to beat. I guess moves like Aerial Ace and Shock Wave exist, so it's not unbeatable. Intimidate can already force a physical attacker to switch after 1 or 2 applications. Also, it'd be nice if it passively illuminated caves like you said.
@@CatsLeMatts
Maybe make more unmissing moves, or add moves that help raise accuracy as well to balance this.
Focus Energy, Focus Punch, and a few can do that. Also abilities like Inner Focus and Oblivious can avoid this reduction.
Just thinking out loud on the internet I suppose. 🤔😅
Also give the ability to Illumise, *for EFF's sake!!!*
It's literally in its name and even its counterpart, Volbeat, has it! Why not Illumise then? This is soo incredibly dumb! 🤦♂️
U could make illuminate actually increase the accuracy of the users moves
As i always say, Run Away should have the effect in battle that the user can switch whatever happens (in other words, Run Away Pokemon would be immune to trapping like Ghost types does)which actually would be pretty decent instead of being completely useless. Also Illuminate should boosts Electric type attacks cause well it uses light.
Run Away is a perfect ability for crossing Diglet Cave
I think illuminate should be a quick claw where it activates sometimes in double battles and draws fire, could be neat. Also honey gather could lower the enemies evasion, like a permanent sweet scent
“Levitate serves no purpose on Rotom Fan”
Mold Breaker Pokemon with Earthquake: Allow us to introduce ourselves
TimG57867 true but in that case levitate still does nothing
@@tuxpengu9138 Yeah it's more something for Rotom Fan to distinguish itself from the rest. Levitate won't get to help unless it gets Soak'd or something.
TimG57867 The point was that it's in most circumstances.
Mold Breaker goes through abilities, not types. So Levitate is still 100% useless.
Mold Breaker doesn't make flying not immune to ground though
Fan: so what’s your hidden ability
Delibird: vital spirit-
Fan: but that’s one of your normal abilities
Delibird: yes, but with a different name
Vital Spirit boosts the chance of finding higher leveled Pokemon, so Vital Spirit is better than Insomnia.
@@paradoxanxiety5040 not in battle though
Ah yes, flying type with levitate, good to put an air balloon on it
Edit: and magnet rise
X8 immune to ground? That soo good
Gotta make sure that ground legendary shiny mega gigantamax Pokémon doesn’t use its signature dynamax move and do 1 damage to u if u don’t have all the immunites possible
“If you’re using Ledian Properly”
You mean not at all?
I mean I killed Ultra Necrozma with my Ledian
@@courtneyevie not really kid
:(
@@mjm3091 hey, I did that too. 👍
@@courtneyevie I'm denying the assumption I missed a joke. People should stop bastardising r/whoosh and use it properly. Me adding a fun fact about how I have beaten Ultra Necrozma with Ledian, doesnt imply that I didnt get the fact the OP was joking. I was playing on it.
man, if only iron fist was in gen 3, right before the physical/special split, ledian could have done something maybe
Psysical/special split was in gen 2
@@vojtaane 1. Are you thinking of HGSS?
2. Why are you replying to a 6-month old comment?
Vojtee Footgames no, it was in gen 4
Vojtee Footgames no, in Gen 2, the Special stat was splitted into Special Attack and Special Defense
@@vojtaane you're thinking of the special stat split, wherein gen 2 made pokemon no longer just have 1 special stat and split it into special attack and special defense. The physical/special split was introduced in gen 4, making moves physical or special individually, rather than all moves of a type being either physical or special
Togekiss with hustle? Lowers accuracy to boost physical attack when it is mostly a special attacker
*so stonks*
@Arpan Saha how so? what gain would a Pokemon with 120 special attack have with Hustle when it has a 50 base physical attack? Especially considering its other basic ability, Serene Grace, is so good. Serene Grace + Air Slash makes for incredible cheese potential.
@@starduststriker8792 dude Super luck is way better
@@danielyanissadiesabbag8102 no it isn't. serene grace is literally one of the best abilities in pokemon are u serious.
@@starduststriker8792 Do u play VGC? If u did u’d agree with me
what they should of did with the slow start ability was have it so regigigas would regain about 20% of the attack and speed stat that has been halved per turn until on the 5th turn where both of it's stats are the way they should be.
Hell no. Regigigas has the same amount of base stats as freakin Groudon and Kyogre, the diference is that they have a positive ability while Regi has a negative one.
Either remove this ability (which doesnt make sense) or buff his stats to monstrous levels (like 800+).
@@walaceandrade4046 Make it half his stats for 2 turns. This encourages the trainer to have actual strategy to keep it alive. After the time, max out Regigigas' attack, sp. attack and speed for the rest of the battle. This includes if you switch it out. If taking Gigas' stats to max is too much, give all his stats a boost of 1 level and make all of his moves get STAB. This may be a bit OP, but Pokémon made Mega Rayquaza.
“It only comes into play in double battles.”
Triple battles: “Am I a joke to you?”
There probably won't be triple battles in the next games.
Jakewebmaster8 true true
Jakewebmaster8 Gen 5: am i a joke to you?
I mean right now. Not gen 5.
Jakewebmaster8 oh whoops I was meant to reply to the op not you
"Flabébé has a higher attack (than Ledian). And IT'S A FLABÉBÉ." Favouite part right there.
Edit: time stamp of 12:00. xxx
Was gonna say the same thing 😂 FLABÉBÉ
Michael: Says nobody is perfect
Also Michael: Forgets a space in between "golem" and "can"
I would wonder if at one point Slow Start was supposed to then double your attack when the counter was up. I can't imagine a situation where anyone would think a normal type with middle of the road legendary stats and a weak move pool would be usable with such an awful ability.
"Middle of the road legendary stats" That would be like 600, not 670. 670 is like the upper echelon of legendary stats. Still, having a 160 base physical attack Pokémon with a type that hits absolutely nothing for STAB S.E. damage be nerfed is just plain silly.
The reason why delibird has Insomnia and vital spirit us because on Christmas eve kids have trouble sleeping because they're exited and want to see santa and delibird is based off Santa
You mean excited . Exited means to leave
@@sleepiestboi4631 It's Christmas, I'm outta here.
Yeet!
So why does it have insomnia then?
@@SaberStrike-p2 Santa has christmas night insomnia since he just never seems to need to sleep when delivering toys and the kids are using their will power and vital spirit to stay up as hard as they can and see him.
"Illuminate is useless"
Rom Hacks that require grinding: Hold my overleveled trainer battles
You mean Kaizo?
@@cowrocks3630 Hi.
I'm making a quick poll.
Say, do you have time for a bit AND do you have
knowledge about what attacks are good fit
for specific pokemon?
@@slevinchannel7589 omg stfu
@@slevinchannel7589 wut
@@slevinchannel7589 You sound like an in game npc that will give me a nugget or full restore if I get it right
11:15 “EVERYTHING IS GARBAGE!”
Reset stamp: Am I a joke to you?
Gimme dat Reset Stamp!
The thing about slow start is, that it actually could've been good. Instead of hindering Regigigas for five turns, it could've instead boosted all of its stats at the end of each turn, making it so that it slowly gets more powerful throughout the battle as it wakes up. That would have been awesome.
Or let regigigas use protect and rest cause for some reason it can't
@@sharkshrek4154 Until gen 8. Also, that doesn't fix the problem. You have to waste a slot on a move whose only purpose is to stall out Regigigas' terrible ability. And in the meantime, opponents could use that turn to set up.
@@samuelsoliday4381 if regigigas could learn counter, that could help, honestly they should let regigigas learn movies to support with it's bad ability like more moves that do damage from it's defense, weight, or it gets hurt, stronger moves or let it use recover.
Idea: Slow Start works for 3 turns only.
You don't understand how incredibly broken that would be with boosts after each turn for simply existing
Galarian weezing:Awaken my masters!
Slaking,archeops,regigigas:*pillar men theme starts playing*
Ayayaayayayayyayayayayyayayayy
Those pokemon probably aren't even in swsh
I see you are a man/woman of JoJo's as well.
Seth Swanson dID yOu jUsT AsSuMe mY gEnDEr
Galarian weezing is that fine British chap who offers everyone a cup of hot tea and some crumpets.
You: true-aunt
The actual pronunciation: tru-ant.
They literally only gave it to Durant to make a pun and you ruined it
and also for entrainment but i wount ruin your fun and give you a like
slaking has truant
I accept the pun anyway.
truant
tru ant?!
TRU
A N T?!
@@boneclaimingquixote320 wow... OP should have made a comment about this. Good thing you pointed it out.
You should have included Slaking in the Weird Stats video as it is literally a sloth with base 100 speed.
Sloths are strong enough to lift themselves with one arm from birth
@@ZenoDLC yeah but speed, not attack.
@@ZenoDLC did you even read the comment?
I think illuminate has a simple "fix". Keep what it already does (because some people can find a use for it) but also add the effect of lowering the opponents accuracy. It makes perfect sense to me; illuminate implies a bright light, and a bright light in my face while trying to aim would definitely make me worse lol.
I have a burning passion against slow start in particular though, it singlehandedly turned a really cool legendary into the laughing stock of battles.
And give Illumise the ability for crying out loud! Volbeat has it, so why the hell not Illumise? 🤦♂️😂
These Pokémon: *exist*
Galarian Weezing: *also exists*
These Pokémon: *less terrible*
Rotom Fan's levitate is Neutralized
Trainer: Yes, now I can use earthquake!
Fan Rotom: Uhh, I'm still immune to it...
@@gustavju4686 gravity: allow me to introduce myself
@@elementmanexe8389 you can use that on rotom fan either way
@@justas423 I know that, I'm saying that rotom fan would be the only rotom still retaining immunity to ground type attacks with neutralizing gas on the field.
your forgetting illuminate does not have an affect in battle already so...
USA: oil prices arent that high
Oil prices:*air balloon fan rotom*
2:53 "it's my favourite fossil pokemon"
Lord helix wants to know your location
FBI OPEN UP!!!
Lord Helix is not a fossil. HE IS A GOD!
For ledian, litleo and cherrim: sleeper stats.
Opponents expect your phy attack to not be good until you start setting up.
Obviously having to set up is still a pain
tbh archeops doesnt care about its ability, since it gets oneshot anyway. - It was part of the metagame in b/w-times, cause acrobatics with air gem.
Actually, insomnia is worst ability for delibird since it's a hidden ability
Imagine using an ability change capsule and know that you got the same thing
@@Ruggi21 lmao
As much as you say that Flower Gift is poopy, I want to believe that there is some crazy Competitive trainer that managed to reach a top cut or win a regional using a super combo of Groudon and Cherrium (Groudon can summon sun and benefits the most from gaining more Attack and Special Defense).
I always thought that the abilities that boost atk were meant to actually help a Pokémon with poor atk in the first place. Like Ledian for example Iron Fist can be beneficial when combined with Life Orb. The only draw back is you have to heal Ledian every few turns. There's also Metronome. Boosting attack power at the cost of repeating an attack isn't such a big deal unless an enemy uses Torment on Ledian
True, but why would you want to boost the weaker attack stat, when you could just use attacks of the Pokémon's stronger move type instead?
@@LRM12o8 I like use use Nuzlocke rules when I play. Sometimes I impose a rule that forces me to use pokemon weak in certain stat areas. Naturally because of that I'll use any loophole available. Combining items with abilities is a perfect means to help you during a Nuzlocke run.
@@LRM12o8 It's not like Ledian's Special Attack is anything special either. I don't know the numbers, but it's entirely possible that an Iron Fist Ledian actually is better with physical moves than special moves.
...Oh wait. None of the punching moves are as strong as Ledian's STAB Bug Buzz. ...Yeah just use Swarm.
1:42 “I don’t really get why durANT has the TRU ANT ability”
It's a pun. Truant. True Ant.
Exactly
"Religously using repels"
Dear god, that is hilarious
For anyone who doesn't understand the plus/minus ability, they were the signature ability of Minum and plusle.
It's Minun you pleb
Yet ampharos can have plus.
BRUH
Literally just a gimmick for electric gym leaders in double battles. Lucky me, since I actually like Klinklang and Plusle/Minun, and also love triple battles in B2/W2, I can actually make some use of those abilities.
Micheal: greetings pokefans
Subtitles: gouri dings prevents
*u r eating swiggy pants*
@@rajeevjoy I've seen one that said: TING TINGS, 40 FANS
What does gouri dings prevent
shlawgadogadingdong didn't get someone to write his captions 😭
Plus/Minus also let you benefit from Magnetic Flux and Gear Up in doubles (+1 to both defenses and +1 to both attacks respectively). Being able to Cosmic Power and/or Work Up both Pokemon on your side of the field on top of the Plus/Minus synergy can get real crazy, especially with Role Play and Entrainment opening up your partner options tremendously (I've seen somebody run a doubles strat with Mega Charizard Y getting Plus from a Plusle, and then throwing around Plus boosted, sun-boosted, Helping Hand boosted STAB Heat Wave, an effective 500 base power attack that hits both opponents, after only a single turn of setup). Being primarily useful in the doubles format =/= useless.
Using Damp to prevent Explosion can be useful over immunity-ing the hit and letting them faint, because if you trap something that you otherwise wall completely, they can't Explosion out of desperation just to get out of the unwinnable matchup and prevent you from setting up a sweep. They get to just sit there and watch you pile on whatever ridiculous setups you want. Same if you trap something that wants to set up for its team (hazards, screens, trick room, etc.) and blow up to get off the field.
It's like the move Grudge: it's worse than Destiny Bond on paper, until you find an extremely specific setup that can buy you truckloads of momentum to totally clean somebody out. Like if you have a Rock/Ground opponent and you can Grudge away its Rock option, it stops being a threat to Flying types and could become setup fodder, and that free time could give you enough room to click the "gg" button. Very specific =/= useless.
And Moxie Pyroar is covering up a weakness, not doubling down on a strength like other Moxie users. Like how Rotom Heat is using Levitate to cover up a double weakness, while Carnivine is using Levitate to cover up a resistance. See, if you pick something off with Pyroar, even if the KO comes from a special attack, then both of its attacks are roughly even, and it becomes much harder to just plop a Blissey in front of it and laugh in Pyroar's face, something that non-Moxie Pyroar is much, MUCH more vulnerable to. Especially when you have Moxie and Wild Charge to threaten Water types that would otherwise wall you completely. And if you can score a second knockout, Pyroar hits HARDER on the physical side than it does on the special side.
Flower Gift is good on Cherrim for basically all of these reasons. It boosts physical attack because THAT ONE is the one that Cherrim needs boosted, so it's not totally helpless against special walls, AND juicing up your partner in doubles shouldn't be totally counted out, especially if Cherrim has Helping Hand. Flower Gift + Helping Hand hits harder than Pure Power, and that's not counting the boost to fire moves from the sun, AND Flower Gift is also basically a free Light Screen. It's very specific, but can be absurdly powerful in that specific context.
Sorry for the giant wall of text; I'm a bit of a Pokemon scientist, so these are the things that jump out at me. Most of the rest of the video is reasonably on point. Even with Swords Dance, Iron Fist Ledian is a joke. Slow Start takes entirely too long to get going when Regigigas ALSO loses access to Rest and Protect, so it can't stall for time AND needs to switch out to Heal Bell away Toxic because it CAN'T get its act together otherwise (with Protect and Rest, it would probably be "okay". Not "great", just "okay"). Levitate on Fan Rotom is just there for consistency, so it ends up being redundant. And Illuminate having NO effect in PvP is just stupid.
Loved reading the wall. There are more useless abilities in the game. Like Klutz, Stall and limber on stunfisk.
@@sudeeppednekar8355 Klutz is beautiful if you're clever. You can use Entrainment to turn off their item and ability with one move, Trick them a Choice item at your leisure instead of being forced to do it turn one (which also means you're immune to being tricked a choice item), you can Trick an Assault Vest to permanently Taunt somebody (something basically impossible to do otherwise), you can outspeed somebody to Trick them a Lagging Tail or Iron Ball, and so on.
You can really ruin somebody's day if you hit the right target. 99% of people using Blissey would hate to end up with an Assault Vest, because most people run it with Toxic, Protect, and Softboiled. Nobody wants to run Blissey with Seismic Toss and nothing else. Lagging Tail makes you go last even in Trick Room, so you can even screw up sets like that.
Anything holding a Lagging Tail is just going to get revenge killed by basically anything. Klutz is a huge commitment, and takes a lot of planning, but it can completely destroy the keystone holding somebody's team together if used right. It can work out like Damp, but Klutz is way easier to use because it doesn't just counter one move.
But Limber on Stunfisk only saves you from Paralysis if you get Soak'd, and I cannot imagine somebody going into a battle with the intent to Soak a Stunfisk so they could Paralyze a slow Pokemon for some reason, instead of using Soak to hit Poison and Steel types with Toxic. Or, you know, a Water type just smacking Stunfisk senseless with a STAB Water move. Pokemon can get really technical and there's a lot of room for finesse, but sometimes a big, dumb "slap as hard as I can" works better.
Is there a tldr version of your message
@@PixieOfTheSewers In short: Pokemon is an extremely complicated game with literally millions of combinations. Some things are very narrow or hard to use, but almost nothing is COMPLETELY useless. Sometimes a slightly-less-good option can work better than "the best" option, because it's harder to predict.
Even if an ability is completely redundant or outright bad on purpose, technically anything could theoretically BECOME useful in doubles, thanks to Skill Swap and Role Play. Elements in Pokemon tend to be "very niche" or "difficult to use", not really "completely worthless".
Svierrod Cuppycake ok thx
"Just gonna ignore the Dippin' Dots of Doom today" is probably the best thing to ever come from anyone's mouth~
I'm so mad he kept saying "True-Aunt" and didn't realize Durant and Truant RHYME
also how he pronounces Rotom
"True-aunt" is wrong, but the word "truant" is pronounced like "TRUE-uhnt."
@Obi Wan Kenobi he says it like (ro-tome) when it's actually pronounced (ro-tahm)
Why are you arguing over a person pronouncing a word.
Steven McPhee they dont though? tru-int vs dur-annt
Actually, because abilities were removed from PLA, Fan Rotom is only rotom form that keeps its immunity to ground in that game.
So it's not ENTIRELY useless anymore
no it's still useless
you only prooved that levitate is useless on fan because nothing changed about rotom fan when removing it's ability
@@Adir-Yosef when rotom debuted, all of its forms were only ghost eletrick, so it had no imunity for ground outside of the hability levitate
What, you literally proved the opposite, that levitate was useless on Fan-Rotom because removing the ability didn't do anything, lol.
12:45
Fun Fact: Sunflora has a higher base physical Attack stat than Pyroar.
Pyroar: 68
Sunflora: 75
So. its a special attacker so its physical attack is low
@@badtimeisinevitable9620 well yeah if its a special attacker pokemon logic
It does? Huh... good to know.
@@calebdonaldson7044 Sunflora is also a special attacker
Give Pyroar one more Atk.
Damp is also a good ability for shiny hunting Pokémon that learn explosion, or self-destruct.
Remember in Platinum, Fan-Rotom was still Electric/Ghost so levitate was helpful for it.
then the question is if it was obvious that they were changing the typings between them since for the most part gamefreak notices these little things then why the hell did they leave something so obvious in
Gamesmasher It was only in DP that all Rotom forms were Electric/Ghost. Platinum was when the appliance forms were given new secondary types.
Ok, Stoutland has some good sets. Intimidate and Assualt Vest and you got a tank
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Durant has it because it's a pun.
TRU-ANT
DUR-ANT
Get it?
You pronounce truant like "true-int"
So the pun name doesnt make sense
@@sleepiestboi4631 ...my live is a lie.
water melon I think they meant in terms of spelling, not pronunciation.
@@ammonitetheseaserpent3761 but it doesn't work because truant's Japanese name is namake, meaning lazy
"The Dippen' Dots of doom" is one of the best description of Blacephalon I've ever heard.
Just wait till Sword and Shield releases.
Let’s just say that things are going to change...
Ball fetch?
dimmsdale dimmadome meta
Yessir
Israel Lai ball fetch would be great if they add shiny catch combos and u want a shiny yamper (hopefully they dont ever add combos again)
@Uziel Rodriguez you're
You forgot about rhyperior, it has the ability lightning rod which gives it electric immunity, BUT ITS ALREADY A GROUND TYPE
But what if in a future generation Game Freak make a move or ability that makes electric type moves hits ground types despite of the immunity.
Until you consider double
and triple battles
This is gonna age poorly when they release a move called 'Aim for the Horn' & an ability called 'Turn On the Sprinklers' 😂
Ash's pikachu: "Seriously, Gamefreak. Been doing this since gen 1. Get on it."
In later gens, it draws in electric attacks, making lightningrod super useful on a ground type in double/triple battles
Pimpnite be like "alright let me do a pokemon sweep with these abilities"
The Sweeping Salt Master.
More like: "alright let me battle myself"
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Stunfisk has limber and pokemon showdown gives it a cheri berry, just in case it does get paralyzed somehow
Plus since gen 6 Electric pokemon cant get paralzed
Was gonna say that but you were first
@@thunderybuggy7399 they cannot get hit by thunder wave but still can be hit with stun spore
@@wildresin6292 since gen 6, electric types cant be paralyzed anymore even with stun spore
But, galarian stunfisk is not an electric type
The solution:
Neutralizing Gas Galar Weezing
No. Just defeat the Weezing or force it out of battle to make those meme teams crumble. Smh at everyone overestimating Neutralizing Gas, it's nice but won't save the Slaking gang.
What would happen with Galar Weezing and a Mold Breaker pokemon
@@gengarzilla1685 Then there should be a Skill Swap ability xD
There's a fable about a lazy grasshopper and a hard-working ant, and how their lives get different because of their work ethics; some variations of the story just have two ants, and I think that's where the idea came from for Durant.
"Dippin Dots of Doom" - Michael, 2019
Illuminate could serve as an entry "Flash", dropping accuracy of the enemy pokémon as it enters in battle.
God that sounds awful. I hate missing so starting with a chance to miss would make me break everything in my house.
Well, not many pokémon have Illuminate anyways... you can always switch to negate the accuracy drop. Intimidate pisses me off the most.
Even better would be to lower evasion, as you're shining a light on them to be able to see better. Imagine a Starmie or Lanturn with 100% acc hydro pumps, or Lanturn with 93% acc thunders. If they ever bring back Spotlight and made this change to Illuminate Lanturn would be scary in VGC.
@@colinfloyd5788 nice suggestion.
@@colinfloyd5788 what if when the pokemon with illuminate is out, no one on the field will miss an attack. So it's like a double edge blade.
Just wait until Slaking us revealed for Sword & Shield. Just pair it with a Neutralizing Gas Weezing in a double battle. Now you can destroy gods!
EDIT: Wow, so much likes! Thank you all
And we all have wanted to destroy gods Arceus and Mewtwo has stood at the top for too long 😈😈
OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU...
NANI????!??!?!?
#slothgod
I highly doubt those teams will be popular. Such setups sound too gimmicky and very reliant on Weezing's survival. Trust me, it'll die off.
Sorry but slaking will not be in SwSd.
9:00 that makes it harder to hit it with ground type move, since you now need to pop the air balloon, use skill swap or trace on it and then use magic powder or give it protean from greninja, and then you can hit it with ground type move.
MandjTV: Every Pokémon ability is Useless.
Smogon: Am I a joke to you!!
Me defeating my father in Pokemon Emerald: omg i actually defeated a legendary level pokemon with beautifly
I ran a mixed attacking Moxie Pyroar on Showdown and got a 6-0 sweep with it.
How many times
Just once. Managed several 3-0, 4-0 sweeps but only did a 6-0 once.
Well then congrats man but then again point remains moxie ain't as useful on pyroar as on the other pokemon who get moxie cuz it suits them that much more
@@akshatgoel1502 I never made the claim that it was useful. I just said that I did it.
So true
Fun fact: Fan Rotom's Levitate ability used to not be useless! In Diamond and Pearl the only way to change Rotom's form was through an event item called the Secret Key and in those games when you changed Rotom's form it didn't actually change Rotom's typing, staying Electric/Ghost.
My idea to fix Regigigas:
Make it so that after one turn, either its Attack or Special Attack unlock (randomly or in a set order), then on the next turn the other Attack stat, then on the next turn its Speed.
Would still get the _slow start_ idea across and actively hinder it but you could then actually see how it manages to be the boss of the other Regis.
U mean it basically "reactivate" during battle becoming more dangerous as turns go by?
I’d just change the ability to Moxie.
mike: frillish with damp is useless. misty explosion: ima end this mans whole carrer
4:00 but if regigigas were truly part of it, wouldn't that make it a legendary quartet?
No. Not only was it introduced a generation later, but the three Regis are his royal guard. He is ABOVE them (supposedly)
Defeatist would be more understandable if the attack stats were dropped to 75% instead of 50%
Would still be terrible, but more of a fair nerf
My best guess for Durant having Truant would be because it's an ant and "Irony" that a hardworking ant would be lazy.
Nah, he has it cause it's a True Ant
I feel like Slow Start would be decently balanced if it only took 1 or 2 turns to get going instead of 5
Or let regigigas use protect and rest to stall some turns so it can wait until slow start ends but it can't do that
The thing is, Regigigas has stats of legendaries... as a legendary... it hasn't grossly inflated stats like Slaking. It didn't need any nerf, especially not one that strong.
I would just give it Moxie.
15:20 It's also useful for grinding but you would have to switch out unless the Pokemon you're leveling up is holding an exp share and is weaker than the illuminate user
One thing you forgot to mention is that, when Rotom's Forms were first introduced (in Platinum version) they didn't gain new types, they all stayed Ghost Electric type. The type change came about in gen 5 likely to give STAB to their new moves they just gained, and to farther the point that a physical object is being possessed.