Honorable mention to pre Gen 5 Sturdy, it negated 1 hit kill moves, it negated 4 moves in the entire game, 4 almost never used moves that would most likely miss you anyway, thank god for Gen 5 making it an actual useful ability
Solid Rock is overrated. Energy Ball and Surf will still kill Rhyperior before it knows what hit it. Every Pokémon with the Solid Rock ability has a 4x weakness to Surf or Energy Ball/Giga Drain/Grass Knot. Although I’ll agree it’s still better than Lightningrod on Rhyperior. And I guess it’s okay for Camerupt seeing as it has good special defense and Amnesia but still... Rhyperior is still a really good Pokémon and doesn’t need Solid Rock to be better than all other Rock types except Tyranitar though. I just don’t think the benefit is as good as it seems.
If they had one that reflected a single type back, like grass onto a rock type gets reflected back for 4/10th total damage, i could understand that. 40% back would be nice.
nononono i remember sturdy as those little vag rocks would not get killed by my supereffective grass moves it pissed me off so much that i just had to run away
2:04 I feel like run away would be situationally useful if it was changed so that you can always switch out. As in you can't be trapped by arena trap, fire spin, shadow tag etc.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ pickup actually does have a use in battle although it sucks it picks up an item the opponent used and even that only works if your pokemon is not holding anything itself
the only ability that I think shouldn't be on the list is surge surfer because it allows alolan raichu to not use as many if any speed evs. Also alonan raichu is part of the tapu koko tapu lele raichu core that is popular in vgc and thats because of surge surfer and its psychic type.
Don't play a lot of VGC, so I didn't know that. However, wouldn't that be easily countered though by things like Tyranitar and Landorus-T (Post-Pokebank)?
Truant is understandable, but Defeatist and Slow Start were completely pointless since the Pokemon in question didn't need "balancing" There are more op legends than regigigas who get off scott free and Archeops has pathetic HP and Defenses as well as weaknesses to 5 types
Niels The Jolteon um actually regigigas is a pretty good Pokémon it has 200+ max speed a ton of attack and defense. It only has one super effective type against it and it learns substitute and thunder wave making it and incredible wall
@@JohnJonesBilly it does have a lack of reliable recovery and can't even learn protect Plus, again, it's really great, but there are more powerful Pokemon than it and they don't get completely crippled
@@snekladyrobin Those legendary pokemon are only "more op" than regigigas because regigigas has slow start. If, by some tactic, you got rid of slow start then it would shit on pokemon left and right justa s Slaking can do when Truant is gotten rid of. As for Archeops, it's lower defense stats also play a part in the "balancing" aspect of why it ahs defeatist. Oh, and let's not forget this thing can learn roost, so it's not like "all is lost" just because it drops to half its HP. But without Defeatist, Archeops would just be Salamence Jr. It's also important to remember the generation the pokemon was made in. There wasn't really that many op legendary pokemon back in Gen 4 to compare to Regigigas and I'm sure you remember how terrifying Flying Gem + Acrobatics Archeops was.
Although I agree with Run Away, fun enough, I'm doing a shiny hunting badge quest in Soul Silver right now and I'm finding a lot of use in that ability. My only high level Pokemon is my shiny Chikorita, so to avoid getting its shiny sparkles confused with a new shiny, a Run Away Sentret has been my lead Pokemon. But yeah, Smoke Ball really invalidates that. It would be cool if they buffed Run Away so they could escape Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Fire Spin, etc. in battle.
right, but it would provide a *use* for the Ability, plus allow non-Ghost types to escape. like, if you're already trapped in something, you can't exactly switch to a Ghost-type.
#2. There are two battle techniques with KLUTZ: 1.) Hold an items that would cause damage so your opponents try to steal it, and 2.) When an opponent/ally uses SKILL SWAP.
edgy my thoughts exactly. I love Aegislash simply because his low speed makes him basically untouchable since he can attack and go back into turtle mode consecutively
Run Away is actually a good ability for me. Whenever I'm hunting Shiny Dittos in the Friend Safari they always give me strife by holding Quick Powder and Transforming into my Smeargle with high speed... and yeah. Run Away is good if you can't get your hands on a Smoke Ball.
Alright, so it seems Surge Surfer is quite useful. Truth was I just thought it was funny there was an ability that raised Raichu's speed, but didn't think about how good that would be in doubles. Also I hear you guys on Klutz. Full Klutz Team upcoming..... (once GameFreak decides we deserve the Pokebank Update)
I'm not sure yet. I think there are good and bad parts to it. On one hand you get a free switch and another chance to use First Impression. On the other hand, you may not want to switch at that moment, so I need to see how/if people use it in battles.
Some of these are even worse when you consider the pokes that can use them. With Big Pecks for example, it is mostly birds that already have mediocre defense, but high attack. Normally by the time a pokemon could even try to lower its defense, that poke would have eaten two attacks and died.
Klutz is not that useless, it was quite common on Lopunny with Trick. The ability I was really hoping you'd include in this was Illuminate, which I think would've been pretty high on the list! :)
Jon Martin Vinje there’s no good items to put on a loppuny to trick to other Pokémon. If you’re talking about a flame orb, you could just use a will o wisp on a Pokémon.
The only use of Klutz is to Switcheroo Assault Vest, any other item worth Tricking could be useful to the pokémon holding it, while also a major detriment to the right victim (i.e. Choice Items, Flame Orb, Black Sludge, etc.). Assault Vest is essentially a permanent taunt that your opponent can't trick back. This strategy is still absolutely terrible.
Amie Mallich Too bad Klutz doesn't work on Mega stones and most people use mega evolution asap (though it is unlikely you can effect mega stones that way anyway.
dyrokudobane Won't know until you try... *Realises internet is a thing* Well you can skill swap after mega evolution, Pixilate Gardevoir? Nope! Magic Bounce Sabeleye? Nope! Wait... Would that work? Okay, well... Drought Charizard? No-Well... I guess it... Well maybe... Okay, I'll stop.
With Sableye's AMAZING base 75 attack, I'm sure they'll be keeling over from those Paybacks. There's a reason Foul Play is Sableye's attack of choice. Its attack stat sucks, it has to use its opponent's to do damage. Also Swagger is a thing, it synergizes well with Foul Play too, Sableye's a solid half the reason the Swagger Clause exists in Smogon's rules (Klefki being the other half).
You wanna know the funny thing about light metal? Metagross weights so much that low kick and grass knot will always deal max damage regardless of ability. Also I know that you discarded truant because it balances out Slaking but I would have put it in number 1 because there is one more pokemon that gets truant and is not nearly as broken as Slaking, rendering the ability useless.
no Durant gets entrainment so truant does have a use on it, it can be used to actually sweep any team using most pokemon, if you get entrainment off on every enemy pokemon, then bring in a pokemon with protect, you're opponent will never be able to deal damage to you and you can do this with any pokemon that learns protect
Assuming the opponent won't SWITCH. if they don't is because he's trapped by baton-passed mean look. If you switch to a sweeper, mean look gets cancelled and if you try baton pass again with durant you have to wait for durant to do nothing one more turn. The idea is nice on paper but it's just not worth it.
quite honest, there is the infamous truant durant + dugtrio combo. eject button truant durant with entrainment in team with protect + hone claws dugtrio. works in 1-offs (aka not best of 3) mostly against inexperienced players.
Sableye with Stall is designed specifically for Payback builds. I agree that Prankster is better, but the application of getting Payback to that double damage every time is indeed useful. (Though still, go for Prankster.)
Sableye has Stall to double Payback damage, it could learn that move some time ago. So it had one use with this ability. Levitate Rotom-Fan is useless though.
Light Metal's good on Scizors that hold Scizorite since Mega Scizor gains Technician upon Mega Evolution anyways. Might as well have base Scizor use an ability that gives it SOMETHING before it mega evolves. There's no reason to not mega evolve Scizor when you bring it out.
It actually gives zero benefit to metagross due to the way damage for low kick and grass knot are calculated. Only making metagross take more damage from heavy slam and heat crash so it's literally only a detriment.
Jake Phillips I was dumbfounded that abilities like surge surfer, Klutz, or magma armor was in here but NOT illuminate. illuminate literally does nothing in battle, and does nothing but annoy you if you have it unwantingly outside. if you want to find a 'mon, you run around. if not, you try and go as quickly as possible and hope you don't find a wild 'mon. it's straight up useless. and then they don't list Damp either? like what?
MapCRimZ I have to disagree with that. Illuminate is the best ability when it comes to Pokémon Hunting as a whole. it makes Harder Pokémon easy to find. I personally use Illuminate to Shiny Hunt rare mons with low encounter rates.
I can imagine Gamefreak making some of these 'useful' in battle one day. Like if a honey gather had no item, at the end of each turn, it has a chance of finding honey and instantly using sweet scent. And run away should let the Pokemon switch out even if it's under the effect of mean look or fire spin.
It would be... decent. Not broken, its base stats are still too low and it doesn't like taking neutral hits anyway, but it would probably be usable on the right team. If it got surge surfer and levitate as abilities, then the mind games could come in, though which ability is better probably depends on whether tapu koko is on your team. Surge surfer is actually a pretty good ability to run along tapu koko, it doesn't belong in this list.
my VGC 15 Mega Swampert I took to top 10 on the showdown ladder was damp, it only proced a few times on switch in Vs explosion gimmicks & once Vs aftermath (chose not to mega while taking that k.o) but it won me those games, certainly a lot more useful than torrent would of been
Klutz Loppuny with Switcheroo and Assault Vest. Sure Assault Vest increases spec def. but how about putting it on their utility Pokemon. No more Rocks Spikes healing etc.
@@Sean-fz8if And those mons are commonly switching in the field to drain your momentum, so it's not uncommon to lure this. Even AV in something like Zapdos or Latias make them almost dead weight.
In the case of Klutz, you could pull off some pretty crazy Trick stuff with it. If it negates the effect of your held item, then have a Poison Barb and Trick on a Pokemon with Klutz, and you don't have to worry about getting yourself poisoned. You could also use Klutz as a way to avoid having Trick being used on yourself, with stuff like the Choice Items, or other items that could break your plan of attack down.
Good lord, those abilities are pretty bad (with the exception of Surge Surfer, that still has a good use), but you know whats also bad? Stunfisk having Limber. Gen 6 ruined Stunfisk by giving Limber's effects to all electric type Pokemon, so basically Stunfisk has an ability that does nothing.
wondering aru You could carry a flame orb and fling it or switcheroo. Klutz Pokemon doesn't feel the effects. Or maybe an iron ball to slow down opponents and ground flying Pokemon. It has its uses. Not great, but it could be a surprise.
*inhale* nORmalIzE. Delcatty was perfect and completely broken in mystery dungeon and then gen 4 ripped it away, giving it the possibility of not hitting ghosts.
I was expecting Normalize to be mentioned. It has some use in that it makes Thunder Wave able to hit ground types but losing the ability to get type coverage is makes it not worth it. At least it's an interesting ability, if not good.
My thoughts on how some of these abilities could be improved and how it could affect competitive RUN AWAY: On top of its current effect, a Pokemon with the ability can switch out even if abilities such as Arena Trap, Magnet Pull, and Shadow Tag are in effect, and it can switch out on trapping moves such as Wrap, Fire Spin, Infestation etc. This would probably benefit Dodrio the most since it would be a better pick than either Early Bird or Tangled Feet. Could also be useful for Rapidash and give my boi Furret some other options. BIG PECKS: Should also protect from Defense lowering effects from the user. What I find ridiculous about this is that the only way any of the Pokemon that get Big Pecks as an ability is to use Mirror Move on an opponent that used something like Close Combat or Superpower, so I don't even understand the current version of the ability from a game balance perspective. PLUS and MINUS: Buff the bonus from 50% to 100%. Considering how gimmicky the abilities are, at worst the most problematic thing you'd run into are two Minus Manectrics in a double battle. MAGMA ARMOR: Add a "Reduces the damage from Fire and Ice Type Moves by 50%". It isn't much but it would allow Magcargo and Camerupt for safer switch-ins against Fire and Ice attacks. LIGHT METAL: Add a "Increases the Pokemon's Speed by 50% but reduces DEF and SPDEF by 33% each". Essentially gives you a Choice Scarf as an ability with the downside of being locked into one move being replaced with a -1 for both defenses. Could make Scizor a better sweeper and make Choice Scarf Metagross a major threat. Would still be completely useless on Registeel though. HONEY GATHER: For an in battle effect, just make it the Grass-Type equivalent of Water and Volt Absorb. Congrats Ribombee, you have a decent ability now. STALL: Rework this from a "Pokemon always moves last" to "Any moves the Pokemon uses that have Stage 0 priority are reduced to Stage -5 priority". Say if the Pokemon with this ability used for example Thunderpunch on an opponent the following situations could happen. *Cannot be burned by Beak Blast as the move would complete before the user would attack *Shell Trap will always fail *Avalanche and Revenge would deal less damage as they would go first *If the Pokemon with the ability is slower than their opponent, Counter and Mirror Coat will always fail The only moves that would still go after the attack would be any of the force switch-out moves (Roar, Dragon tail, etc) or Trick Room. Plus you would still have the benefit of all the increased priority moves still keeping their original priority. Ultimately Prankster would still be the far more useful ability for Sableye, but I could see some pretty interesting sets that could take advantage of the decreased priority.
For Plus/Minus, I have created a very convoluted strategy. In a double or triple battle, have a Plus/Minus pokemon, have Gardevoir with Roleplay and Skill Swap, A smeargle with Roleplay and Skill Swap, A Shuckle with an assault vest and special moves. Put the plus pokemon, the smeargle and the gardevoir on the team first. Have the Smeargle Skill Swap on the plus pokemon. Then have the Gardevoir use Roleplay to copy the Plus/Minus from the smeargle. Have the smeargle use calm mind 6 times then baton pass with the shuckle. Have Gardevoir skill swap with the shuckle and put replace the gardevoir with the plus/minus pokemon. Then have a pokemon that has the move that swaps the atk and sp atk with the def and sp def on shuckle and bam you got a +6 sp atk pokemon with base 230 sp atk. Or you could use this strategy in a more viable way and give a Slaking Huge Power but who does that?
Run Away saved me once. How? Well, I was training my Eevee I caught in Castelia City to evolve into an Umbreon and my Sneasel into Weavile. A Mismagius appeared and nearly wiped me out. I sent in my Eevee (her name was Darkheart) and tried once again to run. I actually didn't have a smoke ball on me at the time. I managed to get away from this painful crap and keep my money and friendship levels to boot.
Michael Klump I can say it for the drawing in her profile picture. Nothing bad with being a little girl, sometimes I wish to go back in time and be a little girl again. I miss those days.
Light metal is good for scizor since you can start with light metal to lower damage from a low kick from weavile and mega evolve with the technician ability
The funny thing about what you said about counter and mirror coat is that with sableye being a ghost and dark type it can't even be hurt by either of those snaking it even more useless. Personally I think emergency exit is one of the worst abilities. It would be amazing if given to something that could actually outspeed a big chunk of the game and take a hit. But on golisopod it's almost always a hinderance. Sure you can nail something with a priority move and then get out. But if they're stacking hazards well then have fun watching your golisopod do slightly more than a combee by the time it's not getting forced out.
Also anticipation is horrible. Oh you're going to hit me with a super effective hit? Yay. Nope don't need to know whether it's a fire blast or freaking ember just know that you have a super effective attack. The only use I could possibly see for that is scouting what kind of hidden power something has. But you have to swap in so it's just not good at all.
He said he's not including abilities that exist to balance the pokemon out, which is, I assume, why he left Emergency Exit off the list. It's a huge hinderance to golisopod, who is otherwise a very good pokemon.
+Brennan Cuppage very good Pokémon is very much a stretch imo. It didn't need this. Even an ability that does nothing would have been better. Being as slow as it is and easily worn down by hazards already is a huge hinderance. Yeah it has priority but they're either weak not stab or only usable in very specific situations. Trust me you want an amazing bug type try scolipede. Protect speed boost into stab mega horn will ruin lives if they aren't prepared.
For zyguarde you didn't even mention that it's weak to fairy anyway and will still probably get destroyed by moonblast especially after a geomancy power herb boost
Nice video man! I really enjoy these 'top worst' ones, because there are a lot of weird and poorly planned out things in Pokémon. BTW could Klutz be used to hold like a Flame Orb and throw it at the enemy without being burned yourself?
Shane Archuleta since normal types can learn moves like blizzard, thunderbolt, and grass knot having normalize would be useful because it makes those moves STAB
Oh really gr8. I mean it is not like there are already plenty of powerful normal moves like return, double-edge, boomburst.. No really, I can't wait to never hit super effectively and get completely walled by ghost just for having a STAB for certain moves
Klutz was partially useful in black and white because items that have unwanted impact on your Pokemon like flame orb, toxic orb, float stone, etc. Could be used with fling. Even though it's situational it still deserves credit
Stall is the ability version of lagging tail (just like run away is the ability version of smoke ball). Stall is useful if you want to go last in your priority bracket for some reason. Revenge and Payback came to mind, if Sableye can even learn them
Henrique Carballo Aranha I was just saying it contradicted what he said in the beginning of the video. He said that he will be taking into consideration all the uses of the ability ((Meaning single and double battle)) why was only looking at Surge Surfer only in single battles. In double battles Alolan Raichu becomes almost unstoppable due to it due to its speed increase and it having a high special attack stat.
Af=gain, he wasn't analyzing it in singles. He didn't say "It's bad cause you need a terrain setter". He said the reason it's bad is because Raichu is fast anyways. So even in a double battle, Raichu s still the onlymon that gets it and is still bloody fast.
Well, static is very situational, but Lightining Rod gives you switch-in oportunities and one imunity, as well as raising your Sp. Atk (Which is what most people use on Raichu sets anyways)
Think about this, man. GF could if they so chose, made another variation of worry seed that replaces the target's ability with Stall or Klutz, therefore, it would effectively allow the user to cripple many a threat in the metagame.
Pick up has another use:- Generation V onward At the end of the turn in which another Pokémon used a one-time use item (including throwing an item with Fling or using Natural Gift), a Pokémon with Pickup will collect the item if they are not holding anything. If more than one Pokémon has Pickup or Harvest, the faster Pokémon will restore an item first. If multiple items can be collected, the Pokémon will collect the item most recently consumed. A single Pokémon's Pickup will not activate more than once per turn.
For me, the worst would be "Dry Skin", making both Paras and Parasect pathetic against anything that breathes an itty bitty flame onto their backs. It makes them doubly weak to Fire more so than it already was, and with the previously mentioned evolution line, the type combination of BUG AND GRASS essentially makes it 8x weak to Fire attacks. Worse is when it's a crit, then that number increases to about 12x weak to a common type.
yes but have you considered using heliolisk with dry skin, holding a big root, paired with a pokemon who has the drizzle ability, or one who has rain dance, and that heliolisk also knows parabolic charge?
You forgot the worst one of all time Emergency Exit You have a gigantic Bug/Water tank and potential sweeper that could take hits and be strong enough to fight back with good STAB recovery and priority But once you hit 50% you’re forced out on the dot. Thus eliminating your potential set up and forced to take the brunt of entry hazards (which most of the time just re-activate Emergency Exit and you have a be forced out again)
I get a lot of these, but Klutz is hilarious if you use it on pokemon that pretty much require their item to do well. no eject button, no leftovers, no focus sash, no rocky helmet, no safety goggles. Then you just give them something useless, lagging tail, assault vest, ring target, and red card come to mind. Lopunny is the only one that uses it effectively due to her speed, but then she can just be a great physical attacker, and it's bothered by whatever she might have gotten. Although this doesn't help you during the actual game in the gyms, or the elite 4. It can be frustrating, to massively detrimental to an opponent when used correctly.
Another point against magma armour: If you didn't have magma armour and somehow still got yourself frozen, attempting to use ANY fire type move immediately unfreezes you anyways. And considering the three Pokemon that have this ability are all fire types, I seriously doubt they'd not have ANY fire type moves.
Ever since Rising Voltage, 182 BP under Electric Terrain (on grounded targets), was brought to RU through DLC, Pincurchin + Raichu-Alola has been a pretty deadly duo. Surge Surfer makes Raichu-Alola literally unable to be out sped outside of like Unburden Accelgor, allowing it to run a Modest nature. Rising Voltage is a disgustingly strong STAB attack that 2HKO's almost everything besides a few resists here and there. It's access to coverage moves such as STAB Psyshock, Surf, Grass Knot, and Focus Blast allows it to beat down almost all Ground-types or other resistances that escape the 2HKO from Rising Voltage.
For everyone saying "You can switcheroo a flame orb!" 1) You can switcheroo it without Klutz as well 2) You can avoid using a shit-tier Pokémon by just using Will-o-Wisp (which works on whole teams) 3) If you really wanna use that strategy, just use freaking Sigilyph so you can burn all Pokémon without trading items.
More people than Klutz Lopunny for sure. It's one of the best Psychic types in RU and can wreck you with Psycho Shift/Calm Mind/Roost. He's like a miniature Clefable that burns.
Mariano J Klutz can be used to keep up the trick though. You can get another item like choice band and then switch that onto a special attacker and so on. It's not a good strategy but it's not replaced by what you described.
to make Klutz viable, the Toxic Orb poisons the holder. Switcheroo, a move that swaps held items, can be bred onto Buneary/Lopunny, that also get Klutz, so you can set up for some shenanigans, such as a Protect/Attract combo. if you swap it on, then swap it back, the enemy is badly poisoned, and you can near guarantee it, rather than needing to land a Toxic or set up a Toxic Spikes. the same combo can be done with a Flame Orb, and it gives no risk to you. it's particularly brutal if you know that an enemy pokemon relies on a particular item to be viable, and wanted to try and take out one of their stronger pokemon by poisoning it.
Stall can be used for one albeit really gimmicky set with Sableye. It gets payback and metal burst which don’t have negative priority, so Stall helps ensure they’re used to their maximum potential, but that’s it.
Assault vest klutz switcheroo, stops people from using non attack moves Stall = good for metalburst, since metalburst requires you to be slower than the opponent (does not have negative priority)
RankedZero when did ever Bastiodon have a prob against sableye lol. Sableye is a distrupter poke,makes a nuisance to the foe with its confuse ray/para hacks/burn/poison/etc.
Here is a use for Klutz: Give the ability bearer a flame or toxic orb and teach it fling. If you use fling or the opponent swaps items (can’t remember the name if that move) then they get burned/poisoned.
For Stall. A Pokemon with payback could definitely work with this. Payback is a move that hits much harder when used last. And since stall makes you go last, payback would have greater power. Granted, people don't really use payback, both competitive and in-game, but this would make a good payback power-up.
Klutz actually has one use and its only on the Buneary line. Give your Buneary/Lopunny an assault vest and make sure it has the egg move switcheroo. Use switcheroo in a competitive battle (so you don't loose this valuable item) and if the pokemon you target has any status moves, switcheroo in this case acts as a permanent taunt! Theres also one more strategy although its less effective. Teach entrainment to a pokemon with Klutz. If used in combination with a move that impedes switching out (easier in a double battle), your target gets a really annoying ability that you have as well.
Klutz is pretty good with Switcharoo. It used to be good with Fling until they decided you can't use Fling with Klutz in Gen 5. Lopunny with Klutz, Flame Orb, Fake Out, Fling, Protect, and Last Resort could easily 1v1 a Garchomp.
This shows a limited knowledge of Pokemon. My Lopunny did so, against a Garchomp 15 levels above it. Let's run calcs for a Lv100 Lopunny vs a Lv100 Sogon-standard Garchomp. Lopunny - Klutz Jolly @ Flame Orb 24 HP / 252 Atk / 220 Spe ~Fake Out ~Fling ~Protect ~Last Resort vs Garchomp - Sand Veil Jolly @ Life Orb 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Speed ~Swords Dance ~Dragon Claw ~Stone Edge ~Earthquake Using max rolls, this is how the battle would go. *Turn 1:* Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-16.2%) Garchomp (83.8%) Flinched! *Turn 2* Lopunny used Fling! (-8.1%) Garchomp (75.7%) was Burned! Garchomp (75.7%) used Earthquake! (-51.9%) Garchomp (65.7%) lost some of its HP! Garchomp (53.2%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 3* Lopunny (48.1%) used Protect! Lopunny (48.1%) protected itself! Garchomp (53.2%) used Earthquake! Lopunny (48.1%) protected itself! Garchomp (40.7%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 4* Lopunny (48.1%) used Last Resort! (-55.3%) Garchomp (0%) fainted! Even if Garchomp used Swords Dance instead of EQ, so it wouldn't take Life Orb recoil, Lopunny's Last Resort would still kill. At best, Garchomp could hope to barely survive if Lopunny got min rolls, but it would still die to Life Orb or Burn on turn 4.
Now, let's assume the Garchomp was CB instead of LO, and had Outrage. *Turn 1:* Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-16.2%) Garchomp (83.8%) Flinched! *Turn 2:* Lopunny used Fling! (-8.1%) Garchomp (75.7%) was Burned! Garchomp (75.7%) used Outrage! (-72.2%) Garchomp (63.2%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 3:* Lopunny (27.8%) used Protect! Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself! Garchomp (63.2%) used Earthquake! Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself! Garchomp (50.7%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 4:* Lopunny (27.8%) used Last Resort! (-55.3%) Garchomp (0%) fainted! And now let's assume Lopunny got min rolls while Garchomp got max damage rolls. *Turn 1:* Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-13.6%) Garchomp (86.4%) Flinched! *Turn 2:* Lopunny used Fling! (-6.7%) Garchomp (79.7%) was Burned! Garchomp (79.7%) used Outrage! (-72.2%) Garchomp (67.2%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 3:* Lopunny (27.8%) used Protect! Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself! Garchomp (67.2%) used Earthquake! Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself! Garchomp (54.7%) was hurt by its burn! *Turn 4:* Lopunny (27.8%) used Last Resort! (-46.9%) Garchomp (7.8%) used Outrage! (-72.2%) Lopunny (0%) fainted! Garchomp (0%) was hurt by its burn! Garchomp (0%) fainted! Even if Garchomp got max damage rolls and Lopunny got min damage rolls, it would still faint to Burn on the turn it killed Lopunny, unless it was just a 1v1, but the odds of those rolls are slim. Similarly, I made a Pidgeot (non mega) that can take any Tyranitar unless it gets crit by Stone Edge on a turn it's not Roosting. That's taking into account all versions of Tyranitar (including Mega), and taking Sandstorm damage into account. And assuming Stone Edge doesn't miss once. That's the power of damage calcs.
Gen 3-4 sturdy always boggled the mind considering how rare and inaccurate 1HKO moves were. Making it the equivalent of focus sash was a great addition.
Honorable mention to pre Gen 5 Sturdy, it negated 1 hit kill moves, it negated 4 moves in the entire game, 4 almost never used moves that would most likely miss you anyway, thank god for Gen 5 making it an actual useful ability
phnexOice I thought sturdy just prevented you from being one shot from any move
Cupo now after it was buffed before that it basically did nothing. It granted immunity to OHKO moves
Solid Rock is overrated. Energy Ball and Surf will still kill Rhyperior before it knows what hit it. Every Pokémon with the Solid Rock ability has a 4x weakness to Surf or Energy Ball/Giga Drain/Grass Knot. Although I’ll agree it’s still better than Lightningrod on Rhyperior. And I guess it’s okay for Camerupt seeing as it has good special defense and Amnesia but still... Rhyperior is still a really good Pokémon and doesn’t need Solid Rock to be better than all other Rock types except Tyranitar though. I just don’t think the benefit is as good as it seems.
If they had one that reflected a single type back, like grass onto a rock type gets reflected back for 4/10th total damage, i could understand that. 40% back would be nice.
nononono i remember sturdy as those little vag rocks would not get killed by my supereffective grass moves it pissed me off so much that i just had to run away
What about levitate on rotom-fan? A flying type with levitate
why is that even a thing
On Showdown Randoms they give it Balloon as its held item.
Tux Victini Im fully aware of that. I'm just referring to its existence on Rotom Fan
Sean Phillips and in random battles it holds air balloons because... Idk... Smogon...
Rotom-Fan has levitate because prior to Gen 5 Rotom's alternate forms didn't change type, so in Platinum and HGSS Rotom-Fan was Ghost/Electric.
"Pickup does nothing in battle."
The infinite flinch lock combo would like a word with you.
2:04 I feel like run away would be situationally useful if it was changed so that you can always switch out. As in you can't be trapped by arena trap, fire spin, shadow tag etc.
It is honestly weird that it doesn't also include those situations because those come up way more often than needing to flee random battles
IMO they should all have battle uses, like maybe pickup could randomly find berries during battle?
@@ENCHANTMEN_ pickup actually does have a use in battle although it sucks it picks up an item the opponent used and even that only works if your pokemon is not holding anything itself
That's like the easiest way to make it good, and honestly the best way. It's amazing how such a simple change can go such a long way
@@thetabbyguy921 that's pick pocket not pick up
the only ability that I think shouldn't be on the list is surge surfer because it allows alolan raichu to not use as many if any speed evs. Also alonan raichu is part of the tapu koko tapu lele raichu core that is popular in vgc and thats because of surge surfer and its psychic type.
Abelardo Reyes I Agree...maybe Jrose isnt that deep enough in the competitive scene so thats why he put it (?)
Don't play a lot of VGC, so I didn't know that. However, wouldn't that be easily countered though by things like Tyranitar and Landorus-T (Post-Pokebank)?
Or use Scarf Timid with Electro Ball
Jrose11 VGC doesnt allow pokebank
Mjdigit it will though
So thats why my Bewear never used its quick claw damn
Rip
Use ability capsule
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Just saying, Sableye is immune to Counter and Mirror Coat anyway
They did dirt on the goblin
*laughs in metal burst*
@@steelslasher2030 seeing as metal burst is a +0 move, stall blocks it
THANK YOU every list is just defeatist, slow start, truant
Truant is understandable, but Defeatist and Slow Start were completely pointless since the Pokemon in question didn't need "balancing"
There are more op legends than regigigas who get off scott free and Archeops has pathetic HP and Defenses as well as weaknesses to 5 types
Niels The Jolteon um actually regigigas is a pretty good Pokémon it has 200+ max speed a ton of attack and defense. It only has one super effective type against it and it learns substitute and thunder wave making it and incredible wall
@@JohnJonesBilly it does have a lack of reliable recovery and can't even learn protect
Plus, again, it's really great, but there are more powerful Pokemon than it and they don't get completely crippled
I've you've truant to my advantage by first turn putting them to sleep and next turn I attack
@@snekladyrobin Those legendary pokemon are only "more op" than regigigas because regigigas has slow start. If, by some tactic, you got rid of slow start then it would shit on pokemon left and right justa s Slaking can do when Truant is gotten rid of. As for Archeops, it's lower defense stats also play a part in the "balancing" aspect of why it ahs defeatist. Oh, and let's not forget this thing can learn roost, so it's not like "all is lost" just because it drops to half its HP. But without Defeatist, Archeops would just be Salamence Jr. It's also important to remember the generation the pokemon was made in. There wasn't really that many op legendary pokemon back in Gen 4 to compare to Regigigas and I'm sure you remember how terrifying Flying Gem + Acrobatics Archeops was.
Although I agree with Run Away, fun enough, I'm doing a shiny hunting badge quest in Soul Silver right now and I'm finding a lot of use in that ability. My only high level Pokemon is my shiny Chikorita, so to avoid getting its shiny sparkles confused with a new shiny, a Run Away Sentret has been my lead Pokemon.
But yeah, Smoke Ball really invalidates that. It would be cool if they buffed Run Away so they could escape Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Fire Spin, etc. in battle.
wait. Run Away DOESN'T negate those effects???
Skye Lowell Not in competitive battling, nope. It would be a really good niche counter if it did
+White Chaos there's a better way to escape trapping tactics. Just be a ghost type.
right, but it would provide a *use* for the Ability, plus allow non-Ghost types to escape. like, if you're already trapped in something, you can't exactly switch to a Ghost-type.
#2. There are two battle techniques with KLUTZ:
1.) Hold an items that would cause damage so your opponents try to steal it, and
2.) When an opponent/ally uses SKILL SWAP.
I enjoy flinging Iron Balls, Flame/Toxic Orbs tho xD
Someone once tried to tell me that stall is useful against aeglislash to hit it's attack form instead of its defence form when it attacks
edgy my thoughts exactly. I love Aegislash simply because his low speed makes him basically untouchable since he can attack and go back into turtle mode consecutively
Stall is also good for Payback.
key word: situational
sableye stop learning payback around last gen so...
Yeah... but... Sableye
Run Away is actually a good ability for me. Whenever I'm hunting Shiny Dittos in the Friend Safari they always give me strife by holding Quick Powder and Transforming into my Smeargle with high speed... and yeah. Run Away is good if you can't get your hands on a Smoke Ball.
But they're super easy to get
Alright, so it seems Surge Surfer is quite useful. Truth was I just thought it was funny there was an ability that raised Raichu's speed, but didn't think about how good that would be in doubles. Also I hear you guys on Klutz. Full Klutz Team upcoming..... (once GameFreak decides we deserve the Pokebank Update)
Jrose11 what about emergency exit? personally I think it's a very sucks ability but what's your point of view?
I'm not sure yet. I think there are good and bad parts to it. On one hand you get a free switch and another chance to use First Impression. On the other hand, you may not want to switch at that moment, so I need to see how/if people use it in battles.
Jrose11 those are really good points. thanks I'm glad I could get someone else opinion on it :)
Jrose11 use klutz on a set up Pokémon with assault vest,because of klutz you can just trick/swicharoo the item away
I'm kind of surprised Illuminate wasn't on this list, to be honest. It could have replaced either Surge Surfer or Klutz
I have seen flame orb + trick with Klutz on showdown during gen 6 (because people assume it's mega lopunny).
mapOoni that's actually smart.
I used assault vest to swap it onto mons who used a lot of non attacking moves
wtf are you sayin cris you can't use trick when you hold an AV
if you trick it away you can cripple something while before the exchange you dont get hindered
Bowi
I think he meant Switcheroo
Some of these are even worse when you consider the pokes that can use them. With Big Pecks for example, it is mostly birds that already have mediocre defense, but high attack. Normally by the time a pokemon could even try to lower its defense, that poke would have eaten two attacks and died.
Strongside yes chotats base 45 defenses cannot be compromised
It'd be nice if big peaks boosted defense a little also
Klutz is not that useless, it was quite common on Lopunny with Trick.
The ability I was really hoping you'd include in this was Illuminate, which I think would've been pretty high on the list! :)
Jon Martin Vinje there’s no good items to put on a loppuny to trick to other Pokémon. If you’re talking about a flame orb, you could just use a will o wisp on a Pokémon.
iowaone how about an assault vest of those physical walls an annoying skarmory
iowaone trick is better because of the fact that the enemy pokemon loses its item.
I love tricking Assault Vest onto walls, hilarious
+iowaone not really? one let's say they depend on like choice band or a shedinja pokemon? if u did that to shedinja it pretty much dies lol
Switcheroo a flame orb with Lopunny
kbowman772 or just use an actually good item. Or even change it for a mon with willowisp
Choice item Loppuny with Switcheroo
kbowman772 I thought the same thing
The only use of Klutz is to Switcheroo Assault Vest, any other item worth Tricking could be useful to the pokémon holding it, while also a major detriment to the right victim (i.e. Choice Items, Flame Orb, Black Sludge, etc.). Assault Vest is essentially a permanent taunt that your opponent can't trick back.
This strategy is still absolutely terrible.
Ski Gloves But it can be so rage inducing if you use it on the right pokemon. Trust me, I use Emolga in OU and Slurpuff in Ubers.
Can't you use a Swootbat with "Klutz" and "Skill Swap" to pretty much ruin a Mega Evolution Pokémon or somethin'?
Amie Mallich I have to try that 😂 of course once poke transfer comes out
Amie Mallich
Too bad Klutz doesn't work on Mega stones and most people use mega evolution asap (though it is unlikely you can effect mega stones that way anyway.
dyrokudobane Won't know until you try... *Realises internet is a thing* Well you can skill swap after mega evolution, Pixilate Gardevoir? Nope! Magic Bounce Sabeleye? Nope! Wait... Would that work? Okay, well... Drought Charizard? No-Well... I guess it... Well maybe... Okay, I'll stop.
Amie Mallich lopuny can switcheroo an assault vest onto a prankster Pokemon ;) now your opponent can't do squat.
Amie Mallich omg yes. There's also mummy tho which is basically a virus. And there are good mons that get gastro acid too.
I find it hilarious that Sableye has an Ability that decreases priority and one that increases priority lol
What I HATED was hustle... Ended up missing quick attack 5 times in a row
I didn't even know "Stall" was an Ability
Alex Lamsam same.
I knew because I caught a shiny sableye with not keen eye or prankster, but STALL. It's painful.
Use Ability capsule to change it to Keen eye, still bad ability, but at least better than Stall.
+Zacho San Teach it Payback. The opponent will be in a world of hurt if it actually attacks Sableye.
With Sableye's AMAZING base 75 attack, I'm sure they'll be keeling over from those Paybacks.
There's a reason Foul Play is Sableye's attack of choice. Its attack stat sucks, it has to use its opponent's to do damage. Also Swagger is a thing, it synergizes well with Foul Play too, Sableye's a solid half the reason the Swagger Clause exists in Smogon's rules (Klefki being the other half).
You wanna know the funny thing about light metal? Metagross weights so much that low kick and grass knot will always deal max damage regardless of ability.
Also I know that you discarded truant because it balances out Slaking but I would have put it in number 1 because there is one more pokemon that gets truant and is not nearly as broken as Slaking, rendering the ability useless.
no Durant gets entrainment so truant does have a use on it, it can be used to actually sweep any team using most pokemon, if you get entrainment off on every enemy pokemon, then bring in a pokemon with protect, you're opponent will never be able to deal damage to you and you can do this with any pokemon that learns protect
Assuming the opponent won't SWITCH. if they don't is because he's trapped by baton-passed mean look. If you switch to a sweeper, mean look gets cancelled and if you try baton pass again with durant you have to wait for durant to do nothing one more turn. The idea is nice on paper but it's just not worth it.
So they won't switch when you switch Durant out?
quite honest, there is the infamous truant durant + dugtrio combo.
eject button truant durant with entrainment in team with protect + hone claws dugtrio. works in 1-offs (aka not best of 3) mostly against inexperienced players.
Durant gets Truant because it's a True Ant
6:15 I was chuckling for like ten minutes at that.
Just 3 giant steel types being challenged by a budew sitting there like :])
Hold up, sableye has an ability that makes it go last, but it gets metal burst as an egg move. Slap a focus sash on there and there is some use for it
Or uh
Mega evolve it
Wjat about Trick Room strategy for a Stall Sableye ?
@@gardevoirboreale It doesn't lower your speed. It basically gives -0.5 priority to every move you have.
Surge Surfer could boost Raichu's Electro Ball. Very situational, yes, but still..
Its actually op. The 150 base damage is pretty dope.
Sableye with Stall is designed specifically for Payback builds. I agree that Prankster is better, but the application of getting Payback to that double damage every time is indeed useful. (Though still, go for Prankster.)
iEverNeon But Sableye is so slow that you might as well go last anyway
what happens to stall in trick room though im curious
Why isnt Illuminate on the list? It fits in perfectly as it does nothing in battle and unlike magma armor has a pretty useless out of battle effect
Actually, it can be good for outside battles. It increases 100% wild encounter rates. If you want to catch a rare pokemon, that's a good way.
What about slow start????
@Trip
He specifically said at the beginning of the video that he excluded Slow Start, Truant, and Defeatist.
I don't know what happened, but it got skipped for some reason.
@@sevi630 u prob skipped it urself and u dont remember/u dont wanna point it out
Sableye has Stall to double Payback damage, it could learn that move some time ago. So it had one use with this ability. Levitate Rotom-Fan is useless though.
Light Metal's good on Scizors that hold Scizorite since Mega Scizor gains Technician upon Mega Evolution anyways. Might as well have base Scizor use an ability that gives it SOMETHING before it mega evolves. There's no reason to not mega evolve Scizor when you bring it out.
The Vengeful 'Vadam it's also for whenever a Trace pokemon tries to switch into it. Still situational, but it's the optimal ability for mega scizor.
Yea but Clear Body on Registeel and Metagross is better for Intimidates
It actually gives zero benefit to metagross due to the way damage for low kick and grass knot are calculated. Only making metagross take more damage from heavy slam and heat crash so it's literally only a detriment.
@@flavorflov6519 why does anyone care about trace? Scizor was going to die from that hidden power fire anyway.
so you put surge surfer on this list, but not illuminate?
You can use illuminate the find pokemon with lower encounter rates easier.
Jake Phillips I was dumbfounded that abilities like surge surfer, Klutz, or magma armor was in here but NOT illuminate. illuminate literally does nothing in battle, and does nothing but annoy you if you have it unwantingly outside. if you want to find a 'mon, you run around. if not, you try and go as quickly as possible and hope you don't find a wild 'mon. it's straight up useless.
and then they don't list Damp either? like what?
MapCRimZ I have to disagree with that. Illuminate is the best ability when it comes to Pokémon Hunting as a whole. it makes Harder Pokémon easy to find. I personally use Illuminate to Shiny Hunt rare mons with low encounter rates.
Illuminate is pretty useless. Arena Trap does the same thing outside of battle, and still has an in-battle effect.
Spectrum Shaytokun still isn't as good as surge surfer though
I can imagine Gamefreak making some of these 'useful' in battle one day. Like if a honey gather had no item, at the end of each turn, it has a chance of finding honey and instantly using sweet scent. And run away should let the Pokemon switch out even if it's under the effect of mean look or fire spin.
What if Surge Surfer was replaced by Levitate? How broken would Alolan Raichu be then?
Tynamo final evolution would probably be better and has just that.
It also wouldn't be affected by Electric Terrain if it had Levitate.
It would be... decent. Not broken, its base stats are still too low and it doesn't like taking neutral hits anyway, but it would probably be usable on the right team.
If it got surge surfer and levitate as abilities, then the mind games could come in, though which ability is better probably depends on whether tapu koko is on your team. Surge surfer is actually a pretty good ability to run along tapu koko, it doesn't belong in this list.
he would suck.
Or if Surge Surfer not only doubled Speed but also make Raichu float so it won’t get affected by Ground type moves. That would make Raichu a bit OP.
And Damp is so bad only prevents explosion and self destruct
it also prevents damage from the ability aftermath
Its worse if its the hidden ability
my VGC 15 Mega Swampert I took to top 10 on the showdown ladder was damp, it only proced a few times on switch in Vs explosion gimmicks & once Vs aftermath (chose not to mega while taking that k.o) but it won me those games, certainly a lot more useful than torrent would of been
Marcusjnmc thats cool i never heard Office that
it's just a ladder rank on an online simulator, it is the best ability for mega swamperts though
Klutz Loppuny with Switcheroo and Assault Vest. Sure Assault Vest increases spec def. but how about putting it on their utility Pokemon. No more Rocks Spikes healing etc.
GxHollowfied I was thinking poison orb fling for a high damage poisonous dark type move
Michael Klump I mean, most people have atleast 1 supportive/passive mon that loses out on lots of moves with an assault vest
@@Sean-fz8if And those mons are commonly switching in the field to drain your momentum, so it's not uncommon to lure this. Even AV in something like Zapdos or Latias make them almost dead weight.
I Love imaging you trying this and realising how stupid you were.
I think stall is for the move “payback” but it’s definately not worth it
yeah, wouldn't it make more sense to just put that move on a slow mon instead?
In the case of Klutz, you could pull off some pretty crazy Trick stuff with it. If it negates the effect of your held item, then have a Poison Barb and Trick on a Pokemon with Klutz, and you don't have to worry about getting yourself poisoned. You could also use Klutz as a way to avoid having Trick being used on yourself, with stuff like the Choice Items, or other items that could break your plan of attack down.
Good lord, those abilities are pretty bad (with the exception of Surge Surfer, that still has a good use), but you know whats also bad? Stunfisk having Limber. Gen 6 ruined Stunfisk by giving Limber's effects to all electric type Pokemon, so basically Stunfisk has an ability that does nothing.
there's Body Slam which can paralized Ground-types
But he's also electric, so he doesn't get paralyzed anyways.
You can paralyze an electric type. Just not by status moves
You can't paralyze electric types ever since gen 6.
glacia rotom fan with levitate though
I don't really agree with Surge Surfer or Klutz.
Logical Juan what's so good about klutz
wondering aru You could carry a flame orb and fling it or switcheroo. Klutz Pokemon doesn't feel the effects. Or maybe an iron ball to slow down opponents and ground flying Pokemon. It has its uses. Not great, but it could be a surprise.
Great for giving opponents hurtful items without being hurt. Sticky Barb comes to mind. I'm not saying it is great, but I wouldn't call it bad.
or Switcheroo Assault Vest..
Mr S I did that to a non attacking chansey once, It struggled😂
*inhale* nORmalIzE.
Delcatty was perfect and completely broken in mystery dungeon and then gen 4 ripped it away, giving it the possibility of not hitting ghosts.
I was expecting Normalize to be mentioned. It has some use in that it makes Thunder Wave able to hit ground types but losing the ability to get type coverage is makes it not worth it. At least it's an interesting ability, if not good.
Since generation 7 normalize also adds a 20% power boost. Still a pretty weird ability, but the power boost could actually be helpful.
Assist v create becomes more powerful than a z move so no
My thoughts on how some of these abilities could be improved and how it could affect competitive
RUN AWAY: On top of its current effect, a Pokemon with the ability can switch out even if abilities such as Arena Trap, Magnet Pull, and Shadow Tag are in effect, and it can switch out on trapping moves such as Wrap, Fire Spin, Infestation etc. This would probably benefit Dodrio the most since it would be a better pick than either Early Bird or Tangled Feet. Could also be useful for Rapidash and give my boi Furret some other options.
BIG PECKS: Should also protect from Defense lowering effects from the user. What I find ridiculous about this is that the only way any of the Pokemon that get Big Pecks as an ability is to use Mirror Move on an opponent that used something like Close Combat or Superpower, so I don't even understand the current version of the ability from a game balance perspective.
PLUS and MINUS: Buff the bonus from 50% to 100%. Considering how gimmicky the abilities are, at worst the most problematic thing you'd run into are two Minus Manectrics in a double battle.
MAGMA ARMOR: Add a "Reduces the damage from Fire and Ice Type Moves by 50%". It isn't much but it would allow Magcargo and Camerupt for safer switch-ins against Fire and Ice attacks.
LIGHT METAL: Add a "Increases the Pokemon's Speed by 50% but reduces DEF and SPDEF by 33% each". Essentially gives you a Choice Scarf as an ability with the downside of being locked into one move being replaced with a -1 for both defenses. Could make Scizor a better sweeper and make Choice Scarf Metagross a major threat. Would still be completely useless on Registeel though.
HONEY GATHER: For an in battle effect, just make it the Grass-Type equivalent of Water and Volt Absorb. Congrats Ribombee, you have a decent ability now.
STALL: Rework this from a "Pokemon always moves last" to "Any moves the Pokemon uses that have Stage 0 priority are reduced to Stage -5 priority". Say if the Pokemon with this ability used for example Thunderpunch on an opponent the following situations could happen.
*Cannot be burned by Beak Blast as the move would complete before the user would attack
*Shell Trap will always fail
*Avalanche and Revenge would deal less damage as they would go first
*If the Pokemon with the ability is slower than their opponent, Counter and Mirror Coat will always fail
The only moves that would still go after the attack would be any of the force switch-out moves (Roar, Dragon tail, etc) or Trick Room. Plus you would still have the benefit of all the increased priority moves still keeping their original priority. Ultimately Prankster would still be the far more useful ability for Sableye, but I could see some pretty interesting sets that could take advantage of the decreased priority.
The perfect way to make your Pokemon with bad abilities better: Ability Capsule.
Mr. Dude Unless they only have one.
Or if its a hidden ability.
Yeah, but those things cost so much Battle Points
Brandon Outwater not in USUM, where BP are very easy to gain thanks to Mantine Surfing
Audino with Kultz and Entrainment can be a problem.
For Plus/Minus, I have created a very convoluted strategy. In a double or triple battle, have a Plus/Minus pokemon, have Gardevoir with Roleplay and Skill Swap, A smeargle with Roleplay and Skill Swap, A Shuckle with an assault vest and special moves. Put the plus pokemon, the smeargle and the gardevoir on the team first. Have the Smeargle Skill Swap on the plus pokemon. Then have the Gardevoir use Roleplay to copy the Plus/Minus from the smeargle. Have the smeargle use calm mind 6 times then baton pass with the shuckle. Have Gardevoir skill swap with the shuckle and put replace the gardevoir with the plus/minus pokemon. Then have a pokemon that has the move that swaps the atk and sp atk with the def and sp def on shuckle and bam you got a +6 sp atk pokemon with base 230 sp atk. Or you could use this strategy in a more viable way and give a Slaking Huge Power but who does that?
how is smeargle meant to survive 6 turns to do that it's defense is ass
@@SerperiorSoup clearly we need focus band
that sounds like a shitty strategy, smeargle will die
@@evantanuwidjaja8017 hence why I called it "convoluted". do you even read?
@@KLOTEROLEROTAR then its still shitty
Run Away saved me once. How? Well, I was training my Eevee I caught in Castelia City to evolve into an Umbreon and my Sneasel into Weavile. A Mismagius appeared and nearly wiped me out. I sent in my Eevee (her name was Darkheart) and tried once again to run. I actually didn't have a smoke ball on me at the time. I managed to get away from this painful crap and keep my money and friendship levels to boot.
And that's relevant to the story how?
Seriously, buzz off if that's all you have.
Nice Umbreon name. I tend to call mine Greed
Michael Klump I can say it for the drawing in her profile picture. Nothing bad with being a little girl, sometimes I wish to go back in time and be a little girl again. I miss those days.
I tend to call my umbreons Lilith if it's female and Mephisto if it's male. Mitology is fascinating for me.
Mismagius can't appear in the wild in Castelia City
i like run away. its useful for zubat.
Underops Gaming tbh crobat is op
Slow start went way beyond balancing regigigas and made him completely useless. So I think it's an aweful ability based on that
scissormon it would've been too easy for this list.
actually I used regigigas with deoxes defence (sorry I can't spell) skill swap slow start onto opponent dragon type pokemon then used ice punch
I don't generally like top 10s but i absolutely love your videos and really makes me feel that nostalgia again
Light metal is good for scizor since you can start with light metal to lower damage from a low kick from weavile and mega evolve with the technician ability
The funny thing about what you said about counter and mirror coat is that with sableye being a ghost and dark type it can't even be hurt by either of those snaking it even more useless. Personally I think emergency exit is one of the worst abilities. It would be amazing if given to something that could actually outspeed a big chunk of the game and take a hit. But on golisopod it's almost always a hinderance. Sure you can nail something with a priority move and then get out. But if they're stacking hazards well then have fun watching your golisopod do slightly more than a combee by the time it's not getting forced out.
Also anticipation is horrible. Oh you're going to hit me with a super effective hit? Yay. Nope don't need to know whether it's a fire blast or freaking ember just know that you have a super effective attack. The only use I could possibly see for that is scouting what kind of hidden power something has. But you have to swap in so it's just not good at all.
He said he's not including abilities that exist to balance the pokemon out, which is, I assume, why he left Emergency Exit off the list. It's a huge hinderance to golisopod, who is otherwise a very good pokemon.
+Brennan Cuppage very good Pokémon is very much a stretch imo. It didn't need this. Even an ability that does nothing would have been better. Being as slow as it is and easily worn down by hazards already is a huge hinderance. Yeah it has priority but they're either weak not stab or only usable in very specific situations. Trust me you want an amazing bug type try scolipede. Protect speed boost into stab mega horn will ruin lives if they aren't prepared.
Emergency Exit was probably given to Golisopod to aid in its signature move: First Impression.
+iEverNeon there's better ways to do that. I'd rather not be forced out every time I fall below half.
For zyguarde you didn't even mention that it's weak to fairy anyway and will still probably get destroyed by moonblast especially after a geomancy power herb boost
All the comments be like: Hol'up, you said this ability is too situational, so let me give you another situation that's too situational.
Nice video man! I really enjoy these 'top worst' ones, because there are a lot of weird and poorly planned out things in Pokémon. BTW could Klutz be used to hold like a Flame Orb and throw it at the enemy without being burned yourself?
I would have put Illuminate on this list.
Spluff5 No illuminate is good for shiny hunting. It's not completely useless
Fish Tap Tap talking about competitive
Tempest Laundry Sauce The video is talking about both in battle and out of battle.
Tap Gaming it’s not like it increases shiny rate just wild encounters same can be done with swarm and arena trap!!!!!!!
Metchy North arena trap doesn’t increase encounter rate, it makes it so other pokemon cannot escape battle
I'm suprised the ability 'Normalize' wasn't on this list.
Shane Archuleta hey but with that you can thunder wave ground types and Pokemon with lighting rod so that's nice. :^)
Shane Archuleta stab blizzard? Pair it up with foresight, and ... Yeesh.
the one winged angel - Yeah I guess it would be decent to skill swap onto a normal type. But you'd be walled by any ghost type.
Shane Archuleta since normal types can learn moves like blizzard, thunderbolt, and grass knot having normalize would be useful because it makes those moves STAB
Oh really gr8. I mean it is not like there are already plenty of powerful normal moves like return, double-edge, boomburst.. No really, I can't wait to never hit super effectively and get completely walled by ghost just for having a STAB for certain moves
Klutz+Trick could be somewhat useful if you want to give your opponent a choice item or assault vest.
Klutz was partially useful in black and white because items that have unwanted impact on your Pokemon like flame orb, toxic orb, float stone, etc. Could be used with fling. Even though it's situational it still deserves credit
They should bring back horde battles
I want a lovedisk with slow start
*Luvdisc
Stall is the ability version of lagging tail (just like run away is the ability version of smoke ball). Stall is useful if you want to go last in your priority bracket for some reason. Revenge and Payback came to mind, if Sableye can even learn them
Don’t you dare call klutz useless! The fling synergy is amazing!
Your Surge Surfer segment contradicts what you earlier in the video as it has a purpose in double battles. Just wanted to point that out.
He didn't say that seing not as usable in singles is the proble. He said that the fact the only mon that gets is is already fast doesn't help much.
Henrique Carballo Aranha I was just saying it contradicted what he said in the beginning of the video. He said that he will be taking into consideration all the uses of the ability ((Meaning single and double battle)) why was only looking at Surge Surfer only in single battles. In double battles Alolan Raichu becomes almost unstoppable due to it due to its speed increase and it having a high special attack stat.
Af=gain, he wasn't analyzing it in singles. He didn't say "It's bad cause you need a terrain setter". He said the reason it's bad is because Raichu is fast anyways. So even in a double battle, Raichu s still the onlymon that gets it and is still bloody fast.
True. However I wouldn't really consider lightning rod or static to be better then Surge Surfer.
Well, static is very situational, but Lightining Rod gives you switch-in oportunities and one imunity, as well as raising your Sp. Atk (Which is what most people use on Raichu sets anyways)
Surge Surfer is really good in monotype on electric teams
Think about this, man. GF could if they so chose, made another variation of worry seed that replaces the target's ability with Stall or Klutz, therefore, it would effectively allow the user to cripple many a threat in the metagame.
Stall seems useful if you have a move that doubles in power if used last. You won't have to hold a Full Incense, so you could run with another item.
klutz is actually a useful ability on the pokemon that get it
flame orb + switcheroo
Will-o-wisp
tesseract ` will I wisp can miss and doesn't take away the opponents good item
James what about taking their leftovers or megastone, and swapping it with a black sludge or flame orb?
James oh sorry, I didn't know you couldn't swap mega stones .
"Do you know what also allows you to escape from battle? Hitting the run button!" LOL
Or switching to a stronger one in your team then click run. Works every time 👌
For Klutz, you can use Skill Swap with Swoobat, and you can negate both their ability and their item in one turn.
Run away is pretty useful in an early game nuzlocke. It's a short time but really useful
4 words "Generation 1 Focus Energy" *drops mic*
Number 1: Oblivious.
Ash Motherfucking Ketchum. Kalos Region. He Had This Ability. All I Need To Say
i know this is a year old video but im on a spree and just felt like telling you how good your videos are....
You make grear videos.
Pick up has another use:-
Generation V onward
At the end of the turn in which another Pokémon used a one-time use item (including throwing an item with Fling or using Natural Gift), a Pokémon with Pickup will collect the item if they are not holding anything. If more than one Pokémon has Pickup or Harvest, the faster Pokémon will restore an item first. If multiple items can be collected, the Pokémon will collect the item most recently consumed.
A single Pokémon's Pickup will not activate more than once per turn.
For me, the worst would be "Dry Skin", making both Paras and Parasect pathetic against anything that breathes an itty bitty flame onto their backs. It makes them doubly weak to Fire more so than it already was, and with the previously mentioned evolution line, the type combination of BUG AND GRASS essentially makes it 8x weak to Fire attacks. Worse is when it's a crit, then that number increases to about 12x weak to a common type.
Are we just forgetting that Pokemon like Jynx and Toxicroak can just switch in on water types for free with Dry Skin?
yes but have you considered using heliolisk with dry skin, holding a big root, paired with a pokemon who has the drizzle ability, or one who has rain dance, and that heliolisk also knows parabolic charge?
Okay but who uses Paras or Parasect like ever
calling it before watching the video klutz is on this list
Angel R good job
William Bandas thank you and my bewear has klutz
Angel R but tbh, klutz is a terrible ability on Bewear, at least compared to fluffy. if you had a choice between the two, go for fluffy.
William Bandas I know would go with fluffy but I forgot to look at the ability and know I'm sad
I just bred my Stufful after catching my first female since it is better than just random encounters of such low rate
klutz can actually be used with lopunny to trick an assault vest, but that seems to be the only unique factor it has
Stall does have the singular use of making Payback more likely to double in power, but when you've got Prankster as an option you pick Prankster.
Sableye is immune to Counter and Mirror Coat anyway, so even your fantasy Stall would be worthless.
This ability would be one of the worst in this situation.
you have a stunfisk (which is ground/electric) with the ability limber
(Insert surprised pikachu face)
What about levitate on rotom fan?
You forgot the worst one of all time Emergency Exit
You have a gigantic Bug/Water tank and potential sweeper that could take hits and be strong enough to fight back with good STAB recovery and priority
But once you hit 50% you’re forced out on the dot. Thus eliminating your potential set up and forced to take the brunt of entry hazards (which most of the time just re-activate Emergency Exit and you have a be forced out again)
I get a lot of these, but Klutz is hilarious if you use it on pokemon that pretty much require their item to do well. no eject button, no leftovers, no focus sash, no rocky helmet, no safety goggles. Then you just give them something useless, lagging tail, assault vest, ring target, and red card come to mind. Lopunny is the only one that uses it effectively due to her speed, but then she can just be a great physical attacker, and it's bothered by whatever she might have gotten. Although this doesn't help you during the actual game in the gyms, or the elite 4.
It can be frustrating, to massively detrimental to an opponent when used correctly.
When do the 1st starter's abilities in x and y come?
I guess klutz+trick could work, also I think illuminate deserves a shout.
I think Klutz can be useful in tandem with things like the Fire or Toxic orbs, which inflict status ailments on the holder
Another point against magma armour: If you didn't have magma armour and somehow still got yourself frozen, attempting to use ANY fire type move immediately unfreezes you anyways. And considering the three Pokemon that have this ability are all fire types, I seriously doubt they'd not have ANY fire type moves.
Where tf is Darmanitan's Zen mode ability?
Josh Chislett it's not all that bad it's just situational and hard to use...
I think Klutz is for Trick and Fling strats
Ever since Rising Voltage, 182 BP under Electric Terrain (on grounded targets), was brought to RU through DLC, Pincurchin + Raichu-Alola has been a pretty deadly duo. Surge Surfer makes Raichu-Alola literally unable to be out sped outside of like Unburden Accelgor, allowing it to run a Modest nature. Rising Voltage is a disgustingly strong STAB attack that 2HKO's almost everything besides a few resists here and there. It's access to coverage moves such as STAB Psyshock, Surf, Grass Knot, and Focus Blast allows it to beat down almost all Ground-types or other resistances that escape the 2HKO from Rising Voltage.
Klutz is meant for you to equip a terrible item and then use trick to give it to your opponent.
Also, fire moves immediately thaw you out, and all pokemon who get magma armor get stab on fire moves
Not all fire moves. Only certain ones like Flare Blitz and Flame Wheel. Some others but I'm too lazy to type them out
For everyone saying "You can switcheroo a flame orb!"
1) You can switcheroo it without Klutz as well
2) You can avoid using a shit-tier Pokémon by just using Will-o-Wisp (which works on whole teams)
3) If you really wanna use that strategy, just use freaking Sigilyph so you can burn all Pokémon without trading items.
...Who the hell uses Sigilyph?
More people than Klutz Lopunny for sure. It's one of the best Psychic types in RU and can wreck you with Psycho Shift/Calm Mind/Roost. He's like a miniature Clefable that burns.
Fighting Thunder or you can use the stored power/cosmic power set
cresselia also learns psycho shift iirc ...
Mariano J
Klutz can be used to keep up the trick though. You can get another item like choice band and then switch that onto a special attacker and so on. It's not a good strategy but it's not replaced by what you described.
to make Klutz viable, the Toxic Orb poisons the holder. Switcheroo, a move that swaps held items, can be bred onto Buneary/Lopunny, that also get Klutz, so you can set up for some shenanigans, such as a Protect/Attract combo. if you swap it on, then swap it back, the enemy is badly poisoned, and you can near guarantee it, rather than needing to land a Toxic or set up a Toxic Spikes. the same combo can be done with a Flame Orb, and it gives no risk to you.
it's particularly brutal if you know that an enemy pokemon relies on a particular item to be viable, and wanted to try and take out one of their stronger pokemon by poisoning it.
Stall can be used for one albeit really gimmicky set with Sableye. It gets payback and metal burst which don’t have negative priority, so Stall helps ensure they’re used to their maximum potential, but that’s it.
Plus/Minus are really good when you use Magnetic Flux
Assault vest klutz switcheroo, stops people from using non attack moves
Stall = good for metalburst, since metalburst requires you to be slower than the opponent (does not have negative priority)
RankedZero when did ever Bastiodon have a prob against sableye lol. Sableye is a distrupter poke,makes a nuisance to the foe with its confuse ray/para hacks/burn/poison/etc.
sable eye can use metalburst*
RankedZero Really? whoaaa
Or, you know, you could go for Payback which has STAB for Sableye
Payback relies on your attack stat, metalburst is straight up 1.5x damage taken, but payback is nice too I can see that working
Here is a use for Klutz:
Give the ability bearer a flame or toxic orb and teach it fling. If you use fling or the opponent swaps items (can’t remember the name if that move) then they get burned/poisoned.
For Stall. A Pokemon with payback could definitely work with this. Payback is a move that hits much harder when used last. And since stall makes you go last, payback would have greater power. Granted, people don't really use payback, both competitive and in-game, but this would make a good payback power-up.
Klutz actually has one use and its only on the Buneary line. Give your Buneary/Lopunny an assault vest and make sure it has the egg move switcheroo. Use switcheroo in a competitive battle (so you don't loose this valuable item) and if the pokemon you target has any status moves, switcheroo in this case acts as a permanent taunt! Theres also one more strategy although its less effective. Teach entrainment to a pokemon with Klutz. If used in combination with a move that impedes switching out (easier in a double battle), your target gets a really annoying ability that you have as well.
I never even heard of Stall
Klutz is pretty good with Switcharoo. It used to be good with Fling until they decided you can't use Fling with Klutz in Gen 5. Lopunny with Klutz, Flame Orb, Fake Out, Fling, Protect, and Last Resort could easily 1v1 a Garchomp.
hahaha...no
This shows a limited knowledge of Pokemon. My Lopunny did so, against a Garchomp 15 levels above it. Let's run calcs for a Lv100 Lopunny vs a Lv100 Sogon-standard Garchomp.
Lopunny - Klutz
Jolly
@ Flame Orb
24 HP / 252 Atk / 220 Spe
~Fake Out
~Fling
~Protect
~Last Resort
vs
Garchomp - Sand Veil
Jolly
@ Life Orb
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Speed
~Swords Dance
~Dragon Claw
~Stone Edge
~Earthquake
Using max rolls, this is how the battle would go.
*Turn 1:*
Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-16.2%)
Garchomp (83.8%) Flinched!
*Turn 2*
Lopunny used Fling! (-8.1%)
Garchomp (75.7%) was Burned!
Garchomp (75.7%) used Earthquake! (-51.9%)
Garchomp (65.7%) lost some of its HP!
Garchomp (53.2%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 3*
Lopunny (48.1%) used Protect!
Lopunny (48.1%) protected itself!
Garchomp (53.2%) used Earthquake!
Lopunny (48.1%) protected itself!
Garchomp (40.7%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 4*
Lopunny (48.1%) used Last Resort! (-55.3%)
Garchomp (0%) fainted!
Even if Garchomp used Swords Dance instead of EQ, so it wouldn't take Life Orb recoil, Lopunny's Last Resort would still kill. At best, Garchomp could hope to barely survive if Lopunny got min rolls, but it would still die to Life Orb or Burn on turn 4.
Now, let's assume the Garchomp was CB instead of LO, and had Outrage.
*Turn 1:*
Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-16.2%)
Garchomp (83.8%) Flinched!
*Turn 2:*
Lopunny used Fling! (-8.1%)
Garchomp (75.7%) was Burned!
Garchomp (75.7%) used Outrage! (-72.2%)
Garchomp (63.2%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 3:*
Lopunny (27.8%) used Protect!
Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself!
Garchomp (63.2%) used Earthquake!
Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself!
Garchomp (50.7%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 4:*
Lopunny (27.8%) used Last Resort! (-55.3%)
Garchomp (0%) fainted!
And now let's assume Lopunny got min rolls while Garchomp got max damage rolls.
*Turn 1:*
Lopunny (100%) used Fake Out! (-13.6%)
Garchomp (86.4%) Flinched!
*Turn 2:*
Lopunny used Fling! (-6.7%)
Garchomp (79.7%) was Burned!
Garchomp (79.7%) used Outrage! (-72.2%)
Garchomp (67.2%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 3:*
Lopunny (27.8%) used Protect!
Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself!
Garchomp (67.2%) used Earthquake!
Lopunny (27.8%) protected itself!
Garchomp (54.7%) was hurt by its burn!
*Turn 4:*
Lopunny (27.8%) used Last Resort! (-46.9%)
Garchomp (7.8%) used Outrage! (-72.2%)
Lopunny (0%) fainted!
Garchomp (0%) was hurt by its burn!
Garchomp (0%) fainted!
Even if Garchomp got max damage rolls and Lopunny got min damage rolls, it would still faint to Burn on the turn it killed Lopunny, unless it was just a 1v1, but the odds of those rolls are slim.
Similarly, I made a Pidgeot (non mega) that can take any Tyranitar unless it gets crit by Stone Edge on a turn it's not Roosting. That's taking into account all versions of Tyranitar (including Mega), and taking Sandstorm damage into account.
And assuming Stone Edge doesn't miss once. That's the power of damage calcs.
Gen 3-4 sturdy always boggled the mind considering how rare and inaccurate 1HKO moves were. Making it the equivalent of focus sash was a great addition.