Fun fact, in the TCG there was an incredibly overpowered Durant card to the point that they made a Heatmor card that specifically countered it and could be used in any deck because it used colourless energy
Devour Durant Deck won me so many tournaments back in it's day. Nobody ever was prepared for it. The opponents always went from "What are you doing, stupid?" over "Oh, my gosh, that stupid thing works" to "Great game, wish I would've won". I only ever lost two times out of two seasons of TCG and both because my setup was one round of. Totally fell in love with the little ant back then.
All of the good durant cards just mill your opponent's deck (discard cards from their deck until they run out and lose the game). I always found it cute how the carpenter ant pokemon, oblivious of the battle and goes straight to devouring your opponents resources and they have to scramble in order to stomp on your ants while also trying to prevent them from getting rid of all their cards. It's just like real life ants! I love it!
90 base power, 85% accuracy, 10% chance to lower ALL of the target's stats by 1 stage (including accuracy/evasion). Hits both opponents and your ally in a Double Battle, hits regardless of Water Absorb or Storm Drain (you do not want to absorb the cheeto water).
Durant was the day I bet ALL of my channel points on yes and it paid off. Also I'm 100% interested in more videos of you + others doing dumb things at cons/meetups.
I’m happy that our long-awaited ant ‘Mon ended up being such a menace. Ants IRL are unstoppable armies of death with actual military tactics, each troop loaded with strong stings and bites. Only thing more metal is a giant furnace monster that melts their innards with a tongue made of fire. Wonderful duo, menacing and cool. Heatmor even scared me as a kid because I grew up loving ants.
Mad props to you for your patience in shiny hunting. You're my favorite youtuber of all time because of your good sense of humor, your story telling, and you keep it clean. Bibarelblogspokemon should be jealous.
Thank you for the amazing video, but more importantly thank you for reminding me I need to get back on the Cheeto water grind it’s been to long! I think I’ll have to make that ultimate Cheeto water tonight! I’ll remember to post my results too! Oh and congrats on the shinies I guess lol
Congrats and well done! Trying all the cheeto waters is a huge accomplishment. You should be very proud! Loved seeing the UL ant statue! Wish I remembered the story behind it XD Can't wait for the next one!
Congrats on getting them.....!! The first part of this video, makes these hunts feel fun and like a Journey, for you and everone around you lol This makes me wanna hunt in Gen 5 again
Thank you for the video! I appreciate that you're waiting until the event comes out next week to finish the indigo disk movie, i really wanted that to be included.
whoa! what an honor for my shiny antacid "art" to make it in the video. congrats on the Durant. Durant would definitely be my favorite mon if golisopod and malamar didnt already share #1 spot
I don’t know if you get comments on this a lot or if it is even something you care about, but I’m always incredibly impressed with how in shape you are right now. Watching older videos is a stark difference and I wanna commend you on that!
Heatmor is one of my favorite Unova Pokémon. I hunted one for months in Shield’s wild area, and eventually found one with a very rare mark a day or two before the Isle of Armor dropped.
i'm a durant fan. love that 70 pound little guy. hes one of my top favorites ever and i dont know why. hes just ant and he tickles my brain, like he is under my skin.
Dude you talking about the quesarito with no sour cream just as it appears was so beautiful! Literally my favorite thing from taco bell until they removed it y.y congrats on the shinies my guy!
this is so fun! i started rewatching lost boys with my bestie around when you uploaded this and i immediately caught a full odds shiny chikorita! named her vash since she's a plant lol
Your layouts keep getting more and more interesting. Lmao I'm not much of a Twitch-watcher but I may have to tune in some time just to see the context for how you get to these points.
I had a heatmor as my champion fire type in pokemon sword. his name is Pisss. I love him so very much. he's goofy and slow and the reason why I love heatmor so much and consider it one of my faves :) I always make sure to catch it in any game it's available in
Very nice showcase of two shinys I’m going to be hunting this year but it would be fun if we had something like Pokémon camp in B&W to have to two best freind interact.
This is a super specific issue I have but I wish Durant had either the ability Heatproof or just straight up Flash Fire. I recall at least one dex entry mentioning how Durant built up a powerful exoskeleton to protect itself from its main predator Heatmor. And in doing so it gave itself a 4x weakness? I just never understood that, I feel like it'd be at least fair to give Durant something like that, it's Durant after all it's not like it'll make it broken
My caillouwott. I remember that stream, I went to bed before the voting, checked the vod to see how my submission, the Caillouwott. did., and in the process got to see the shiny too!
another sublime absol upload 😌im not sure what you're hunting next, but have you seen the catchable shiny battle tower pokemon you can get in ruby/sapphire? just watched a really neat video about it from lettuceleaf and thought it would be a great hunt. looking forward to more!!
I actually got a shiny heatmor while hunting for deino in victory road, in the moment I was so angry because I already phased 3 times, but now I'm happy I got it
I just got my shiny charm today, and I'm gonna Masuda hunt a shiny Azurill for my little brother, Merrill, because the Marill line is just used as a nickname for him!
Indigo Disk movie eventually!! Maybe pass the time with a tall glass of Cheeto water
mmmm Cheeto water
I'm very excited
i haven't even finished the indigo disk yet, i'm trying to get a all shiny starters and get a full shiny team 😭
please tell me that Mtn dew has sponsored you for that vid, or any other vid
I have a video idea do a nuzlock and make it a movie like the upcoming indigo disk movie
Matt successfully ended the generational rivalry of a predator/prey relationship by just existing. Incredible.
Fun fact, in the TCG there was an incredibly overpowered Durant card to the point that they made a Heatmor card that specifically countered it and could be used in any deck because it used colourless energy
Devour Durant Deck won me so many tournaments back in it's day. Nobody ever was prepared for it. The opponents always went from "What are you doing, stupid?" over "Oh, my gosh, that stupid thing works" to "Great game, wish I would've won". I only ever lost two times out of two seasons of TCG and both because my setup was one round of.
Totally fell in love with the little ant back then.
All of the good durant cards just mill your opponent's deck (discard cards from their deck until they run out and lose the game). I always found it cute how the carpenter ant pokemon, oblivious of the battle and goes straight to devouring your opponents resources and they have to scramble in order to stomp on your ants while also trying to prevent them from getting rid of all their cards. It's just like real life ants! I love it!
TCG Devs knew the lore
standing in the ants, drinking cheeto water, taking ibuprofen, while the horses are back for a limited time
This is genuinely one of the most unhinged videos you've released and I couldn't be happier
The horse lore arc is fire 🔥 🔥 🔥
Love the idea that Matt’s videos can be divided into arcs like a manga lol
Muddy Water is already a move. How much damage do you think Cheeto Water does?
85 Base Power but a 40% chance to either burn or poison the opponent.
90 base power, 85% accuracy, 10% chance to lower ALL of the target's stats by 1 stage (including accuracy/evasion). Hits both opponents and your ally in a Double Battle, hits regardless of Water Absorb or Storm Drain (you do not want to absorb the cheeto water).
Instakill spread move move that doesn’t miss and toxics the entire enemy team
@@badwithusernames3238 that's Omni Cheeto Water, the signature move of the cheetos mascot
It’s an O K move
Imagine drinking and PRAYING over the omni cheeto water at 5am. Couldn’t possibly be me. Also I love Flamin’ Hot the Heatmor, she’s cute…
Right??? Who would do that!?!??!!? Also, Flamin' Hot said I was really dumb looking :'(
wlw heatmor and durant are truly what we need in 2024
Love showing off the encounter odds before the shiny! Also loving the cheeto water content. need more of that.
Insane how tough of a time these hunts gave you! But all of the art that came out of it was totally worth it! Congrats!
Durant was the day I bet ALL of my channel points on yes and it paid off. Also I'm 100% interested in more videos of you + others doing dumb things at cons/meetups.
durant is my fav pokemon, thanks to it being my first shiny. seeing durant and its pal get attention is really cool to me :D
i also caught my shiny durant in a luxury ball lol
I’m happy that our long-awaited ant ‘Mon ended up being such a menace. Ants IRL are unstoppable armies of death with actual military tactics, each troop loaded with strong stings and bites. Only thing more metal is a giant furnace monster that melts their innards with a tongue made of fire.
Wonderful duo, menacing and cool. Heatmor even scared me as a kid because I grew up loving ants.
1:30
I spit my water in laughter at the top left pic of Durant Peter Griffin fighting Heatmor Chicken guy 😂
Mad props to you for your patience in shiny hunting. You're my favorite youtuber of all time because of your good sense of humor, your story telling, and you keep it clean. Bibarelblogspokemon should be jealous.
I was mad I couldn't catch the shinies live but it was cool stopping in every now and again and participating in this "newer" hobby of mine.
"BUDDY YOU'RE BALD!!" Almost made me choke
So happy to get a light snack while waiting for the teal mask movie. cheeto water is a perfect Christmas gift for the holidays!
The stream was my first chance to see you find a shiny LIVE was looking forward to this video
Thank you for the amazing video, but more importantly thank you for reminding me I need to get back on the Cheeto water grind it’s been to long! I think I’ll have to make that ultimate Cheeto water tonight! I’ll remember to post my results too! Oh and congrats on the shinies I guess lol
First one of your shinies I've been here live for (durant at least!), congrats on both the heatmor and durant!
AAAA OMG that’s my Cheeto water art! 😭😭I can now proudly say my art has been featured in an AbsolBlogs video 😏 congrats again on the shiny finds!!!
It looks so good! It does great justice to cheeto water
@@garythelobsterman874 😂 thank you!
Congrats on the shinies!! So cool you got the duo!
Incredible work, as always, Mr. Absolblogs
always a joy to see a new video unloaded , and Happy First video of 2024 Matt :) !!!
nice to see you back bro
A combined 47048 encounters for this shiny duo. Unreal
Congrats and well done! Trying all the cheeto waters is a huge accomplishment. You should be very proud!
Loved seeing the UL ant statue! Wish I remembered the story behind it XD
Can't wait for the next one!
Never clicked on a video so fast
Love you Absol, you're the best pokemon youtuber out there. I always click on your vids with joy
That ending... heart shattering...
I loved this video I think I couldnt stop cackling the entire time. And then I was crushed by that last sentence. How dare you.
Heatmor is my #1 favourite pokemon so I'm glad it's finally getting some love!!!
Congrats on getting them.....!! The first part of this video, makes these hunts feel fun and like a Journey, for you and everone around you lol
This makes me wanna hunt in Gen 5 again
Your Gen 5 hunts are some of favorite videos
Thank you for the video! I appreciate that you're waiting until the event comes out next week to finish the indigo disk movie, i really wanted that to be included.
whoa! what an honor for my shiny antacid "art" to make it in the video. congrats on the Durant. Durant would definitely be my favorite mon if golisopod and malamar didnt already share #1 spot
My art is now immortalized in an absolblogs video. That’s going on my resume for sure.
Always a joy to see a new video unloaded. Very excited for the indigo disk movie.
I don’t know if you get comments on this a lot or if it is even something you care about, but I’m always incredibly impressed with how in shape you are right now. Watching older videos is a stark difference and I wanna commend you on that!
Heatmor is one of my favorite Unova Pokémon. I hunted one for months in Shield’s wild area, and eventually found one with a very rare mark a day or two before the Isle of Armor dropped.
i'm a durant fan. love that 70 pound little guy. hes one of my top favorites ever and i dont know why. hes just ant and he tickles my brain, like he is under my skin.
Dude you talking about the quesarito with no sour cream just as it appears was so beautiful! Literally my favorite thing from taco bell until they removed it y.y congrats on the shinies my guy!
Incredible video! Thank you for awesome content=3
2:32 "didn't notice it's in the red" lol I remember 12 year old me's fight or flight instincts kicking in when I would see the red light
this is so fun! i started rewatching lost boys with my bestie around when you uploaded this and i immediately caught a full odds shiny chikorita! named her vash since she's a plant lol
this might be the best opening to a youtube video i have ever seen
so glad that the picture of opila bird i forced onto your layout is now immortalized in youtube video form
the calves are crazy keep up the work big man
Came for the shinies, stayed for the Cheeto Water
Great job Absol and I can’t imagine Cheeto water would taste good but keep up the amazing work
Brutal! Congrats on these two. Sorry they put you through that 😅
Your layouts keep getting more and more interesting. Lmao I'm not much of a Twitch-watcher but I may have to tune in some time just to see the context for how you get to these points.
Matt’s Chat is so unhinged and I love that
Heatmor is definitely an underrated, glad to see it's getting some love 😌. This is one I need to rehunt in x and y.
Shout out to Durant for being my first Shiny. It jumped me from the bushes on route 18 (X&Y).
I begrudgingly liked this video in spite of the several references to cheeto water.
sipping baja blast at taco bell while looking at you guys drinking cheeto water is crazy
I had a heatmor as my champion fire type in pokemon sword. his name is Pisss. I love him so very much. he's goofy and slow and the reason why I love heatmor so much and consider it one of my faves :) I always make sure to catch it in any game it's available in
Very nice showcase of two shinys I’m going to be hunting this year but it would be fun if we had something like Pokémon camp in B&W to have to two best freind interact.
its been a while since a thumbnail has made me laugh so hard
Welcome home Duranthony and Heatmorrison.
Pumped for the indigo movie!
Watching boxing and drinking cheeto water in a hotel room is the reality we soon shall all face.
The Cheeto water bit made me physically ill 😭
Shout out to Max Holloway in that fight for real. Was a legendary fight to background the legendary waters
This is a super specific issue I have but I wish Durant had either the ability Heatproof or just straight up Flash Fire. I recall at least one dex entry mentioning how Durant built up a powerful exoskeleton to protect itself from its main predator Heatmor. And in doing so it gave itself a 4x weakness? I just never understood that, I feel like it'd be at least fair to give Durant something like that, it's Durant after all it's not like it'll make it broken
Every Absolvlogs video is so dang fun. ❤
My caillouwott. I remember that stream, I went to bed before the voting, checked the vod to see how my submission, the Caillouwott. did., and in the process got to see the shiny too!
glad to see traffic cone heatmor in there
Your videos always disappoint! 🔥🔥
A while ago when I was playing thru my black and white and found a shiny Durant while going thru victory road for my first time
My favourite pokemon, of all time.
Best thumbnail by far
another sublime absol upload 😌im not sure what you're hunting next, but have you seen the catchable shiny battle tower pokemon you can get in ruby/sapphire? just watched a really neat video about it from lettuceleaf and thought it would be a great hunt. looking forward to more!!
The narrative is strong in this one
Heatmor is a cool design
Would be cool if it got a fire/steel evolution
I respect the Quesarito pick, they shouldn’t never taken away that glorious item
That bottom left DS giving me ANXIETY
Durant was my first shiny every, i remember jumping out of my seat with excitement. He is still in my sword game
Guys my "Art" is actually just a screenshot from UCN 2, Durant is in fnaf real! not clickbait!
Also I missed the live durant because I went to take a shower 😭
Funny ant :)
Big fan of the live breaker reaction
I actually got a shiny heatmor while hunting for deino in victory road, in the moment I was so angry because I already phased 3 times, but now I'm happy I got it
that bugdom final boss theme did not get past me
this is good ass content
Heatmor is such a silly friend
Thank you hortensia
Poor octobug, missing this shiny
I just got my shiny charm today, and I'm gonna Masuda hunt a shiny Azurill for my little brother, Merrill, because the Marill line is just used as a nickname for him!
They do make people suffer I'm stilling after 2 years recovering from losing a shiny heatmor in pokemon go
Cheeto water, now with a chance of poisoning, flinching or confusing the target.
Maybe Heatran and Durant will get cool new forms in Gen V remakes.
5:37 such a great fight tbh
Slay❤
Wake up babe new absol video dropped
I’m sorry you and heatmor couldn’t work things out.
shiny heatmor is craaaazy i should hunt it sometime
it's been weeks without any pkmn in my life, so finally came back to starting a new save on BW watching Absol is part of my guilty pleasure :)
Durant December was sooooo long it felt like it was a year ago
It's time!