As weird as it sounds, Garchomp's toolkit is just too honest now. It can't set Spikes while attacking, it can't outspeed a lot of offensive Pokemon that OHKO him, it doesn't have crazy utility moves, it can't hope to withstand Kingambit Sucker Punch, it can't get a stat boost for free on switching in, it can't switch into every status move in the game, it can't double its team's defenses for 8 turns in a single click, it doesn't get a free 20% boost on all its moves by holding a signature item that can't be knocked off, it can't blow past everything in the game using only STAB moves, it can't threaten three different status effects at a time in a single move, it doesn't have any signature moves or items Abilities to make him better. You need to be exceptionally above curve if you wanna be OU nowadays. If you can't cheat the conventions of a Pokemon battle, you won't work in Gen 9 OU
Garchomp was the "what were game freak thinking" pokemon in its debut generation. It was once the perfectly designed pokemon a symbol of power creep that got power crept itself.
these weirdly empy facet eyes, these creepily cute pair of vampire teeth, this uncanny fusion of an eevee with a butterfly... i was in team normal type, but i can see where the bug type folks were coming from
Those three have been the OU kings since Gen 4 (well, Garchomp was banned, but it was OU for a fair bit early on). Telling someone in Gen 5 that them + Lando + Tyranitar would fall out of OU would be like trying to explain 9/11 to a Roman. It would just not compute.
@@1TieDye1 Because by gen 7 those mons have been on top for 4 generations!!! It started to look like they would always be, no matter what. But here we are...
It actually technically hasn’t 🅱️een a decade, while sure, Fairy was announced in 2013, Fairy wasn’t playing until October 12th 2013 and we didn’t see how busted they were u til then. ☝️🤓
Literally just one generation ago Lando T and OU were synonymous and Lando was THE OU pokemon people thought of when the tier was mentioned. The mon went from the King of OU to barely staying in the tier in just one generation.
Also there is a difference in the situation because it actually took some nerfs to take lando down. It lost knock off, defog, and toxic. Even with those moves it wouldnt be what it used to be but it sure as hell wouldnt be on track to uu
@@Cherry_Magenta I mean, yeah, that's what happens when half your kit gets taken away. Base Lando-T is still as busted as ever, he just got hard-nerfed by Gamefreak because of course they did.
@@blazefactor6849 not even that much. In natdex ou lando-t still has its entire kit, and while it's not close to UU there, it did drop to 14% usage and might drop even more. Gliscor buffs and mostly Great Tusk keep pushing it out.
One more wrinkle to the tusk issue: its another ground type *weak to fairy*. So not only are they sharing a lot of redundant defensive properties (positive and negative), it’s even more severe than another ground type like Landorus or Gliscor
We're truly reaching the end of an era for competitive pokemon with Lando-t probably dropping into UU next month to visit his pals Heatran and Garchomp
That's what the developers taking half your kit away does to a mon, especially given they've just left Great Tusk, which has an objectively far more stacked kit in the modern day. He's just not a favorite of theirs.
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441it was like Bulls Jordon to Wizard Jordon At one point the greatest pokemon of all time and then as it gets older becomes it becomes extremely inefficient.
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 even with this said. I love garchomp and dragonair even if they arent good lol. wonder how skarmory that steel bird doing or ninjask
I wanna take a moment and really appreciate the amount of editing that really went into this. As time goes one frezzai's editing gets better, but this video in particular really shone for me for some reason. Seeing the stats bump around the screen as they become relevant to the conversation just really does a great job of illustrating your points.
That was a sad story for Chomp and it's still unbelievable, but that possibility at the end of Lando dropping to UU seems even more absurd. More absurd than when we get to see Duraladon in little cup.
Sad that Garchomp fell, but with Corv also on the fall I've been using it a bit in ou and loaded dice scale shot beats a lot including glimorra, hopefully it rises again.
I love how dominant gliscor is now. If someone had told me a few gens ago that Gliscor is powercreeping landot and garchomp, I wouldn't have believed them.
Nah, I've loved Gliscor since Gen4, when they gave him poison heal it just made him perfect for me. I've been using him in showdown teams solidly since about 2015 to decent success.
@@DrDrao I refuse to use Landorus on principle, it always seemed lame and sweaty to use it just for the meta. Plus it's ugly, garchomp is a chad though (especially dragon tail).
I remember a False swipe gaming video from the start of Gen 9 where Garchomp was listed as the number one winner in the new game. But that was before the meta really developed with the DLC
It was alright enough as a somewhat fast and somewhat strong dragon who could also be a decent tank with a good support toolkit, then Home came, then Walking Wake and Enamorus dropped, both mons that mop the floor with Chomp, then the dlc dropped, and it just became completely outclassed by better ground types, it's still a good mon, but things just haven't been easy for the landshark, there's really nothing it does well enough in the current meta :(
@@YOSSARIAN313 I'm not sure chomp is ever gonna be truly top tier in ou, at least without a crazy signatute move or new busted ability, dd might patch things up, but i don't think it'll be enough It is still decent enough in vgc at least
I was once describing to someone how much power inflation the new gen introduced by letting him know that Garchomp was now a support pokemon because it wasn't offensive enough. To anyone that hasn't played this gen, that sounds absurd.
It's not JUST Power Creep. It's about Total Number of Mons too. Teams are the same size as they've always been. 6 mons. The more mons there are total, the larger the chance something slides. I realize they can adjust the thresholds, but even then, human psychology doesn't work that way.
the thing about lando is so much of its utility also just got deleted from its kit; part of it is dealing with great tusk, sure, but the reality is the thing that gave it so much usage in past gens took a seriously hard blow in this one
Garchomp simply needs a new ability next gen - he originally had an advantage that suggested he be hit whether it’s rough skin or sand veil for evasion. I think Garchomp should be the first Pokémon to receive the special version of intimidate. It’s Cynthia’s ace. It has to be special. It also needs dragon dance tomorrow.
Power creep'll do that tona guy, that's just how these things go. Maybe Garchomp will find his way back to OU, maybe not. But that won't ever stop him from being a popular Pokemon.
Unfortunately, the only realistic way Garchomp could ever rise back is if a massive portion of the Pokémon that ruin it's chances leave the tier and/or it gets a giant buff in the next DLC. Neither of which seem likely at the moment
Atleast Garchomp is too strong for UU. Is bad for him, but at least that shows that it's not totally him, is the Meta being really broken. Also, Heatran and Rotom-W doesn't seem to return to OU soon, unlike Garganacl who is likely getting banned or raising by usage. As a new player knowing the past of competitive Pokemon, this still hit me hard
Yeah Garchomp's biggest problem is it hasnt seen any new tools outside of Mega and spikes, introduced in the same gen as hrott. Headlong would be huge, alongside espeed. A redistribution of some of its spdef and/or def to give it 10 more speed would also be huge
@@royalgelly8948 might be interesting if it got a version of Extremespeed that had a tidy up/court change effect also. Like how running past leaves gets the wind to kick them up and move them this E.Speed could do the same to hazards.
Garchomp dropping to uu, though not as bad as i make it out to be is the final nail in the coffin for the power creep problem. Literally its lowest stats are decent and the only real counter to a garchomp with a fast ice type at the time. He was very well meant to be the line between OU and ubers. It just now feels like the pokemon company thought it was the best idea to get pokemon that tickle that threshold of the top OU pokemon even back in gen 6, and now it feels like gens 1 though 8 OU pokemon that didnt have a great niche against a full teams worth of powerful gen 9 pokemon, then the powerhouses got bullied to UU, the okay ones going into RU, the ones that seem good on paper being in NU, and anything else being in PU or unranked.
Chomp, Heatran and possibly even Lando eventually dropping to UU for the first time all in the same Generation is honestly pretty insane. Not really a fan of this trend of GameFreak removing moves that Pokemon have had for multiple generations.
God this gen just sucks. It's so powercrept it makes gen 5 look passive, there's just so much offensive presence and practically no defense at all. Dondozo and Skeledirge are pretty much the only things we have gotten on the bulky side this gen, everything now has spikes and Gholdengo makes removing those hazards so difficult, there's so many mons that have god damn near perfectly min-maxed stats it's actually ridiculous. Look at these stat lines and tell me this wasn't fully intentional.
I started playing pokemon in gen 4, for my entire time playing this game garchomp has been ou or higher. In the time it took for garchomp to fall off I've become an adult and started living on my own, this is really the end of an era
Power creep is always sad. My favorite Pokemon has been "power crept" since it's been out. I'd like to pin all the blame on whoever the fuck invented Gholdengo. Ugly and broken pokemon
Honestly fairy is such a strong type, I don't like when types have immunities without some decent downside. Fairy should be weak to fire and or bug to make the game more balanced.
I'm surprised Dragon Rush hasn't been buffed, they can make it an in between for Dragon claw and outrage. Keep at it 100 power but buff its accuracy to 80% so it's on par with hydro pump and give it a 20% Flinch rate. I don't think it would be broken because outrage would still offer more power at the cost of not being able to control what you hit and dragon claw will be extremely reliable but weaker.
I think you should take Ice Spinner in mind as well. Before there wasn't a generic physical ice move you can give to lots of mons, and the only physical ice move that was somewhat widespread was Ice fang (which is terrible) or Triple Axel, which wasn't that widespread. Lando T kinda faces the same problem atm.
Why mention ice fang, but not ice punch? Not that femiliar with meta games past gen 3, but ice punch has higher base power and common enough on two legged pokemon (and metagross).
@@Dragonoid269 I actually confused Ice Punch with Triple axel, as the only highly used pokemon in gen 8 I can think of using Icepunch are Ttar, Buzzwole, Nidoking, Weavile and Kommo-O. The rest either have no space for Ice punch or can't use it effectively. Ice Spinner can be used on way more mons.
Pre-DLC i saw a ton of success with lead hazard chomp, since every hamurott would play the game of hazard grabass and nearly die in the process from helmet+rough skin. even then, though, enamorus really sat on it, forcing tera or a death.
@@SammyK-jt3vv september's stats don't count due to new toy syndrome. it's a miracle he hung on. if october's stats put him under, fine, but i expect him to gain some usage back because he isn't fighting the return of a mon that hasnt been in the game in 4 years.
"Maybe Next month there will be a video called: The fall of Landorus" Please dear god let this happen because it'd be one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
random but what is best garchomp set for gen 4 battle frontier? choice band/scarf outrage? yachee berry with swords dance and dragon claw? jolly or adamant? seems like you have to compensate with every build.
You know something is wrong when lando a top threat has fallen behind, I fear for the future generations, who knows maybe in gen 10 great tusk will fall
@@sptflcrw8583 It used to be 3.42% (25 battles) but because *of certain someone* related to ambipom, they decided to make it a 4.52% to reduce tier shifting... yet the memers are just way too strong with certain Kapoeira mon.
If you tell someone in 2008 that one day Gliscor will dethrone Garchomp he'll either think that you're crazy or that you're probably trying to pull off a prank but here we are...
As weird as it sounds, Garchomp's toolkit is just too honest now. It can't set Spikes while attacking, it can't outspeed a lot of offensive Pokemon that OHKO him, it doesn't have crazy utility moves, it can't hope to withstand Kingambit Sucker Punch, it can't get a stat boost for free on switching in, it can't switch into every status move in the game, it can't double its team's defenses for 8 turns in a single click, it doesn't get a free 20% boost on all its moves by holding a signature item that can't be knocked off, it can't blow past everything in the game using only STAB moves, it can't threaten three different status effects at a time in a single move, it doesn't have any signature moves or items Abilities to make him better. You need to be exceptionally above curve if you wanna be OU nowadays. If you can't cheat the conventions of a Pokemon battle, you won't work in Gen 9 OU
this is honestly such a good read of the current state of the meta
@vNautsdamn, Garchomp is the Pit/Dark Pit of Pokemon. Too honest to fight against Steves and Kazuyas running around now
LITERALLY too honest for Gen 9 holy shit
That’s why we need
Megas! Mega garchomp with Sand rush would smash hoes!
Chomp can survive a kingambit sucker.
Unless it's at +2...
Garchomp was the "what were game freak thinking" pokemon in its debut generation. It was once the perfectly designed pokemon a symbol of power creep that got power crept itself.
1:33 “The beginning of garchomp’s problems started with the fairy type. That happened more than a decade ago” Damn, I feel old now
@@sshuckle I remember when people thought it was going to be Bug type. I mean look at the thing, how on earth do you think that is a Bug type
these weirdly empy facet eyes, these creepily cute pair of vampire teeth, this uncanny fusion of an eevee with a butterfly...
i was in team normal type, but i can see where the bug type folks were coming from
I physically recoiled when he said that, lmao.
@@RikiazGaming its eyes are bug-like, similar to beedrill's or ninjask's
Fairy type should never have existed
Imagine going back in time and showing the current UU (with chomp, heatran, rotom-wash) to someone playing gen 7 OU
Those three have been the OU kings since Gen 4 (well, Garchomp was banned, but it was OU for a fair bit early on). Telling someone in Gen 5 that them + Lando + Tyranitar would fall out of OU would be like trying to explain 9/11 to a Roman. It would just not compute.
So there was this guy named Ken...
gen 11: gholdengo and great tusk fall to UU
@@1TieDye1 Because by gen 7 those mons have been on top for 4 generations!!! It started to look like they would always be, no matter what. But here we are...
People would be like: So they rebranded Ubers as OU and OU changed to UU and so on? It's the only logical answer.
Hearing "Fairy type. That happened more than a decade ago." Hit me with some whiplash. I was in high school when the fairy type dropped.
I had just graduated. That sentence shook me
It actually technically hasn’t 🅱️een a decade, while sure, Fairy was announced in 2013, Fairy wasn’t playing until October 12th 2013 and we didn’t see how busted they were u til then. ☝️🤓
I feel old
Same here that's trippy infact I was just starting high school when that type dropped.
Welcome to the club
The saddest part is that Garchomp was broken in UU so now its in UUBL Purgatory
i think you mean BL knighthood
I pity the poor bastards that get sent to BL to rot
@@pikminman13 Naw, BL is definitely a prison. Not good enough for the tier above, but too strong for the tier below. Purgatory is a good word for it.
@@Jones_55garchomp is usable in OU though unlike a lot of bl mons so it has that going for it.
Like an aging man that cant hack it with the young ones anymore but cant get his welfare yet
This felt like it was bound to happen eventually but Lando T going to UU will actually be insane. He's like OU's Uncle
Literally just one generation ago Lando T and OU were synonymous and Lando was THE OU pokemon people thought of when the tier was mentioned. The mon went from the King of OU to barely staying in the tier in just one generation.
@@Cherry_Magenta i used to ruuuuuule the woooooorld
Also there is a difference in the situation because it actually took some nerfs to take lando down. It lost knock off, defog, and toxic. Even with those moves it wouldnt be what it used to be but it sure as hell wouldnt be on track to uu
@@Cherry_Magenta I mean, yeah, that's what happens when half your kit gets taken away. Base Lando-T is still as busted as ever, he just got hard-nerfed by Gamefreak because of course they did.
@@blazefactor6849 not even that much. In natdex ou lando-t still has its entire kit, and while it's not close to UU there, it did drop to 14% usage and might drop even more.
Gliscor buffs and mostly Great Tusk keep pushing it out.
One more wrinkle to the tusk issue: its another ground type *weak to fairy*. So not only are they sharing a lot of redundant defensive properties (positive and negative), it’s even more severe than another ground type like Landorus or Gliscor
We're truly reaching the end of an era for competitive pokemon with Lando-t probably dropping into UU next month to visit his pals Heatran and Garchomp
That's what the developers taking half your kit away does to a mon, especially given they've just left Great Tusk, which has an objectively far more stacked kit in the modern day. He's just not a favorite of theirs.
Lando t might actually be able to destroy uu with its old swords dance set and will have many more viable sets. My guess it gets banned
@@blazefactor6849they balance around doubles, and lando t was even stronger there.
@@dylanb2990 The tools they took away weren't relevant in doubles, and as for GF balancing there... Flutter Mane and Urshifu beg to disagree.
garchomp did NOT have one more month in OU in him 😔
Apparently, not a month in UU in him either...
Hes rising next month, this isn’t copium
Garchomp got straight up banned from UU, and will be with 99% certainty back back in OU next month.
@@gunchar06And it's a official UU mon now after 2nd dlc
@@13thKingMu Well i didn't expect that Nintendo would double down on the powercreep and make many older Pokemon even more useless.
RIP Chomp 2006-2023😔
honestly that is impressive if it can last that long lol
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441it was like Bulls Jordon to Wizard Jordon
At one point the greatest pokemon of all time and then as it gets older becomes it becomes extremely inefficient.
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 Mewtwo and Zapdos: Viable for 27 years
@@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406 even with this said. I love garchomp and dragonair even if they arent good lol. wonder how skarmory that steel bird doing or ninjask
@@a3aannaqvi627 well I sure hope so being legendary and all that lol except for phione, and normal regie lol
3:18 my favorite thing about gholdengo is that in the generation that introduced a new rapid spin-like attack (mortal spin), it also blocks THAT too
just so crazy to think about. it feels like yesterday when garchomp was essentially invincible
I wanna take a moment and really appreciate the amount of editing that really went into this. As time goes one frezzai's editing gets better, but this video in particular really shone for me for some reason. Seeing the stats bump around the screen as they become relevant to the conversation just really does a great job of illustrating your points.
Garchomp has fallen, millions must drop by usage...
It's so fucking Garchover
That was a sad story for Chomp and it's still unbelievable, but that possibility at the end of Lando dropping to UU seems even more absurd. More absurd than when we get to see Duraladon in little cup.
Thats likely immediatly going to be banned, no?
@@silvershine2261 I would even be surprised if is allowed whatsoever. If it is we have another contender for the WR ban speedrun after Regieleki
@silvershine2261 probably but it would be very very funny if it wasn't instabanned
Lando even being thought of going into UU is a crime enough with that illegal talk
that's just what happens when they introduce Better Lando and bring back Un-Nerfed Worse Lando
I'll keep his legacy alive with choice band
It’s Garchover Chompbros 😔
😭😭😭😭😭
At 6:02 the written loaded dice description is the descripton of booster energy. Great video!
Sad that Garchomp fell, but with Corv also on the fall I've been using it a bit in ou and loaded dice scale shot beats a lot including glimorra, hopefully it rises again.
I think at this point, just give Garchomp Dragon Dance again and also maybe give it Sand Rush. The boy needs some sort of buff.
P😊
Just give it Dragon Dance and it’ll be chilling
Gamefreak confirmed cowards
They gave kyurem dragon dance but not garchomp.
It's banned in stabmons probably because of dragon dance
Farewell Garchomp. You're a legend.
"The future is now old 'mon." -Gen 9 OU
As someone who last played meta in gen 6, hearing that Lando T might slip to UU is blowing my mind.
Even if Garchomp felldown to UU, he will still stay in our heart as the fearsome monster Cynthia used against us when we were kids.
In before Gamefreak Uber buffs Garchomp and the first run in with *that* monster is a Cynthia jumpscare.
I love how dominant gliscor is now. If someone had told me a few gens ago that Gliscor is powercreeping landot and garchomp, I wouldn't have believed them.
Nah, I've loved Gliscor since Gen4, when they gave him poison heal it just made him perfect for me. I've been using him in showdown teams solidly since about 2015 to decent success.
@@jazzy4830 I love gliscor too. It's my favorite mon. However, historically, it's been worse than both gar and landot.
We need poison heal garchomp
@@DrDrao I refuse to use Landorus on principle, it always seemed lame and sweaty to use it just for the meta. Plus it's ugly, garchomp is a chad though (especially dragon tail).
I remember a False swipe gaming video from the start of Gen 9 where Garchomp was listed as the number one winner in the new game. But that was before the meta really developed with the DLC
That video aged well
It was alright enough as a somewhat fast and somewhat strong dragon who could also be a decent tank with a good support toolkit, then Home came, then Walking Wake and Enamorus dropped, both mons that mop the floor with Chomp, then the dlc dropped, and it just became completely outclassed by better ground types, it's still a good mon, but things just haven't been easy for the landshark, there's really nothing it does well enough in the current meta :(
@@jean_conit may be time for gamefreak to stop being cowards and give it dragon dance
@@YOSSARIAN313 free regigigas while they are at it
@@YOSSARIAN313 I'm not sure chomp is ever gonna be truly top tier in ou, at least without a crazy signatute move or new busted ability, dd might patch things up, but i don't think it'll be enough
It is still decent enough in vgc at least
I was once describing to someone how much power inflation the new gen introduced by letting him know that Garchomp was now a support pokemon because it wasn't offensive enough. To anyone that hasn't played this gen, that sounds absurd.
Freezai has been killing it lately
everyone and their mother being Terra Fairy was the nail in the coffin. even the good matchups werent good half the time.
"garchomp needs no introduction" *gives it an introduction*
"The problems with garchomp started with the introduction of Fairy type 10 years ago"
Damn...
It's not JUST Power Creep. It's about Total Number of Mons too. Teams are the same size as they've always been. 6 mons. The more mons there are total, the larger the chance something slides. I realize they can adjust the thresholds, but even then, human psychology doesn't work that way.
the thing about lando is so much of its utility also just got deleted from its kit; part of it is dealing with great tusk, sure, but the reality is the thing that gave it so much usage in past gens took a seriously hard blow in this one
Garchomp simply needs a new ability next gen - he originally had an advantage that suggested he be hit whether it’s rough skin or sand veil for evasion. I think Garchomp should be the first Pokémon to receive the special version of intimidate. It’s Cynthia’s ace. It has to be special. It also needs dragon dance tomorrow.
Na give it something semi broken like sheer force or some shit like that. It gonne be up ther quick
@@lycidaes4752it doesn't really have moves that can abuse sheer force though
The editing for this video was was insane!
Somewhere in NU, Flygon is laughing
I can't wait for gen 25 where flygon is untiered and Garchomp is in NU.
Power creep'll do that tona guy, that's just how these things go. Maybe Garchomp will find his way back to OU, maybe not. But that won't ever stop him from being a popular Pokemon.
Unfortunately, the only realistic way Garchomp could ever rise back is if a massive portion of the Pokémon that ruin it's chances leave the tier and/or it gets a giant buff in the next DLC. Neither of which seem likely at the moment
@@hypershadicfusionofhope9342 would it need a new form, new item, dragon dance? and mabe increase its atk and speed base stat?
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 give it shell smash and sturdy, straight to ubers it goes
@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441no it just need headlong rush and dragon dance for ou and sand rush can make him ubers if given
Great video as usual! Just wanna point out, you used the Booster Energy description for the Loaded Dice. Keep up the awesome work!
Atleast Garchomp is too strong for UU. Is bad for him, but at least that shows that it's not totally him, is the Meta being really broken. Also, Heatran and Rotom-W doesn't seem to return to OU soon, unlike Garganacl who is likely getting banned or raising by usage. As a new player knowing the past of competitive Pokemon, this still hit me hard
It's a weird time to be a Pokemon fan and observer of competitive when you see Garchomp and even Landorus-T falling off usage.
Can’t wait to see the Landorus T video in a month
I'll be the villain here. I welcome, I relish in the fact Garchomp is out of ou, I love the fact even now it's in the purgatory of UUBL.
Great Tusk is only running Ice Spinner because of Gliscor, so in a roundabout way, Gliscor may have played a part in Garchomp's desent
Is anyone else surprised that the ‘Chomp doesn’t have a priority move? Like it’s the MACH POKEMON, right?
Hell even Dragonite has Extremespeed…
Imagine if it did? No more Icicle Spear worries...
@@rubenduenas5881 indeed. Also maybe give it Headlong Rush, Gamefreak? Maybe?
Yeah Garchomp's biggest problem is it hasnt seen any new tools outside of Mega and spikes, introduced in the same gen as hrott. Headlong would be huge, alongside espeed. A redistribution of some of its spdef and/or def to give it 10 more speed would also be huge
@@royalgelly8948 might be interesting if it got a version of Extremespeed that had a tidy up/court change effect also.
Like how running past leaves gets the wind to kick them up and move them this E.Speed could do the same to hazards.
@@themister.s-1stno, that would just be op
Garchomp dropping to uu, though not as bad as i make it out to be is the final nail in the coffin for the power creep problem. Literally its lowest stats are decent and the only real counter to a garchomp with a fast ice type at the time. He was very well meant to be the line between OU and ubers. It just now feels like the pokemon company thought it was the best idea to get pokemon that tickle that threshold of the top OU pokemon even back in gen 6, and now it feels like gens 1 though 8 OU pokemon that didnt have a great niche against a full teams worth of powerful gen 9 pokemon, then the powerhouses got bullied to UU, the okay ones going into RU, the ones that seem good on paper being in NU, and anything else being in PU or unranked.
Kinda amazing to see how Freezai's production quality rose from the start of the channel to now
Chomp, Heatran and possibly even Lando eventually dropping to UU for the first time all in the same Generation is honestly pretty insane. Not really a fan of this trend of GameFreak removing moves that Pokemon have had for multiple generations.
God this gen just sucks. It's so powercrept it makes gen 5 look passive, there's just so much offensive presence and practically no defense at all. Dondozo and Skeledirge are pretty much the only things we have gotten on the bulky side this gen, everything now has spikes and Gholdengo makes removing those hazards so difficult, there's so many mons that have god damn near perfectly min-maxed stats it's actually ridiculous. Look at these stat lines and tell me this wasn't fully intentional.
I started playing pokemon in gen 4, for my entire time playing this game garchomp has been ou or higher. In the time it took for garchomp to fall off I've become an adult and started living on my own, this is really the end of an era
Power creep is always sad. My favorite Pokemon has been "power crept" since it's been out.
I'd like to pin all the blame on whoever the fuck invented Gholdengo. Ugly and broken pokemon
When he said “For the unaware…” i immediately thought he meant quagsire. I think I need to go outside
Loved the Sonic Rush music. Great choice Freezai! :)
We’re so garchomback
Powercreep claims even Sinnoh's beloved dragon? The East has truly fallen...
Guess we can finally say he's a Garchump now.
Garchomp immediately started terrorizing the UU Tier and got straight up banned after just a single week XD...
Honestly fairy is such a strong type, I don't like when types have immunities without some decent downside. Fairy should be weak to fire and or bug to make the game more balanced.
Yeah it should definitely have a bug weakness. Maybe also a Normal Weakness in a similar vein to Space World Dark
A bug weakness would probably make the game less balanced in singles especially unless they cut u turn distribution SIGNIFICANTLY.
@@justaliljello5198 well in fairness fairy is about as OP as Water and Bug is about as bad as ice
@@justaliljello5198”Limit u-turn to bug types and nerf it to 60 BP” - Scizor, probably
@@justaliljello5198I mean, U-turn distribution should probably be cut significantly
Really high quality video. Great work Freezai.
The fact that Blissey went from NU to OU is insane
She’s got one more in her
someone had to counter bloodmoon
@@Viscellaneous_Rim that actually sounds badass lmao
I'm going to break into Gamefreak's office and kick the living crap out of all the employees who didn't give my boi Garchomp Dragon Dance
Bax is the garchomp this gen
I'm surprised Dragon Rush hasn't been buffed, they can make it an in between for Dragon claw and outrage. Keep at it 100 power but buff its accuracy to 80% so it's on par with hydro pump and give it a 20% Flinch rate. I don't think it would be broken because outrage would still offer more power at the cost of not being able to control what you hit and dragon claw will be extremely reliable but weaker.
I think you should take Ice Spinner in mind as well. Before there wasn't a generic physical ice move you can give to lots of mons, and the only physical ice move that was somewhat widespread was Ice fang (which is terrible) or Triple Axel, which wasn't that widespread. Lando T kinda faces the same problem atm.
Why mention ice fang, but not ice punch? Not that femiliar with meta games past gen 3, but ice punch has higher base power and common enough on two legged pokemon (and metagross).
@@Dragonoid269 I actually confused Ice Punch with Triple axel, as the only highly used pokemon in gen 8 I can think of using Icepunch are Ttar, Buzzwole, Nidoking, Weavile and Kommo-O. The rest either have no space for Ice punch or can't use it effectively.
Ice Spinner can be used on way more mons.
Pre-DLC i saw a ton of success with lead hazard chomp, since every hamurott would play the game of hazard grabass and nearly die in the process from helmet+rough skin. even then, though, enamorus really sat on it, forcing tera or a death.
Garchomp fans (Me):
*Kazuma Kiryu slamming desk and leaving meme*
Garchomp deserves to be the number 1 pokemon. With it's diverse moveset and good stats. Plus it looks amazing!
Loaded dice description at 6:00 seems wrong, doesn't it guarantee that multihit moves connect at least 4 times?
KEEP DOING THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS FREEZAI I LOVE IT
Now it got in the purgatory known as uubl
the old mons are now grandads practically saying "back in my days i was the mon everyone had to look out for"
Ladies and gentlemen
A legend has fallen
Garchomp deserved this for trying to outclass Flygon.
I love Flygon too but Garchomp isn't trying hard in that department 🙃
Not like flygon ever got even next to garchomp's feet in any mean possible
To repent for this insanity we must unban sand veil, bright powder, and kings rock
Landorus falls to UU
Landorus: there is nothing we can do.
*Plays music*
the world will end when that happens. my lord must stay on top...
@@pikminman13my brother in christ he barely dodged the feds this time
@@SammyK-jt3vv Nah, they already got him. They took his fucking moves and now he can't walk.
@@SammyK-jt3vv september's stats don't count due to new toy syndrome. it's a miracle he hung on. if october's stats put him under, fine, but i expect him to gain some usage back because he isn't fighting the return of a mon that hasnt been in the game in 4 years.
"Maybe Next month there will be a video called: The fall of Landorus"
Please dear god let this happen because it'd be one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
Guys don't be sad now as garchomp the king is BACK IN OU!!!🎉
He is my favorite pokemon and it's so good to see him back in OU
Well that’s only because every other pokemon that countered/outclassed it got banned.
Aged like milk
*cough* Give Garchomp Dragon Dance, Gamefreak. *cough*
I am certain we are only 1 or 2 more new generations away from the meta power creeping enough for Deoxys to finally make a home in OU.
Loaded dice has wrong description, it's booster energy's description instead of loaded dice's description
random but what is best garchomp set for gen 4 battle frontier? choice band/scarf outrage? yachee berry with swords dance and dragon claw? jolly or adamant? seems like you have to compensate with every build.
You know something is wrong when lando a top threat has fallen behind, I fear for the future generations, who knows maybe in gen 10 great tusk will fall
Any timeline where Garchomp falls from OU just proves how much power creep is going out of control.
I GOT ONE MORE IN ME
I expect that they might suspect test Gholdengo soon
You did not just say fairy type came out more than a decade ago 💀 bro now I feel old
oh nah UU is about to be a hellscape if garchomp, heatran AND lando T go to uu 💀
What's the name of the song at 6:58 ?
How the mighty has fallen.
I still don't understand why they won't give him dragon dance... Like at this point it won't even make him strong by OU standards
Fairy over a decade ago? Holy moly time moves fast
Great vid.
Music credits? What's the track at 1:58?
I think Garchomp is no longer too dangerous for d-dance
It 1000 percent is....
freezai can you make a short about why the usage barrier is 4.52% it seems like such a random number
It's set up so that a player is likely to see any given Pokémon in that tier in an average day of battles (20 battles)
@@sptflcrw8583 It used to be 3.42% (25 battles) but because *of certain someone* related to ambipom, they decided to make it a 4.52% to reduce tier shifting... yet the memers are just way too strong with certain Kapoeira mon.
I never thought this day would come, but if Landorus falls, I'd be doubly blown away.
I can imagine Flygon talking to Garchomp, " Now you know how I feel."
Honestly, that it's only now been power crept is a testament to how amazing Garchomp is
Could we have a video on Kommo-o please?
If you tell someone in 2008 that one day Gliscor will dethrone Garchomp he'll either think that you're crazy or that you're probably trying to pull off a prank but here we are...
Crazy that the era of Garchomp + 5 Garchomp counters for a team comp was over a decade ago.