Which Abilities are Terrible for Competitive, but GREAT for Casual Play?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- All Pokémon have abilities, and sometimes they become a lethal combination and soar to the top of the competitive scene! (Or so I hear...) However sometimes a Pokémon can be written off as having a "bad" ability, but they're just not designed for battling on the front lines and their purpose lies somewhere else! So let's see which abilities are the best for Casual play!
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I have a soft spot for Damp. I was doing a Nuzlocke of Shield one time and I went around and fought some raid dens to gather items and TR’a. I was using the online feature so I didn’t have to deal with idiot AI. Out of nowhere turn one one of my allies, a level 100 Regileki, used explosion during a raid (the Pokemon I was using at the time was pretty low level). I braced myself for a loss… and the Wooper we were fighting had Damp and prevented the explosion!!!
Why would that guy try to ruin your raid by blowing up? What a jerk! And poor Regieleki doesn't deserve that...
I ended up naming it “Salvadora” Spanish for savior
@@gingerkays7362did salvadora survive the whole thing? 😮
@@LeBongFairy it was a while ago so I don’t really remember, but I think it was a Wonderlocke (or Surpriselocke, technically) so I ended up trading it
The only thing worse than idiot AI are actual idiots/trolls. Dude probably thought it was hilarious getting kids hopes up, pulling up with a level 100 legendary to help, only to nuke everything and leave. What a douche
As a casual player, one I have found very useful is Trace. It was a very good ability for helping me understand what abilities did and which Pokémon had them through play, regardless of what benefits they provided in battle itself.
Also, I'm glad you sort of bring up the point that most Pokémon are not built for competitive and sometimes a good ability is simply one that justifies you keeping around a Pokémon you might otherwise have boxed half way through the game.
That's true; Trace would be an excellent ability to teach new players, so if they put it on an early game bug or something it would be great!
Trace has some uses in competitive too. Gen 3 OU blissey is the premier special wall so dugtrio with arena trap traps and knocks out blissey. Porygon 2 with trace will copy arena trap then knock out dugtrio with ice beam. It sounds super specific but it actually comes up quite a bit given how optimized the meta game is
@@emperorcubone at least there’s ralts
it kind of sucks that they’re so uncommon tho
I've also seen trace Porygon2 do well in vgc tournaments. If you copy intimidate or armor tail, it can completely mess with your opponent's strategy.
Runaway! That's a big one!
Literally pointless in competitive, but SO good for fleeing annoying battles...
@@emperorcubone All they need to do is make it immune to trapping, and it's then at least *something.*
Run Away is especially useful in Sword/Shield & Scarlet/Violet, as there's hostile Pokémon that will attack you & you can easily run from them if they give you trouble. I'm looking at YOU, Paldean Tauros.
And it is a huge nuzlocke saver because if you want to flee aganist a wild Pokémon its usually a fast offensive one that makes a lot of trouble. Thinking about absol in particular
Pickup goes insane in any playthrough tbh
And IRL 😏😊
Pickup is BUSTED in Ruby and Sapphire, since it has the same drop rates for items at every level, unlike Emerald onward where the pickup items get better every ten levels
Especially in Gen 7 because of Pokémon Pelago.
Pickup is truly impressive!
I be trying to tell people normalize delcatty is actually good
I give skitty silk scarf
Thunder wave
Sucker punch
Stomping tantrum(if sucker punch fails the move is doubled plus stab plus normalize boost plus silk scarf )
Fake out
PoV delcatty runs into any ghost type
@@enzoforgets9456 literally all you have to do is not put delcatty against a ghost rock or steel type duhh. The same way how you don’t send out a water type against volcanion
@@CashoutRenny224 your openents know exactly whats coming, and have the same priveledges to counterplay as u, plus delcatty isnt really known for its offensive pressure so pressuring them out into a different mon is non existent
Theyll just switch into their ghost as u bring delcatty and swap back out the turn after u switch(or same turnf if above 1500 elo)
Delcatty is only known for the set u said, it literally has nothing else going for it unfort
The set u said is literally just letting ur foe pivot into a setup to win
65 base attack isnt even enough with all the damage additives to even remotely chunk of an hp bar of mons considered good that arent all offense(which even then not really)
@@enzoforgets9456 almost every pokemon is like that. Just like how pecharunt only has poison and ghost moves so bring in a steel or normal type and you can swap back and forth with. The delcatty set isn’t supposed to be competitive or THE ABSOLUTE BEST it’s just there to have fun with weaker pokemon
@@CashoutRenny224 that mentality i can agree with, sometimes having fun even for the uber comp players like me, is genuinely worth not playing seriously, and to just have fun
Apologies for misunderstanding what u meant
1:26 Terapagos: “and I took that personally.”
For play throughs I always found Pokemon with “thick fat” to be useful
Run away should let you run away from shadow tag, arena trap, mean look, etc
That'd be amazing! And an upgrade that actually makes sense, like Sturdy!
Yes, exactly! GAME FREAK has given better effects to Stench, Pickup, and even Illuminate now, so why is Run Away (and Honey Gather, for that matter) still waiting? (Incidentally, Gimmighoul [Roaming Form] has Run Away; evidently GAME FREAK forgot that they already made the whole Ghost type immune to anti-fleeing effects in Generation VI.)
Run Away is more useful in Mystery Dungeon cause Chunsoft decided to make trapping moves return to their Gen 1 glory ... however, you're immune to traps with Run Away.
same, ive been wanting this for years
Foresight Normalize Delcatty can be a menace.
Definitely better than a lot of the abilities here, but I’d like to shout out synchronise in generation six and seven. Before mints were introduced, disability was the best way to help choose the nature of a Pokémon you encounter. Just lead a Pokémon with synchronise and any wild Pokémon encountered have a 50% chance of inheriting the ability barer’s nature.
At least in Singles, Lokix with Tinted Lense and First Impression is still a beast
I swear this guy would be borderline unviable without tinted lens.
@@shanem8957 100%
I’m glad an early game bug is finally pretty good. Plus at least it isn’t Spidops…
In Shining Pearl, I did take a Beautifly to the league. Slayera the Beautifly was my MVP of that game.
I did the same but in Emerald!
I took a Beautifly to the League in an Emerald Nuzlock. She was the reason I beat Jaun's annoying Kingdra, so i had to take her. She even got to help with Sidney.
I still remember when I first got sapphire version back in 2003 and I learned about abilities for the first time. I truly believe abilities was the best edition to the series Pokémon has ever received
Honestly, I'm inclined to agree! It makes Pokemon with the same types and stats totally different from each other! It's brilliant!
I will agree with an asterisk. It was the best addition to the game, BUT it was not the most important change - the most important change being the physical-special split.
@@crawdaddy2004 It is not an addition in my book, but rather a natural evolution of the mechanics. Like the new EV/IV calculation system. It is just a more balanced process and fair towards all gender ratios. A true addition are natures and abilities.
Either this or the physical/special split
I will have to mention gen 4 Sturdy.
It only stops one hit KO moves, but once you want to train your team in Sinnoh and find out the Gamblers and their Horn Drills you will apreciate it.
That's very true; before the Focus Sash upgrade in Gen 5 I didn't even know Sturdy WAS an ability!
I enjoyed using a magician delphox in X. It does the same thing as pickpocket. Also, I enjoy intimidate's out of battle effect, even though it is useful in battle too. I normally lead with an intimidate pokemon with a cleanse tag when I'm too cheap for repels.
Yeah I was really happy when Intimidate got that out of battle effect, but now in Gen 9 apparently NONE of those ability work in the field to influence encounters like Magnet Pull, Illuminate, etc...
Magician is mostly useless as Pokemons have nearly never an held item, making the ability moot in a playthrough.
In fact Knock off and Poltergeist are unusable in a playthrough no trainers puts held items on theirs mons.
Mycelium might doesn't exactly work the way you think, yes technically you can put a pokemon with insomnia to sleep with spore, it will however wake up right away (since insomnia also wakes sleeping pokemon if the ability gets ignored)
Having a Psychic-Type with Rattled is would be really cool, and I’m surprised this combination still doesn’t exist to this day. I think this is for the same reason why it would be fun, since it might not be healthy to have a Pokémon that punishes the opponent for hitting it super effectively, especially now that Weakness Policy exists and many Psychic-Types can learn the move Stored Power.
In one of my most recent challenge playthroughs where I was using a Psyduck and a disobedient Toxel, the latter's Rattled came in handy in making sure I could beat Katy of all Gym Leaders who beat me like 4 times before I finally won. Toxel getting its speed boosted by her bug and dark moves and getting in a Nuzzle when it wasn't loafing or turning away was key in letting Psyduck beat her Tarountula and Teddiursa.
I recently used Golduck in a nuzlocke of W2 and realized Cloud 9 (And Golduck itself) was way more useful than I gave it credit for.
The lack of water boost from rain sucked but canceling sand came in clutch a few times.
Especially back when weather lasted forever!
Also useful in Mystery Dungeon.
yo you were actually spitting about Normalize, I never thought about utilizing that ability in those ways
Looking at the ability Pickpocket actually makes me want to try it in a competitive scene. I think the strongest contender for this would be Grimmsnarl. When people see a Grimmsnarl, they're most likely expecting a Prankster/Screens set, so they'll do their best to counter it (maybe Brick Break/Psychic Fangs or another Dark type to shut down the ability). But Pickpocket can throw the opponent off kilter, allowing you to pull some shenanigans to take advantage of their confusion. Going itemless isn't your only option either. You have your choice of Berries to consume (most likely Sitrus for recovery or super effective damage reduction), Mirror Herb in more niche situations to copy a Swords Dance or Calm Mind (depending on your build), Terrain seeds if you're running a terrain focused team (Galarian Weezing combo goes hard here), and so forth. It seems like a niche strategy for the current meta, and it probably is, but I could see Pickpocket Grimmsnarl working in it.
Looking at the list I did think Grimmsnarl might be the most likely to be able to make use of it if given the chance!
I think the biggest downside is not being able to run an item on your mon, and if the opponent doesn’t make contact, like against a special attacker or they’re using non-contact physical moves, you’re getting no use out of the ability, when you could be running prankster trick to give them a debilitating item while still taking their item that would’ve helped them
Cutting your Pokémon's weight in half will, at most, reduce the power of Low Kick and Grass knot by 20
I'm not kidding.
Low Kick has 100 Base Power against Scizor
Low Kick has 80 Base Power against Light Metal Scizor
There's a few Pokémon (weigh more than 20 kgs, and less than 25 kgs) that take the exact same damage from Low Kick regardless of whether or not they have Light Metal
I remember playing Pokémon XD and having my Tediursa get an Ultra Ball through Pickup, I HADN'T EVEN FOUGHT THE FIRST CIPHER ADMIN YET (iirc this was just outside of the Shadow Pokémon Lab which is an early-game location in XD). So I got an Ultra Ball FAR earlier than I normally would have.
This was before the level-based rewards introduced starting in Emerald iirc, but getting an Ultra Ball before I could even get Great Balls was something.
Is a normal water gun where the pokemon takes out a water gun to spray their opponent lol. I want to see what attacks look normal.
Thing about Tinted Lens. Barely any mons get it and most who do, have it relegated to a hidden ability(Sigilyph, Butterfree, Lokix).
Did they change how Pickup works in gen 9? I remember that Pickup had a chance to trigger after every battle, not from just walking around in the overworld
Blizzard is 110 base power in ORAS, not 120, it had it's power reduced in gen 6
But with the boosts though, definitely over that!
I remember getting knocked out by Liquid Ooze thinking "grass is normal effective against water/poison" and used Giga Drain on a Tentacruel. 😂
I think Normalize is meant to synergize with Delcatty's signature move Assist which randomly uses one of your other pokemons moves.
Since Normalize makes all moves normal type you won't accidently use a move of a type that is not very effective or doesn't effect the other pokemon at all since you know it will always be normal type.
Assist was sadly removed in SwSh
Can Ball Fetch save a Masterball if, say your 2-year-old cousin was playing your game and wanted to catch the other trainer's cool Pokemon with it?
Considering that any game Yamper is in simply will not allow you to use any Pokeballs in a trainer battle, no I'm afraid not.
I don't know if is still so in recent gens competitive metagames, but in earlier gens copetitive "Explosion" is actually a moves that many aggressive teams carries, and even some other ones carried that to trade a 1vs1 loss of a mon if this trade is their own weakened/low life mons vs a threat of the opponent teams that otherwise they could not handled easilly. So Damp as an ability is not wothless
I never considered those benefits of Normalize!
Finally a video to spread the gospel of Pickup
Normalize was used by Wolfe glick to great affect by locking his opponents into attacking his ghost type Pokémon with a skill swapped normalize
9:51 Which ROMHack is this?
Doesn’t light metal almost never affect the calcs on Low Kick in a meaningful way?
Pickup tinted lens and compound eyes are great in play through
I swapped into my damp Poliwrath in Shield to prevent a galarian weezing from exploding but this mf exploded anyway? I assume damp mon must be there at the start of the turn since it doesn't work on switch-in?
Did it have Neutralizing Gas? That negates all other abilities? Because that could be it...
Neutralizing gas negates abilities
It probably had neutralizing gas which turns off abilities for all other pokemon on the field
@@emperorcubone Ohhhh I didn't think of that
Imagine a Pokemon game where you could give any Pokemon any Ability. For example, Adaptability for Pawmot
boy does smogon have a format for you 😂
@@doorbox788 sounds interesting
Good thing it exist
I mean everybody would just use Wonder Guard, right?
@@emperorcubone a lot of people would, yes
I hate to bust your bubble, but some of those Abilities are not as good as you have made them out to be.
1. While technically Mycelium Might can facilitate putting a Pokémon with Insomnia or Vital Spirit to sleep, poisoning a Pokémon with Immunity, etc., it will not stay asleep, poisoned, what-have-you because Abilities that are specifically immune to status conditions will cure Pokémon of them if they appear regardless. (That is probably why Corrosion cannot bypass Immunity, only the Poison- or Steel-type immunity to poison.)
2. Technically a Pokémon with Tinted Lens can have its moves resisted because it only raises quarter damage to half. I do not know why you would use a quarter-damage move, but I inveigh against all not very effective moves anyway. There are always better alternatives to Tinted Lens.
3. I will assume that your Skitty knew Foresight because its Normalized Blizzard could not hit Glacia's two Froslass otherwise. That is admittedly much better than the usual cited pros of Normalize, like the paralyzing Ground-type Pokémon with Thunder Wave. Do you know what else can paralyze a Ground type? Stun Spore and Glare. (Really any non-Electric-type move capable of paralysis can paralyze a Ground type, but those are the only other such status moves.) Yes, Stun Spore has failed against Grass, Overcoat, and Safety Goggles since Generation VI, but Ground has only been paired with Grass thrice and Overcoat and Safety Goggles are niche, not to mention that Wormadam (Sandy Cloak) is the only Ground-type Pokémon that can have Overcoat. Glare, meanwhile, has no inhibitors, apart from Ghost in Generations II and III, before Normalize existed. Furthermore, Normalize's power boost only applies in Generation VII and onward, so in Generations IV-VI, your Skitty or Delcatty is screwed. Cute Charm and even Wonder Skin are better for those two.
On the other hand, you will be glad to hear that Pickup has picked up opponents' used items since Generation V. You may also like to know that Aftermath's Japanese name translates to "Induced Explosion," which is why Damp negates it.
Is it just me, or is the way Cubone tries to deepen his voice on the last word of almost every sentence really distracting?
Tinted Lens: one of the -worst- abilities of all time
Pickup!
Normalize sucks because Delkatty has no bst
Pickup
I love gimmicky pokemon like Shedinja, but sadly Wonder Guard isn't super useful in competitive play with the abundance of entry hazards, dark type moves, and status effects. However, it's incredible for many gym battles and elite four members who have more predictable teams.
That is where Shedinja's true power lies!
Yeah but it’s annoying on pokemon showdown random team battles if someone has a shedninja and you have no moves that can hit it
@@Kaminoboi it's very rare to find a team that lacks all the types moves shedinjia could be weak to (there are several of them: fire, rock, flying, ghost, dark, and some of those types are common at least as coverage or utility moves - i think of the many fire moves that are around or the various Knock Off, Thief, Pursuit and other utility dark moves)... and for the few teams that lacks moves for all this types, is nearly sure they have at their disposal at least one option among sandstorm, stealth rock, and poison/burn status moves... so the original comment is right: shedinja never survives long in competitive (i think that in average it survives 2-3 turns, and for 1 mathcup where the opponent cannot deal with it, there are dozen of mathcup where it dies immediatly, resulting in an actually 5vs6 in opponent's favor)
It’s a wildcard pick in vgc though and has the potential of winning games outright. Albeit it’s not available in game four obvious reasons
I used shedinja on my very first gen 3 run, and it turned important battles into the “bait out lokemon that can hurt shedinja, take them down, sweep with shedinja” game. Super fun
In the Indigo Disk DLC, I had Pokémon like Neutralizing Gas Weezing and Doodle Grafaiai to allow Slaking and Toedscruel to not care about their bad ability.
So I can confirm a fast Spore user is really OP, I'm pretty sure that's why they gave Toedscruel this ability.
Weezing is actually good under those and other circumstances
When your ability is so dog water it hydrates your dog.
There is also flame body that halps hatching eggs faster. Can be good for completing the dex
I must say, the most overlooked ability in my eyes is the shared basic ones of all the starters (ovegrow, blaze and torrent). sure, it won't see much competitive usage, but survivng an attack by an in game boss - such as a late gym leader or an elite four member - and gaining that 30% damage boost is amazing. this is how my meganium defeated Clair's kingdra using petal dance
It's saved my life many times, since I always try to play thru with each of the starters!
personally, I feel a big reason for why those abilities are so overlooked is simply because of a lack of visual cue indicating their activation; if the devs simply added a special animation for when the ability activates (like in the anime) then people would actually be able to see just how often that ability comes up and saves their behinds in a clutch
Damp, I enjoy playing the Mudkip line whenever possible and I can't count how many times damp saved my team from wild pokemon or npc battles that focused around explosion
*Wooper
@@Psychomaniac14 He probably did mean Wooper, but Mudkip and friends do have Damp as a Hidden Ability.
Actually i often switch Liquid Ooze Tenta into Leech Seed. So yea it can be very useful in competitive play, contrary to popular belief.
Run away, it's no contest, whoever decided that their should be a chance for clicking run to fail, even after your pokemon got knocked out, deserves some kind of punishment.
Haha that's really ridiculous to have a fainted Pokémon and still not be able to leave! 😂
@@emperorcubone kinda hard to run away if it's fainted. 😂
I hate that mechanic with a burning passion. Who thought that was a good idea?
Hearing damp blocks aftermath made me realize that aftermath is an explosion. After hitting driftloon it literally explodes and the explosion hurts you
I guess so, but is Skuntank as explosive? Although it does learn flamethrower so maybe there's more to it than we thought!
@@emperorcubone I guess Skuntank blows up its poisonous gases or whatever.
@@emperorcuboneI think in the case of skuntank it’s supposed to be a fart joke.
@@emperorcubone I think stunky just explodes like a stink bomb 😂
The Japanese name for Aftermath is "Induced Explosion"
Shell/Battle Armor. It’s not seen as a particularly desirable ability in competitive because protecting the user from crits isn’t something that’s really worth using your ability for due to crits not being very common, but it’s a good ability in a playthrough, and one of the BEST in nuzlockes, as pokemon are much less expendable there.
That's true, a Nuzlocke can be ruined by a random crit!
Usually not gr8 & there're mons that only have the option to play with either of those abilities, like Turtarnator, Mega Slowbro & Type: Null. But it's not bad on the latter 2 & H-Goodra, who can abuse setup & recovery moves (Rest, Acid Armor, Curse) to their fullest & become almost unkillable, ending with a sweep afterward. Especially with Mega Slow Calming its Mind/bulking its Iron Defense, Slacking off when low on HP & then finally crushing the opponent through the use of Stored Power, Body Press or STAB moves. It's pretty lethal if out of hand & Shell Armor helps with that cuz you can't randomly crit through the Defense boosts & get your strat ruined due to unlucky RNG kicking in.
Shell/Battle Armor would actually be really good in VGC since Urshifu is such a pain, but it has to be on the right pokemon and right now the ones that get that are kinda so so.
skitty gets foresight so they can actually hit ghosts so normalize isn't as useless
I have a tinkatuff named etoile, she is cute but she keeps on fainting from larrys dunsparce
Fun fact:
Metagross has Light Metal as it's Hidden Ability, but, as it is so heavy, having it's weight halved still lands it at the maximum possible damage for Grass Knot and Low Kick.
So yeah, Light Metal is literally useless in Metagross, since it also lowers the damage that it does to others with Heavy Slam
LOL, that's even more useless that how Rotom-Fan has Levitate. At least with Rotom, Levitate prevents the rare moves that forcibly change a Pokémon's type from removing its Ground immunity.
@@Compucles Doesn't stop Gravity though.
@@caiusdrakegaming8087 Sure, but that just brings us back to the status quo of Levitate being mostly useless on Rotom-Fan, as Gravity would remove its Ground immunity whether or not it has Levitate.
@@Compucles There's also only two moves that Rotom-Fan would need to look out for in terms of changing its type. That's Soak, which outside of five lines has users that are weak to Electric, and Magic Powder which is only on Hatterene who you're going to outspeed anyways and has access to zero Ground moves anyways.
Though honestly it's kind of wasted effort to remove the Ground immunity form Rotom-Fan when a solid Rock attack will probably end it quick.
1:53 - People tend to not know this, You can poison a pokemon with Immunity like Zangoose, Or Paralyze a pokemon with limber, confuse one with Own tempo, HOWEVER!!
Those abilities also automically cure that status if that pokemon has it, So if you do poison a Zangoose at the end of the turn Immunity will active and cure it's poison.
There is no point poisoning a Zangoose because it will cure itself before any poison damage is done. Same with Insomina, the pokemon will just wake up before you can act.
Ikr I tried to put a gholdengo to sleep
@@zinniaq3020it would work on gholdengo. Good as good just makes status moves against it fail. It won’t cure any status like the abilities mentioned before.
@@zinniaq3020 If you have abilities that ignore abilities like Mold breaker, then it will ignore Good as Gold and allow you to put Gholdengo to sleep and it will stay asleep.
However something like Banette with Insomina will always automically wake up if it is put to sleep this way. As its not suppose be asleep.Those abilites like Immunity & Limber not only give an immunity to the status but cure them too.
Side note You can also paralyze gholdengo thru attacking moves like Nuzzle or thundershock because they're not status moves.
Damp is one of the biggest reasons that I wish Parasect was in Scarlet and Violet. With Hidden Ability Damp it's the best False Swiper in the game.
Damp was a somewhat good ability ... but Gen 5 decided to eviscerate Self-Destruct and Explosion.
Flame Body is actually good in both but for different reasons. You can burn on contact, or hatch eggs more quickly.
Magma armor Magcargo being awful in competitive but amazing if you are trying to fill the dex is the first one that comes to my mind
Super helpful for hatching eggs for sure!
Then just catch and evolve a Slugma with Flame Body instead. It has the same bonus for hatching eggs, plus it has better use in battle. It's still not that great of a battle Ability on Magcargo in competitive play, but it's pretty useful in-game and is at least a lot better than Magma Armor is.
Honestly surprised Pickup wasn’t mentioned first and it’s always the first ability I think of that’s useless in competitive but great in casual play. If it’s an option for a team member I have, I try to always get Pickup
In my opinion, Normalize's biggest sin was keeping Skitty and Delcatty from being retconned as Fairy types in Gen 6.
Yeah, I know Normalize wouldn't make sense as an Ability on a Pokémon that is no longer a Normal type, but making them Fairy types was rather obvious, and it's really strange that they didn't get that retcon. Couldn't you have made them Normal/Fairy like you did with the Igglybuff line?
They ignore the damage buff for normalize because look at delcatties stats 20% of 0 is 0
😂
It goes from a tickle to hitting like a wet noodle 😂
Video idea pop culture clash what if sonic characters had Pokémon types
That could be fun! I guess the rub is where to cut it off because there are a LOT of Sonic characters...
Now I want a Delcstty with Normalize
the hate for Normalize is that it is on just Skitty and Delcatty; two pokemon i would love to see a power boost to! 400 stat total puts it well below most middle evolutions for starters! Base 90 Speed is decent, but nobody would complain if you bumped up its stats to 460 or even 500.
before anyone says 'well its name comes from Delicate and Catty! its suppose to suck!' Glass Canon pokemon aren't a new concept and no pokemon should feel like the only reason it is there is to waste my time as a dex entry. I want to look at it and go 'Oh yeah! this thing can kick butt!' not 'oh yeah... gotta waste a moon stone on this trash.'
Have to applaud you for finding the most niche evidence of making a Pokémon relevant with that Delcatty Normalize example 😂😂
I was just shocked that it all lined up so perfectly!
I really REALLY appreciate how you jump into the content within 20 seconds of the video!! Thank you for that!
I got too much to say, can't make you wait!
I'm currently playing through Wilting Y with a hacked team (story reasons), and i have a pickpocket sneasel! It's such a fun ability
Explosion is pretty good move
I always think not all pkm need to be fighting machine. Like in pk world not everyone is a trainer and use pokemon for other value.
Maybe hm slave should comebback but should be learn by any pkm
Synchronize is an amazing ability for catching Pokémon, because it all but guarantees the Pokémon shares your Pokémon’s nature. I had a synchronize Pokémon of all the best natures for specifically catching Pokémon
I'd like to inform you that the first ability on this list isn't nearly as useful as you thought. The condition immunity abilities (Water Veil, Water Bubble, Insomnia, Immunity, etc.) also immediately cure the user of that status if they somehow gain it during battle (i.e. Mold Breaker or Mycelium Might).
I want to give a shout-out to Magma Armor, which is one of three abilities that can speed up egg hatching (the other two being Flame Body and Steam Engine).
Also, it's worth noting that the Normalize power boost only started in Gen 7.
Stench Loaded Dice Gloom
Kings Rock Skill Link Cloyster 😂
Pickpocket is much more useful than you think when paired with use items like Red Card, terrain seed, or White/Power herb.
Water Bubble is an incredible ability, I'll defend that til my last breath. The fact it's only on one pokemon that isn't very well liked is a shame, but I still use it a lot. I love Araquanid!
I also love Araquanid, so I have great appreciation for the ability!
The Ability sounds great, but it would work better on physical sweeper or a tank that attacks physically. The Fire resist is good, but the Water damage boost and the burn immunity aren't that useful on a wall.
I'm so glad to see some delcatty/skitty love ❤️ I used her in one of my sapphire runs as a child and loved her! (Also that sapphire run was the craziest thing ever, it took me 5 hours to find skitty AND I found a shiny Tallow AND contracted pokerus naturally while trying to find her)
Anticipation is pretty much useless in competitive, however in a playthrough you would get information on if the opponent has a super effective move
You can usually guess though
Pickup is definitely an interesting ability since it can come in handy when least expected. One time, my brother managed to get the Dusk Stone out of complete chance! It’s convenient too because he needed one so he can evolve his Murkrow into Honchkrow. XD
I love the Dancer ability
Oricorio for the win!
When I played X and Y for tyhe first time, i got a Sylveon as soon as I possibly could, and of course ended up having the ability Cute Charm. Seldom used in competitive, but considering I had no status moves back then, I loved the opportunity to occasionally paralyze an attacker, especially since my Sylveon was very overleveled and could easily tank attacks. Made the game more exciting. Not to mention, there's nothing funnier than watching a real player seethe over losing to me because my pokemon are cute.
Oh, bonus: I used to have Skill Swap on my Sylveon. Since he was a special attacker, I would sometimes steal my opponents' more useful abilities and then get rid of them with Moonblasts. It was fun.
You can also use Cute Charm to encounter more wild Pokémon of the opposite gender for breeding purposes.
@@Compucles oh, yeah, good point! I forgot about that. Another thing I forgot about: that one glitch where having a pokemon with Cute Charm could boost your shiny odds exponentially in.. one of the johto games? Don't remember which one. Most people choose Pixelate, but Cute Charm can be pretty awesome actually.
Tinted lens isn’t as bad in competitive as you make it out to be. Lokix is common in UU because nothing can switch into First Impression.
UU...? Isn't that "Under-Used", as in Not used very often...?
@@emperorcubone Just because a pokemon is underused doesn’t mean it isn’t viable. Also, tinted lens eliminates most counterplay you have against it, since most teams don’t have a 4x bug resistance. The reason 99% of Lokix use it instead of swarm (which grants a massive 50% boost situationally, certainly nothing to scoff at) is because… it isn’t terrible for competitive!
@@emperorcubonemons all the way in PU do get use in OU, and tinted lenz had lokix in ou for eons
Its nearly just usage based, sometimed a mon is objectively good, but the current alternatives are far better
UU is a bit of a misleading name
One teir below the standard, id say NU or lower you start to get stinkers
@@emperorcubone Besides, if you play in the UU tier, then the UU Pokémon are the good ones. It's still part of competitive battling when you restrict yourself to lower tiers.
good to hear this perspective from someone who is well-versed in competitive play
He is?
Once Venomoth got Quiver Dance, its Tinted Lens actually made it a real meta threat and got banned in formats it wasnt even in. It was a NU pokemon that was suddenly Viable in RU and got Banned on UU. Honestly a hilarious unique scenario
Obviously not all abilities are made equal. LOOKING AT YOU DEFEATIST
Toedscruel's ability is just worse Mold Breaker tho
If normalize was on a better pokemon it would be way better
how can normalize blizzard sweep glacia if she has froslass?
Normalize is good conceptually, but the issue is, as you stated, Typing.
Outside of Inverse battles, Normal isn't good against anything and has several types that either resist or are immune to it.
But the biggest problem with Normalize is the fact that it strips a Normal type of one of its arguably greatest assets: Versatility.
Many Normal types have a ton of coverage with only one weakness, being Fighting. But by pigeonholing your Normal type into strictly using Normal moves, suddenly you have no checks for Rock, Steel and Ghost, while also having no moves to exploit other weaknesses.
The other moves that shift typing *only* affect Normal moves. So in other words, they can still maintain a level of coverage. Normal types with Normalize can't. And Super Effective damage is always superior to STAB damage, as the former deals double damage, while the latter only deals one and a half times, plus 20% from the Ability.
Coverage is just superior in pretty much all circumstances.
Just gonna say: Contact Status abilities
Usually, they're not all that great in Competitive, (especially Static since Electric types are usually on the frailer side), but goodness they can be useful.
Static increases the likelihood of encountering Electric Types by 50%, Cute Charm increases the likelihood of finding opposite gender pokemon (Good for mons with gender exclusive Evolutions like Salazzle, Vespiquen or Frosslass), Flame Body is great for hatching eggs, and Poison Point....honestly isn’t that great but can provide some random bonus chip damage that can get you out of a bind.
I was super confused by Tatsugiri and Dondozo when I was playing Scarlet. Like, these pokemon are so very built for doubles battles, and the only double battles in the entire game are against Ryme (this was before the DLC with Blueberry Academy). I was so confused why they were adding moves and abilities meant for double battles when there were basically no double battles in the game. What I, despite having playing pokemon since before gen 2 first released, didn't realize is that apparently double battles are the standard for competitive pokemon (that's right, right? I still don't pay attention to competitive). So I guess that's the opposite of this. Still thought it was worth mentioning.
Pickpocket is honestly super underrated, especially on Tinkaton. If you get hit with knock off, you immediately steal the opponents item, allowing you to recoup your loss
I usually use ghost types and the thing i love about em is that they are pretty tough and they are just cool i like how they just out right say eff u to certain types and they are immune but anyway i digress i like the levitate ability
The main issue for Mycelium Might is that most abilities even if you hit through them still heal the condition at the end of it
For example, paralyzing a limber pokemon will result in them healing at the end of the turn. Same for sleep with insomnia
The main use for this ability is Good as Gold, which negates status moves but not status effects
If the manga has taught me anything, it’s the exploding Stunky. Aftermath indeed is the Pokémon going boom.
In LC, I love to run Pickpocket Tinkatink with an Eviolite. Knock off is so common in the tier and it’s so useful to get rid of all the other eviolites while gaining a free turn essentially.
Cute Charm is extremely situational in battle, but it's useful for finding the right gender of wild Pokémon for breeding purposes.
So, about pickpocket, some competitive players found a niche for it using air balloon Tinkaton