Sinistcha is Actually Amazing. Here's Why.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Pokemon Competitive Singles has been turned on it's head with the upcoming release of the "Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" DLC. Poltchageist and Sinistcha are a Convergent species of the Sinistea line, and some of the most interesting new additions.
Sinistcha with its amazing new signature move "Matcha Gotcha", the very useful and fitting ability Heatproof, and great boosting and utility options, might just be an excellent new Threat in the Gen 9 OU metagame.
Or maybe not, power creep is a real thing. This seems great to me though.
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Some will never figure out how to get Sinistcha in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. But famous player Jim Cool is well aware of the Best Sinistcha Moveset in Competitive, and even how to Sinistcha Shiny Farm. Many aren't and never will be. That's just the unfortunate reality of the world.
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The reason the evolution stages are the reverse of polterlageist is that it's not the same pokemon, as in the sinischa line isn't a regional form of Polteageist, but a convergent evolution. While Polteageist is a spirit possessing the tea, sinischa is the tea cups themselves come to live, if I recall correctly. Hope that helps!
Fun fact: in doubles, matcha gotcha hits two opponents at once making sinistcha way more difficult to deal with
Holy crap
How is its healing calculated then? 50% combined damage to two opponents is ridiculous, id hope its halved so its the same healing as against one target?
@@saltlakeatrocity9771it's 75% of the damage dealt
So 75% twice means 150% of the damage dealt in singles
@saltlakeatrocity9771 spread moves already have their damage reduced by 25% if they hit multiple targets, so the healing isn't quite as ridiculous as it may at first appear.
There's also much more damage going around in doubles, so healing is less valued.
@@thatseconddude-g4t im aware doubles moves are only 75% damage, but considering the move already has far above-average BP for a healing move-thats still a ridiculous amount of healing.
I swear I thought this was a troll guide and that sinistcha was made up. Dang Jimothy you are in my head 😂
Sometimes Fact is stranger than Fiction.
Maybe the gamefreak designers are working alongside Iron Mugulis.
@@DarthFhenix55 they most definitely are! iron hands???????????
Imported cheese moment (he hates literally everything because he loves everything)
I think the reason why Sinistcha is the final evo is because Poltchageist is jar of Matcha powder, aka not the finished product / evolution
Y didnt they name the little powdery green ghost Matchageist
@@fart7361good point
@@fart7361I'm pretty sure they named it as it is to make it similar to other convergent Pokémon's naming scheme
Sinistea and Sinistcha are both teacups filled with tea. Polteagheist and Poltchagheist are both containers that hold the tea. The naming actually makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is the direction of their evolution.
Matcha powder > Matcha tea
Makes more sense than
Cuppa tea > Potta Tea
Sinistea just gets bigger when it evolves.
Poltchagheist isn't even a beverage until it evolves.
Was thinking the same thing Also "cha" means tea in some languages (like punjabi), so it makes sense to switch it out for tea in that sense too!
You know we are all pulling for Iron Chugulis
Down with Mug, up with Chug!
I believe its a smokescreen by Big Money, they are both in his devious pocket. Wake up wooloople!
Poltchageist is like the equivalent for the teapot in the world of Japanese tea so the naming convention might be Polt...geist for the pot and Sinist... for the cup. The British ones had the cup evolve into the pot because the pot is so much bigger.
Poltchageist is based off the tea caddies from Japanese tea ceremonies called chaki which hold the matcha powder but not the hot water. As such, they can be smaller in size to the drinking cup, the chawan, that Sinistcha is based off. Sinistcha also incorporates the whisk (chasen) used to mix the powder and water in the cup as its headgear. This means that both evolved forms is where the brewing happens so there is some consistency due the differing preparation methods.
I was bummed at no shell smash at first, but the tools it has in its arsenal are actually so interesting!
Maybe, can be have in the part 2 Mask Disc...
Sinistcha and Matcha Gotcha are both really fun to say
It's that "cha" sound that rolls off the tongue nicely
China tea cha!
I haven't followed Pokémon since gen 5 and I don't play any competitive. I just watch this channel because it's entertaining.
I was convinced this Pokémon was something Jimothy made up as some distant cousin to Iron Mugulus. To find out it's real is ridiculous lmao
As I said after seeing that move on showdown for the first time: “that move is evil. It just punched me in the face, stole my wallet, and threw sand in my eyes all with one button.”
Gen 9 powercreep is nuts
The names are reversed because they go from container to cup now, so the cup-based evo gets the name of Sinistea.
Sinistcha is so cool, I'm so excited to find one, but my real favourite of the DLC has to be lil Dipplin, I really loved Flapple and Appletun, and Dipplin being able to use eviolite is just fantastic
wait dipplin can use eviolite? what?
@@rajkanishu yes, it is extremely funny
??????????? how is it physically possible like did they fuck up the code or something
@@rajkanishuI predict that Dipplin will have an evolution released in the next DLC. That’s why Dipplin can use Eviolite
@@rajkanishuit's coded as a pokemon that can evolve and there's an empty slot after it in the game data so it's probably just going to evolve again in the indigo disk
I gotta build a team around this but I'm addicted to using Gliscor, idk if they're particularly synergistic
They don’t have a whole lot of synergy, but there definitely are some pluses. Sinistcha can switch into the super effective water and neutral grass moves that might threaten gliscor, while gliscor can switch into poison type moves and, i think more importantly, can switch into statuses like toxic or para that might try to shut down set up sinistcha without a sub as long as gliscor’s poison is up. Offensively gliscor can threaten fire types that resist sinistcha’s grass type moves and set hazards to give sinistcha better odds on kos with matcha gotcha which means you won’t have to risk as many misses
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Gonna start cooking something up, another plus is that Sinistea functions as a spinblocker for Gliscor's hazards, and has a good matchup with most tusk sets.
Any recommendations for team members?
In double they are extremely synergic
@@anthonyweisbecker3693Gliscor doesn't really resist any of Sinistcha's weaknesses. Sinistcha is neutral against both Poison and Bug, which are the two Grass weaknesses Gliscor can cover
@@lucayaki oh yeah true. Gotta be honest i forgot ghost resisted poison and bug lol
I believe the names were swapped because Poltchageist, the pre evolution, is found in an enclosed "Chug" form, similar to its ecologically similar form "Polteageist". Conversely, Sinistcha is in a more open-ended "Mug"-like form, similar to Sinistea.
Its also theorized that The Pokemon Company International has just done this to mess with us. It could even be the sinister work of Iron Mugulis, who has recently been spotted inside of Game Freak's development headquarters. Researchers and criminal detectives are looking into this.
i love tea, especially oolong tea
I love chai tea
@@Sabrina_TeaWhat did you just say?! CHAI TEA?! Chai means tea, you're saying tea tea bro. Do you think I would ask you for a coffee coffee with some sugar sugar and cream cream?
@@riceballsmashpokemongamere1705bro's tweaking 💀☠️
@@nickyheartBut he's right, even if he's joking
@@Mr.Sax. "In America, "chai" has become known as a flavor of tea with predominantly cinnamon or cardamom notes. But in India, chai is not a flavor of tea; it is tea"
- food & wine
america adopted the term as a flavour of tea, using it is valid.
8 fucking Ground types
Sinistcha: Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
It actually has good synergy with SpDef Heatran.
i just realized how insane it is that jimothy's channel went from 6k subs when i started watching to nearly 50k.
He is starting to build up steam! ❤
I know they aren't necessarily new, but def would love to hear your thoughts on our returning sea serpent Milotic!
Having access to scald probably puts it at a pretty good spot at the very least.
Great Tusk is alive? And serving as the lawyer for Iron Mugulis - the Pokémon who killed him?
Something fishy is going on here. If Pawmot couldn’t revive him, I suspect Rabsca is under the employment of Old Money.
Perhaps Mr. Mugs has turned a new leaf and is now a better cup. It finally moved to ubers, where it belongs.
@@PudcupI don't think Iron Mugulis's crimes should just be forgiven. It needs to prove it isn't up to nefarious deeds anymore
@Someone-me1tx didn't you see Iron Mugulus's apology video? (Breaking character for a sec I am joking)
@@Pudcup the one where he whipped out a xylophone and started singing? Tbh I need more convincing
@@theschnozzler but it was a really good song. You gotta admit that at the very least.
4:30 Matcha Gotcha being 90% accurate was to balance it out I guess.
And yeah if it's not 100% accurate it's 50% accurate
As someone who doesn’t keep up with pokemon I though jimothy was just making up pokemon for the iron mugulis story
YES! THEY CHANGED SINISTCHA'S STATS! I absolutely despise how despite being completely different pokemon with completely different types, wugtrio and toedscruel have the exact same stats as dugtrio and tentacruel. So glad they fixed that here!
Like, how does wugtrio out speed mega rayquaza?! It's always inside of a rock!
Yeah I loved this too. Although tentacruel had pretty good stats anyway. They really optimized polteageists stats for sinistcha which I love to see! & heatproof, really couldn’t have wished for more lol
If you notice, the sinis lads are open in the wild, where as the polt are able to cover themselves, probablynthere is where they had the naming
It's such a cute Design, cool that it is strong.
Matcha Gotcha: 80 base power, burn chance, hits both targets, 24 PP
Giga Drain: 75 base power, no additional effects, single target, 16 PP
Something's not adding up here
you forgot matcha has 90 accuracy...
Wait it hit everyone ?!
I think the name thing is just purely down to visual similarity. The PolXGeist are closed pots and the SinisX are open cups.
I feel so validated by this, I’ve been walling and burning hella guys with physdef colbur sinistcha
Damn this Mon seems so cool lol. Even looks cool. Waiting for my game to update right now
Can’t believe great tusk is defending iron Mugulis after what he’s done to him
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This mon is a good example of why grass types are always great. Constant healing, status spreader, and good damage.
gamefreak is really trying to make grass ghost typing into a relevant pokemon
match gotcha and hospitality, damn these 2 combo
*sound of Gardenia's knees rattling*
7:20 I see that as Gamefreak's shot at a trend that happened a while ago where fakemon artists swapped the evolutions of pokemons
I would like to suggest an empolan video now that it has a new ability and access to roost with it's rare typing of water steel
Imagine you are on jury duty and the lawyer starts intimidating you
Scald + Giga Drain + hits both targets??? This is truly the “‘Unfortunate’ doesn’t begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point” of Gen 9 OU.
Video game that highly rely on RNG is dependent on RNG wow that's mind-blowing. Please just ignore the Smogon crit fishing, freeze fishing, full par fishing, and burn fishing.
90 accuracy and no shell smash is a necessary trade off for a move with two effects.
@@kylelundgren5133 Me when he crits and paralyses me first try and then Dark Pulse crits and flinches me and I lose
@@martytu20 IT DOESN’T GET SHELL SMASH??? Oh thank Arc dude I thought I was gonna have to run Phazer Hoodra on all sets
blud thinks Poltchageist is gonna be a new Ubers when it has no Shell Smash 💀
strength sap + scald is pretty much unique to sinistcha right?
Jellicent
please talk about Torterra its wrecking OU
Yo?
Having this pokemon with Dipplin in doubles seems like a way more consistent grass support. It's almost like these two came in as support for Rillaboom that will be releasing in Winter.
Or you can use rilaboom from pokemon home
Grass Ghost getting a lot of love this gen
Actually MG's issue with inconsistent accuracy can be avoided by some smart plays. If you really do need to get some healing that crucial turn, you could just use Strenth Sap instead. It not only provides more significant healing, but also consistently weakens the opponent. Once your opponent is weakend enough to deal only below 50% damage, that's when you start spamming MG. If it misses, you could just Strenth Sap back to full health next turn.
A 20% burn chance with 90% accuracy is really interesting! Not that many attacks have a 20% chance of a secondary effect, so I had to look up what moves have that in order to get a good comparison. Its essentially the chance of a shadow ball spec def drop, or a dark pulse flinch, but is actually a little less than that because the attack can miss too.
I think the 20% chance will probably disappoint some people who try to treat this move like scald, but the fact that it has STAB and heals more than makes up for the downside. The burn is more of a secondary bonus that might make opponents think twice about switching in, as opposed to the selling point of the move. I'm gonna guess this mon ends up UU with an OU niche. Its probably going to be pretty metagame dependent, since base 70 speed, a weakness to knock off, and inconsistent healing will really hold it back a bit. However, if used well on the right team I think it has potential to be terrifying.
Not sure Sinischa is OU material but itll be fun in lower tiers maybe RU
It's going to be one of those things like Ditto or Gen 4 Nidoqueen where it's the last piece that rounds out what your team specifically needs
Sinistcha is a Pokemon I'm starting to like, and though I'm not really sure if I'll ever get into competitive proper, I have been fiddling around with stuff and Sinistcha is definitely something I wanna try!
As for Pokemon to talk about next, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Munkidori! It seems like it and Okidogi are probs gonna be the best of the Loyal Three? Maybe?
I feel like this mon will have a lot of little interesting buffs that will build up to make a really strong mon
Love how while you were talking about Matcha Gotcha missing you got the 2% chance to experience an instant thaw
thinking about how Drifblim does as a boost sweeper with the ability to Strength Sap its way out of being checked… dunno if Sinistcha will actually be OU but thinking about Drifblim’s niche there’s definitely potential for it to settle in somewhere
Sinistcha will change the world, green tea style
6:23 Baxcalibur being paired with alolan Ninetales is ironic but makes for a weird ship dynamic
Got a Masterpiece Heatproof Sinistcha yesterday out of coincidence with this upload, since Singles can only use Heatproof because Hospitality is obviously meant for doubles.
ive been using a matcha gotcha / stun spore / scald / calm mind set with heatproof and water tera and so far its been really fun lol, also considering tera fire with tera blast
i think the reason why the names got inverted is because since its a convergent pokemon and not an actual variant they can bend the rules a little bit
kinda unrelated but i love the way you say Sinistcha, idk why it just sounds so good :v
Wait, how is Great Tusk alive and practicing law? Did Pawmot ressurect him?
It may be weak to Ice Spinner and Knock, but not all Tusks run those moves so they can free up room for other moves such as Bulk Up, Rapid Spin, Head Smash, or Stealth Rock
It really is wonderful seeing smogon forums be like "eh it's probably not OU, stats hold it back". Did they learn nothing from the Great Emu Wars of 2023???
It definitely is far more versatile than Poltegeist, and the Utility is there. I could see it having a place on Stall teams that struggle with Bulky offence and Semi Stall, but it seems to have trouble against Full Stall and Hyper Offense.
It’s interesting how we got two nee doubles oriented pokemon in this dlc, in Sinistcha and Dipplin. Is the second dlc going to be focused on double battles?
Probably not, it’s just VGC
8:00 Ceaseless Edge be like
id just like to emphazize how outstanding todays end screen is!
whoa whoa whoa whoa, why in Arceus' name is the late Great Tusk, honorable Pokémon he is, defending the Pokémon who MURDERED HIM
Its pokemon showdown current sprite looks hilarious , its like they put an actual painted and carved tea mug
I think I just clued into the fact that iron chugulus isn’t an actual future paradox form
Opinions on Umbreon getting Toxic?will it send it to upper end RU?
They finally went ahead and did Iron Mugulis
That Iron Mughulis joke is so fucking stupid but I laugh every time
Iron Mugulis hates this video.
Iron Mugulis gets walled by Iron Chugulis
hospitality can be used amazingly
That pokemon looks like a fanmade gag pokemon like Iron Mugulus lmao
Life imitates art.
Surely this cousin of Iron Mugulis can't be trusted
bro the naming convention is fine its matcha tea, it even has the little bamboo whisk for whisking
Poltchageist looks like a Jug, so they gave it the name that sounds like polt-jug-ice
the inverted names correspond to the inverted offense and defense of the lines
The name reversal probably has to do with matching the teacups and teapots.
Thank you Jimothy, very cool
I can only assume they reordered the evolution to fit with the narrative they wrote for Polchageist. Polchageist is the cursed container the matcha is made in, and therefore corelates to the teapot. After cursing people and completing the matcha, it is the ready and can be poured into a cup, corelating to the teacup.
I suppose ironically the original pair could have been switched too given that logic.
personally I'm gonna run max defense with strength sap, calm mind, matcha gotcha, and shadow ball.
Do I hear maplestory music in the background? Hell yeah!
I feel like stall breaker sininstcha will actually be pretty big. Tera poison with tera blast, matcha gatcha, substitute, and some fourth option beats basically every unaware pokemon.
Wait, Great Tusk is back from the dead and defending Iron Mugulis?! That means that some crazy shit happened off screen.
I guess the geist ones are where the tea leaves go in, while the SInis ones are where the tea is drank from(?)
anyways the design looks sick
why is great tusk helping out iron mugulis
This raises many questions. Perhaps he was resurrected by Rabsca and converted to the other side.
He's being paid by Old Money.
oh no
At 2:07 you should put in the infamous I'm gonna send in Melmetal on last Mon Toxapex for no reason by Blunder to showcase that Scald burn power
Sinistea/Sinistcha is the cup and Polteageist/Poltchageist is the jar, hence the names
0:30 Iron Chugulis spotted
This seems a mon that won’t get much use st first but later it will get more use as players realise how good it actually is
“You can fish for burn chances vs Clefable” bro pretty sure Magic Guard is still used more than Unaware Clef
Well if its magic guard you beat them with Sub CM
I was using it a bit and it’s move pool is so good.
I was using a strength sap, sub, cm, matcha gotcha set
I wonder if Big Root will boost matcha gotcha recovery( it should)
Honestly, I'm exited for the new meta. There are so many new pokemon, as well as many new strategies. Yes, my favorite dark type (before gambit) wevile is back at full power with knock off and icical spear and alolan ninetails is back, but there are mons like shifty and empoleon that got new abilities like wind rider and competitive. It's gonna be really cool to see all the options available with flc waves 1 and 2, and it doesn't seem like the new ledgends will be destroying the their either. They're decent, but not overwhelming.
I think its an interesting thing that at some point in the anime we will hear, "USE MATCHA GOTCHA!"
Some moves have never been used, so don't expect it.
The power creep is going crazy
The naming of these pokemon is probably parallels to their "European" version due to how different Black tea is from Matcha tea, so different that they could easily call each other backwards
I am so out of touch with the newer generations that when I saw Sinistcha I genuinely thought this was going a joke video following the Iron Mugulis and Iron Chugulis plotline in more depth. But I was wrong. This pokemon really exists. How?
This will be the rise of Sap Sipper normal types.
The maplestory music at 3:00 😭
I actually just realized that Sinistea -> Polteageist but Poltchageist -> Sinistcha. What the hell are they doing over there?
I love the game series Landorus-T comes from, U-turnabout Trial
Now im excited to see what you think of Ogerpon and Bloodmoon Ursaluna (or Bloodsaluna as I like to call it)
Ogerpon seems utterly Ogerpog.
The types on the alternate forms are super interesting, it's move is really good, and 120 attack + 110 Speed is hard to go wrong with
Ivy cudgle is a powerful whip with no drawbacks and can be different types and with ways to setup and all tbe forms having pretty good typing I think it should be good
If they brought back Scald and introduced this move, they should reintroduce Scorching Sands
Finally, another Grass Type move EQUAL OR MORE POWERFUL THAN WOOD HAMMER.