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Terapagos was actually in OU for a solid day before the mods got back on their medication and realized they just let a 700 BST monster with a perfect moveset, and the perfect neutral attack into OU.
Anything that’s not a “special pokemon” AKA box art legendary, Defaults to OU. They knew it was gonna get banned but I think they just find it funny to do this each gen.
Heres the thing about gouging fire: its a monstrous defensive mon It has access to morning sun, temper flare, and stomping tantrum With sun boosted recovery, a burning protect, and temper flare and stomping tantrum to capitalize on protect spamming, all of which under sun, makes a truly terrifying goliath to deal with
yeah i think it was huge miss to not mention that, also dragon fire is one of the best defensive combos there are, a dragon that isnt weak to ice or fairy is huge
@@EmersonCRVGthe issue is that both of those types are still neutral, and for vgc it gains a ground weakness as well Fire offers good coverage to dragon, but the dragon type defensively offers nothing to the fire type So defensive variants of gouging fire (forgot the name already in case I got it wrong) won't be terribly common unless paired with something like Rillaboom Which even then still has weaknesses like rock, as well as ice water and fairy neutrality But burn protect is strong
i'm just some bozo but i feel like boulder is likely to be better in doubles than singles because hitting through protect is dummy strong in a format where like 70% of pokemon have and semi-spam that move
I think that much like the Urshifus, people will adapt to Iron Boulder. Not to mention it's only Mighty Cleave that powers through, something the care bears aren't restricted to. It will be good, don't get me wrong.
I'm really interested in Gouging Fire. Burning Bulwark is like King's Shield, but better, and being a Fire type with Protosynthesis means he could get real schnasty. I've been wanting Entei to be good for so long, I hope Gouging Fire lives up to the hype.
Like to mention for gouging fire: it's a fire type with protosynthesis, having ddance with flame plate in sun, its flare blitzes or fire outrage either 1hko or almost 1hko the ENTIRE METAGAME max def toxapex takes around 60% from a resisted flare blitz with +1, proto active and flame plate
I think you’re way underestimating Stalwart Archaludon, as it’s the only way to hit through follow me. With new ways to bypass protect entering the format, follow me is going to be super useful and played a lot. Doesn’t hurt that Pokémon like Ogerpon, both friend guard mons, incin, and indeedee all get the move and are super popular right now. You’ll get a lot more use out of archaludon as a counter to mons using follow me with no punish than as a set-up mon.
Fun fact though Electro shot bypasses redirection without stallwart cause it's a charge move like meteor beam and solar beam and thus can't be redirect
@@MeatOfJusticeand do 1 damage to most mons, ive used it in doubles and the opponent just attacks around it😭 bulwark never once gets activated and its bulk is honestly underwhelming, iron hands with AV is so much bulkier and more offensive. Im not sure about singles tho
With Gouging Fire, i had thought of the niche idea of pairing it with a Guts pokemon and attacking it after it goes for burning bulwark to get a burn without a flame orb. Extremely niche but it may be a good surprise strat in BO1s
If done right, this could be brilliant. You could use the unheard-of power of Choice Band/Life Orb Guts, combine it with a Tera boost and any other boost, and then you're REALLY cooking with gas!
@@storm78211 Unfortunately there is no Pokemon that has Guts and can learn Breaking Swipe. Facade and Breaking Swipe is possible but it won't make sense since your attack is cut in half.
@@jeroenvdw brutal swing not breaking swipe, the 60bp dark type move that hits your teammate, and both opponents, it’s not very common but I used to use it to activate weakness policies on dark weak Pokémon
The reason I think that Iron Boulder could be a meta changer is out it checks incineroar. Give it a mental herb and it can ensure that fake out won’t stop a mighty cleave, and pair it with a howl user to counteract intimidate. I think a lot of it’s value is gonna come from its interactions with incineroar.
Checking Incineroar isn't hard though, and Howl is vastly inferior to Swords Dance anyways, which most physical attackers learn. It also doesn't counteract Intimidate since it costs a turn.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Howl isn't used on meta teams because almost no meta teams use Pokemon that learn Howl, with the exception of some teams that use Arcanine and its Hisui form. Howl still has some uses in competitive, and the fact that you instead decide to shun an idea instead of thinking it over proves a lack of experimentation, which is key for most high performing teams over the years.
@@rootbeeraddict4885 Alolan Ninetails saw lots of usage and also learns Howl, and its entire thing was buffing teammates, yet it never ran Howl. Zacian and Zamazenta both learn it too. And never ran it. The issue here is that you need to evaluate pros and cons for moves. You don't need to experiment with moves like Thundershock to know they are bad for example. And in gen7 there was a somewhat famous low ladder strategy build entirely around countering Incineroar with a Competitive + Adrenaline Orb Milotic so Intimidate would give it a massive stat boost. It was never successful outside of low ladder. Because being able to check Incineroar doesn't mean much. It's a support. It doesn't need to be checked, if it got some free turns out for its teammate then it fulfilled its job.
Despite all the hate, I love the designs of the Paradox beast trio. I like the fact that all the have play styles completely different from each other and even their original counterparts
I think you might be mistaken on double battle Iron Boulder, I just watched Wolfe Glick's video yesterday and he seemed pretty convinced that it would be broken there due to mighty cleave being a strong 1-turn STAB attack that goes through protect. If you watch a lot of VGC then you've seen how much they rely on protect so a speedy pokemon that can pick up kills on otherwise safe pokemon and ignore strategic protects could be huge. I could see it being interesting on a team with Archaludon if follow me sees a little more play, as the two of them make switching the only option in a lot of cases to protect a low-health pokemon.
If a defensive archuladon can learn electric terrain then yeah actually, on turns with double protect prediction you can get free terrain up and set up iron boulder even better It simply DOES need to fear urshifu-R and honestly even urhsifu-S which hasn't seen much play this gen
Yeah, I think it mostly doesn’t have to worry, it’s faster and I ran the calcs, Urshifu Aqua Jet doesn’t kill from full even with Chien-Pao. It gets wild charge to hit back or solar blade to fit on sun teams and if it gets a boost either from swords dance or terrain it’s an OHKO. While Archaludon is fun, it doesn’t get electric terrain. I think it’s more likely we’d see it with Raging Bolt to punish the priority plus possible electric terrain + rising voltage shenanigans.
Electric surge raging bolt sounds disgusting. Raging bolt has another signature move, rising voltage, which has its power doubled to 140 in electric terrain. It's kind of useless since the only terrain setters in VGC and Smogon OU is pincurchin but raging bolt being able to set its own terrain for an effectively 182 BP STAB, no drawback move with more base special attack than flutter mane cannot be sugarcoated.
Iron Boulder is Insane! It's a fast, strong, attacker with good defenses and a move that ignores protect. It just has a pretty bad defensive typing which sadly might be enough to push it upside down and laugh at its legs waving in the air.
Typing doesn’t inherently make or break the Pokémon. Despite being one of the main reasons Heavy-Duty Boots were introduced last gen, Volcarona is still a fantastic Pokémon in singles. Hell, it’s Ubers this gen thanks to Tera. I don’t play doubles, so I can’t speak on that front though.
@@fencerderio9814 It makes the things fast offensive threats like Iron Bloulder want to do much harder though. Finding switch ins and surviving once you find them become much harder when more attacks do twice the normal damage. In VGC Boulder wants to take advantage of the threat of Mighty Cleave to limit the opponent's defensive options but being frail means it would need more help from its partner to force the opponent to choose defensive options in the first place.
They made Gouging Fire the simplest, dumbest combination of fire lion and triceratops specifically for me and me alone, and I'll be damned if I don't immediately throw it on my team and lose every match I get into with it.
You forgot to mention Iron Boulder's signature move goes through protect, which can be very useful in doubles It will be way better in singles, tho. I think Entei's paradox form will also be good in singles, either mid-OU or top-UU. Iron Boulder will straight up be OU with Choice Band, Choice Scarf and SS sets.
I think you underestimate how _broken_ having a decent speed and a good BP move that ignores protect does for a mon in VGC. Iron Boulder is 100% gonna be format warping just like urshifu
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i think you're underrating gouging fire's tools. it has fire type outrage for choice band sets in singles and a protect that burns on contact is crazy powerful in doubles
Hi, im the pokemon pro so ill explain all the new pokemon: Terapagos. Broken Raging Bolt. Good Gourging Pyre. Very good Iron Boulder. Very good Iron Crown. Meh Hydrapple. Meh Archaludon. Good Thank you
so? u can use temper flare if u really want to use it to hit something other than ghold or other ligher mons. It doesn't even need to be at max power to be strong, base 100 or 80 can do a lot of damage at +1 or 2.
@@Pando0678 using two offensive fire moves on the same set really messes up your coverage, so yeah just settling for Flare Blitz is still generally the best option.
@@Pando0678 so you wouldn't use Heat Crash in the first place. It's still better to just use Flare Blitz though. Stomping Tantrum was mostly useful as a move because it's a single target ground move and so you don't need to worry about hitting your partner, but there's no reason to use Temper Flare. Flare Blitz has recoil, but it's so much worse when your opponents survive because you used a weak move than to take some recoil.
I feel like people might be underrating one thing about archaludon in VGC (I used duraludon with edited stats because arch isn't in the calc yet): 252 SpA Choice Specs Flutter Mane Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 204+ SpD Assault Vest Duraludon: 82-97 (41.6 - 49.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO 0- Atk Duraludon Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 100 HP / 172 Def Flutter Mane: 156-186 (109 - 130%) -- guaranteed OHKO Like yeah you give up AV which is a good item but you can ohko almost every flutter mane that isn't running actually criminal amounts of bulk (it needs like 252 hp and defence) and you don't even get 2hko'd unless they're literally 252 modest. I just feel like teching heavy slam onto archaludon so it can ohko flutter mane whilst also doing it's other things seems really sweet
i think fickle beam will be good WITH draco, on like, specs sets. usually specs users will slot a dragon move if the spa attack drop is unappealing but instead of using dragon pulse, it can basically use a dragon pulse with the POTENTIAL of just being a better draco meteor anyways. also 100% accurate rock moves are ALWAYS a luxury rock types drool jealously at.
Archaludon has been really cool in singles rain and can get out of control *fast* Also base 85 speed outspeeds a surprising amount of mons, like gholdengo
Thing is with terapagos is that with tera its an uber without tera it has only 600BST meaning youre giving up your tera in ubers to make terapagos usable and if your opponent see terapagos they its most likey your tera.
After using Gouging Fire, I wouldn't be surprised if its banned. My boy is so strong, barely anything hits it hard enough in the tier. The dragon dance is free, Heat crash does 120 since its huge and its OHKO city from there.
Gouging Fire is the closest thing we got to Darmanitan in this generation. It's cool and all, but I'm a bit annoyed by how many sun sweepers are in the game that aren't even fire type.
I wish they made the paradox mons tera raids. It's ridiculously hard to trade for the paradox mon when literally no one who has Scarlet wants the future ones
Iron Crown and Iron Boulder really appeal to me, but I wish they weren't burdened with the Psychic typing. But honestly, all of the new pokemon seem super cool, love the designs (visually and competitively).
I don't think Gouging Fire is completely 1-dimensional. I can see it being a great physical wall with some combination of Burning Bulwark, Morning Sun, Heat Crash (the mon is super heavy), Roar, Dragon Tail, Substitute. Loaded Dice + Scale Shot is also a viable offensive set, as is Booster Energy and a choice item.
Archeludon has had a lot of interest in VGC on rain teams. It looks really interesting because it’s able to set up multiple spatk boosts offsetting the spatk drops from Draco Meteor. However, I think VGC people are sleeping on Iron Boulder. The ability to hit through protect is very strong. Pair that with swords dance and it should make a very strong sweeper in VGC.
Gouging Fire looks absolutely badass but Terapagos is my favorite. Cute little baby turtle's already been banned from OU. I can't wait to see him terrorize Ubers.
Because it really is. Its attack and speed are just not good enough without a Dragon Dance behind it. You'd run a protection move in vgc anyways and its typing and lack of support movepool make defensive sets unviable too. Also its speed is so low it will always gain an attack boost from protosynthesis unless you specifically invest very little into attack.
@@ayyyyMan My bad, I saw it in Random Battles and assumed it has been released already, but apparently it's this gen's mythical. I saw Freezai didn't know who the pokemon was in a random battles video and thought he just missed the mon.
worth noting that raging bolt is the only pokemon to get rising voltage this time; it's admittedly much harder to make it work since tapu koko is gone but it's still theoretically a brutally powerful move to be aware of
Went through the different mons that can get electric terrain to double that and yeah there's a decent list it, including a fast Iron Boulder or bulky Iron Hands with Raging Bolt as it's special coverage
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Better help isn't a good service.
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Terapagos was actually in OU for a solid day before the mods got back on their medication and realized they just let a 700 BST monster with a perfect moveset, and the perfect neutral attack into OU.
Anything that’s not a “special pokemon” AKA box art legendary, Defaults to OU. They knew it was gonna get banned but I think they just find it funny to do this each gen.
And they are absolutely correct. Seeing Eleki ruin OU for a day was one of the funniest events of the generation
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@@Skullhawk13 isn't terapagos a box art legend?
@@th3_ph4ntomreborn31 *shrug* I didn’t get S/V, So iunno
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Iron Crown could be semi decent but losing so hard to Incineroar is too much of a downside for any Pokémon. It never stood a chance
VGCentralized moment
@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829idk who that is but I’m assuming it’s the Vsauce of VGC so I’ll take that as a compliment
@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829 what do you mean, singles is the only format that exists
@@ehfoiwehfowjedioheoih4829ironic when gambit basically owns ou
In Doubles, yes. In Singles however, it has a chance to.................lose to Kingambit using Sucker Punch lmao.
Heres the thing about gouging fire: its a monstrous defensive mon
It has access to morning sun, temper flare, and stomping tantrum
With sun boosted recovery, a burning protect, and temper flare and stomping tantrum to capitalize on protect spamming, all of which under sun, makes a truly terrifying goliath to deal with
Great typing too
yeah i think it was huge miss to not mention that, also dragon fire is one of the best defensive combos there are, a dragon that isnt weak to ice or fairy is huge
@EmersonCRVG Especially in vgc. Not being weak to flutter mane or icy wind is massive.
Defensive weather abusers are walking contradictions though. You want to both stall for extra turns and hurry up before the weather runs out.
@@EmersonCRVGthe issue is that both of those types are still neutral, and for vgc it gains a ground weakness as well
Fire offers good coverage to dragon, but the dragon type defensively offers nothing to the fire type
So defensive variants of gouging fire (forgot the name already in case I got it wrong) won't be terribly common unless paired with something like Rillaboom
Which even then still has weaknesses like rock, as well as ice water and fairy neutrality
But burn protect is strong
i'm just some bozo but i feel like boulder is likely to be better in doubles than singles because hitting through protect is dummy strong in a format where like 70% of pokemon have and semi-spam that move
I think that much like the Urshifus, people will adapt to Iron Boulder. Not to mention it's only Mighty Cleave that powers through, something the care bears aren't restricted to.
It will be good, don't get me wrong.
@@AIDcytvgc players have to adapt to everything but rest assured rapid strike is literally broken in doubles. Boulder likely won't be
Lol the care bears
@@justaliljello5198exactly. When Urshifu-R doesn't even care about the return of Incineroar, something not right
Boulder is 124 speed...
It's going to be format warping. Urshifu-Boulder HO breaker core
I'm really interested in Gouging Fire. Burning Bulwark is like King's Shield, but better, and being a Fire type with Protosynthesis means he could get real schnasty. I've been wanting Entei to be good for so long, I hope Gouging Fire lives up to the hype.
Don’t forget that it gets Dragon Dance of all things, things gonna be nasty.
gouging fire will be run by smeargles
@@vintagestealth8802 scaleshot too
Burning Bulwark's a nice signature move, but man That DD + Scale Shot + Loaded Dice set looks so nasty.
@@markalken7976 i used it in OU with Dd Flare Blitz Eq Scale shot loaded dice
Only ditto could stop it
2:40 "Anything Steel is automaticaly a good defensive typing."-Freezai, 12/2023
*Rock-Steel wants to know your location*
Ice steel as well
Normal Steel too (when it happens)
Steel-Fighting
@@MeatOfJustice normal steel is actually ok tho, a steel immune to ghost is great
@@saiyaddanapudi9216 heh
Like to mention for gouging fire: it's a fire type with protosynthesis, having ddance with flame plate in sun, its flare blitzes or fire outrage either 1hko or almost 1hko the ENTIRE METAGAME max def toxapex takes around 60% from a resisted flare blitz with +1, proto active and flame plate
It 2shots unaware dozo in sun, its absolutely nuclear lmao
(With band)
@@aigis0423 also not even factoring in terra either lol, thing also has stupid defensive sets too because for some reason gets morning sun
Gen 9: Yo, you want another nuclear Fire type?
@@TheOtherNeutrinoThird time
I think you’re way underestimating Stalwart Archaludon, as it’s the only way to hit through follow me. With new ways to bypass protect entering the format, follow me is going to be super useful and played a lot. Doesn’t hurt that Pokémon like Ogerpon, both friend guard mons, incin, and indeedee all get the move and are super popular right now. You’ll get a lot more use out of archaludon as a counter to mons using follow me with no punish than as a set-up mon.
Fun fact though
Electro shot bypasses redirection without stallwart cause it's a charge move like meteor beam and solar beam and thus can't be redirect
That mf gouging fire is gonna be such a crazy wall, threatening urshifu, ogerpon and iron hands. Probably more that i don't know about.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that gouging fire is one dimensional. With bulwark plus morning sun it can be a bulky set without dragon dance
Attacking with What?
@@Tetzll123 Heat Crash, it's on the heavy side plus no recoil.
@@MeatOfJusticeand do 1 damage to most mons, ive used it in doubles and the opponent just attacks around it😭 bulwark never once gets activated and its bulk is honestly underwhelming, iron hands with AV is so much bulkier and more offensive. Im not sure about singles tho
With Gouging Fire, i had thought of the niche idea of pairing it with a Guts pokemon and attacking it after it goes for burning bulwark to get a burn without a flame orb. Extremely niche but it may be a good surprise strat in BO1s
If done right, this could be brilliant. You could use the unheard-of power of Choice Band/Life Orb Guts, combine it with a Tera boost and any other boost, and then you're REALLY cooking with gas!
If brutal swing is still in the game, I think it makes contact so it’ll probably work really well for this while still attacking the opposing Pokémon
@@storm78211 Unfortunately there is no Pokemon that has Guts and can learn Breaking Swipe. Facade and Breaking Swipe is possible but it won't make sense since your attack is cut in half.
@@jeroenvdw brutal swing not breaking swipe, the 60bp dark type move that hits your teammate, and both opponents, it’s not very common but I used to use it to activate weakness policies on dark weak Pokémon
@@storm78211 ah yes I misread it and forgot about that move, that would be insane
The reason I think that Iron Boulder could be a meta changer is out it checks incineroar. Give it a mental herb and it can ensure that fake out won’t stop a mighty cleave, and pair it with a howl user to counteract intimidate. I think a lot of it’s value is gonna come from its interactions with incineroar.
Checking Incineroar isn't hard though, and Howl is vastly inferior to Swords Dance anyways, which most physical attackers learn.
It also doesn't counteract Intimidate since it costs a turn.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Howl helps out because it buffs you and your teammate's Attack by 1 stage.
@@rootbeeraddict4885 yes but in over 10 years of vgc how much howl has there been on event winning teams?
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Howl isn't used on meta teams because almost no meta teams use Pokemon that learn Howl, with the exception of some teams that use Arcanine and its Hisui form. Howl still has some uses in competitive, and the fact that you instead decide to shun an idea instead of thinking it over proves a lack of experimentation, which is key for most high performing teams over the years.
@@rootbeeraddict4885 Alolan Ninetails saw lots of usage and also learns Howl, and its entire thing was buffing teammates, yet it never ran Howl. Zacian and Zamazenta both learn it too. And never ran it.
The issue here is that you need to evaluate pros and cons for moves. You don't need to experiment with moves like Thundershock to know they are bad for example.
And in gen7 there was a somewhat famous low ladder strategy build entirely around countering Incineroar with a Competitive + Adrenaline Orb Milotic so Intimidate would give it a massive stat boost.
It was never successful outside of low ladder. Because being able to check Incineroar doesn't mean much. It's a support. It doesn't need to be checked, if it got some free turns out for its teammate then it fulfilled its job.
Iron boulder will probably be pretty good in VGC due to how powerful breaking through protect is and its great speed stat
Archaludon goes pretty crazy on VGC rain teams so far
9:57 Accurate Rock Type Move is an oxymoron
It isn’t when it is a signature move, and unfortunately all good Rock types need it.
I can’t wait to play Duraladon with eviolite in little cup
It was already quick banned, iirc, much like Girafarig was.
I low-key love the detail of the sprites looking up when Raging Bolt attacks. 🤣
I’m glad to see that the bridge turned out as good as I hoped.
Despite all the hate, I love the designs of the Paradox beast trio. I like the fact that all the have play styles completely different from each other and even their original counterparts
I think you might be mistaken on double battle Iron Boulder, I just watched Wolfe Glick's video yesterday and he seemed pretty convinced that it would be broken there due to mighty cleave being a strong 1-turn STAB attack that goes through protect. If you watch a lot of VGC then you've seen how much they rely on protect so a speedy pokemon that can pick up kills on otherwise safe pokemon and ignore strategic protects could be huge. I could see it being interesting on a team with Archaludon if follow me sees a little more play, as the two of them make switching the only option in a lot of cases to protect a low-health pokemon.
If a defensive archuladon can learn electric terrain then yeah actually, on turns with double protect prediction you can get free terrain up and set up iron boulder even better
It simply DOES need to fear urshifu-R and honestly even urhsifu-S which hasn't seen much play this gen
Yeah, I think it mostly doesn’t have to worry, it’s faster and I ran the calcs, Urshifu Aqua Jet doesn’t kill from full even with Chien-Pao. It gets wild charge to hit back or solar blade to fit on sun teams and if it gets a boost either from swords dance or terrain it’s an OHKO.
While Archaludon is fun, it doesn’t get electric terrain. I think it’s more likely we’d see it with Raging Bolt to punish the priority plus possible electric terrain + rising voltage shenanigans.
My favorite is raging bolt. Special attacking bisharp that gets boosted by sun and has volt switch.
799 special attack just isnt real
A bit underwhelming when the most used pokemon in OU is a ground type that's faster than it
@@asepsisaficionado7376Fair point, but now you have to keep your Tusk healthy specifically so you don't lose to it.
An accurate Rock move, never thought I'd see the day.
I wish they had made Psychic Noise block Regenerator. Would have made it a way better move.
Terrakion took over singles before and it seems it’s future version will follow in its footsteps
i’m pretty sure it’s pronounced tear Ah Puh Gos like Galapagos plus tera
Hey, can we get a vid on the new SV Ou sleep ban? Would love your take on it.
Already know this is gonna be a banger
Coming back to this a while after the archaludon ban is interesting
I like that you tackled both a doubles and singles perspective!
I love the megahorn description
all caps
IT HITS HARD
I wish they give hidden ability to paradox pokemon like Rocky Head to Gounging Fire and Eletric Surge to Raging Bolt
I wish Violent pokemon had better abilities
Maybe technician for Iron Crown and tough claws for Iron Boulder
@@Blanks8 now that's just op. Maybe magic bouce flutter mane, iron fist iron hands and adaptability iron valiant
Electric surge raging bolt sounds disgusting. Raging bolt has another signature move, rising voltage, which has its power doubled to 140 in electric terrain. It's kind of useless since the only terrain setters in VGC and Smogon OU is pincurchin but raging bolt being able to set its own terrain for an effectively 182 BP STAB, no drawback move with more base special attack than flutter mane cannot be sugarcoated.
Rising Voltage isn't signature, it's a gen 8 DLC tutor move. It just probably seems exclusive due to limited distribution.@@SK-df1iw
No point using Heavy Slam on Duralaudon, it’s actually deceptively light, not as heavy as you think it is
2 months later archaladon was banned to ubers
Iron Boulder is Insane!
It's a fast, strong, attacker with good defenses and a move that ignores protect. It just has a pretty bad defensive typing which sadly might be enough to push it upside down and laugh at its legs waving in the air.
The swords of justice paradoxes really got screwed over. The beasts gained the dragon typing, meanwhile the swords only gain psychic
Typing doesn’t inherently make or break the Pokémon. Despite being one of the main reasons Heavy-Duty Boots were introduced last gen, Volcarona is still a fantastic Pokémon in singles. Hell, it’s Ubers this gen thanks to Tera. I don’t play doubles, so I can’t speak on that front though.
@fencerderio9814 I know, psychic is still fairly underwhelming compared to dragon though
@@fencerderio9814 It makes the things fast offensive threats like Iron Bloulder want to do much harder though. Finding switch ins and surviving once you find them become much harder when more attacks do twice the normal damage.
In VGC Boulder wants to take advantage of the threat of Mighty Cleave to limit the opponent's defensive options but being frail means it would need more help from its partner to force the opponent to choose defensive options in the first place.
Wouldn't Iron Boulder's signature move be good in Doubles since it bypasses Protect?
Holy fuck its a staple remover how did i just see that
They made Gouging Fire the simplest, dumbest combination of fire lion and triceratops specifically for me and me alone, and I'll be damned if I don't immediately throw it on my team and lose every match I get into with it.
Sounds like a skill issue
@@JaleelJCarter Bro got mad that I love that the mon is simple lmao
No he’s mad that you lost with a good mon
@shirshobanerjee7751 Almost like I said I'm going to, not that I did.
Thank you for covering the new mons! It's good to have one video covering them all
iron boulder should've been called iron taker (anagram of terrakion)
That would have been genius!
2:40 - Alolan Sandslash “hold my beer”
Of all the new Pokemon, I definitely like Iron Crown best.
You forgot to mention Iron Boulder's signature move goes through protect, which can be very useful in doubles
It will be way better in singles, tho. I think Entei's paradox form will also be good in singles, either mid-OU or top-UU. Iron Boulder will straight up be OU with Choice Band, Choice Scarf and SS sets.
I think you underestimate how _broken_ having a decent speed and a good BP move that ignores protect does for a mon in VGC. Iron Boulder is 100% gonna be format warping just like urshifu
It also has a 100% accurate rock type move that’s the scary part
No, he said that it goes through protect.
cool video, but i wouldn't platform better help, no matter how much they're paying you... the company has made millions selling user data, and empirical evidence from what i've seen online tells me their service is pretty shit! i'd rethink taking their sponsorships in the future if i were you.
i think you're underrating gouging fire's tools. it has fire type outrage for choice band sets in singles and a protect that burns on contact is crazy powerful in doubles
What a fantastic and informative video. Keep up the great work ❤
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"IT HITS HARD"
Hi, im the pokemon pro so ill explain all the new pokemon:
Terapagos. Broken
Raging Bolt. Good
Gourging Pyre. Very good
Iron Boulder. Very good
Iron Crown. Meh
Hydrapple. Meh
Archaludon. Good
Thank you
Terapagos- was ou :p
love Gouging Fire
So many people don't realize that goated fire has heat crash and it weighs 1300.7 lbs or 590 kg.
That's... not that much actually. You need to be 5x as heavy as your target to deal full damage.
so? u can use temper flare if u really want to use it to hit something other than ghold or other ligher mons. It doesn't even need to be at max power to be strong, base 100 or 80 can do a lot of damage at +1 or 2.
@@Pando0678 using two offensive fire moves on the same set really messes up your coverage, so yeah just settling for Flare Blitz is still generally the best option.
I meant over heat crash, do you think I'm stupid to use two moves of the same type without one of them being priority or something?
@@Pando0678 so you wouldn't use Heat Crash in the first place. It's still better to just use Flare Blitz though. Stomping Tantrum was mostly useful as a move because it's a single target ground move and so you don't need to worry about hitting your partner, but there's no reason to use Temper Flare. Flare Blitz has recoil, but it's so much worse when your opponents survive because you used a weak move than to take some recoil.
I see Fickle Beam as a Dragon Pulse with a 30% chance of becoming a Draco Meteor and I find that fun
130 BP and 160 BP are not comparable
Much better than Draco Meteor. 160 base power puts it in Z-move or G-max move territory
More like dragon pulse but it has a 30% chance to be eternabeam without drawback
You didnt even mention gouging fire's signature move - its really really good ^
I feel like people might be underrating one thing about archaludon in VGC (I used duraludon with edited stats because arch isn't in the calc yet):
252 SpA Choice Specs Flutter Mane Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 204+ SpD Assault Vest Duraludon: 82-97 (41.6 - 49.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
0- Atk Duraludon Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 100 HP / 172 Def Flutter Mane: 156-186 (109 - 130%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Like yeah you give up AV which is a good item but you can ohko almost every flutter mane that isn't running actually criminal amounts of bulk (it needs like 252 hp and defence) and you don't even get 2hko'd unless they're literally 252 modest. I just feel like teching heavy slam onto archaludon so it can ohko flutter mane whilst also doing it's other things seems really sweet
i think fickle beam will be good WITH draco, on like, specs sets. usually specs users will slot a dragon move if the spa attack drop is unappealing but instead of using dragon pulse, it can basically use a dragon pulse with the POTENTIAL of just being a better draco meteor anyways.
also 100% accurate rock moves are ALWAYS a luxury rock types drool jealously at.
The biggest competitive shakeup is that Incineroar is back in VGC
Archaludon has been really cool in singles rain and can get out of control *fast*
Also base 85 speed outspeeds a surprising amount of mons, like gholdengo
Thing is with terapagos is that with tera its an uber without tera it has only 600BST meaning youre giving up your tera in ubers to make terapagos usable and if your opponent see terapagos they its most likey your tera.
After using Gouging Fire, I wouldn't be surprised if its banned. My boy is so strong, barely anything hits it hard enough in the tier. The dragon dance is free, Heat crash does 120 since its huge and its OHKO city from there.
I think we're going to see a lot more Clear Amulet in VGC now... just a feeling.
they really should stop giving regenerator to defesinve pokemon, its so annoying. its the main reason why almomola its so despicable
I have been using Raging Bolt in the showdown vgc ladder and it’s proven to be really strong, even without Calm Mind
“I wont offer judgement on whether theyre good or bad”
Meanwhile the rhimbnail…
The four Dragons are my favorites. Really. A ginormous upgrade
Gouging Fire is the closest thing we got to Darmanitan in this generation. It's cool and all, but I'm a bit annoyed by how many sun sweepers are in the game that aren't even fire type.
game freak challenge: make a 100 accuracy rock move that isn't signature (Impossible!!!!)
There is Power Gem which is 100% accurate
@RubicXK i think special rock moves usually have 100 accuracy, but physical rock moves almost never do
Smack Down
But it's only good if you use Earthquake on the next turn.
I wish they made the paradox mons tera raids. It's ridiculously hard to trade for the paradox mon when literally no one who has Scarlet wants the future ones
The way you pronounce Terapagos drives me up the wall
he pronounces it better at the end lmao xD
The way bruh pronounces Terapagos makes me lose seven years of my lifespan
Pokémon designs are getting worse every gen
Iron Crown and Iron Boulder really appeal to me, but I wish they weren't burdened with the Psychic typing. But honestly, all of the new pokemon seem super cool, love the designs (visually and competitively).
I don't think Gouging Fire is completely 1-dimensional. I can see it being a great physical wall with some combination of Burning Bulwark, Morning Sun, Heat Crash (the mon is super heavy), Roar, Dragon Tail, Substitute. Loaded Dice + Scale Shot is also a viable offensive set, as is Booster Energy and a choice item.
Terapagos is my new son and I will use him no matter if he’s good or bad, that’s why he’s GOD
Terrapagos is crazy bro
I like Hydrapple best because of those multiple heads plus that fickle beam is devastating.
Archeludon has had a lot of interest in VGC on rain teams. It looks really interesting because it’s able to set up multiple spatk boosts offsetting the spatk drops from Draco Meteor.
However, I think VGC people are sleeping on Iron Boulder. The ability to hit through protect is very strong. Pair that with swords dance and it should make a very strong sweeper in VGC.
Terapagos >>>>> Iron Boulder > Gouging Fire > Raging Bolt >Iron Crown > Achaludon > Hydrapple imo
Megahorn IT HITS HARD
Where’d you go freezai? I miss you homie ❤
These Paradox Pokemon all look like Broke-Ass Digimon.
Does the stalwart ability let you go pass redirect abilities like motor drive or similar? If so it maybe good as an anti rain team
Motor drive doesn’t affect redirection, but Stalwert let’s it ignore stuff like Lightning Rod however.
why archaludon looking like a staple remover
Gouging Fire looks absolutely badass but Terapagos is my favorite. Cute little baby turtle's already been banned from OU. I can't wait to see him terrorize Ubers.
Why did they decide "Yep, we gonna make the menace pokemon even more of a menace." I swear this thing will be banned in OU.
Wasn't better help that scam that was exposed a while ago?
2:42 "Anything steel is automatically a good defensive typing"
Ice and rock would like to talk with you, Freezai.
Beo what happened to Pokemon after Gen 4/5 💀💔
Pro player really called a mon with recovery options, a burning protect, and awesome offensive options "one dimensional" smh
Because it really is. Its attack and speed are just not good enough without a Dragon Dance behind it. You'd run a protection move in vgc anyways and its typing and lack of support movepool make defensive sets unviable too. Also its speed is so low it will always gain an attack boost from protosynthesis unless you specifically invest very little into attack.
Iron crown psyspam when it sees incinerroar is back
Iron Crown seems like a good candidate for Stellar Tera
I like great neck
Tbh wonder how Terapagos will be after SV. A lot of it's strength is from the tera form.
I love the descriptions you put for moves that don't have additional effects
A̶r̶e̶ w̶e̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶ g̶o̶n̶n̶a̶ p̶r̶e̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ P̶e̶c̶h̶a̶r̶u̶n̶t̶ d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'t̶ e̶x̶i̶s̶t̶?̶ o̶k̶a̶y̶ I̶ g̶u̶e̶s̶s̶.
Edit: Nevermind, it hasn't been released yet.
its not released yet/ not accesible in game
@@ayyyyMan My bad, I saw it in Random Battles and assumed it has been released already, but apparently it's this gen's mythical. I saw Freezai didn't know who the pokemon was in a random battles video and thought he just missed the mon.
Your wrong about gouging fire being one dimensional. Has good hp/def as well as burning protect and recovery + Terra.
Iron boulder hits through protect w/ an 95bp 100acc physical rock move and that’s very good for doubles..
And you're wrong about 'your' being the short form of 'you are'
@@enoyna1001 what’s your degree in? Dik eating?
@@kenanroberson that's your mom's, I can confirm
@@enoyna1001 ok I can tell you have no muscles after that comeback! LMAO SOOO WEAK 😭
Gouging Fire seems hit or miss. It’ll either perform pretty well or not so great
Why?
Bruh Iron Boulder Urshifu core is gonna be SO annoying to deal with
worth noting that raging bolt is the only pokemon to get rising voltage this time; it's admittedly much harder to make it work since tapu koko is gone but it's still theoretically a brutally powerful move to be aware of
Went through the different mons that can get electric terrain to double that and yeah there's a decent list it, including a fast Iron Boulder or bulky Iron Hands with Raging Bolt as it's special coverage
Protect + burn on contact is wild
I’ve been replaying my DS games and I’ve been following pokemon creators again and just seeing the word DLC and pokemon in the same context just feels wrong to me