Yeah, imagine being one of the most comically worthless pokemon of all time and seeing something that looks almost exactly like you only to find out that you somehow aren't related. Now imagine that thing actually ends up being a badass. I'll be honest, I'd probably go find a seaside sushi shop to suffocate in front of.
@@metanightmare4454 Actually, it was confirmed by Game Freak that Alomomola WAS made to be Luvdisc’s evolution. The only reason it wasn’t is that Black and White only introduced new Pokémon and kept older ones for the post game. So the evolution was scrapped and we were left with this ridiculous fish. I say they should’ve just scrapped it all together and designed a new, better evolution for Gen 6 instead.
@@GatorOne-in7hk True, but in-universe there's still no connection, also I don't think Luvdisc getting snubbed is justification to get rid of Alomomola. I like it just fine and it's hardly the worst pure Water-type out there.
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In the format where Protect is rarely used, this thing dominates. In the format where Protect is considered one of the best moves, this thing is nowhere to be found. Funny how this shows the intricacies of both formats in a different perspective.
Hey FSG, I noticed you now put timestamps in the description so people can quick jump to the any specific Gen they want to see. Just wanna say, thanks a lot, it's a great improvement as I like to check out these videos from time to time while making teams on Showdown. Great work
For anyone curious, the Gen 7 UU council did finally address and come to a conclusion about the brokeness of Stall in the tier about a month ago. And their conclusion was: *Quagsire* - and they banned it from the tier via council vote. Mola still runs around on stall scott free within the tier, while stall teams now fall back on the much less optimal Pyukumuku to fill the hole left by Quag.
@@LordBeau Are you fucking serious? Toxapex lost Scald and Knock Off and yet you still can't beat it? Gholdengo literally hard walls Toxapex. Iron Hands and Great Tusk can break past Toxapex and Garganacl easily outstalls Toxapex with its Status Immunity and Salt Cure.
@@donttakemeseriously8071 problem is, there is no freaking way Alomomola will learn teleport as it is just an ordinary, large fish. Besides, Alomomola is slow to begin with and Flip Turn does damage.
@@skybattler2624 it don't really need to do damage it has scald and toxic for that anyways and why nidoking get the moves it gets like ice beam (pokemon is weird) besides its a hypothetical besides this is guaranteed heal on at least 2 mons instead of a guarantee on 1 with a good chance to heal 2 and get a near negligible chip amount when scald does that anyways Only real benefit is taunt which is noticeable but not greatly
Personally yeah the BW dex reboot was probably the reason and thus we got a bunch of redundant mons. That said given troll freak of late I would argue there is no reason they can't retcon this. After all if they ditched the ice rock and moss rock for leaf stone and ice stone for evolving Eevee and started axing Pokémon left and right I think it wouldn't be too much more of a stretch further to start messing with what evolves into what etc.. looking at their stats probably will never happen but Luvdisc at least would have loved evolite. Though looking up their stats amusingly Luvdisc actually has higher special defense and both have identical special attack. So in a way we might be lucky they didn't make it an evolution as then it might have been even more bulky....
@@Dragrath1 Technically they have not introduced a new evolution to a prior pokemon since eviolite was introduced, with the exception of regional evolutions which dont chance the interaction of eviolite with past pokemon. I can except them to break this cross-generational consistency soon.
I couldn't help but notice that the move Soak was ignored in this video, and that's sad. Soak is a move that turns your opponents typing into pure Water. That means Soak + Toxic is a hilariously strong combo that can let you poison even steel and poison types, which are the common switch-ins to counter status abuse.
I mean the issue with soak is that it makes alomomola far too passive, and can be easily negated with switching out. Theres a reason that pyukumuku runs block on soak toxic sets
The weird thing is that it is a physical attacker when its dex entries imply that it should be a special attacker. It is also the only pokemon that isn't fire or grass type to be able to learn Solarbeam.
@@wedgeofcheese9482 not really? It's sp def is garbage despite great HP Pex has both good HP and Good Def, in addition to deterring Fairy. It's also offensively capable
Some people find it hard to pronounce? I'd find many English words way way harder to do so than this. It's read the way you would any phonetically-consistent word 🤷
Alomomola at the hands of TheFlamingSpade was the Pokemon that made me begin to truly appreciate and understand the various roles a Pokemon could have (and not just be a straight up attacker).
All they need to do to make it great is give it flip turn. Being able to send massive wishes to teammates without them taking damage on top of regenerator is so good
everyone repeating the meme that alomomola looks like a big-bulky Luvdisk. Except if you actually look at their stats, it doesn't work that way at all. Luvdisc is a fast pokemon with speed being one of it's best stats, and not that much bulk. Alomo is bulky and slow. They serve completely different purposes. And no, i don't realy care if it's just a joke, because with 20 different people just spam the exact same joke, it loses all humor and just becomes a bad take
I have no idea why everybody thought this Pokémon was related to Luvdisc when GameFreak made it clear before its release that there would be no cross-gen evolutions in Black and White. Did nobody listen to them?
@@daltonfreeman6551 that’s not super true, especially with only one restricted Pokémon this series, it could be an actual threat if your opponent doesn’t bring a good counter, but Kyogre and Groudon are probably gonna be everyone’s pick, so maybe itll be bad. I’m hoping for it as it’s one of my fav mons ever since I pulled golden reshiram
@@thepoopenfarter I will happily join a trend of calling out blatantly unfunny copied comments that add nothing to the comment section but level up your own ego. Getting a few hundred likes on a comment isn't an achievement especially if you are just a mouthpiece for someone else's joke honestly its just sad.
it lost its wish support tho, one of the thing shes good at. Also her movepool and stats kinda sucks for an AV user (scald, knock off, flip turn?, ???)
@@pepes-6707 Wait wdym? Can't you just transfer it with Wish into the games if it was in Natdex? I thought Wish wasn't in the game but then I remembered Clefable used it religiously prior to DLC2 (and 1?). But yeah, AV won't be the best set but Scald, Koff, Flip Turn and Mirror Coat could've been interesting. Wish Turn would've been like Wish Teleport but much higher base HP.
@@rollingapples6579 no i mean if it uses AV set, it lost its wish support, which is wasting her potential to be a wish passer considering her base HP is high + regenerator ability, making her a very good wish passer. The plain ol' leftovers/rocky helmet alomomola is better.
Well, this explains why I've been super confused on its tier in gen 5 for a while, since you seem to mention it as a threat for pretty much any pokemon in gen 5, no matter what tier it was in, other than ubers.
@@gwenpolo1307 you don't get it... the original gen 5 games only had new pokemon available, so since Alomamola was a new gen 5 pokemon it would brake the trend of the rest of the gen 5 mons if it Did evolve from an older pokemon.
I don't care what anyone says, Alomomola *does not* need to evolve from Luvdisc. A heart-shaped fish doesn't need to evolved into a nurse fish with hand fins that is very vaguely heart-shaped.
@@kriblar98 To me they're more example of convergent evolution than anything else. But I've seen so many Luvdisc evolution fakemon that actually build on Luvdisc's theming much better than Alomomola ever would. But yeah that fish needs all the help it can get.
This was #208., and the porygons were 1 week, but this officially is 4 years of weekly videos nonstop! Thank you so much for the content. I use these videos to sleep podcast style lol
Alomomola is much greater than I expected, perhaps that’s because I started to really get better at the game in Gen 7, and stall was never my thing. But in all seriousness, just give it Flip Turn and perhaps it will be able fit even on more offensive builds, like bulky offense, w wish, protect, flip turn and healing wish
Honestly, in gen 7 it had a niche in OU albeit very small. I remember it being used on some stall/balance teams as a replacement for Toxapex if they wanted some role compression as Mola can of course WIsh-Pass unlike Pex which meant that it paired really well with Heatran and some wallbreakers as well. But it's true that this niche was pretty much only existent on paper as Mola was almost never actually seen despite having a niche.
Alomomola is a really great pokemon, in my opinion. In terms of stall, it might be that the key to defeating it would probably be the removal of its teammates, if possible. But in terms of 'banning' or 'removing' something, I'd have to say that the Unaware partner or the Regenerator ability is what truly makes stall teams so un-fun to fight. If I were to make it Alomomola better... I'd say giving it perhaps Flip Turn? I think that might push it into the Really Unfair territory in terms of facing it, but it'd be amazing to see.
just a suggestion but if you were to make a video another mon that was removed in the dex cut, could you cover how that pokemon does in the national dex meta on smogon? Alomomola was used as a check to cinderace in that meta and i would've really liked to see it discussed.
It's one of the banes of my replay-viewing experience, especially if it's part of the dreaded Regimola core. Though, I can't deny that I'd love to see what Alomomola could accomplish w/ Heavy Duty Boots and maybe Flip Turn.
Alomomomomomomomomola is basically a pure physical wall and little else, but it fills its role extremely well. It can soak up physical attacks, give statuses back, then get out and heal with regenerator. Other bulky waters like milotic or vaporeon can do more offensively, while pokemon like slowbro and swampert can offer secondary typing benefits, but if you just want a sturdy water type physical wall and don't care about anything else, this is your fish.
Ive heard this mons name so much in other videos Ive been looking forward to this one in the playlist. Which is something I never thought Id say about alomamola
Day 9 of asking this Hey I have an idea for pokemon that aren't is SW/SH. So basically showdown has a format called "National dex" and smogon has logs of bans,pokemon that dropped, etc. This can be ur coverage for gen 8 but it stops at UU and everything under it is called "Under UU." Just something to consider. It's similar to how you cover doubles. You don't say if something is DOU so that can be done with National Dex? Idk this is a stretch in and of itself, but still something to consider
Luvdisc: "I was so close to greatness. I was this close..."
Yeah, imagine being one of the most comically worthless pokemon of all time and seeing something that looks almost exactly like you only to find out that you somehow aren't related. Now imagine that thing actually ends up being a badass. I'll be honest, I'd probably go find a seaside sushi shop to suffocate in front of.
@@metanightmare4454 Actually, it was confirmed by Game Freak that Alomomola WAS made to be Luvdisc’s evolution. The only reason it wasn’t is that Black and White only introduced new Pokémon and kept older ones for the post game. So the evolution was scrapped and we were left with this ridiculous fish. I say they should’ve just scrapped it all together and designed a new, better evolution for Gen 6 instead.
@@GatorOne-in7hk Where did you hear that?
@@GatorOne-in7hk True, but in-universe there's still no connection, also I don't think Luvdisc getting snubbed is justification to get rid of Alomomola. I like it just fine and it's hardly the worst pure Water-type out there.
Luvdisc:but gamefreak, I wanted the eviolite
If only battles against alomomola were as short as this video...
buT thIS VIdeO iS prETtY LoNG
@@SahilFR R/wOoOoOosh
Short? This is actually really long for a pokemon only available in 3 generaitons and had no doubles viability.
@@dungeonmaster3464 That the joke
@@dungeonmaster3464 he meant long mate
The age-old adage of Pokemon: "If it's big and pink, it's a time sink."
"It didn't hard counter them, but it didn't need to" this is the vid in a nutshell
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augomon president
w-what?
@@stratastar
He is basically saying that he is excited for digimon 2020. I don't really know what he want.
Lesson of the day: If a generation introduces a bulky pink pokemon, expect it to be the bane of competitive tiers one way or another.
Amzingly true
sylveon?
@@bobbyjones3011 sylveon is mostly white, take it from a sylveon
@@bobbyjones3011 Yes
Blissey lol
Imagine being so broken that players can't even agree on how to nerf you.
Ikr
Gen 8 slowbro has entered the chat
@@Interiorcrocodilealigator10838 ban tport + future sigh
@@Oliver-uz1fs too specific
@@Interiorcrocodilealigator10838 but is the specific problem
Ah yes, "Protect is broken in singles", the Pokémon.
Wait till you learn about vgc
@@oqo3310 bro he means that it usually isn’t but on this huge fish meet chunk.. kinda is XD
In the format where Protect is rarely used, this thing dominates. In the format where Protect is considered one of the best moves, this thing is nowhere to be found.
Funny how this shows the intricacies of both formats in a different perspective.
@@Revoltine well vgc is not a friendly environment for passive damage. Alomomola is just too weak for the quick battles of vgc.
@@lizardsanspoks4509 protect is one of the best moves in singles tho. BKC made a near two hour long analisys on hit btw.
"All in all, Alomomola has a lot of allure along a long line of appearances."
Christ, that writer snapped 🔥
15:13 XD
Thanks BKC
Tounge twister extreme
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After all this time, it is finally time to talk about the INCREDIBLY BULKY ALOMOMOLA.
So I'm not the only who noticed how often Kellen says Bulky Alomomola
Bulky alomomola, 80 defense and 45 special defense
And wobbufet level hp
Thicc fish
Wait a min...
Hey FSG, I noticed you now put timestamps in the description so people can quick jump to the any specific Gen they want to see. Just wanna say, thanks a lot, it's a great improvement as I like to check out these videos from time to time while making teams on Showdown. Great work
You can also use the chapters feature by clicking under the progress bar and to the right of the timestamp, which allows you to do the same thing
I like it because it allows me to skip the dumb VGC
"The patrons have spoken and today we shall fulfill their wish"
Oh FSG, I see what you did there you sneaky little bastard
Ah yes, the Pokémon everyone thought was an evolution of Luvdisc when it was first revealed
You literally stole my comment word for word
Ah yes, unfunny joke
@@sethhowell3067 cope.
@@sethhowell3067
Sorry mate
Not funny didn't XD
For anyone curious, the Gen 7 UU council did finally address and come to a conclusion about the brokeness of Stall in the tier about a month ago. And their conclusion was: *Quagsire* - and they banned it from the tier via council vote. Mola still runs around on stall scott free within the tier, while stall teams now fall back on the much less optimal Pyukumuku to fill the hole left by Quag.
Quagsire in UUBL. What a treat for one's eyes.
now if only the OU council would do the same to pex
@@LordBeau Are you fucking serious? Toxapex lost Scald and Knock Off and yet you still can't beat it? Gholdengo literally hard walls Toxapex. Iron Hands and Great Tusk can break past Toxapex and Garganacl easily outstalls Toxapex with its Status Immunity and Salt Cure.
@@butteredsalmonella I play gen 7 OU
Imagine how incredible Alomomola would be in gen 8 with access to Flip Turn.
It would probably be an little bit O.P.
DO NOT GIVE GAMEFREAK IDEAS!!!! That thing will go up to OU in mere minutes!!!
Would teleport be better no stab but minus priority switch on a regenerator which means guaranteed wish pass and still heals itself up
@@donttakemeseriously8071 problem is, there is no freaking way Alomomola will learn teleport as it is just an ordinary, large fish.
Besides, Alomomola is slow to begin with and Flip Turn does damage.
@@skybattler2624 it don't really need to do damage it has scald and toxic for that anyways and why nidoking get the moves it gets like ice beam (pokemon is weird) besides its a hypothetical besides this is guaranteed heal on at least 2 mons instead of a guarantee on 1 with a good chance to heal 2 and get a near negligible chip amount when scald does that anyways
Only real benefit is taunt which is noticeable but not greatly
I remember back then when people thought alomomola was going to be the evolution for luvdisc. If only fate wasnt so cruel....
We can all thank BW's pokedex policy.
Personally yeah the BW dex reboot was probably the reason and thus we got a bunch of redundant mons. That said given troll freak of late I would argue there is no reason they can't retcon this. After all if they ditched the ice rock and moss rock for leaf stone and ice stone for evolving Eevee and started axing Pokémon left and right I think it wouldn't be too much more of a stretch further to start messing with what evolves into what etc..
looking at their stats probably will never happen but Luvdisc at least would have loved evolite. Though looking up their stats amusingly Luvdisc actually has higher special defense and both have identical special attack.
So in a way we might be lucky they didn't make it an evolution as then it might have been even more bulky....
@@Dragrath1 Technically they have not introduced a new evolution to a prior pokemon since eviolite was introduced, with the exception of regional evolutions which dont chance the interaction of eviolite with past pokemon. I can except them to break this cross-generational consistency soon.
Ah yes, THE queen of low tiers
Que haces tu aqui?
As a lower tier player I always loved and hated her.
Alomomola just never dies.
@@redx3009 higher tier players hate chansey/blissey
@@aquaneutral Alomomola is a physical wall healer and chansey/blissey are its partner as a special wall cleric.
With how many hours I’ve seen this fish walling me I expected the video to be longer
You can only say "it's a fat wish passer" so many times.
About time. Every fucking video where a pokemon is below UU, a third of the video is mentioning Alomomola.
14:36 Can we talk about the fact that this guy used a _Quilladin_ on his team in VGC and got 7th place?
That’s vgc for ya, way more diverse than rocks and switch moves
@@energeticgorilla "way more diverse"
No
@@oqo3310 yea it is lol. What’s so diverse about rocks and switch moves and stall
@@energeticgorilla VGC is for virgins. That's what the V stands for.
@@jonathano503 haha virgin joke
I couldn't help but notice that the move Soak was ignored in this video, and that's sad. Soak is a move that turns your opponents typing into pure Water. That means Soak + Toxic is a hilariously strong combo that can let you poison even steel and poison types, which are the common switch-ins to counter status abuse.
Takes away STAB too
Refresh is also pretty funny since the biggest problem that it has is status effects, and refresh also helps in PP stall wars due to its high PP.
Soak a pex, then toxic em
I mean the issue with soak is that it makes alomomola far too passive, and can be easily negated with switching out. Theres a reason that pyukumuku runs block on soak toxic sets
I use soak with Pyukumuku to cripple opposition
Finally, that one Pokémon mentioned on every video in lower tier gen 5
Please if this ever comes back, never give this hell spawn flip turn.
*Gen 4 REMASTER be like*
I'm a mola supporter, I would love if it got that lol
Give it flip turn so I can laugh at the destruction.
Gamefreak: "Ok" *proceeds to give it Teleport*
I was thinking the same thing
Ayo can we get a "how good was Gigalith actually" cool rock with more, orange spiky rocks deserves it.
he may do that considering it got sand stream recently
Definitely got some VGC play in the last couple years!!!!
The weird thing is that it is a physical attacker when its dex entries imply that it should be a special attacker. It is also the only pokemon that isn't fire or grass type to be able to learn Solarbeam.
@@andresmarrero8666 Er... Solrock? Cryogonal? Others?
My favorite rock type
Last time I was this early, Tauros was overpowered
Overpowered in OU? or overpowered in gen 8 lower tiers?
@@dungeonmaster3464 back I gen one ou lol
@@dungeonmaster3464 in gen 1 tauros was op
@@johannesboomsma4680 I know, and that was the only generation it was ever in OU, hence my question.
Pfp checks out.
Ah Alomomola, gen 5's very own Toxapex.
except worse
@@wedgeofcheese9482 not really? It's sp def is garbage despite great HP
Pex has both good HP and Good Def, in addition to deterring Fairy. It's also offensively capable
@@wedgeofcheese9482 only a weak minded unorginal incompetent fool only defines a pokemons battle abilities as good or bad
Toxapex is just a huge wall
Alomomola is more a support and wisher
You mean Chansey/Blissey?
This pokemon's name is NOT hard to pronounce, change my mind.
It's easy once you hear it out loud, when you're reading it for the first time it feels like a tongue twister.
And if you try to spell it backwards?
It's alomomola
I agree it's not difficult. If you think too hard about it, you'll have a hard time saying it
Stop or ill call the cops
Some people find it hard to pronounce? I'd find many English words way way harder to do so than this. It's read the way you would any phonetically-consistent word 🤷
Alomomola at the hands of TheFlamingSpade was the Pokemon that made me begin to truly appreciate and understand the various roles a Pokemon could have (and not just be a straight up attacker).
Last week: Generic fish bad.
This week: Generic fish Godly.
The difference in having a stat over 150 base and having equally bad 75~
Alomomola is hardly a “generic” fish. Basculin was the Gen 5 generic fish, which also happens to be better than Seaking.
This Pokemon's name is a palindrome, which is pretty cool. And I, like a lot of people, wish this was Luvdisk's evolution.
Holy cow you're right, it is a palindrome. How have I never noticed this?
It was probably his evolution but Gen V was a reboot like for gen I, so they didnt want any links to another gen
Like girafarig!
I never noticed that it's a palindrome.
@@SilvaShadow1990 and eevee
Not making this the luvdisc evolution was one of game freak's biggest blunders
But that would ruin the idea of Gen 5 being a soft reboot.
I like the name "Regimola" because in spanish (especifically from Spain) it means "regi is cool"
today mola is OU and pex is UU
Holy moly, Alomomola stalled so well this video felt twice as long then what it really is~
Mega Luvdisc got Flip Turn and Scald, ahahahaha
The fact that this pokemon got a 16 minute video probably means something
The “wish” pun in the intro made my day.
Alomomola is great in OU now. If I remember, last week, a player named Pinkacross reached no 1 with Alomomola as one of his pokemon.
Or, in other words, how good was luvdiscs evolution?
About that...
You mean mega-Luvdisc?
If it was intended as an evolution of Luvdisc it might have had even stronger stats
this was unfunny
Obviously
A no
I don’t think I’ve ever been this early to an FSG video.
Same bro
Same here 😂
Same
Not same
same
That thing with Flip Turn would be amazing
It actually got it in gen 9
The biggest buff to Luvdisc would be making alomomola its evolution so it’s eligible for little cup
And eviolite
when you realize that alomomola ISN'T luvdisc's evolution:
Lol I was surprised at first too lol
@@jufref lol lol
@@user-ep9sv4yg9i shut up we don't care.
All they need to do to make it great is give it flip turn. Being able to send massive wishes to teammates without them taking damage on top of regenerator is so good
everyone repeating the meme that alomomola looks like a big-bulky Luvdisk. Except if you actually look at their stats, it doesn't work that way at all. Luvdisc is a fast pokemon with speed being one of it's best stats, and not that much bulk. Alomo is bulky and slow. They serve completely different purposes.
And no, i don't realy care if it's just a joke, because with 20 different people just spam the exact same joke, it loses all humor and just becomes a bad take
Quite a few evolutions lose speed and gain bulk as they evolve. Off the top of my head, Electivire and Mega chomp come to mind
@@aaronabraham2814 yes, but those still dont have as big a dramatic shift.
@@honeyham6788 Fair. Though there probably are some others which I can't remember
Steelix and Scizor lose 40 points each
Update gen 9 alomomola is better than ever being currently uu despite the scald removal as well as a very good wish passer even in Ubers
"How long would you make a battle last?"
Alomomola : *yes*
I have no idea why everybody thought this Pokémon was related to Luvdisc when GameFreak made it clear before its release that there would be no cross-gen evolutions in Black and White. Did nobody listen to them?
Same with others that tries to compare Bouffelunt should've evolved from an Tauros.
I am sad thought he would do zekrom this week
Me, who has been waiting for Seismitoad for almost a year: First time?
Zek is leagues better than Resh, so it's understandable that they've still got a lot of stuff to go through before they're done with the video
Also the patrons chose this one. Zekrom'll probably be next week
Patreons come first each month.
@@daltonfreeman6551 that’s not super true, especially with only one restricted Pokémon this series, it could be an actual threat if your opponent doesn’t bring a good counter, but Kyogre and Groudon are probably gonna be everyone’s pick, so maybe itll be bad. I’m hoping for it as it’s one of my fav mons ever since I pulled golden reshiram
We gonna talk about that tongue twister at the end? Gotta love FSG
Ah yes, the Not Luvdisc evolution.
Ah yes, unoriginal comment.
@@vetsplay7899 welcome to TH-cam
You say this, yet you join the trend of saying "unoriginal comment."
@@thepoopenfarter I will happily join a trend of calling out blatantly unfunny copied comments that add nothing to the comment section but level up your own ego. Getting a few hundred likes on a comment isn't an achievement especially if you are just a mouthpiece for someone else's joke honestly its just sad.
@@vetsplay7899 chill
It would've been amazing in Gen 8 with Flip Turn. You could even run an AV set.
it lost its wish support tho, one of the thing shes good at. Also her movepool and stats kinda sucks for an AV user (scald, knock off, flip turn?, ???)
Pepes. Well it's an good thing it didn't come back to Gen. 8. Than it'll be as worthless as Seaking.
@@pepes-6707 Wait wdym? Can't you just transfer it with Wish into the games if it was in Natdex? I thought Wish wasn't in the game but then I remembered Clefable used it religiously prior to DLC2 (and 1?). But yeah, AV won't be the best set but Scald, Koff, Flip Turn and Mirror Coat could've been interesting. Wish Turn would've been like Wish Teleport but much higher base HP.
@@rollingapples6579 no i mean if it uses AV set, it lost its wish support, which is wasting her potential to be a wish passer considering her base HP is high + regenerator ability, making her a very good wish passer. The plain ol' leftovers/rocky helmet alomomola is better.
Well it gets it in gen 9. Albeit losing toxic unfortunately. But oddly enough I don't think it needs it right now
Well, this explains why I've been super confused on its tier in gen 5 for a while, since you seem to mention it as a threat for pretty much any pokemon in gen 5, no matter what tier it was in, other than ubers.
Shows how powerful high HP is, even with average/bad defences you can wall everything.
Say that to wailord and guzzlord, even igglipuff
@@robertoalexandermendezmore408 A busted ability and great moveset helps too
Not even an gigantic whale can outdue the pink fish.
The recent DLC in Gen 9 has gifted Alomomola both Scald and Flip Turn so that's great
Hot take: Alomamola being a Luvdisc evolution would ruin the idea of Gen 5 being a soft reboot.
Obviously. But if it was introduced in a different gen...
@@gwenpolo1307 you don't get it... the original gen 5 games only had new pokemon available, so since Alomamola was a new gen 5 pokemon it would brake the trend of the rest of the gen 5 mons if it Did evolve from an older pokemon.
i guess but why did they make like 2 pokemon that would clearly be evoulitons to previous ones
@@terraSpark902 key words "a different gen..."
@@hbb1939 oh my god you don't get it either
heyyy, ya know since we are doing alot of gen 5 mons. When will we be getting the trash terror Garbodor?
I don't care what anyone says, Alomomola *does not* need to evolve from Luvdisc. A heart-shaped fish doesn't need to evolved into a nurse fish with hand fins that is very vaguely heart-shaped.
Still it would of been nice if they helped something as useless as luvdisc and it still would of made sense
@@kriblar98 To me they're more example of convergent evolution than anything else. But I've seen so many Luvdisc evolution fakemon that actually build on Luvdisc's theming much better than Alomomola ever would.
But yeah that fish needs all the help it can get.
Not to mentioned that when Black & White 1 was first announced, it was supposed to be an soft reboot & focus more on new Pokemons.
I agree. Same with Bouffelunt not evolving from Tauros. People need to stop comparing the two.
Thanks to the other Patrons for helping me in getting this mon the spotlight, love using this monster to stall everyone lol
I lowkey already know from how much I've heard about it from other videos.
Well, with the Patreon’s pick finished, we can all wait for Zekrom’s video next week. :D
If you've ever played low tiers, you might hate this thing as much as I do.
This was #208., and the porygons were 1 week, but this officially is 4 years of weekly videos nonstop! Thank you so much for the content. I use these videos to sleep podcast style lol
OMFG i didn't expect that to be good
I always enjoy these videos. Thanks for making my day more knowledgeable.
Alomomola is much greater than I expected, perhaps that’s because I started to really get better at the game in Gen 7, and stall was never my thing. But in all seriousness, just give it Flip Turn and perhaps it will be able fit even on more offensive builds, like bulky offense, w wish, protect, flip turn and healing wish
YESSSSS FSG always talked about this Pokémon, so glad it’s finally got a video of its own
Honestly, in gen 7 it had a niche in OU albeit very small. I remember it being used on some stall/balance teams as a replacement for Toxapex if they wanted some role compression as Mola can of course WIsh-Pass unlike Pex which meant that it paired really well with Heatran and some wallbreakers as well. But it's true that this niche was pretty much only existent on paper as Mola was almost never actually seen despite having a niche.
Alomomola is a really great pokemon, in my opinion. In terms of stall, it might be that the key to defeating it would probably be the removal of its teammates, if possible. But in terms of 'banning' or 'removing' something, I'd have to say that the Unaware partner or the Regenerator ability is what truly makes stall teams so un-fun to fight. If I were to make it Alomomola better... I'd say giving it perhaps Flip Turn? I think that might push it into the Really Unfair territory in terms of facing it, but it'd be amazing to see.
Now imagine this with flip turn
Absolute frustration.
yall remember when false swipe said 13 minutes was a long video about t-tar
Such a missed opportunity to not title this video “How SEEMINGLY UNKILLABLE was Alomomola ACTUALLY?”
Seaking from previous week: Im handing my crown to you. I may have failed as a king, but you truly are a queen
"We shall fulfill their WISH" i see what you did there
Alomomola is lowkey one of my favorite tank Pokémon in the game. I used it in the battle tree with a Wacan berry and Mirror Coat and it was super fun.
Gen 5: NU
Gen 6:RU
Gen 7:UU
Gen 8:unavailable
Gen 9:OU
This mon keeps rising for some reason.
Always love a late bloomer
man... this video would've been perfect for a sponsorship from Wish
Whoever Eric was, respect to him all the way, not only just for using an alomamola, but also a freaking quilladin
The protect can be exploited by sweeper by them boosting when the player think Mola is going to protect
"Can we use toxapex?"
"We have toxapex at home"
toxapex at home:
I want to know more about that 2014 VGC team that ran both Alomomola and Quilladin
just a suggestion but if you were to make a video another mon that was removed in the dex cut, could you cover how that pokemon does in the national dex meta on smogon? Alomomola was used as a check to cinderace in that meta and i would've really liked to see it discussed.
Babe wake up, False Swipe Gaming uploaded a new video
Just think in gen 8 it could’ve gotten Flip Turn
How annoying would that be
The MIGHTY Alomomola finally gets a video
Will you do: how good was Drapion actually in the future, I like to learn more about drapion in the past vgc games.
It's one of the banes of my replay-viewing experience, especially if it's part of the dreaded Regimola core. Though, I can't deny that I'd love to see what Alomomola could accomplish w/ Heavy Duty Boots and maybe Flip Turn.
"It may not be an evolution of Luvdisc, but it sucks just as badly!"
-Chuggaaconroy
Turns out it didn't, actually
So that was a lie...? : V
@@MrOz1705 no, for in-game playthroughs it's not that good
@@brunop.8745 in game
@@MrOz1705 in-game
Finalllyyy I was suggesting this in some of your other videos. Thank you for bringing the stall master
I dont see toxipex
@@danielolivierpepin bruhhh
It's always surprising to remember that Alomomola's physical attack isn't terrible.
Alomomomomomomomomola is basically a pure physical wall and little else, but it fills its role extremely well. It can soak up physical attacks, give statuses back, then get out and heal with regenerator. Other bulky waters like milotic or vaporeon can do more offensively, while pokemon like slowbro and swampert can offer secondary typing benefits, but if you just want a sturdy water type physical wall and don't care about anything else, this is your fish.
So it kind of sounds like this pokemon was "crippled" from usage, and not itself
"Alomamola is not an evolution of Lovedisk"
Me: What the fu...
Ive heard this mons name so much in other videos Ive been looking forward to this one in the playlist. Which is something I never thought Id say about alomamola
how GOOD was sawsbuck actually gang?
Fine to rally up... just hope that's all this is.
Voting is not in comments
@@trueblade3636 i know, i know. just assembling the community till the next poll
Day 9 of asking this
Hey I have an idea for pokemon that aren't is SW/SH. So basically showdown has a format called "National dex" and smogon has logs of bans,pokemon that dropped, etc. This can be ur coverage for gen 8 but it stops at UU and everything under it is called "Under UU." Just something to consider. It's similar to how you cover doubles. You don't say if something is DOU so that can be done with National Dex? Idk this is a stretch in and of itself, but still something to consider
Well, we covered all Gen 5 Mythicals except for one, so i really wanna know HOW GOOD WAS MELOETTA ACTUALLY?
Really bad
@@HannibalKantter really really bad
I would've loved to see Alomomola with Flip turn in Gen 8
How good was Stantler, the resolved reserve reindeer?
It's one of the worst pokemon ever existed in history
When the reason why a Pokémon lost a niche on OU is because Toxapex exists you know that it's a good Pokémon we're talking about.
Ahh Alomomola, Luvdisc's Unova-n Form.