You too. Btw, I have an idea for a new video: Bad Restricted Pokemon. Here’s the list of bad restricted pokemon in VGC. (No strictly worse mons, like Cosmog or base Kyurem will be included) Mewtwo: As the first restricted Pokemon, Mewtwo has suffered highly from power creep. Compare it to things like the Primal Pokemon, Mega Rayquaza, Pre-nerf Zacian, and the Calyrex forms. Ho-oh: 4x weak to rock. Doesn’t do that much damage compared to other restricted Pokemon Lugia: Too passive. Typing isn’t good either. Giratina: Has to choose between either being a bad attacker or bad defender. Also Calyrex exists. Kyurem Black: Didn’t have a good physical ice type move until it got Icicle Spear in gen 8 Necrozma Dawn Wings: Worse than Lunala. Prism Armor is good, but when all your weaknesses are quad weaknesses, you’d rather have Shadow Shield. Also, Lunala’s higher speed makes it better outside of Trick Room Necrozma Dusk Mane: Gets destroyed by several common mons. Gen 7 had Primal Groudon, Mega Gengar, Lunala, and ya boi Incineroar. Gen 9 has Calyrex Shadow Rider, the Treasures of Ruin, and Gholdengo. Btw, Ultra Necromza wasn’t actually that broken. Why? Well, Incineroar and Lunala, but also Mega Gengar and Tapu Koko.
Okay, really quick: 3 things; 1. (sad) WHY ISN'T IT A GOOD MORNING!?, 2. Video idea: What Happened To The What Happened To Series?, 3. No offense, but I don't like the little doodle guy, and I've never liked the irl intro. Keep up the good work.
Not to be mean but there are a lot of inaccuracies in this video. 1. Confusion is 33% not 25% 2. Tera shell is different from shadow shield. 3. Sword of Ruin and Beads of Ruin don’t affect chien-pao and chi-yu so it doesn’t make them frailer. 4. Chilling and Grim Neigh aren’t beast boost. Beast Boost boosts the highest stat of a mon while Chilling and Grim Neigh only boost Atk and Spa. 5. Soul heart is not special moxie. It raises Spa when any pokemon on the field faints for any reason.
6. Koraidon and Miraidon’s abilities don’t activate their paradox powers, they are hardwired to raise attack and special attack respectively regardless of how they are EVed
Elaborating on point 2: Tera Shell makes the damage be considered not very effective This means that the only real difference is that fighting type damage gets reduced by ¼ insted of the ½ for Shadow Shield
Fun Fact: in the Gen 7 games Arceus’ Multitype actually worked with Z-crystals too. So if Arceus was holding a Firium Z for example, it would become a Fire type
5:26 No, they are infact quite different. Shadow Shield simply halves the damage taken at full HP. Tera Shell makes attacks do damage as if they were not very effective which means the attack can do normal damage (when original attack was not very effective) or even ⅛ of the damage if the attack wouldve been double effective. (Again at 100%Hp)
I think Tera Shell is significantly better, especially on a Normal type that has no resistances anyway. Instead of cutting the damage from Fighting moves in half, it cuts the damage down to 1/4.
I’m really disappointed that Dialga and Palkia don’t have signature abilities. Not even their Origin Forms. They didn’t even try. Pressure is the most boring ability to give a legendary. Especially when their some of the most powerful from a lore perspective
Every Legendary that had Pressure as their original ability should have received a comparative hidden ability to keep them relevant with newer Legendaries. Its kinda lopsided when newer ones like Koraidon and Miraidon abilities boost their stats and older ones like Mewtwo have nothing! I mean Smogon just invented a new tier for Legendaries that aren't competitive in regular Ubers!
JPR, Tera Shell is different from Shadow Shield. Shadow Shield is just a multiscale that can be ignored by things like Mold Breaker. Tera Shell, on the other hand, makes it so that the first hit it takes at full health is always not very effective. This means a fighting type move or any type of move will be resisted.
Slow Start is so bad it's the first and last thing I think of whenever I see poor Regigigas. Plus it still keeps Slow Start even in Legends Arceus lol.
Btw fun facts everyone may or may not had said already 1. Tera Shell doesnt works like Shadow Shield at all. It makes you super resists ANY type as long as you are full HP, and in VGC thanks to grassy terrain is quite reusable 2. Fullmetal body and shadow shield differenciate from Clear Body and Multiscale by being inmune to mold breaker. They can be negated by terravolt and turboblaze, but since you will NEVER see those, its a nice advantage 3. Wo chien's tablets of ruin is the only way to reduce the damage of crits. So yeah, Moxieboosted was right, Wo Chien is Urshifu's counter
BUT wo-chien is still god awful, with no reliable recovery and a garbage defensive typing, wo-chien is constantly crawling on eggshell's to try and get on the field, plus in VGC physical attackers are the name of the game when compared to special attackers...so that just makes the snail even worse when compared to the other 3
Idk man, I think not having to worry about missing V-Create is pretty nice. On the other hand, Game Freak probably would have given V-Create 100% accuracy if Victory Star didn't exist...
They definitely wouldn't have given it 100% accuracy, this is still the same company that refuses to make a singular 100% accurate strong physical rock attack that isn't a signature move.
9:47 Misty Terrain also makes all Pokémon immune to status conditions which is pretty useful. Also Soul-Heart is actually slightly better than Beast Boost, Moxie and Chilling/Grim Neigh since it only requires a Pokémon to faint while the latter three only boost your stats if you specifically knocked out the Pokémon
Yes Aura Break is stupidly situational ...but why do you think that it "doesn't debuff as much as you'd think"? It literally inverts the multiplier, like almost every other mechanic in Pokémon that has "stages" of multipliers, or multipliers that can be increases or decreases. When you use Flame Charge, you get +1 Speed, which is a 3/2 multiplier (meaning your speed increases by 50%). When you get hit by an Icy Wind, you get -1 Speed, which is a 2/3 multiplier (meaning your speed decreases by 33,3..%). With 2 stages, the numbers you get are +2 = 4/2 = +100%, -2 = 2/4 = -50%, and so on. Heck, even something as fundamental as weaknesses and resistances work this way. They double (which can be written as +100%) and halve the damage (-50%), they're inverted multipliers. It is literally the same "math" behind Aura Break. I also think you might be slightly underestimating just how small the effect of the debuff is? So let me try to describe it: Normally, Yveltal and Xerneas have their Primary type boosted to 133%. Aura Break inverts 4/3 into 3/4, which brings it down to 75%. But since the Auras are ALWAYS active outside of facing Zygarde, it makes more sense to think of that value as "100%" to get a better feel for the impact of the debuff. In that framing, Aura Break reduces the power of their Primary types down to 56.3% of what they are with the Auras active.
Victini’s ability is way too low on this list. Making moves consistently land more is actually huge. An ability like Compound Eyes can even make Pokemon like Vivillon have a slight niche with stuff like almost perfectly accurate sleep moves. The synergy Victini has with its signature ability and move is also completely ignored in this video. V-create is one of the strongest moves in the game and with Victory Star, V-create’s accuracy gets boosted to 99%. Edit: FAIRY AND DARK AURA IN B TIER? That is an insane take. Boosting the best fairy or dark type moves by 30% make them hit like a truck, especially Xerneas after a Geomancy.
that is correct, the Ruin abilities do not effect the Treasures of Ruin at all as they are all immune to each other's abilities, so if all 4 of them are sent out into battle, nothing happens as none of their stats will drop
Other people have mentioned. Tera Shell is significantly better than Shadow Shield. it doesnt half damage, it makes all damage resisted. At full HP Lunala can be hit for 2x damage by 2 types, since it has 2 4x weaknesses which gets halved, since it's ability doesn't affect its type. Whereas at full HP, Terapagos has 1 immunity and 17 resistances, since Tera Shell overwrites Terapagos' type
4:12 that point doesn't matter at all... Pecharunt has toxic, that never misses and his signature move, that also attacks with 100 precision, so unless you're battling a poison/steel type Pokemon (which you won't, regardless of the ability) you can always activate the ability in the first turn...
Shadow Shield and Tera Shell are NOT the same. Shadow Shield is just a fancier version of Multiscale, that is to say, it halves the damage when hit at full HP. Tera Shell however, makes the incoming attack become "not very effective" when hit at full HP. Meaning even a Fighting move will be resisted rather than just turned into neutral. Whereas Lunala getting hit by a Dark or Ghost move will still be dealing very threatening damage by being "only" 2x rather than 4x.
I haven't used a Victini, but it would be nice. It would be better if Victory Star was buffed and if Victini had more BST points in all categories instead of be another Mew Clone of BSTs.
Hadron engine and orichalcum pulse are pretty much exactly 2-in-1 abilities, being electric surge and quark drive (but only for SpA) and drought and photosynthesis (but only for Atk)
One thing about As one is that As one doesn't just apply to Chilling/grim neigh and unerve. It allows any pokemon to have 2 abilities at the same time.
Mold Breaker/Tera Volt/Turbo Blaze only make your attacks unable to be prevented by the targets' abilities, and makes entry hazards unable to be avoided with Levitate. For example you can hit a Levitate Pokémon with a ground type attack or OHKO a Pokémon with Sturdy from 100% to 0 HP. But an opponent's Intimidate will still work.
Shadow shield and Tera shell are actually a bit different shadow shield just halves the damage of any attack, so a 4x supper effective hit would be 2x, but Tera shell makes any attack resisted, so 2x becomes .5x, making Tera shell a better ability (in a vacuum)
I feel like a few of the "Bad" entries are due to other factors. RKS System isn't bad (it's literally just a reskin of Multitype), it's the Memory items that aren't as good as the Plate items. Plus Bad Dreams is only considered bad now because Darkrai lost its ability to reliably put enemies to sleep (because Smeargle).
Bad dreams being quite low is only because Dark Void had to be nerfed, and only because Smergle abused it. I feel like it should have higher based on the concept, since Darkrai just needs a better accurate sleep move to make Bad Dreams good again.
i still personally believe that Dark Void's accuracy SHOULD be reverted back to 80% but keep the restriction where the move will always fail if used by anyone else that isn't Darkrai, seriously the accuracy nerf was unnecessary
Still don't know who at Game Freak thought not giving Body Press to Zamazenta even though they were introduced in the same gen was a good idea. I don't wanna hear a peep about balance cause his sister got everything under the sun.
Soul heart in my mind is arguably better than as one because it doesn’t rely on the user knocking out another Pokemon but just being present for it to get a boost
5:24 this section is just flat out wrong They're close but not the same and Terapagos' is just flat out better The difference between halving the damage and making it not very effective is pretty big. Halving the damage means that: Quad-resisted hits are: 1/8x Resisted hits are: 1/4x Neutral hits are: 1/2x Super Effective hits are: 1x Quad-Effective hits are: 2x While making it not very effective means: Quad-Resisted hits are: 1/2 Resisted hits are: 1/2x Neutral hits are: 1/2x Super Effective hits are: 1/2x Quad-Effective hits are: 1/2x So Tera Shell is almost a flat out upgrade of Shadow Shield No hate and all love the channel just stating my opinions on the matter❤️👍
Misty Surge is an insane ability. You swap it in to block burns, sleeps, paralysis. It doesn't need to boost Fairy moves to be better than the other 3 Surges xD
But it isn't better than the other 3 anyways, obviously because of the damage boost but electric makes you sleep immune, which is the best status condition bar freeze, grassy terrain gives you recovery each turn and like every grass type a free 107 BP (terrain plus STAB, and it was 136 in gen 8) priority move and psychic terrain blocks priority so no more fake out, plus expanding force is just a silly move in general. And it's also just weird that it doesn't give a boost to fairy moves anyways, there isn't really a good reason for it either.
Tera Shell is different, If Lunala gets hit by either a Dark or Ghost move, it effectively becomes 2x But if Terapagos gets hit by a 4x super effective move somehow, if becomes 1/2x
Soul heart is even more broken than Moxie. Atleast in doubles. Moxie requires you to knock out a Pokemon to defeat them Soul Heart Does NOT. if a Pokemon, not Magearna, faints(whether by your hand or your 2nd mon's or your opponents,) Magearna gets a Sp Atk boost
Arceus' ability is bad (changing type and a power boost in exchange of not using other items) but, at the same time, is veeery good Just look at usage stats in Ubers, there are plenty of Arceus's forms there, as it having the ability of being any time makes it the most versatile Pokémon ever, along with it's movepool
I hate to be the 🤓👆 guy, but Tera Shell is a good bit better than Shadow Shield because changing the move to not very effective means a fighting move would do the same as any other non ghost move while Lunala is still taking double damage from dark & ghost. Also it covers for multi-hit moves so you’re completely safe for a turn, at least in singles
I feel so sad that Desolate Land isn’t S Tier, I think it’s way better than the paradox duo’s abilities. It’s better in VGC, but Primal Groudon was the best singles uber
Uh, where you taking context into account? Because, if you were, then Slow Start being last makes no sense, after all, it was created to balance a Pokemon that is simply too strong.
I love Koraidon's Orichalcum Pulse more than Hadron Engine because sunlight provides both offensive and defensive benefits, boosting fire damage for Koraidon, paradox allies, and other allies while also reducing water type damage, especially for tera fire Koraidon or Hearthflame Ogerpon. Only thing I don't like about Electric Terrain is that it doesn't really provide any defensive benefits. If it reduced ground type damage like Grassy Terrain, that'd be fine, but it doesn't. And there's Tornadus and Whimsicott that have Prankster boosted Sunny Day and Tailwind, with no Prankster mon having ET.
And btw Terapagos' is muuuch better than Lunala's 1 - It doesn't half the power of an incoming attack, it makes it "not very effective". Which means an usually supperefective move will deal ×0'5 damage againts Terapagos, but ×1 againts Lunala (it just "cancels" type weakness) 2 Terañagos' halves the damage of all hits from multihit attacks, while Lunala's only protects from the first one
Misty surge is not good because “it halves Draco meteor damage” Stopping status is flat out insane for any team In Gen 7 fini was second to koko but in Gen 8 all the terrains except misty got nerfed so fini became #1
3:29 Arceus: _(uses Hyper Beam with no animation, shooting it from its... idk I guess this still counts as "neck" down there?)_ Staraptor: _(fukin' dies except it doesn't and is flying perfectly fine as if nothing happend)_ "Staraptor is awaiting your directions..." Why is this so funny.
Some ideas of how to improve low tier abilities Victory Star: add the effect of increasing team crit chance RKS System/Multitype: add the effect of increasing STAB damage Bad Dreams: add the effect of increasing the accuracy of moves that can inflict sleep onto a target
darkrai does have hypnosis... so still a measly 60% chance to land a sleep move instead of 50% zamazenta's ability is still a b teir because only body press can make good use of it, and it does not have any recovery to make good use of the def buff
but that doesn't matter, just gaining body press was just enough as it's just going to throw it's weight around with heavy slam and body press instead of tanking hits
There is one game where Arceus' multitype is way more useful... and of course it's Legends Arceus. The ability works mostly the same, except the legend plate causes Arceus to shift mid-battle into whatever type is super effective against its target, and in the case of multiple options will pick a type that resists the enemy's primary type as well.
I would question Poison Puppet being placed so low, given how Pecharunt can learn Toxic, so all it needs to do is use that to set up a very punishing scenario.
And... for and Ss rank, Multitype... but Legends Aceus version. One Plate make Arceus always change of types to have adventage on you, and you only need to hold the Legend Plate
most people count mythicals and ultra beasts as legendaries, but what’s the opinion on paradox pokemon? personally i think they count but i want to hear your thoughts
I consider myself a pretty open minded person, but there are cases where it just feels like you're being a contrarian for the sake of having an interesting take... Slow Start being ranked last is insane, being able to double your Speed and Attack stats at the same time just makes it a slightly slower version of Speed Boost that also works for attack...
Tera shell is better than shadow shield since it modifies the hit into a resist rather than cutting the damage in half But hey at least Lunala has reliable recovery lmao
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terashell is better than shadow shield ,unlike shadow shield wich just makes you take less damage at 100% terashell makes any move used agains you be resisted plus do less damage
I love regigigas (and weezing) so I find slow start to be such a unique case Let’s imagine it didn’t have it and instead had a generic ability like pressure…regi would’ve seen ZERO usage. Why? Because without a hindering ability it would be a restricted mon, and no one is picking bro over the other restricteds we have But BECAUSE it has slow start its NOT a restricted, thus it does see usage alongside weezing in the lower power level of non-restricted formats In a way…slow start is the only reason regigias saw any usage
0:55 it’s perfect shut it. Also I’m pretty sure baby tera is more for the anime purpose since they often discuss with them so games and all are on track with each other
Happy JPR Friday!! Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgivings :)
Happy Friday 😊
You too. Btw, I have an idea for a new video: Bad Restricted Pokemon. Here’s the list of bad restricted pokemon in VGC. (No strictly worse mons, like Cosmog or base Kyurem will be included)
Mewtwo: As the first restricted Pokemon, Mewtwo has suffered highly from power creep. Compare it to things like the Primal Pokemon, Mega Rayquaza, Pre-nerf Zacian, and the Calyrex forms.
Ho-oh: 4x weak to rock. Doesn’t do that much damage compared to other restricted Pokemon
Lugia: Too passive. Typing isn’t good either.
Giratina: Has to choose between either being a bad attacker or bad defender. Also Calyrex exists.
Kyurem Black: Didn’t have a good physical ice type move until it got Icicle Spear in gen 8
Necrozma Dawn Wings: Worse than Lunala. Prism Armor is good, but when all your weaknesses are quad weaknesses, you’d rather have Shadow Shield. Also, Lunala’s higher speed makes it better outside of Trick Room
Necrozma Dusk Mane: Gets destroyed by several common mons. Gen 7 had Primal Groudon, Mega Gengar, Lunala, and ya boi Incineroar. Gen 9 has Calyrex Shadow Rider, the Treasures of Ruin, and Gholdengo.
Btw, Ultra Necromza wasn’t actually that broken. Why? Well, Incineroar and Lunala, but also Mega Gengar and Tapu Koko.
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Thank you Smeargle
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Okay, really quick: 3 things; 1. (sad) WHY ISN'T IT A GOOD MORNING!?, 2. Video idea: What Happened To The What Happened To Series?, 3. No offense, but I don't like the little doodle guy, and I've never liked the irl intro. Keep up the good work.
Not to be mean but there are a lot of inaccuracies in this video.
1. Confusion is 33% not 25%
2. Tera shell is different from shadow shield.
3. Sword of Ruin and Beads of Ruin don’t affect chien-pao and chi-yu so it doesn’t make them frailer.
4. Chilling and Grim Neigh aren’t beast boost. Beast Boost boosts the highest stat of a mon while Chilling and Grim Neigh only boost Atk and Spa.
5. Soul heart is not special moxie. It raises Spa when any pokemon on the field faints for any reason.
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I just realized Magearna would be super OP in Battle Royals if it was allowed.
6. Koraidon and Miraidon’s abilities don’t activate their paradox powers, they are hardwired to raise attack and special attack respectively regardless of how they are EVed
Elaborating on point 2:
Tera Shell makes the damage be considered not very effective
This means that the only real difference is that fighting type damage gets reduced by ¼ insted of the ½ for Shadow Shield
@@Father-of-Xerxes nice catch
I'm convinced the baby form of Terapagos also exists to ensure the animators for the anime don't send Game Freaks design team death threats.
Miraidon's Hadron engine is genuinely absurd
At least it’s better than Pressure.
No sleep+Life Orb truly is something that makes sense how it became your 2024 World Champ.
Fun Fact: in the Gen 7 games Arceus’ Multitype actually worked with Z-crystals too. So if Arceus was holding a Firium Z for example, it would become a Fire type
Yeah, but no boost
When I first heard it I got a headcanon... z-crystals are made of the plates
@@tsdey6512 maybe but I kinda doubt it since the plates are clearly metal
@@gavinaaric it's just a headcanon that I really like, no factual basis beyond the bit mentioned above
@@tsdey6512the Z-crystals are shards of Necrozma’s body iirc
5:26 No, they are infact quite different.
Shadow Shield simply halves the damage taken at full HP.
Tera Shell makes attacks do damage as if they were not very effective which means the attack can do normal damage (when original attack was not very effective) or even ⅛ of the damage if the attack wouldve been double effective. (Again at 100%Hp)
I was gonna say this pleas get this comment higher
I think Tera Shell is significantly better, especially on a Normal type that has no resistances anyway. Instead of cutting the damage from Fighting moves in half, it cuts the damage down to 1/4.
Poor Lunala wished to have Tera Shell
Victory star being D tier is insane to me, free wide lens is way better than some of these other abilities
I’m really disappointed that Dialga and Palkia don’t have signature abilities. Not even their Origin Forms. They didn’t even try. Pressure is the most boring ability to give a legendary. Especially when their some of the most powerful from a lore perspective
Ikr. Especially since Giratina’s origin form has a different ability, being Levitate
I think the problem is any abilities based on their lore would make them stronger then even arceus’ ability.
Almost Every Legendary before Gen 5-6 had 0 signature ability. Thanks to power creep we have those
Every Legendary that had Pressure as their original ability should have received a comparative hidden ability to keep them relevant with newer Legendaries. Its kinda lopsided when newer ones like Koraidon and Miraidon abilities boost their stats and older ones like Mewtwo have nothing! I mean Smogon just invented a new tier for Legendaries that aren't competitive in regular Ubers!
I think they're the third strongest pokemon lore wise. Behind only giratina and ofc arceus.
JPR, Tera Shell is different from Shadow Shield.
Shadow Shield is just a multiscale that can be ignored by things like Mold Breaker.
Tera Shell, on the other hand, makes it so that the first hit it takes at full health is always not very effective. This means a fighting type move or any type of move will be resisted.
It also allows Terapagos to resist every hit from multi-hit moves.
I think all of the treasure of ruin pokemon are immune to their own abilities
You are correct
Slow Start is so bad it's the first and last thing I think of whenever I see poor Regigigas. Plus it still keeps Slow Start even in Legends Arceus lol.
Make a Special Attacking Pokémon with Trick Room and give it Slow Start
Btw fun facts everyone may or may not had said already
1. Tera Shell doesnt works like Shadow Shield at all. It makes you super resists ANY type as long as you are full HP, and in VGC thanks to grassy terrain is quite reusable
2. Fullmetal body and shadow shield differenciate from Clear Body and Multiscale by being inmune to mold breaker. They can be negated by terravolt and turboblaze, but since you will NEVER see those, its a nice advantage
3. Wo chien's tablets of ruin is the only way to reduce the damage of crits. So yeah, Moxieboosted was right, Wo Chien is Urshifu's counter
BUT wo-chien is still god awful, with no reliable recovery and a garbage defensive typing, wo-chien is constantly crawling on eggshell's to try and get on the field, plus in VGC physical attackers are the name of the game when compared to special attackers...so that just makes the snail even worse when compared to the other 3
@@bulborb8756No reliable recovery? Define that.
@@skeetermania3202 it doesn't have access to something like Synthesis or Strength Sap, instead it needs to rely on leech seed or rest to heal
Idk man, I think not having to worry about missing V-Create is pretty nice.
On the other hand, Game Freak probably would have given V-Create 100% accuracy if Victory Star didn't exist...
They definitely wouldn't have given it 100% accuracy, this is still the same company that refuses to make a singular 100% accurate strong physical rock attack that isn't a signature move.
9:47 Misty Terrain also makes all Pokémon immune to status conditions which is pretty useful. Also Soul-Heart is actually slightly better than Beast Boost, Moxie and Chilling/Grim Neigh since it only requires a Pokémon to faint while the latter three only boost your stats if you specifically knocked out the Pokémon
The way he says "orichalcum" is sending me right now.
You're not alone with that opinion.
Behold da powa of da orichalkamalos!!!
Yes Aura Break is stupidly situational
...but why do you think that it "doesn't debuff as much as you'd think"?
It literally inverts the multiplier, like almost every other mechanic in Pokémon that has "stages" of multipliers, or multipliers that can be increases or decreases.
When you use Flame Charge, you get +1 Speed, which is a 3/2 multiplier (meaning your speed increases by 50%).
When you get hit by an Icy Wind, you get -1 Speed, which is a 2/3 multiplier (meaning your speed decreases by 33,3..%).
With 2 stages, the numbers you get are +2 = 4/2 = +100%, -2 = 2/4 = -50%, and so on.
Heck, even something as fundamental as weaknesses and resistances work this way. They double (which can be written as +100%) and halve the damage (-50%), they're inverted multipliers.
It is literally the same "math" behind Aura Break.
I also think you might be slightly underestimating just how small the effect of the debuff is? So let me try to describe it:
Normally, Yveltal and Xerneas have their Primary type boosted to 133%.
Aura Break inverts 4/3 into 3/4, which brings it down to 75%.
But since the Auras are ALWAYS active outside of facing Zygarde, it makes more sense to think of that value as "100%" to get a better feel for the impact of the debuff.
In that framing, Aura Break reduces the power of their Primary types down to 56.3% of what they are with the Auras active.
That's a lot of math.
And then Xerneas uses Geomancy and kills it lol
Victini’s ability is way too low on this list. Making moves consistently land more is actually huge. An ability like Compound Eyes can even make Pokemon like Vivillon have a slight niche with stuff like almost perfectly accurate sleep moves.
The synergy Victini has with its signature ability and move is also completely ignored in this video. V-create is one of the strongest moves in the game and with Victory Star, V-create’s accuracy gets boosted to 99%.
Edit: FAIRY AND DARK AURA IN B TIER? That is an insane take. Boosting the best fairy or dark type moves by 30% make them hit like a truck, especially Xerneas after a Geomancy.
I think the Ruin abilities don't even affect your legendary, so Chi-Yu doesn't suffer from the spdef drop for example. Iirc!!
Yes
that is correct, the Ruin abilities do not effect the Treasures of Ruin at all as they are all immune to each other's abilities, so if all 4 of them are sent out into battle, nothing happens as none of their stats will drop
@@bulborb8756 they do affect each other though
@@KanderUdon no they dont
like the ruin legends are immune to their own abilities so chi-yu isn't effected by Beads of Ruin
@@bulborb8756 just try it out in a damage calculator they do affect each other
There were comments in your "Worst Abilities" video informing you that Aura Break's math does math correctly
Other people have mentioned. Tera Shell is significantly better than Shadow Shield. it doesnt half damage, it makes all damage resisted. At full HP Lunala can be hit for 2x damage by 2 types, since it has 2 4x weaknesses which gets halved, since it's ability doesn't affect its type. Whereas at full HP, Terapagos has 1 immunity and 17 resistances, since Tera Shell overwrites Terapagos' type
4:12 that point doesn't matter at all...
Pecharunt has toxic, that never misses and his signature move, that also attacks with 100 precision, so unless you're battling a poison/steel type Pokemon (which you won't, regardless of the ability) you can always activate the ability in the first turn...
Shadow Shield and Tera Shell are NOT the same.
Shadow Shield is just a fancier version of Multiscale, that is to say, it halves the damage when hit at full HP.
Tera Shell however, makes the incoming attack become "not very effective" when hit at full HP.
Meaning even a Fighting move will be resisted rather than just turned into neutral. Whereas Lunala getting hit by a Dark or Ghost move will still be dealing very threatening damage by being "only" 2x rather than 4x.
Also, doesn't Tera Shell also affect all hits of multi-hit attacks, rather than just the first one?
You see victory star would be bad, but victory star is super helpful even in singles since inaccurate moves are hard to use in singles otherwise
I haven't used a Victini, but it would be nice. It would be better if Victory Star was buffed and if Victini had more BST points in all categories instead of be another Mew Clone of BSTs.
Man, I remember when everybody thought Gen IX will have more 2-in-1 Abilities the moment As One was known to the public.
Hadron engine and orichalcum pulse are pretty much exactly 2-in-1 abilities, being electric surge and quark drive (but only for SpA) and drought and photosynthesis (but only for Atk)
There's also Mind's Eye.
One thing about As one is that As one doesn't just apply to Chilling/grim neigh and unerve. It allows any pokemon to have 2 abilities at the same time.
Mold Breaker/Tera Volt/Turbo Blaze only make your attacks unable to be prevented by the targets' abilities, and makes entry hazards unable to be avoided with Levitate.
For example you can hit a Levitate Pokémon with a ground type attack or OHKO a Pokémon with Sturdy from 100% to 0 HP. But an opponent's Intimidate will still work.
Regidrago is actually a threatening sweeper in doubles, max hp Dragon Energy hits insanely hard.
yeah simply because it's counterpart regieleki had it's ability nerfed making it worse overall compared to regidrago
Shadow shield and Tera shell are actually a bit different shadow shield just halves the damage of any attack, so a 4x supper effective hit would be 2x, but Tera shell makes any attack resisted, so 2x becomes .5x, making Tera shell a better ability (in a vacuum)
Soul Heart should be higher. It doesn’t require Magearna to knock the Pokemon out like Moxie and it works when either opponents or allies faint.
This. It's way too busted, one of the best abilities out there
I feel like a few of the "Bad" entries are due to other factors. RKS System isn't bad (it's literally just a reskin of Multitype), it's the Memory items that aren't as good as the Plate items. Plus Bad Dreams is only considered bad now because Darkrai lost its ability to reliably put enemies to sleep (because Smeargle).
Bad dreams being quite low is only because Dark Void had to be nerfed, and only because Smergle abused it. I feel like it should have higher based on the concept, since Darkrai just needs a better accurate sleep move to make Bad Dreams good again.
i still personally believe that Dark Void's accuracy SHOULD be reverted back to 80% but keep the restriction where the move will always fail if used by anyone else that isn't Darkrai, seriously the accuracy nerf was unnecessary
The first criteria of what makes a good Pokémon, move and/or ability is how well it gets around Intimidate in VGC
Still don't know who at Game Freak thought not giving Body Press to Zamazenta even though they were introduced in the same gen was a good idea. I don't wanna hear a peep about balance cause his sister got everything under the sun.
Now hear me out, Body Press Mega Aggron for Legends Z-A
@@RyouShi98less damage than zama due to no dauntless shield or no stab, plus i think aggron already gets it
Soul heart in my mind is arguably better than as one because it doesn’t rely on the user knocking out another Pokemon but just being present for it to get a boost
5:24 this section is just flat out wrong
They're close but not the same and Terapagos' is just flat out better
The difference between halving the damage and making it not very effective is pretty big. Halving the damage means that:
Quad-resisted hits are: 1/8x
Resisted hits are: 1/4x
Neutral hits are: 1/2x
Super Effective hits are: 1x
Quad-Effective hits are: 2x
While making it not very effective means:
Quad-Resisted hits are: 1/2
Resisted hits are: 1/2x
Neutral hits are: 1/2x
Super Effective hits are: 1/2x
Quad-Effective hits are: 1/2x
So Tera Shell is almost a flat out upgrade of Shadow Shield
No hate and all love the channel just stating my opinions on the matter❤️👍
The Ruinous Quartet's abilities only affect OTHER Pokemon, not themselves
Misty Surge is an insane ability. You swap it in to block burns, sleeps, paralysis. It doesn't need to boost Fairy moves to be better than the other 3 Surges xD
But it isn't better than the other 3 anyways, obviously because of the damage boost but electric makes you sleep immune, which is the best status condition bar freeze, grassy terrain gives you recovery each turn and like every grass type a free 107 BP (terrain plus STAB, and it was 136 in gen 8) priority move and psychic terrain blocks priority so no more fake out, plus expanding force is just a silly move in general. And it's also just weird that it doesn't give a boost to fairy moves anyways, there isn't really a good reason for it either.
Tera Shell is different,
If Lunala gets hit by either a Dark or Ghost move, it effectively becomes 2x
But if Terapagos gets hit by a 4x super effective move somehow, if becomes 1/2x
Happy JPR Friday!
Soul heart is even more broken than Moxie. Atleast in doubles.
Moxie requires you to knock out a Pokemon to defeat them
Soul Heart Does NOT. if a Pokemon, not Magearna, faints(whether by your hand or your 2nd mon's or your opponents,) Magearna gets a Sp Atk boost
Arceus is actually pretty good for terra raids.
Arceus' ability is bad (changing type and a power boost in exchange of not using other items) but, at the same time, is veeery good
Just look at usage stats in Ubers, there are plenty of Arceus's forms there, as it having the ability of being any time makes it the most versatile Pokémon ever, along with it's movepool
Also in legends he actually gets to change type mid battle lol
I hate to be the 🤓👆 guy, but Tera Shell is a good bit better than Shadow Shield because changing the move to not very effective means a fighting move would do the same as any other non ghost move while Lunala is still taking double damage from dark & ghost. Also it covers for multi-hit moves so you’re completely safe for a turn, at least in singles
I feel so sad that Desolate Land isn’t S Tier, I think it’s way better than the paradox duo’s abilities. It’s better in VGC, but Primal Groudon was the best singles uber
Both gen 9 box art legends are banned in natdex where primal groudon isnt
@ natdex isn’t perfect
Uh, where you taking context into account? Because, if you were, then Slow Start being last makes no sense, after all, it was created to balance a Pokemon that is simply too strong.
Man I love that you use Xenoblade music in the background. I keep forgetting how much of a banger xc3’s chain attack theme is
F in the chat for every legendary that had the horrible luck to be saddled with Pressure instead of something fitting.
Mew really should have a signature ability that works the way Protean used to where it changes its type to match the move it’s using.
TH-cam’s algorithms will keep your videos in my recommended feed for me
Also, the “Ruin” abilities don’t affect the user, although they do affect your partner in double battles.
Confusion self-hit rate since Gen VII is 33%, not 25%.
I love Koraidon's Orichalcum Pulse more than Hadron Engine because sunlight provides both offensive and defensive benefits, boosting fire damage for Koraidon, paradox allies, and other allies while also reducing water type damage, especially for tera fire Koraidon or Hearthflame Ogerpon. Only thing I don't like about Electric Terrain is that it doesn't really provide any defensive benefits. If it reduced ground type damage like Grassy Terrain, that'd be fine, but it doesn't. And there's Tornadus and Whimsicott that have Prankster boosted Sunny Day and Tailwind, with no Prankster mon having ET.
An interesting ability to consider for a possible one would be an ability like Air Lock or Cloud Nine for terrains
And btw Terapagos' is muuuch better than Lunala's
1 - It doesn't half the power of an incoming attack, it makes it "not very effective". Which means an usually supperefective move will deal ×0'5 damage againts Terapagos, but ×1 againts Lunala (it just "cancels" type weakness)
2 Terañagos' halves the damage of all hits from multihit attacks, while Lunala's only protects from the first one
Misty surge is not good because “it halves Draco meteor damage”
Stopping status is flat out insane for any team
In Gen 7 fini was second to koko but in Gen 8 all the terrains except misty got nerfed so fini became #1
3:29 Arceus: _(uses Hyper Beam with no animation, shooting it from its... idk I guess this still counts as "neck" down there?)_
Staraptor: _(fukin' dies except it doesn't and is flying perfectly fine as if nothing happend)_
"Staraptor is awaiting your directions..."
Why is this so funny.
my favorite pokemon violet ability: CRASH THE GAME OUT
it happened a lot 😂😂😂
Based music choice using Maruki's palace theme
Some ideas of how to improve low tier abilities
Victory Star: add the effect of increasing team crit chance
RKS System/Multitype: add the effect of increasing STAB damage
Bad Dreams: add the effect of increasing the accuracy of moves that can inflict sleep onto a target
Victory star is fine, it doesn’t need anything else
Victory star is already insanely strong. He underrated it a lot in this video
Id take victory star's ability for me to hit all my high power low accuracy moves more often than a lot of other abilities
I loved your cartoon character model lol
darkrai does have hypnosis... so still a measly 60% chance to land a sleep move instead of 50%
zamazenta's ability is still a b teir because only body press can make good use of it, and it does not have any recovery to make good use of the def buff
but that doesn't matter, just gaining body press was just enough as it's just going to throw it's weight around with heavy slam and body press instead of tanking hits
There is one game where Arceus' multitype is way more useful... and of course it's Legends Arceus. The ability works mostly the same, except the legend plate causes Arceus to shift mid-battle into whatever type is super effective against its target, and in the case of multiple options will pick a type that resists the enemy's primary type as well.
“If you could do it mid battle like a terastallization it would be amazing” meanwhile legend plate
I love Victory Star in my randomizer double runs
The chalk zone look is awesome
I would question Poison Puppet being placed so low, given how Pecharunt can learn Toxic, so all it needs to do is use that to set up a very punishing scenario.
And... for and Ss rank, Multitype... but Legends Aceus version. One Plate make Arceus always change of types to have adventage on you, and you only need to hold the Legend Plate
Now I’m curious, does that mean terapagos is worthless if a weezing comes on the field? At least before it comes out?
most people count mythicals and ultra beasts as legendaries, but what’s the opinion on paradox pokemon? personally i think they count but i want to hear your thoughts
I consider myself a pretty open minded person, but there are cases where it just feels like you're being a contrarian for the sake of having an interesting take...
Slow Start being ranked last is insane, being able to double your Speed and Attack stats at the same time just makes it a slightly slower version of Speed Boost that also works for attack...
11:08 The Primal abilities are entirely unusable now but I don’t see them in F tier. Sorry for being a smart alec I really enjoyed the video
oh man. now i want a terapagos plushie
Tera shell is better than shadow shield since it modifies the hit into a resist rather than cutting the damage in half
But hey at least Lunala has reliable recovery lmao
Drought and drizzle should be s tier entire playstiles revolve around them
Primordial see can be passed to a partner since you switch abilities
You didnt mention Incineroar's intimidate. Hes the strongest legendary that for some reason is never restricted
He's not a legendary though, he's a starter lol
@@Wormpole it's called a joke bro
@@vossboss220 You forgot to add a set up or punchline or anything remotely clever so I didn't realize. My bad.
@@Wormpole you clearly don't play VGC
You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Tera shield is better cuz it essentially has no weakness with full HP. It actually resists every type at full HP
What signature abilities should be given to legendary Pokemon that don’t have one?
he turned himself into a drawing or the drawing kidnapped him
Slow Start at bottom?! Hot take indeed *ability sarcasm activates*
What about the ultimate legendary signature ability, Pressure?
12:40 Is no one gonna talk about how JPR pronounces “Orichalcum”?…
The Seal of OriCHalcos
Would Regigigas even be good if slow start only lasted 1 turn?
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terashell is better than shadow shield ,unlike shadow shield wich just makes you take less damage at 100% terashell makes any move used agains you be resisted plus do less damage
Oreekalkum. Haydron. Those are how you pronounce orichalcum and hadron lmao
Where was the good morning everybody good morning???
Wait did he do genesect?
Where's Toxic Chain at?
The early legendaries got screwed over. Most of them just gets Pressure for an ability.
yeah it wasn't until gen 5 where legendary's started getting unique abilities (even if some are just reskins of existing ones)
8:50 gets jumpscare
Pressure should’ve been S tier :(
JPR I love you man but please do more research next time
Oh my god! Wow! A ranking beneficial to human rights!😊
where is pressure ?
Hello There.
It's (ori-kalk-um) both ch and c are pronounced the same in that word. No ch like in change. Both are a k sound.
I love regigigas (and weezing) so I find slow start to be such a unique case
Let’s imagine it didn’t have it and instead had a generic ability like pressure…regi would’ve seen ZERO usage. Why? Because without a hindering ability it would be a restricted mon, and no one is picking bro over the other restricteds we have
But BECAUSE it has slow start its NOT a restricted, thus it does see usage alongside weezing in the lower power level of non-restricted formats
In a way…slow start is the only reason regigias saw any usage
0:55 it’s perfect shut it. Also I’m pretty sure baby tera is more for the anime purpose since they often discuss with them so games and all are on track with each other