Paul's drapion was honestly one of the most intimidating pokemon ever depicted in the anime, especially with how they chose to depict toxic spikes as an omni present force
I can’t believe the “Citizen Snips” set of Resttalk, Acupressure, Knock Off wasn’t mentioned in Gen 6/7. It was probably one of the most hilarious, well-known, and memeish Drapion sets.
Drapion is my favorite poison type, it’s got such a menacing and cool design and I will never forget how strong it was in the anime. Seemed like such an unstoppable force.
The main reason why Paul's Drapion appeared to be so powerful was because Paul could predict Ash's moves. Ash never changed his team whenever he battled Paul, so Paul knew Ash's team inside out.
Fun fact- Drapion in SS monotype got the move Accupressure banned, basically thanks to battle armor preventing crits it could just Accupressure and stat ball all you’d need is (note if the opponent even had a ground type move to hit you with) kill any counters or set him up on a Mon who’d want to switch out
I feel like you should make a video on the history of Knock Off, since it comes up so often especially because you mention "the newly buffed Knock Off" for like every Pokemon that has it when you get to gen 6
As I understand it, in early gens, knock off was a utility move that was commonly run on stall teams and sometimes balance, but not that valuable on offensive teams. Removing an item, specifically negating leftovers recovery, is super nice in longer battles where you need that extra punch to break through, but its low damage output means that its really only viable on pokemon that don't deal much damage in the first place or against pokemon that won't take much damage from any moves. Gen 3's meta was particularly stally, so it probably had more use there than in gens 4 or 5. Gen 6 improved its base power from a pathetic base 20, to a very strong base 65 with a 1.5x boost if it removes an opposing item. This made it so that when it removes an item, it is the strongest physical dark type move in pokemon, which drastically increased its utility to become viable on pretty much any physical attacker in the game. The other most common physical dark type moves, crunch, sucker punch, and night slash, only have 80, 70, and 70 bp respectively, so knock off became the dark type move of choice due to its higher initial power while not losing too much power on subsequent hits. The knock off buff drastically improved dark type physical attackers, but also was a buff to pretty much every physical attacker in the game that could run it. It was also a massive buff for many fighting types as well since it hits ghost and psychic pokemon super hard, while also just crippling any physical wall that might want to switch in to them. Using knock off as a utility move never really went away either, pokemon like ferrothorn and toxapex can still viably run it just for the item removal effect. It hasn't been all buffs for knock off, the addition of unremovable items like z moves and mega crystals allows for some pokemon to switch in to the move in gens that support them. This means that teams often had pokemon that could switch in to knock off in gens 6 and 7, and while the move was extremely strong, there were checks to it, and a well constructed team could play around it. In gen 8, the addition of poultergeist has also made knock off a bit less of an autoinclude on teams, because if you knock off an opponents item, you might set up your opponent with a pokemon that can switch in to your physical attacking ghosts. Still, as long as you're aware of the dangers of using these moves together on the same team, its not that big a downside, and knock off is still the premiere physical dark type move of choice today.
Everyone's talking about Paul's Drapion, but Pokemon Hunter J's Drapion deserves mention as well, since it was ordered to grab Ash so tightly that he had to resort to kicking its face just to make it let go of him.
One thing to note about Drapion is how similar it is to another Gen 4 scorpion based Pokémon, Gliscor. Both have good defensive typings, and similar stat spreads. If only Drapion was stronger and had recovery, it’d be in higher tiers.
I’m surprised it took so long to cover this guy. He’s a really solid lower tier Pokémon from a Gen that has had most of its good Pokémon covered by now. I remember trying to look up this video like a year ago, thinking it was covered at some point, but nope lol
@@darianclark3980 it would be higher if they increased it's attack by 10 or 20 points and it's defense by 10 and give it an ability like moxie. They also could increase it's speed but that's pretty high anyway
Drapion is already threatening but it becomes even more so when you realise that a Pokédex entry states that it takes down its foes slowly with a poison to make them suffer more, even though it can kill them quickly with its claws 😭
Drapion was and still is one of my favorite Pokémon. When I first started to play competitively one of the first Pokémon I bred with perfect EVs was Drapion. I had Night slash, Cross poison, Earthquake and Swords dance on it. I gave it the berry that reduces ground damage. It was jolly and had max EVs in Speed and Attack, it was hilarious to use in online battles. Almost as hilarious as Hurricane Vivillon with Quiver dance, the second Pokémon I bred :}
Well, it's kind of easy, it's just ground really. I always kept in mind that a Perfect Pokemon (I mean in base of weaknesses and resistances) would be a Poison/Dark Pokemon with Levitate
@@kintaro1851 Also Yes, as Ground resists Rock, Water resists Steel and Electric immunity is very good. But i guess Poison/Dark has more valuable resistances
@@Rakkun_Streak Dont forget Bug Steel with Flash Fire. Poison Dark can be Trick/Switcheroo'd a Ring Target so its weak to Psychic and Water/Grounds 4x weak to Freeze Dry
@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 Oh yeah, i forgot about Freeze Dry. The Bug/Steel is also true, but i find more (realistically) posible for a Poison/Dark Pokemon with like, wings to justify Levitate. Although Bug/Steel would be a great typing doesn't have that many resistances, though Pokemon like Scizor and Durant make it work even they are aren't really that bulky.
Glad to hear the crit set actually got some usage, I brought scope lens drapion to ubers in gen 6 to catch xerneas spammers off guard. It may not have been optimal, but it was definitely fun.
Have you thought about doing a video on pursuit? Like how good it was in gens 2-7, it’s mechanical changes, and it’s notable users. Maybe even why it was removed from future games and how a lack of pursuit affected those meta games?
Not to mention buffing hit and run ghost pokemon, which was further improved by heavy duty boots meaning you're more free to switch around. Like, does any ghost run Colbur berry anymore? A lot of them did to play around knock off and pursuit.
@@bakes1324 tbh, physical dark type mons have too many great tools. Knock-off, pursuit, sucker punch. Yes, they can be weakened by burn but Weavile is dominating gen 8 ou now
@@ispeakcockney5387 bro but that’s all they can do. There’s no reason to remove pursuit. Look at how good ghost types have been this gen as well as psychic. Game freak was like “ calyrex and dragupult need to be op!!”!”!”.
I had a pretty crap day today, never mind that because coming home to see my favorite Pokémon finally get its own FSG video has certainly cheered me up.
I'll always remember Drapion as the perfect Cynthia sweeper: spam Acupressure while Spiritomb can barely hurt you, then wipe the floor with her whole team
Latios and Gigalith deserve a video! Never gonna give you up boys (Also I always found interesting the fact this one isn't Bug type... Wich was really weird for me as a kid)
Ah, Drapion, one of my favorite mons. Scope lens, Night Slash/Cross Poison was fun to run in Gen 4 Smogon when it came out. People hated that I was getting crits so often
13:39 What is up with Virizion's eyes??? Also, little story with Drapion: I was playing Brilliant Diamond when I caught one with Acupressure in the Underground. Thanks to Cynthia opening up with Spiritomb, I swept her entire team with it due to getting maxed out stats, including evasion! XD
I love Drapion in monotype, he covers so much for either type of team he can be on. Dark hard counters Psychic, Poison is great for Fairies and resists Fighting.
I find it so ironic how Drapions only weakness is ground and its highest stat is its base defense Then you remember that most ground type moves are PHYSICAL attacks
@@ShawFujikawa It's ironic, because the type it is supposedly weak to, it tanks a good amount of their hits due to high base defense, and most of the moves of that type being physical.
Drapion would’ve been a good candidate for the sun and moon stat buffs. He could’ve gotten 10 or 20 in attack and hp or special defense and it would’ve benefited.
My favorite moveset with Drapion - albeit a junky one - is an "Oops! All Crit!" Set of Focus Energy, Cross Poison, Night Slash, and Ice Fang/X-Scissor/Knock off set with Sniper and Scope Lens.
Drapion has one of the few 3D models (from main line games) that I actually hate. It was intimidating in sprite form, but at 3D looks so deepy, and for some pokemon it can work, but not for Drapion.
Ah DRAPION, one of my favorite gen 4 Pokemon!!! This beast of a Pokemon made one *HELL* of an impression as Paul's Drapion brutalized half of Ash's team like a boss!!!!!!!
Skorupi/drapion were a 100% include in every single playthrough. fuckin loved that Pokemon in that gen. Especially bc you get black sludge around the same time. Good stuff
I like the sequencing of clips from the gen 8 part where it's just Gengar one shotting the team and Drapion comes, tanking the hit, hitting it in the back of the head pretty much telling it to "knock it off"
Drapion is definitely an underrated Pokemon, It's one of those mons that are really good in it's tier, but can be an unexpected pick to fill out weaknesses on higher tier teams, Drapion is the key example on how you make a not meta defining, but reliable Pokemon
Drapion has to be one of my favorite Gen 4 pokemon. I still call it a bug regardless of its current typing. It's quite fast for being a giant scorpion and has decent bulk. You can either go full set-up sweeper or lay out toxic spikes for hazards.
Yes! Drapion is one of my favorite Pokémon and definitely underrated. It’s stats are fantastic (especially its speed which everyone always underestimates), and its movepool is insane. I’m honestly astounded that throughout this entire video FSG never mentioned one of Drapion’s most fun moves: acupressure. For those that don’t know, acupressure is a move that will sharply raise a random stat of the target. If you’re going for a tanky build that can just sit in front of the enemy and not die, then acupressure can allow you to get a bunch of strong boosts. It’s basically just moody but without lowering one of your stats. The best part is, you can use acupressure on not only yourself but also your ally Pokémon, so you can have your tank Drapion sit there and give free plus 2 boosts to its doubles partner. The kind of things you can get away with because of this one move is absolutely ludicrous, and FSG didn’t mention it even once. That just goes to show how excellent Drapion’s movepool is. It has so many amazing options that something as insane as acupressure gets overlooked in favor of better options. If you’ve never used a Drapion before in a play through of a Pokémon game then go ahead and try it. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Way to go Giovanni for using Sniper + Scope Lens Drapion in VGC. I like using it too, however I prefer using it in Singles so I can set up Toxic Spikes.
Let's not forget the true greatest Drapion set: Lansat Berry + Sniper + Cross Poison/Night Slash. It's gimmicky, but when you activate Lansat, those moves auto-crit and are given a big power boost by Sniper. Especially with Agility and Swords Dance, you can really catch people off-guard with it.
Not that this is generally a good idea but you might have taught it a special move - ANY SPECIAL MOVE. Because DARK types are immune to Mirror Coat (a psychic move.)
Radical red gives drapion wicked blow, which suffice to say is utterly terrifying cause of the sniper boost. Imagine that with a scarf in OU, absolutely insane.
FSG I love you guys, but I always thought it was “Dray-peon” for some reason, so this video kept scratching my brain wrong😂 keep up the great content ❤️
Something that's interesting is not only did Drapion and Gliscor come out in the same generation, but they also have incredibly similar stat spreads! The 15 points Gliscor loses in special attack go to its Attack and Defence (5 and 15 respectively). Thought that was a fun bit of trivia.
Who else would love a video about how he does his research? I wanna know how you find out all this stuff and how you go from seeing it to organizing it for us!
That bit about drapion tanking Nasty Ploted Life Orb focus blast from Gengar has to be one of the most epic things ever. Always loved the pink derpy scorpion, and its nice to see he was always giving the good fight, surviving all the power creep and remaining top tier or at least viable in RU even when he finally dropped down. And props to Geovanni for running him so well.
@@gengarzilla1685 well poison dark is a really good typing combo, especially if you can cover for the ground weakness. Still that's a neutral 120 base power hit with nasty plot and life orb, drapion and alolan muk are thicc
I love how when we get to the gen 8 portion of the videos it's just a hot mess of the extremely broken dynamax, new Pokémon being added, new moves being added then for there to be more new Pokémon added lol
I know it has a rather unimpressive BST but I've loved this Pokémon ever since it's introduction. I have several game with a beefed up level 100 Drapion, love this Pokémon
Unimpressive BST ? Buddy it’s higher than ferrothorn, skarmory, corviknight, Toxapex, clefable, breloom, bisharp and as high as Scizor and gengar. I wouldn’t call that unimpressive. Sure drapion isn’t as good as the mons mentioned above but that’s in no fault of the BST
Y'know, I love watching these even though I'm kind of just doing that. Not ingesting anything youre saying as I know little about competitive Pokemon. And these are great. And I have learned a combo or two from them as well. You do good work, dudes.
An important edit / error for gen 8: Max Knuckle is a weaker attack than Focus Blast in all circumstances, and increased attack - thus making it extremely rare to use, and you'd never click it vs Drapion if you had Max Starfall available.
My Favorite Poison Type Pokemon I really love it's design and it's stats given it's balance in Attack and Defense in exchange for Speed. Edit: I was the one who request the Drapion video for some time
Drapion is definitively up there in my ranking. Really good typing, cool design, but it's also probably the best user of Acupressure. Especially in gen 7, Z-Acupressure boosting its Crit Rate makes its Sniper STAB absoluely brutal, especially if you roll the +2 Attack.
@@Nosretep I remember losing to that a couple times too... but Drapion was the first thing that made me need to put the game down for a bit to refresh myself before continuing, and that's what I mean by calling it the first wall... and honestly, the only wall up until Darkrai and eventually Regigigas
@@jaretco6423 It's a different Pokémon. More on the bulky side, which for a Poison/Dark mon is great(one weakness). Drapion can make up for that with coverage, Swords Dance, and Sniper. Bottom line I've been using both in various fangames, and they have different niches.
Love this pokemon. First started using it in Y and it's been on my team whenever it could be. The alpha drapion in legends arceus was the best thing I could ask for
I still remember, when DP marketing was going around and they would use Drapion as one of the poster children, that I thought it was so cool and I wanted him on my team. For whatever reason though, I never actually put it in my team in the end.
Ability: Sniper Item: Razor Claw/Scope Lens *Cross Poison* *Night Slash* Protect/Pursuit/Leech Life *Fell Stinger* /Sword Dance Fell Stinger is HIGHLY underrated. Weak(er) move but VERY easy to pick up the KO with it when cleaning up. Leave your opponent looking dumb when they get KO'd and you get a 2-3x (depending on the Gen) attack boost. It only takes one successful time and it's GG. After that, Cross Poison/Night Slash your way to victory as just about every hit is 1HKO at this point one way or another. And if not, guess what? Fell Stinger again. THEN it's GG for sure. Great build. Great mon.
I once bred a near perfect Drapion in plat with battle armor, but it was bold nature.😤 I then chose a mixed set with night slash, sludge bomb, substitute & accupressure to scumbag the battle tower. I shortly thereafter learned you can't accupressure behind a sub. RNG gave me two middle fingers that day.
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If you thought Kellen's pronounciation of Reuniclus was controversial, "Drop"-ion is about to be even more contentious.
It's physically hurting me...
I don’t think I can even make it through this
I mean the way he pronounces Reuniclus is the official pronunciation. The official pronunciation for Drapion is “Drah-pion”, which he doesn’t say.
There’s wolfey purposefully mispronouncing names for comedic effect then there’s Kellen just being wrong
He also pronounces SD kind weird
Paul's drapion was honestly one of the most intimidating pokemon ever depicted in the anime, especially with how they chose to depict toxic spikes as an omni present force
Agreed
Accurate depiction of competitive, with stealth rocks being the only thing worse.
I think Ursaring was more intimidating, it BODIED buizel, staraptor, pikachu in the lake verity battle and traumatized Chimchar
@Kurtis You again? Why haven't you been shut down by now, spam bot?
@@onionlamento true.
But I do think Drapion had the edge of intimidation bc it straight up said, "Staraptor, You're Getting Poisoned Too!"
I can’t believe the “Citizen Snips” set of Resttalk, Acupressure, Knock Off wasn’t mentioned in Gen 6/7. It was probably one of the most hilarious, well-known, and memeish Drapion sets.
Drapion is my favorite poison type, it’s got such a menacing and cool design and I will never forget how strong it was in the anime. Seemed like such an unstoppable force.
Me too along with scolipede, salazzle, toxiccroak, gengar, nidoqueen, nidoking , Crobat, and Roserade.
Same here, along with shiny Scolipede. I'm a fan of big intimidating mons, esp when they have more unique designs like those two
The main reason why Paul's Drapion appeared to be so powerful was because Paul could predict Ash's moves. Ash never changed his team whenever he battled Paul, so Paul knew Ash's team inside out.
I like Weezing, but drapion is also one of my faves
@@UltimateDragonX99999 Guessing Poison's your favorite type
I keep forgetting how surprisingly fast Drapion is, always thought it was about 70-75.
Never underestimate the Ogre Scorp.
Fun fact- Drapion in SS monotype got the move Accupressure banned, basically thanks to battle armor preventing crits it could just Accupressure and stat ball all you’d need is (note if the opponent even had a ground type move to hit you with) kill any counters or set him up on a Mon who’d want to switch out
Fun Fact- those idiots don't know the move haze or roar.
I feel like you should make a video on the history of Knock Off, since it comes up so often especially because you mention "the newly buffed Knock Off" for like every Pokemon that has it when you get to gen 6
Yeah, how Knock Off used to be a niche move till Gen 6. Especially how some Pokémon in Gen 3 (Alakazam and Armaldo) used the move competitively.
@@IgnitedQuils i wouldn't even call it a niche move, it's genuinely an amazing utility move in early gens.
As I understand it, in early gens, knock off was a utility move that was commonly run on stall teams and sometimes balance, but not that valuable on offensive teams. Removing an item, specifically negating leftovers recovery, is super nice in longer battles where you need that extra punch to break through, but its low damage output means that its really only viable on pokemon that don't deal much damage in the first place or against pokemon that won't take much damage from any moves. Gen 3's meta was particularly stally, so it probably had more use there than in gens 4 or 5.
Gen 6 improved its base power from a pathetic base 20, to a very strong base 65 with a 1.5x boost if it removes an opposing item. This made it so that when it removes an item, it is the strongest physical dark type move in pokemon, which drastically increased its utility to become viable on pretty much any physical attacker in the game. The other most common physical dark type moves, crunch, sucker punch, and night slash, only have 80, 70, and 70 bp respectively, so knock off became the dark type move of choice due to its higher initial power while not losing too much power on subsequent hits.
The knock off buff drastically improved dark type physical attackers, but also was a buff to pretty much every physical attacker in the game that could run it. It was also a massive buff for many fighting types as well since it hits ghost and psychic pokemon super hard, while also just crippling any physical wall that might want to switch in to them. Using knock off as a utility move never really went away either, pokemon like ferrothorn and toxapex can still viably run it just for the item removal effect.
It hasn't been all buffs for knock off, the addition of unremovable items like z moves and mega crystals allows for some pokemon to switch in to the move in gens that support them. This means that teams often had pokemon that could switch in to knock off in gens 6 and 7, and while the move was extremely strong, there were checks to it, and a well constructed team could play around it.
In gen 8, the addition of poultergeist has also made knock off a bit less of an autoinclude on teams, because if you knock off an opponents item, you might set up your opponent with a pokemon that can switch in to your physical attacking ghosts. Still, as long as you're aware of the dangers of using these moves together on the same team, its not that big a downside, and knock off is still the premiere physical dark type move of choice today.
@@IgnitedQuils And Hariyama
Maybe a video about moves that remove items in general (trick, switcheroo and knock off)
Poison/Dark is such a good type combo
Only x2 weakness is Ground. BST is not bad too.
Yeah 1 immunity, 1 weakness and 4 resistances. And a good offensive type as well
Probably one of my favorite types
Yeah, its so good being super effective to fairy, though losing the resistance is kind of a downside
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy on the flipside, you get immunity to psychic and prankster. Drapion is a joker.
Everyone's talking about Paul's Drapion, but Pokemon Hunter J's Drapion deserves mention as well, since it was ordered to grab Ash so tightly that he had to resort to kicking its face just to make it let go of him.
One thing to note about Drapion is how similar it is to another Gen 4 scorpion based Pokémon, Gliscor. Both have good defensive typings, and similar stat spreads.
If only Drapion was stronger and had recovery, it’d be in higher tiers.
Or maybe they could have made drapioon the offensive version of gliscor
@@darrellsimon4462 Gliscor can already be offensive version of Gliscor tho.
@@Entelarmer lol I get that I was just thinking maybe give it the stats of gliscor. 120 base attack lol
@@darrellsimon4462 gliscor has 95 base attack
@@galvsparks6295 right but 120 base defense.
So I was thinking of giving draping the 120 for his attack
I’m surprised it took so long to cover this guy. He’s a really solid lower tier Pokémon from a Gen that has had most of its good Pokémon covered by now. I remember trying to look up this video like a year ago, thinking it was covered at some point, but nope lol
Bean Burrito I would think if FSG covered Drapion before SwSh, he would had said that Drapion was in fact the King of all RU
@@darianclark3980 I wouldn't say ru I would say mid uu
Same here. My thoughts exactly.
@@idkmehboi1972 Drapion was only in UU in Gen 4.
The rest b4 Gen 8 was RU.
Aka why I said Drapion would had been the king of RU
@@darianclark3980 it would be higher if they increased it's attack by 10 or 20 points and it's defense by 10 and give it an ability like moxie. They also could increase it's speed but that's pretty high anyway
Drapion is already threatening but it becomes even more so when you realise that a Pokédex entry states that it takes down its foes slowly with a poison to make them suffer more, even though it can kill them quickly with its claws 😭
Some of its Pokédex entries even state the opposite. That it can take down does without the need of poison!
@@asuuki2048 i mean the ones OP is talking about don’t say it can’t, they just say that drapion chooses to take them out with poison
@@galvsparks6295 I know, I’m just saying that it goes both ways haha.
Small meany claws.
Imagine Drapion with Wicked Blow, just like Radical Red, and it would be more powerful than ever.
Dark/Poison is just such a cool type combination. Add a cool overall design and you've got yourself an awesome Pokemon. Drapion rocks!
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Fun fact: Drapion has the distinction of being one of the few Pokemon that Ash intentionally hurt in the anime.
What does that mean?
@@thefrubblewarrior4678 Ash kicked Hunter's J's Drapion IN THE FACE to escape it. He's not the smartest kid around, but he's got guts.
@@rubenduenas5881 He also tackled Jessie's Seviper in the Hoenn League
No one cares
@@connorhancock2096 The comments section begs to differ
Drapion was and still is one of my favorite Pokémon. When I first started to play competitively one of the first Pokémon I bred with perfect EVs was Drapion. I had Night slash, Cross poison, Earthquake and Swords dance on it. I gave it the berry that reduces ground damage. It was jolly and had max EVs in Speed and Attack, it was hilarious to use in online battles. Almost as hilarious as Hurricane Vivillon with Quiver dance, the second Pokémon I bred :}
my only experience with breeding was just to get prevos i didn't have yet.
@@gregorymirabella1423 I bred 3 boxes of Pokémon with perfect IVs xD
To be fair, I had 2000 play hours in Pokémon X
@@DefinitelyNotEmma Ever breed yourself a shiny perfect IV mon? I bread a 6 IV shiny Froakie in gen 6
@@Dubile Yes, I had a Garchomp
@@DefinitelyNotEmma rad af
I still remember Drapion annihilating half of Ash’s team in his 6v6 battle against Paul.
I know this probably doesn't need to be said, but the music for these videos has always been perfect. Never change up the music you do for these vids!
Drapion is one of these pokemon that have a type combination that makes me have an aneurism whenever I try to remember its weakness
Well, it's kind of easy, it's just ground really. I always kept in mind that a Perfect Pokemon (I mean in base of weaknesses and resistances) would be a Poison/Dark Pokemon with Levitate
@@Rakkun_Streak Or Water/Ground with Sap Sipper
@@kintaro1851 Also Yes, as Ground resists Rock, Water resists Steel and Electric immunity is very good.
But i guess Poison/Dark has more valuable resistances
@@Rakkun_Streak Dont forget Bug Steel with Flash Fire. Poison Dark can be Trick/Switcheroo'd a Ring Target so its weak to Psychic and Water/Grounds 4x weak to Freeze Dry
@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 Oh yeah, i forgot about Freeze Dry.
The Bug/Steel is also true, but i find more (realistically) posible for a Poison/Dark Pokemon with like, wings to justify Levitate.
Although Bug/Steel would be a great typing doesn't have that many resistances, though Pokemon like Scizor and Durant make it work even they are aren't really that bulky.
Glad to hear the crit set actually got some usage, I brought scope lens drapion to ubers in gen 6 to catch xerneas spammers off guard. It may not have been optimal, but it was definitely fun.
Have you thought about doing a video on pursuit? Like how good it was in gens 2-7, it’s mechanical changes, and it’s notable users. Maybe even why it was removed from future games and how a lack of pursuit affected those meta games?
I legit think that gamefreak tried to nerf the dark type hard for reason. They removed pursuit, and snatch.
Not to mention buffing hit and run ghost pokemon, which was further improved by heavy duty boots meaning you're more free to switch around. Like, does any ghost run Colbur berry anymore? A lot of them did to play around knock off and pursuit.
tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, and um... oh yes, tyranitar.
@@bakes1324 tbh, physical dark type mons have too many great tools. Knock-off, pursuit, sucker punch. Yes, they can be weakened by burn but Weavile is dominating gen 8 ou now
@@ispeakcockney5387 bro but that’s all they can do. There’s no reason to remove pursuit. Look at how good ghost types have been this gen as well as psychic. Game freak was like “ calyrex and dragupult need to be op!!”!”!”.
I had a pretty crap day today, never mind that because coming home to see my favorite Pokémon finally get its own FSG video has certainly cheered me up.
Drapion has always stood out to me for looking like one of those ring stacker baby toys brought to life.
Drapion has such a cool design, ive always liked it. Nice to see it had success in the competitive scene.
I'll always remember Drapion as the perfect Cynthia sweeper: spam Acupressure while Spiritomb can barely hurt you, then wipe the floor with her whole team
It's like Ultra Necrozma going against FEAR,Malamar,Zoroark and Marshadow.
Seeing a Raid Shadow Legends sponsor makes me want to use Drapion’s Poison Cross on the game.
Latios and Gigalith deserve a video!
Never gonna give you up boys
(Also I always found interesting the fact this one isn't Bug type... Wich was really weird for me as a kid)
I remember reading Serebii as a kid when Diamond and Pearl’s new Pokémon were being revealed, and being terrified by Drapion’s official artwork.
Got to give credit to Aaron since if I remember correctly, his gimmick for Drapion was just to go for crits. Man was a gambler at heart.
Ah, Drapion, one of my favorite mons. Scope lens, Night Slash/Cross Poison was fun to run in Gen 4 Smogon when it came out. People hated that I was getting crits so often
13:39 What is up with Virizion's eyes???
Also, little story with Drapion: I was playing Brilliant Diamond when I caught one with Acupressure in the Underground. Thanks to Cynthia opening up with Spiritomb, I swept her entire team with it due to getting maxed out stats, including evasion! XD
DRAPION!! YES!! I'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR THIS POKÉMON FOR AGES!! LET'S GOO!!
I love Drapion in monotype, he covers so much for either type of team he can be on. Dark hard counters Psychic, Poison is great for Fairies and resists Fighting.
This thing carried me for the entire Pokémon reborn early game. Thanks for making a video on it.
YES!!! Drapion is one of my favorite Pokémon! Thanks for covering him!
I find it so ironic how Drapions only weakness is ground and its highest stat is its base defense
Then you remember that most ground type moves are PHYSICAL attacks
How is that ironic?
@@ShawFujikawa It's ironic, because the type it is supposedly weak to, it tanks a good amount of their hits due to high base defense, and most of the moves of that type being physical.
Drapion would’ve been a good candidate for the sun and moon stat buffs. He could’ve gotten 10 or 20 in attack and hp or special defense and it would’ve benefited.
Even 10 in Attack would be big
My favorite moveset with Drapion - albeit a junky one - is an "Oops! All Crit!" Set of Focus Energy, Cross Poison, Night Slash, and Ice Fang/X-Scissor/Knock off set with Sniper and Scope Lens.
This thing would be Incredibly horrifying to encounter in real life
Most Pokemon would, tbh
You're watch a bunch a bunch of pre schoolers only to here a talking origami talking backwards in Japanese threatening to cut a worthless object.
Pretty sure it's based on the Vinegaroon which looks quite terrifying.
Drapion has been my favorite pokemon since it's release, and it puts a smile on my face seeing my boi being consistently good.
Drapion has one of the few 3D models (from main line games) that I actually hate. It was intimidating in sprite form, but at 3D looks so deepy, and for some pokemon it can work, but not for Drapion.
Derpion
I remember when Urshifu Single strike was in OU
I used a bulky toxic Drapion and did surprisingly well.
I completely missed Geovanni’s placement with Drapion in Player’s Cup. Glad to see it had some success in VGC!
This Drapion episode was a real journey. They really built that Pokemon to last.
Ah DRAPION, one of my favorite gen 4 Pokemon!!! This beast of a Pokemon made one *HELL* of an impression as Paul's Drapion brutalized half of Ash's team like a boss!!!!!!!
Ash's Staraptor: I'm flying, your Toxic Spikes mean nothing to me
Drapion: _(grabs Staraptor with its tail)_ *GET OVER HERE!*
MK reference?
@@leojamesquiambao1047 ofc
Skorupi/drapion were a 100% include in every single playthrough. fuckin loved that Pokemon in that gen. Especially bc you get black sludge around the same time. Good stuff
I like the sequencing of clips from the gen 8 part where it's just Gengar one shotting the team and Drapion comes, tanking the hit, hitting it in the back of the head pretty much telling it to "knock it off"
Poison/dark is one of the coolest type combos
Yes!! One of my all time favorites, such a cool mon. Pronouncing it as “drop”ion though… questionable at best
I genuinely thought it was drap... not drop
You can probably just attribute it to a difference in accent, since “a” being pronounced as “ah” or “ay” is a common difference been some accents.
At least he's not saying "dray-pion". I've always hated that pronunciation, personally, it just sounds so wrong to me
its weird cuz he pronounced it correctly before. why did he change it now lol
@@matthewkuscienko4616 That's how you actually say it though.
Even TH-cam's integrated subtitles show that Kellen says Dropion lol.
Drapion is definitely an underrated Pokemon, It's one of those mons that are really good in it's tier, but can be an unexpected pick to fill out weaknesses on higher tier teams, Drapion is the key example on how you make a not meta defining, but reliable Pokemon
Drapion has to be one of my favorite Gen 4 pokemon. I still call it a bug regardless of its current typing. It's quite fast for being a giant scorpion and has decent bulk. You can either go full set-up sweeper or lay out toxic spikes for hazards.
Yes! Drapion is one of my favorite Pokémon and definitely underrated. It’s stats are fantastic (especially its speed which everyone always underestimates), and its movepool is insane. I’m honestly astounded that throughout this entire video FSG never mentioned one of Drapion’s most fun moves: acupressure. For those that don’t know, acupressure is a move that will sharply raise a random stat of the target. If you’re going for a tanky build that can just sit in front of the enemy and not die, then acupressure can allow you to get a bunch of strong boosts. It’s basically just moody but without lowering one of your stats. The best part is, you can use acupressure on not only yourself but also your ally Pokémon, so you can have your tank Drapion sit there and give free plus 2 boosts to its doubles partner. The kind of things you can get away with because of this one move is absolutely ludicrous, and FSG didn’t mention it even once. That just goes to show how excellent Drapion’s movepool is. It has so many amazing options that something as insane as acupressure gets overlooked in favor of better options. If you’ve never used a Drapion before in a play through of a Pokémon game then go ahead and try it. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
13:36 for a moment I could have sworn it said "virizion used leg break" and I wondered when that became a move
Way to go Giovanni for using Sniper + Scope Lens Drapion in VGC. I like using it too, however I prefer using it in Singles so I can set up Toxic Spikes.
Let's not forget the true greatest Drapion set: Lansat Berry + Sniper + Cross Poison/Night Slash. It's gimmicky, but when you activate Lansat, those moves auto-crit and are given a big power boost by Sniper. Especially with Agility and Swords Dance, you can really catch people off-guard with it.
Just lost drapion to a freaking wynaut in my nuzlocke
Couldn't have had a better timing
You'll be missed Scar
Not that this is generally a good idea but you might have taught it a special move - ANY SPECIAL MOVE. Because DARK types are immune to Mirror Coat (a psychic move.)
Let me guess, Counter? I still find it funny that Wynaut was in Ubers in Gen 4
@@Krishy-dz4ov smh Special Drapion = Goat
@@CigaretteCrayon it was a randomizer. I didn't had any special dark move yet
I've got a wynaut/wobbuffet clause when I randomize. Their encounters don't count in any way
Radical red gives drapion wicked blow, which suffice to say is utterly terrifying cause of the sniper boost. Imagine that with a scarf in OU, absolutely insane.
"Thanks to the benefits of its Poison typing" is such a funny sentence ... but Drapion sure makes it work.
Ah yes, Toxic Spikes.
Also, Paul's Drapion was a MONSTER
Drapion was one of the most memorable boss Pokémon and I'm glad it did very well competitive. Great video, can't wait for the next one 👍🏻
FSG I love you guys, but I always thought it was “Dray-peon” for some reason, so this video kept scratching my brain wrong😂 keep up the great content ❤️
Something that's interesting is not only did Drapion and Gliscor come out in the same generation, but they also have incredibly similar stat spreads! The 15 points Gliscor loses in special attack go to its Attack and Defence (5 and 15 respectively). Thought that was a fun bit of trivia.
Ah Drapion, my biggest memory of this guy was him CONSTANTLY kicking my ass in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia when I was a kid
Ever since, his cry gives me PTSD 😬
Interestingly, the guy that used Drapion in Shadows of Almia also used a Gliscor. I guess they really like scorpion based Pokemon.
I'm glad someone else played Shadows of Almia. Kincaid's Drapion is tough.
I LOVE Drapion, just recently used it in a Platinum run. Criminally underrated Pokémon.
Who else would love a video about how he does his research? I wanna know how you find out all this stuff and how you go from seeing it to organizing it for us!
Bless your hearts patrons I've been begging for this big dude. Yeah baby!
I used a Drapion in BDSP, he actually solo'd Cynthia 😌
Just spammed Accupressure on Spiritomb and recovered and it was over after that
Yeah, Cynthia's team may be good but that Spiritomb is basically set-up bait.
Drapion was always one of my personal favorites, and even moreso after I got a shiny skorupi from a swarm in Y.
I've always called this guy "Dray-p-on"
I pronounce it as “Drah-pion” due to how it’s name is spelled in Japanese (Dorapion).
I mean Drah-pion also makes sense for the english pronuciation
That bit about drapion tanking Nasty Ploted Life Orb focus blast from Gengar has to be one of the most epic things ever. Always loved the pink derpy scorpion, and its nice to see he was always giving the good fight, surviving all the power creep and remaining top tier or at least viable in RU even when he finally dropped down. And props to Geovanni for running him so well.
From experience, Poison/Dark is honestly one of the worst combos for Gengar to battle. Alolan Muk in particular are just complete pigs.
@@gengarzilla1685 well poison dark is a really good typing combo, especially if you can cover for the ground weakness. Still that's a neutral 120 base power hit with nasty plot and life orb, drapion and alolan muk are thicc
Interesting that Drapion would run Sniper over Battle Armor without using any moves or items to boost its crit rate.
It’s kind of sad that Drapion is one of the strongest physical Poison types considering it only has 90 Attack.
Toxicroak has still the highest atk stat of any poison type (not counting arceus) and it's 106
Then there's gengar and his 130 Spa
@@Drakorre At least we finally have Sneasler with 130 Atk.
I love how when we get to the gen 8 portion of the videos it's just a hot mess of the extremely broken dynamax, new Pokémon being added, new moves being added then for there to be more new Pokémon added lol
Great video false swipe. Watched it all, don't worry you can trust me, I promise.
I believe you bro
I know it has a rather unimpressive BST but I've loved this Pokémon ever since it's introduction. I have several game with a beefed up level 100 Drapion, love this Pokémon
Unimpressive BST ? Buddy it’s higher than ferrothorn, skarmory, corviknight, Toxapex, clefable, breloom, bisharp and as high as Scizor and gengar. I wouldn’t call that unimpressive. Sure drapion isn’t as good as the mons mentioned above but that’s in no fault of the BST
500 isn’t unimpressive when compared to higher tier Pokemon like Breloom, Clefable and Ferrothorn.
Y'know, I love watching these even though I'm kind of just doing that. Not ingesting anything youre saying as I know little about competitive Pokemon. And these are great. And I have learned a combo or two from them as well.
You do good work, dudes.
Man DrApion is a pretty cool mon. I sure enjoy using DrApion in battles and spamming DrAAAAApion’s high crit moves.
Thank youuuu‼️‼️ I’ve been waiting on a Drapion video for YEARS
An important edit / error for gen 8: Max Knuckle is a weaker attack than Focus Blast in all circumstances, and increased attack - thus making it extremely rare to use, and you'd never click it vs Drapion if you had Max Starfall available.
Paul's Drapion was probably the first time watching Pokemon I went 'Oh, maybe this shouldn't have been shown to 6 year olds.'
Finally one of the best poison types is getting the respect it deserves
ooh nice pokemon pick. drapion is such a beast and I've been looking for a game to use it in
My Favorite Poison Type Pokemon
I really love it's design and it's stats given it's balance in Attack and Defense in exchange for Speed.
Edit: I was the one who request the Drapion video for some time
Me too as well!
I got the shout out when I requested in the Luxray video. But patience was rewarded
@Kurtis Get outta here Bot!
We only talk about Drapion here!
@@darianclark3980 Report it and its owner.
Yes, Kellen! Been looking forward to this entry for a while! Thanks!
Drapion is definitively up there in my ranking. Really good typing, cool design, but it's also probably the best user of Acupressure. Especially in gen 7, Z-Acupressure boosting its Crit Rate makes its Sniper STAB absoluely brutal, especially if you roll the +2 Attack.
So Happy To Hear My Boy Doing Well Competetively. Personal Favorite 'Mon Of All Time.
I remember losing against it so many times when playing Rangers: Shadows of Almia... it was the first wall that seriously stopped me
Mines was Rampardos. :/
@@Nosretep I remember losing to that a couple times too... but Drapion was the first thing that made me need to put the game down for a bit to refresh myself before continuing, and that's what I mean by calling it the first wall... and honestly, the only wall up until Darkrai and eventually Regigigas
Skunktank: Who are you?
Drapion:I'm you, but better.
Drapion is an underrated gem with a cool typing. Shame that Alolan Muk stole its thunder, but it still deserves more credit than it gets.
Muk is more defensive, although it does have good attack too. Drapion with Sniper is offensive, and can snowball with Fell Stinger too.
How is Alolan Muk better than Drapion?
@@jaretco6423 It's a different Pokémon. More on the bulky side, which for a Poison/Dark mon is great(one weakness). Drapion can make up for that with coverage, Swords Dance, and Sniper.
Bottom line I've been using both in various fangames, and they have different niches.
@@jaretco6423 Just watch their video on: How good was Muk actually? th-cam.com/video/llzrwdK-EA0/w-d-xo.html
How SUS was Amoonguss ACTUALLY will be sooner than ever. I feel it in my bones.
Love this pokemon. First started using it in Y and it's been on my team whenever it could be. The alpha drapion in legends arceus was the best thing I could ask for
Oh I know right? The second I saw that thing I made room for it on my team
I still remember, when DP marketing was going around and they would use Drapion as one of the poster children, that I thought it was so cool and I wanted him on my team.
For whatever reason though, I never actually put it in my team in the end.
Ability: Sniper
Item: Razor Claw/Scope Lens
*Cross Poison*
*Night Slash*
Protect/Pursuit/Leech Life
*Fell Stinger* /Sword Dance
Fell Stinger is HIGHLY underrated. Weak(er) move but VERY easy to pick up the KO with it when cleaning up. Leave your opponent looking dumb when they get KO'd and you get a 2-3x (depending on the Gen) attack boost. It only takes one successful time and it's GG. After that, Cross Poison/Night Slash your way to victory as just about every hit is 1HKO at this point one way or another. And if not, guess what? Fell Stinger again. THEN it's GG for sure.
Great build. Great mon.
Let’s do …
“How good are Kellens Pokémon pronunciations actually?”
Gonna say this before I watch, as a nuzlocker Drapion is easily one of the greatest Pokémon I can use. One weakness + can’t be crit = OP
And if you farm those Ground damage-reduction berries, almost no weaknesses, and running ice fang
you could let your drapion sit in front of a cofagrigus as it hopelessly uses shadow ball and LITERALLY GET EVERY BOOST IN THE GAME WITH ACCUPRESSURE
I once bred a near perfect Drapion in plat with battle armor, but it was bold nature.😤 I then chose a mixed set with night slash, sludge bomb, substitute & accupressure to scumbag the battle tower. I shortly thereafter learned you can't accupressure behind a sub. RNG gave me two middle fingers that day.
Who’s faster a giant scorpion or an electric lion? The scorpion by 25 points