Kinda crazy how Swellow's SpA being raised from 50 to 75 was an impactful stat buff for it, especially in comparison to the ones in this video, because Scrappy STAB Boomburst is just that strong of a move lol.
Truthfully, it kinda makes me wish that Swellow would get a new evolution or a regional form or something of the sort that focuses more on special attack. Not only would it be interesting, as there aren't that many regional bird Pokemon that are more special attack oriented, but it would help to make that stat actually good if it got a big enough buff
Objection! In X and Y, on the turn that you Mega-Evolve, the move order is determined by your original speed stat-the Mega's speed will kick in the next turn.
“Nidoking Punch- Poison- kills the target Nidoqueen Kick- Poison- Breaks the target’s screen, crashes the game Nidoking Beam- Ground- 160 base power, One hit KO’s flying types, burns water types, inflicts random volatile status on fairy types Azumarill Damce- Water- User performs a synchronized swimming routine, maxing out its special attack stat” These are beautiful
Odd fact. Didn't mention is that. 20 extra base point were added to cryogonal and beartic BST each in gen 7. 20 was added to cryogonal defence. It's pure ice one of the weaknesses type defensively. And steel, rock and fighting were physical before the split meaning most of the moves are still physical. 20 was added to beartic attack. What it's original 110 attack is not good enough. And make it at least good competitively. If I had a nickel for every time a gen 5 ice type gain a extra 20 base point to it's BST in gen 7, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Well pure ice is weak to fire,rock,steel,and fighting type. 3 of the 4 types are physical before the split meaning mostly still have physical moves.
My favourite is Azumarill getting a slight special attack increase when special attacking Azumarill basically doesn't exist and it didn't even get moonblast
To be fair to Electrode, it gets Foul Play. Foul Play doesn't care about Electrode's mediocre Attack stat. And the speed buff let's Electrode's Electo Ball hit harder, since that move's Base Power is based on the speed difference. That 10 Speed buff means Electrode's Electro Ball is able to hit more pokemon harder than it would with a Thunderbolt. Sure, it's not going to be OHKOing anything anytime soon. But putting those 10 point into its Special Attack instead wouldn't be changing that; as its Special Attack would still be lower than a Electabuzz.
The ten point increase to the Nidos' attack makes them take more damage from foul play, so you could argue that in that case, it was a nerf, rather than a buff.
It's crazy that they left out swadloon's base stat increase in gen 6, that gave it 100 extra points in both defenses. It was taken away a week after the game released, so pretty useless
Please do a video on the weird state of Hoenn starters. Sceptile doesn't know if it wants to be physical or special, Blaziken has a uselessly high special attack stat, and Swampert wants to be a bulky wall without any recovery.
The Hoenn starters have awkward mixed attacking sets since the physical/special split didn't exist when they were introduced. Blaziken having 120 Attack and 50 Sp. Attack would've made it atrocious in its debut generation, since all Fire Type moves were special. Same for Sceptile. As for Swampert... Idk, it is weird 🤷♂️
6:25 TRIVIA SPOILER - - - - - - February, October. There's no pattern regarding odd and even numbered months, or how many months are in each list, the only constant is they're listed in chronological order, and the two months not listed prior are February and October.
Actually, the 10 Base speed buff to Electrode WAS a boost to its defensive stats in practice, because of how EVs work At 140 Speed, an uninvested Electrode doesn't even outspeed a fully invested base 100 speed pokemon, so clearly you needed some investement to hit the speed benchmarks you would care about. At 150 Speed, you're still interested in reaching the exact same benchmarks (the other pokemons' speeds didn't change), but suddenly have 80 more EVs leftover Sure you can't invest anymore in spe atk because every electrode was already 252 Modest, so the boost has to go in defenses (or the "arguably more impactful attack stat") but that means YOU can choose which stat you would have the most use for. Actually a much better buff than, say, 10 Spe def or 10 attack The real problem is that Electrode needed waaaaayyyy more than a +10 to BST (even to spe atk) to become even usable
Swadloon has a niche in Gen 6\7 pure hackmons(a Meta game where you can give any Pokemon any ability and move you want) as a check to Primal Groudon with a fire-immune ability
@@SegaMario yes but did you also notice the Azumarill using power whip and the Staraptor with fire lash? And also power whip as well as frickin diamond storm? They're just throwing in random moves
@THGMR-ox7sd not everyone. Just to pokemon that are two stage. The 3 stage mons should just get an aoe stat buff of at least 5 or drop the useless stat and raise the useful ones by a lot more. Though you can easily just make a branch evolution for some like Pikachu got if you can't give an evolution anymore
i like evolutions more then megas cause you can eviolite some of your favourite designs and use them in lower tiers. 60% of pokemon get uglier in design as they evolve. adding more items like eviolite could improve competitive pokemon a lot.
To be fair, the poke,on you’ve selected as examples have more issues than just stats. Lack move pools, abilities, and typings. So just altering base stats increases wouldn’t solve enough.
The one buff I will NEVER understand, is Staraptor in gen 9 getting access to Struggle Bug STRUGGLE BUG Yoy know, that one move that only bug types or bug/insect themed pokemon get access to? (At least i think antlions are insects, Trapinch fans feel free to correct me on this) Yea for some reason this BIRD gets access to it Its not like Star even needed new bug type coverage anyway helloo U-Turn is right there????????????????
I thought about it, but Swellow does take advantage of its special attack buff. The standard set in gen 7 singles uses Choice Specs, with moves like Boomburst and Air Slash
Actually they're doing a good job.... They weren't trying to make electrode or these other Pokemon better.... They were trying to help them keep their place when dealing with power creep.... So they were less buffs and more like anti power creep measures
Buffing Electrode's speed when it's already so fast is still helpful though, you can invest less points to outspeed certain things and the rest can go to attacking.
I wish they would give more significant stat buffs to Pokémon that *NEED* it, like some of the early route Bugs such as Beedrill, Ledian and Ariados. Not just 10-20 points applied one stat and call it a day. Like, Jesus Christ, GAME FREAK, is it really so much to ask for to make certain forgotten faces be at least *DECENT* to use in a playthrough? I'm not asking for them to be competitively viable (though that would be greatly appreciated, especially if ones like Ledian, Ariados, Magcargo and Luvdisc got evolutions), because they don't have to be. But just made a little stronger so they can be viable during a playthrough without needing to overlevel them to make them have a shot against the Champion.
I would like to point out that in the case of SPECIFICALLY the gen 6 games, the base speed increase on pidgeot is actually kind of a game changer. Prior to gen 7, mega evolutions did not use their new speed stat the first turn they mega evolved. This means that on the turn it mega evolves, mega pidgeot can still outspeed any base 100s.
Is Electrode a candidate for usage of Electro Ball or does it still not do much in most competitive games? Maybe in Doubles Electro Ball always has a suitable target
7:34 I mean water type mostly had special move when the split happened. And most fairy type moves are special. I think they were trying to make use of both of Azumarill typing and not let most of the special STAB moves more viable and not go to waste. Like surf, hydro pump or other fairy moves. You could have a ev 252+ in special attack. And let huge power do it's thing with a 252 attack ev. And I seen people turn their Pokémon that is good in one attack into a multi attacker in physical and special. And it can have one special move stab that has a good effect and rest could be physical and belly drum.
6:27 October, they're all in ascending order by number of days April, June, September and November have 30 days, March, January, May, July, August, December and October have 31 days Meanwhile, February only has 28 or 29 days, meaning it's most likely not that
Arguably the best Gamefreak buffs are the typing and ability ones. Fairy was amazing to Pokemons like Clefairy and Togekiss, even for the already strong Azumarill, since Fairy is so reliable offensively and defensively. But The weather abilities by far were the strongest buffs, Toarcoal and Pelipper were nothing before drought/drizzle.
Ok but the electrode speed buff is honestly realistically better than attack or special attack. It’s main form of damage now a days is foul play or if you really want a stab option electroball. It’s mostly a support Mon that uses foul play to not be entirely setup bait. And hey if you really wanted to you can bully dragapult with foul play thanks to the speed buff. Even timid pult has to be wary of electrode if heaven forbid someone is using electrode as their screens setter. Even specs sets ohko electrode less then half the time ( and this is giving it the best chance by using hisui variant and getting hit by flamethrower) and foul play cleanly 2 hit kos. And it can legit just ohko ddance variants after rocks most the time.
So here is a fun fact. Apparently every move in the game has a Sheer Force modifier. Basically every move is coded to have a Yes or No and that effects if the move is affected by Sheer Force to get the power boost. This usually makes sense as moves like Earth Power get the SpD drop negated for 30% power. Interestingly enough, even moves that a Sheer Force mon could never legally learn have this modifier. Now a fun thing is that early in Scarlet and Violet, Jet Punch (the signature move of Palafin) had the modifier mistakenly set to Yes. As a result, if you hacked Jet Punch onto a Nidoking, the move would get a 70% boost from the Life Orb combo even though the attack had no secondary effect. This was patched out quite soon after discovery. It is suspected that Gamefreak coded many of their effects to happen at the same time as secondary effects. Since Sheer Force most likely ignores those checks, that could be the reason why Life Orb, certain abilities and certain items are negated by Sheer Force too.
It’s October. If Only connect was set in (most of) America the order would be April, June, September November March Jan, May, July, August, October, December In the UK March is an hour shorter. October is an hour longer and thus is the longest month.x
I'm about doing this, but I wanted to mention that belly drum doesn't make the users atk go to +12, only +6 since that's the max amount of atk buff, so if you use it when you're at -6 atk, it will take it to +/- 0 atk ^^;;
The text in the graphic doesn’t mean that it raises your attack to +12. It raises the stat by the maximum 12 stages. That’s to ensure that even if your attack is at the minimum value of -6, it can still reach +6
I would argue 10 base speed is far better than most stats Electrode could get those 10 points in. Like, let’s suppose Electrode in the past was running 252 Sp.Atk EVs and 252 Speed EVs. If you wanted to “simulate” gettting 10 base HP instead of 10 base speed, you just run 80 fewer speed EVs than you were running before and put that into HP, or you have the option to mix and match by only taking away 60 speed EVs so you outspeed Pult (for Volt Switch iniative or Foul Play) and still gain about effective 8 more base HP. If you don’t need the full base Speed, you can allocate those points elsewhere, but when you do want to ouspeed a particular greater than 140 base speed mon, having the option is nice. This is flexibility Electrode wouldn't have if say It got 10 base speed instead. In this case, it would never have the option to outspeed Dragapult, Mega Beedrill, or Zacian Crowned. And from a design standpoint, with speed powercreep being a thing, of course it makes sense to pump up Electrode’s speed so it goes back to near the top of the speed hierarchy. The main stat that would be beneficial over getting 10 points of speed is Sp.Atk, but even then, in some contexts getting that +10 base speed gives you more windows to run Modest, since after the stat buff, Modest Electrode now still outruns base 130 +Speed mons. If you can afford to run Modest in a particular context, you gain slightly more Sp.Atk than a +Speed Electrode with base 90 Sp.Atk, so Modest base 150 speed Electrode outdamages 140 base speed 90 Sp.Atk Electrode in situations where your required speed threshold is base 130. The added speed also helps for various Scarf and Tailwind thresholds. Dragapult is the new threshold for how fast a scarfer needs to be, and so while base 80 speed mons can work due to outspeeding Pult, Electrode can still get ahead of that. And likewise when it comes to VGC tailwind calcs, in formats such as Regulation H, it was very common for mons to hit exactly 107 base speed so that they could outspeed Pult after Tailwind, since that was the minimum they needed, so that they could invest EVs elsewhere. Electrode's speed allows you to once again bypass that speedcreep game, and since Electrode isn't relevant enough, people aren't going to be trying to speedcreep Electrode when it comes to Tailwind calcs. This also has ripple effects on a Loaded Dice Hisui Electrode gimmick set that was going in VGC, where the goal was to Bullet Seed a Scarf Annilhape speedcreeped to be just slightly slower than Electrode. Electrode's speed stat means that yet again, you can have your Scarf Rage Fist Annilhape outspeed Pult while still being slower to get Rage Fist boosted by Bullet Seed. TL;DR Electrode’s speed buff is unfairly slandered. It's cool and based that they went with Speed over the other stats and stuck to Electrode's identity.
10:28 The refference is from a Team fortress 2 TH-cam film Expiration date. (If elias teleported bread for a week what terror he summoned i wonder? :O)
I suspect Azumarills buff was strictly for in game playthroughs, 60 is still pretty pathetic, but it makes it so if you don't have a huge power Marill you can make Azumaril a special attacker
Another reason I think this is because ORAS was right on the horizons where Marill is in the first couple areas, little Timmy might not know abilities and deem it's special attack usable
Mega evolutions and baby pokemon basically ruined so many Pokemons potential Megas limited their true power behind a one use power that can easily be removed next gen making them worthless afterwards Baby pokemon should not exist for mons who are already babies like Pikachu marill jugglypuff and should have just been given an evolution instead. So many mons would have benefited from this. Only baby mons i like are those that make sense lile magmar muchlax etc to make late game mons esrly access
Pikachu is definitely not already a baby and I’m not saying that because of pichu. Sure if you remove pichu it is the bottom of the evolution line but it doesn’t give me baby vibes like marill or a first stage starter.
@THGMR-ox7sd it's literally a baby pokemon especially the original version that was the starter Pokemon in yellow and later for let's go. It's just Pichu like igglybuff and cleffa are just bad baby mons as the og one is already low in stats so this just makes them worse. Happini I'm fine with as Chansey takes a while to find but most of these baby mons hamperted their power by a lot. Wish more got the Togepi treatment who's literally an egg.
@@ivanbluecool Hey, Cleffa saved us from ever having to deal with Eviolite Clefable, which would probably be better than Blissey since Magic Guard means you don't need to run Boots.
Actually it’s way better? Having super strong grass stab with Leaf Storm and Chloroblast makes it significantly easier to use on teams, making it a niche lead Pokemon
Not sure how Wigglytuff was left off the list. With its massive HP stat and mediocre everything else, a minor boost to its Special Attack was unnecessary, especially since Clefable is still going to hit harder anyways.
I won 7 Pokemon Showdown room tournaments with a Wigglytuff team. Lol. It had counter, and got so many surprise KOs and walled dragapult. The buff is really good, and impactful in the official games.
Doesn't swadloon have a cool niche in ubers somewhere? Something about resisting a grass legendary? Anyway, he's pretty cute, gotta be one of the coolest cocoons I know.
First time at one of these videos, so I don't know which of you is which but... "That's too much turkey, don't you think?" sounds awfully heretical to me.
electrode should have 270 speed
I tend to think the highest stat of a Pokemon can only max at 255
@@therealegrit's 2025, the sky is the limit
900?
1000 speed, 10 in every other stat
360 speed
Kinda crazy how Swellow's SpA being raised from 50 to 75 was an impactful stat buff for it, especially in comparison to the ones in this video, because Scrappy STAB Boomburst is just that strong of a move lol.
Truthfully, it kinda makes me wish that Swellow would get a new evolution or a regional form or something of the sort that focuses more on special attack. Not only would it be interesting, as there aren't that many regional bird Pokemon that are more special attack oriented, but it would help to make that stat actually good if it got a big enough buff
Objection! In X and Y, on the turn that you Mega-Evolve, the move order is determined by your original speed stat-the Mega's speed will kick in the next turn.
“Nidoking Punch- Poison- kills the target
Nidoqueen Kick- Poison- Breaks the target’s screen, crashes the game
Nidoking Beam- Ground- 160 base power, One hit KO’s flying types, burns water types, inflicts random volatile status on fairy types
Azumarill Damce- Water- User performs a synchronized swimming routine, maxing out its special attack stat”
These are beautiful
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Thank you for posting those, I wasn't quick enough to pause when they were shown 😄
Odd fact. Didn't mention is that.
20 extra base point were added to cryogonal and beartic BST each in gen 7.
20 was added to cryogonal defence. It's pure ice one of the weaknesses type defensively.
And steel, rock and fighting were physical before the split meaning most of the moves are still physical.
20 was added to beartic attack. What it's original 110 attack is not good enough. And make it at least good competitively.
If I had a nickel for every time a gen 5 ice type gain a extra 20 base point to it's BST in gen 7, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Cryogonal's best stat's sp. def, though. Defence is its worse. Like, +20 is nice, but what good is it when it's too late?
@@Erik_Emer Well at least it can take random physical moves better.
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Well pure ice is weak to fire,rock,steel,and fighting type.
3 of the 4 types are physical before the split meaning mostly still have physical moves.
“Wanna get married?” You’re not beating the relationship allegations guys.
My favourite is Azumarill getting a slight special attack increase when special attacking Azumarill basically doesn't exist and it didn't even get moonblast
12:20 it should be noted that Ting-Lu weirdly enough got a slight nerf in its base stats on an update of Scarlet and Violet
the Treasures of Ruin (is that what they're called?) all got got 10 points taken from their BST in the update you're referring to
6:17 no, you want nidoking to have higher attacking stats and speed and nidoqueen have more bulk.
I love how this video slowly became what felt like a podcast
Funnily enough, we did try doing a podcast a while back, then cancelled it cuz it sucked
"A range I have no business singing in" I love that
To be fair to Electrode, it gets Foul Play. Foul Play doesn't care about Electrode's mediocre Attack stat. And the speed buff let's Electrode's Electo Ball hit harder, since that move's Base Power is based on the speed difference. That 10 Speed buff means Electrode's Electro Ball is able to hit more pokemon harder than it would with a Thunderbolt.
Sure, it's not going to be OHKOing anything anytime soon. But putting those 10 point into its Special Attack instead wouldn't be changing that; as its Special Attack would still be lower than a Electabuzz.
Shoutout to Roserade’s Defense going from 50 to 60 in gen 6
13:45 they are feeding the shippers a few crumbs
The ten point increase to the Nidos' attack makes them take more damage from foul play, so you could argue that in that case, it was a nerf, rather than a buff.
It's a buff cause now Nidoking Beam ohkos everything, not just flying types
Dugtrio's Attack going from 80 to 100 was a good buff.
It's crazy that they left out swadloon's base stat increase in gen 6, that gave it 100 extra points in both defenses. It was taken away a week after the game released, so pretty useless
Y'all didn't even mention that base 101 puts you over the 10 million pokémon that hit 100 speed
Please do a video on the weird state of Hoenn starters. Sceptile doesn't know if it wants to be physical or special, Blaziken has a uselessly high special attack stat, and Swampert wants to be a bulky wall without any recovery.
The Hoenn starters have awkward mixed attacking sets since the physical/special split didn't exist when they were introduced.
Blaziken having 120 Attack and 50 Sp. Attack would've made it atrocious in its debut generation, since all Fire Type moves were special.
Same for Sceptile.
As for Swampert...
Idk, it is weird 🤷♂️
Ah, the joys of pre-Physical/Special split Pokemon stats.
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Actually, the 10 Base speed buff to Electrode WAS a boost to its defensive stats in practice, because of how EVs work
At 140 Speed, an uninvested Electrode doesn't even outspeed a fully invested base 100 speed pokemon, so clearly you needed some investement to hit the speed benchmarks you would care about. At 150 Speed, you're still interested in reaching the exact same benchmarks (the other pokemons' speeds didn't change), but suddenly have 80 more EVs leftover
Sure you can't invest anymore in spe atk because every electrode was already 252 Modest, so the boost has to go in defenses (or the "arguably more impactful attack stat") but that means YOU can choose which stat you would have the most use for. Actually a much better buff than, say, 10 Spe def or 10 attack
The real problem is that Electrode needed waaaaayyyy more than a +10 to BST (even to spe atk) to become even usable
Swadloon has a niche in Gen 6\7 pure hackmons(a Meta game where you can give any Pokemon any ability and move you want) as a check to Primal Groudon with a fire-immune ability
1:26 I'm sorry, Electrode can learn freakin' *ICE PUNCH?!*
No they just add moves in for fun on showdown, I'm pretty sure lol
@@X2131 If Wooper can learn Ice Punch, I don't see what's stopping another armless being from doing so.
@@SegaMario yes but did you also notice the Azumarill using power whip and the Staraptor with fire lash? And also power whip as well as frickin diamond storm? They're just throwing in random moves
@@SegaMario also all the armless Pokemon that learn punching moves get arms/hands when they evolve, that's the pattern
@@SegaMario see Gastly and Shroomish as well
If the company has an idea to buff stat the pokemon. Just give them an evolution by that point with a better type and up all the stats
Wouldn’t some be 4 stage evolutions if they did that instead of a stat buff for everything?
@THGMR-ox7sd not everyone. Just to pokemon that are two stage. The 3 stage mons should just get an aoe stat buff of at least 5 or drop the useless stat and raise the useful ones by a lot more.
Though you can easily just make a branch evolution for some like Pikachu got if you can't give an evolution anymore
i like evolutions more then megas cause you can eviolite some of your favourite designs and use them in lower tiers. 60% of pokemon get uglier in design as they evolve. adding more items like eviolite could improve competitive pokemon a lot.
@johnmarkson1990 Good thing pokemon ain't a fucking beauty contest, eh? They are called monsters for a fucking reason.
14:19 Swadloon looks warm in that blanket that is why I am going to steal it
To be fair, the poke,on you’ve selected as examples have more issues than just stats. Lack move pools, abilities, and typings. So just altering base stats increases wouldn’t solve enough.
No joke, Swadloon is really cool, as are the rest of Unova's bugs, but I'm still shocked a cocoon 'mon has a design that looks this good.
i would encorperate more varried "ping" sound effects when assets pop on screen to avoid sound effect fatigue. But great videos!
A lot of these are for casual players that aren’t min maxing.
A high speed stat should be paired with either higher offenses stats or decent deffenses and support moves
Love when they take something horrifically unusable and say “let’s give it +10 to a stat it doesn’t even utilize” and call it a day.
The one buff I will NEVER understand, is Staraptor in gen 9 getting access to Struggle Bug
STRUGGLE BUG
Yoy know, that one move that only bug types or bug/insect themed pokemon get access to? (At least i think antlions are insects, Trapinch fans feel free to correct me on this)
Yea for some reason this BIRD gets access to it
Its not like Star even needed new bug type coverage anyway helloo U-Turn is right there????????????????
10:26 I was so close to being disappointed that neither of you made this reference. Thank you, Elias :D
It's funny that this video doesn't even mention the most baffling "buff". Swellow got a whole +25 base stat buff in gen 7.
To its Special Attack.
I thought about it, but Swellow does take advantage of its special attack buff. The standard set in gen 7 singles uses Choice Specs, with moves like Boomburst and Air Slash
STAB Boomburst is just so good that this is actually a pretty significant buff.
That buff was helpful
Electrode is meant to be a speedy pest. 50/50 shot its sd will KO. Not necessarily meant to be a long-term team member, moreso a despicable mimic.
You've been teleporting bread for a week? No wonder I suddenly have 4 packages of nearly expired English Muffins.
Swadloon looks very puntable
Actually they're doing a good job.... They weren't trying to make electrode or these other Pokemon better.... They were trying to help them keep their place when dealing with power creep....
So they were less buffs and more like anti power creep measures
GF gives some pokemon 10 special defense extra.
Well now it's viable.
Buffing Electrode's speed when it's already so fast is still helpful though, you can invest less points to outspeed certain things and the rest can go to attacking.
I wish they would give more significant stat buffs to Pokémon that *NEED* it, like some of the early route Bugs such as Beedrill, Ledian and Ariados. Not just 10-20 points applied one stat and call it a day.
Like, Jesus Christ, GAME FREAK, is it really so much to ask for to make certain forgotten faces be at least *DECENT* to use in a playthrough? I'm not asking for them to be competitively viable (though that would be greatly appreciated, especially if ones like Ledian, Ariados, Magcargo and Luvdisc got evolutions), because they don't have to be. But just made a little stronger so they can be viable during a playthrough without needing to overlevel them to make them have a shot against the Champion.
you ever kick ball through brick wall?
I would like to point out that in the case of SPECIFICALLY the gen 6 games, the base speed increase on pidgeot is actually kind of a game changer. Prior to gen 7, mega evolutions did not use their new speed stat the first turn they mega evolved. This means that on the turn it mega evolves, mega pidgeot can still outspeed any base 100s.
6:27 1-2-1 is the pattern then the 3rd month followed by a 1-3-1 so believe July will be the next month then possibly 1-4-1
Swadloon was my first ever shiny (not counting given ones) but also is no one gonna talk about Matt’s singing it’s amazing holy shit😭
Is Electrode a candidate for usage of Electro Ball or does it still not do much in most competitive games?
Maybe in Doubles Electro Ball always has a suitable target
This video felt like a fever dream.
7:34 I mean water type mostly had special move when the split happened.
And most fairy type moves are special.
I think they were trying to make use of both of Azumarill typing and not let most of the special STAB moves more viable and not go to waste.
Like surf, hydro pump or other fairy moves.
You could have a ev 252+ in special attack.
And let huge power do it's thing with a 252 attack ev.
And I seen people turn their Pokémon that is good in one attack into a multi attacker in physical and special.
And it can have one special move stab that has a good effect and rest could be physical and belly drum.
swadloon always annoyed the crap out of me when I was a kid bc it would spam protect, its still a part of my second favorite bug family though :3
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I get, TF2 “Expiration Date” !
6:27 the 4th word is obviously Swadloon
give electrode +50 to +80 special attack
6:27 October, they're all in ascending order by number of days
April, June, September and November have 30 days, March, January, May, July, August, December and October have 31 days
Meanwhile, February only has 28 or 29 days, meaning it's most likely not that
October is right, but do you know why October and March are in separate entries?
@@MEPlaysGames That I don't know
You can tell me now or in next week's video, either is fine
Daylight savings time :)
Arguably the best Gamefreak buffs are the typing and ability ones. Fairy was amazing to Pokemons like Clefairy and Togekiss, even for the already strong Azumarill, since Fairy is so reliable offensively and defensively. But The weather abilities by far were the strongest buffs, Toarcoal and Pelipper were nothing before drought/drizzle.
Pidgeot could get an indirect buff if Featherdance decreased the opponent's SpA as well as long as the opponent is not also Flying or Levitating.
12:03 name me 1 blue food.
Blue corn
blueberries
@robertlupa8273 blueberries are purple lol
@robertlupa8273 those are purple
@ then why are they called blueberries?! Also I've eaten some blueberries yesterday, they look blue enough to me. :v
Swadloon buff really made it a powerhouses. Should b3 banner to Ubers TBH
Ok but the electrode speed buff is honestly realistically better than attack or special attack. It’s main form of damage now a days is foul play or if you really want a stab option electroball. It’s mostly a support Mon that uses foul play to not be entirely setup bait. And hey if you really wanted to you can bully dragapult with foul play thanks to the speed buff. Even timid pult has to be wary of electrode if heaven forbid someone is using electrode as their screens setter. Even specs sets ohko electrode less then half the time ( and this is giving it the best chance by using hisui variant and getting hit by flamethrower) and foul play cleanly 2 hit kos. And it can legit just ohko ddance variants after rocks most the time.
whats up with the pokemon using moves they shouldnt 😭
To be fair to base Pidgeot, the buff to speed allowed it to have its mega get to 121 without breaking the 100 to BST linit
I used Swadloon in White 2. She started as a little Sewaddle. It was cute. It became a Leavanny and helped beat Marlon and his silly turtle.
So here is a fun fact. Apparently every move in the game has a Sheer Force modifier. Basically every move is coded to have a Yes or No and that effects if the move is affected by Sheer Force to get the power boost. This usually makes sense as moves like Earth Power get the SpD drop negated for 30% power. Interestingly enough, even moves that a Sheer Force mon could never legally learn have this modifier.
Now a fun thing is that early in Scarlet and Violet, Jet Punch (the signature move of Palafin) had the modifier mistakenly set to Yes. As a result, if you hacked Jet Punch onto a Nidoking, the move would get a 70% boost from the Life Orb combo even though the attack had no secondary effect. This was patched out quite soon after discovery.
It is suspected that Gamefreak coded many of their effects to happen at the same time as secondary effects. Since Sheer Force most likely ignores those checks, that could be the reason why Life Orb, certain abilities and certain items are negated by Sheer Force too.
It’s October.
If Only connect was set in (most of) America the order would be
April, June, September
November
March
Jan, May, July, August, October, December
In the UK March is an hour shorter.
October is an hour longer and thus is the longest month.x
US daylight savings is in March and November.
1:35 fsg would disagree
I'm about doing this, but I wanted to mention that belly drum doesn't make the users atk go to +12, only +6 since that's the max amount of atk buff, so if you use it when you're at -6 atk, it will take it to +/- 0 atk ^^;;
The text in the graphic doesn’t mean that it raises your attack to +12. It raises the stat by the maximum 12 stages. That’s to ensure that even if your attack is at the minimum value of -6, it can still reach +6
swadloon is my comfort character
"The ship allegations are not real" "Hey wanna get married?" 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Swadloon has a niche in a certain generation of pure hackmons
I would argue 10 base speed is far better than most stats Electrode could get those 10 points in.
Like, let’s suppose Electrode in the past was running 252 Sp.Atk EVs and 252 Speed EVs.
If you wanted to “simulate” gettting 10 base HP instead of 10 base speed, you just run 80 fewer speed EVs than you were running before and put that into HP, or you have the option to mix and match by only taking away 60 speed EVs so you outspeed Pult (for Volt Switch iniative or Foul Play) and still gain about effective 8 more base HP.
If you don’t need the full base Speed, you can allocate those points elsewhere, but when you do want to ouspeed a particular greater than 140 base speed mon, having the option is nice. This is flexibility Electrode wouldn't have if say It got 10 base speed instead. In this case, it would never have the option to outspeed Dragapult, Mega Beedrill, or Zacian Crowned. And from a design standpoint, with speed powercreep being a thing, of course it makes sense to pump up Electrode’s speed so it goes back to near the top of the speed hierarchy.
The main stat that would be beneficial over getting 10 points of speed is Sp.Atk, but even then, in some contexts getting that +10 base speed gives you more windows to run Modest, since after the stat buff, Modest Electrode now still outruns base 130 +Speed mons. If you can afford to run Modest in a particular context, you gain slightly more Sp.Atk than a +Speed Electrode with base 90 Sp.Atk, so Modest base 150 speed Electrode outdamages 140 base speed 90 Sp.Atk Electrode in situations where your required speed threshold is base 130.
The added speed also helps for various Scarf and Tailwind thresholds. Dragapult is the new threshold for how fast a scarfer needs to be, and so while base 80 speed mons can work due to outspeeding Pult, Electrode can still get ahead of that. And likewise when it comes to VGC tailwind calcs, in formats such as Regulation H, it was very common for mons to hit exactly 107 base speed so that they could outspeed Pult after Tailwind, since that was the minimum they needed, so that they could invest EVs elsewhere. Electrode's speed allows you to once again bypass that speedcreep game, and since Electrode isn't relevant enough, people aren't going to be trying to speedcreep Electrode when it comes to Tailwind calcs. This also has ripple effects on a Loaded Dice Hisui Electrode gimmick set that was going in VGC, where the goal was to Bullet Seed a Scarf Annilhape speedcreeped to be just slightly slower than Electrode. Electrode's speed stat means that yet again, you can have your Scarf Rage Fist Annilhape outspeed Pult while still being slower to get Rage Fist boosted by Bullet Seed.
TL;DR Electrode’s speed buff is unfairly slandered. It's cool and based that they went with Speed over the other stats and stuck to Electrode's identity.
I think electrode suffered more from poor movesets rather than meh stats (aside from speed)
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The refference is from a Team fortress 2 TH-cam film Expiration date.
(If elias teleported bread for a week what terror he summoned i wonder? :O)
Swadloon is the TH-cam pfp of Fire the pyro
I suspect Azumarills buff was strictly for in game playthroughs, 60 is still pretty pathetic, but it makes it so if you don't have a huge power Marill you can make Azumaril a special attacker
Another reason I think this is because ORAS was right on the horizons where Marill is in the first couple areas, little Timmy might not know abilities and deem it's special attack usable
Nidoking Punch is real, it's the only attack keeping Nidoking in the meta.
Aww, I want Nidoking Punch, Nidoqueen Kick and Nidoking Beam for real. 😂
Mega evolutions and baby pokemon basically ruined so many Pokemons potential
Megas limited their true power behind a one use power that can easily be removed next gen making them worthless afterwards
Baby pokemon should not exist for mons who are already babies like Pikachu marill jugglypuff and should have just been given an evolution instead. So many mons would have benefited from this.
Only baby mons i like are those that make sense lile magmar muchlax etc to make late game mons esrly access
Pikachu is definitely not already a baby and I’m not saying that because of pichu.
Sure if you remove pichu it is the bottom of the evolution line but it doesn’t give me baby vibes like marill or a first stage starter.
@THGMR-ox7sd it's literally a baby pokemon especially the original version that was the starter Pokemon in yellow and later for let's go.
It's just Pichu like igglybuff and cleffa are just bad baby mons as the og one is already low in stats so this just makes them worse. Happini I'm fine with as Chansey takes a while to find but most of these baby mons hamperted their power by a lot.
Wish more got the Togepi treatment who's literally an egg.
@@ivanbluecool Hey, Cleffa saved us from ever having to deal with Eviolite Clefable, which would probably be better than Blissey since Magic Guard means you don't need to run Boots.
Swabloon deserves more love in the fandom
Game freak are not thinking smogon competitive singles when they buff Pokémon stats
@@stanstansky5522 maybe because not all Pokémon are meant for combat
Swadloon apprectiates all that you do.
Are steel types immune to Nidoking Punch? Is this a potential counter??
10:28 Where? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SENDING IT?!
I've seen that episode of Only Connect so it wouldn't be fair for me to answer
I like Swadloon but the rest of Leavanny's line is meh
Same with the shiny
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Are these Shiny from an official cartridge or from emulators, because the moves that these Pokemon are using make me suspicious ?
Hope you had a good day
Shoutout to ladswoon
6:26 Uh... "February. October" ?
Swadloon looks like Cut Man from Mega Man 1
Hisuian Electrode is even worse, it has more weaknesses and no stat changes
Actually it’s way better? Having super strong grass stab with Leaf Storm and Chloroblast makes it significantly easier to use on teams, making it a niche lead Pokemon
Not sure how Wigglytuff was left off the list. With its massive HP stat and mediocre everything else, a minor boost to its Special Attack was unnecessary, especially since Clefable is still going to hit harder anyways.
I won 7 Pokemon Showdown room tournaments with a Wigglytuff team. Lol. It had counter, and got so many surprise KOs and walled dragapult.
The buff is really good, and impactful in the official games.
@luckpup2766 ...counter is a physical move.
@@shiruotakuno28 ...Braindead response.
Under 10 hour gang
Doesn't swadloon have a cool niche in ubers somewhere? Something about resisting a grass legendary? Anyway, he's pretty cute, gotta be one of the coolest cocoons I know.
if i recall correctly it resists primal groudon in balanced hackmons. leavanny would also do the job but swadloon is funnier
@straybomb well eviolite too, don't forget about that. He kinda loses to fire though, doesn't he?
@@villagemarauder Remember that this is a hackmons format, so you could easily give it an ability that makes it immune to fire
@@AceAviations2 right, I have the stupid
Swadloon is Swadloon
the nidos use special atk
What’s annoying is you gotta buy a whole new game just for updates. It’s the dumbest update system of any game
That's every fighting game up until mid-2010s when DLC started getting big.
Really the SUCK in all caps
6:27 February, October
First time at one of these videos, so I don't know which of you is which but...
"That's too much turkey, don't you think?"
sounds awfully heretical to me.
I think irs febuary no reason just vibes
Belly Drum maxes out at +6 Attack, not +12.
The text on the graphic means that it raises your attack by 12 stages, which maxes it out no matter how low it is to begin with
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