@@sayvionwashington1939 that sucks. Aura Sphere should get a widespread as a Special Fighting attack. I mean the only fighting type move that is a special attack, besides the unreliable Focus Miss
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 There's also Keldeo-signature "Fighting Psyshock" in the form of Secret Sword. The positive is, it's a very good move. The negative is, well, it's Keldeo signature and thus, it's distribution is the ultimate form of "limited".
@@bridgeseller7004 this is a story all about how my life got flipped upside down. So let me take a minute and sit right there of how I became pursuit fodder
It’s honestly great that you are covering the history of the metagames rather than how just how good the mon actually was, cuz you can see just how the mom’s performance fluctuates overtime. It’s honestly surprising to see just how broken Reuniclus was at the time Excadrill was banned.
still getting flashbacks of my 14year old self playing pokemon online getting 6-0d reuniclus. Reuniclus with ferrothorn felt impossible to break before they brought back excadrill
Kellen changed writers, BKC writes it now and homie drops a thesis on the metagame almost weekly, you should check out his channel if yall wanna know about the old meta under a microscope
That's more because BKC is the writer now than anything else, he could write an hour long video on the competitive history of Sunkern if given the opportunity.
I’m really impressed that Reuniclus did so well in gen 5. I thought anything that wasn’t one of the new hyper offense sweepers would be ranked lower, but surprise, I forgot it’s high base hp and average defenses actually made it fairly tanky, especially with calm mind and magic guard helping even more with its bulk. That’s a really pleasant surprise.
I'm actually shocked it was good from each gen it was on. I'm pretty happy about that. Even if it isn't the best, it still manage to pull it off very well.
I just remember being a kid when gen 5 came out and all my friends thought Reuniclus was weird and wouldn't use it. I destroyed their hopes and dreams.
@@anuragkat66 I mean seriously, there was SO MUCH NEW CONTENT IN B2/W2. Wanna be a movie star actor? Pokèstar Studios Wanna be a entreprenuer & manager? Join Avenue Wanna be a World Champion? Pokèmon World Tournament Wanna be a Fashion Designer? Pokèmon Musical Wanna find God's remainings? Abyssal Ruins Wanna travel to a different world? Entralink Wanna go to a challenging building to get a Shiny Pseudo Legendary as a prize? Battle Tree/Building God did I love those games.
The apparently "official" pronounciation makes no sense. Reuniclus' name is a combination of reunite and nucleus. And those two combined sound the way most people call Reuniclus...not like fsg does
@The OG Tyranitar is a pseudo legendary therefore it has a honkin' wide movepool. And it has Sand Stream, a very useful ability that makes Tyranitar relevant despite having too much weaknesses. Special attacker Tyranitar is a pretty dumb set tho
At first I didn’t know why it was Reuniclus being covered today, but then I realized that Reuniclus is essentially a fetus, and that today is Valentine’s Day… Now I get the joke. If that was the intention.
It was immediately one of my favorites just by design. It's symmetrical and high special attack. One downside is that it doesn't have a big move variety like many psychics that can learn things like flame thrower etc. But its easy to build either special or defense.
You CAN'T know how much I was waiting for this video, dusion and reuniclus are my two favorite Pokémon, and I'm so glad to know that the First ever Pokémon I used to sweep someone Is really good
one of my first and only forays into competitive pokemon was building a trick room doubles team with reuniclus and conkeldurr. fond memories of this thing
Hahaha, yeah mate, me too. I have only played a couple of Trick Room and Paraflinch teams. Other members apart from Conkeldurr and Reuniclus could be: Porygon 2, Jellicent, Druddigon, Ferrothorn, Chandelure, Slowbro... Fun times indeed.
So, in summation, Reuniclus was pretty good. It started out as an OU mainstay, but eventually fell first to UU in gens 6 and 7 and RU in gen 8...nominally, anyway. As of gen 8, it's still usable in top tier competitive play because of its unique talents.
The one advantage of running regenerator over Magic Guard is that you don't have to waste a slot on Recover and can focus solely on bulky offense. Really useful for backup trick Room and even Assault Vest from time to time. Pity the gen 8 entry had such an unfortunate typo because the rest of the video is a great example of just how thorough this channel can be
Definitely worth mentioning that Reuniclus was one of, if not the best Assault Vest Pokémon due to Regenerator. 383 SpA stat when maxed out, with obscene health to regenerate and access to Future Sight, Knock Off, Psyshock, Thunder and Focus Blast is absolutely disgusting
This is definitely one of those "abilities make the mon" Magic Coat and Regenerator are really great abilities. I doubt there's much you can do to improve the Cell Pokemon. Maybe it's cells are similar to Mew and Mewtwo's?? 🤔
Can you have a video about how tiering works? It's based on usage but also the power level of the Pokemon to make sure the meta game in their isn't game breaking? The videos that explained why Gen I or other variables of the games were amazing to learn about. Could you also make one explaining the basics of tiering worked?
I originally thought Reuniclus looked weird until thanks to the new Scarlet and Violet sprits I saw it was a cute little guy inside (I only saw a head) and it fit my ID team as I wanted a pokemon with Reflect and Light Screen
Reuniclus is such as fun Pokemon, it's not everyday where you see a tanky pure psychic type do really well. It's doing well in both nat dex and doubles
This thing is busted in the pokebilities metagame. Having access to both Magic Guard and Regenerator as well as not being effected by powder moves is brilliant. Sure, Galarian Weezing can nullify those abilities because it has Neutralizing Gas (which for some reason doesn't cancel out it's own abilities, but only the opponents abilities), but gets easily dealt with by a Psychic move. No Pursuit in gen 8 makes it even more busted because it abuses Regenerator even better. Your best bet is to paralyze it and have something like a Hex Dragapult, which is already common to deal with the overpowered Conkeldurr and other great Guts pokemon in pokebilities.
Reuniclus. Possibly the most interesting Pokémon design (in my opinion of course!) has the most, dominant and interesting competitive lifespan. I love this funny looking gel baby so much.
Reuniclus has a vast Physical movepool, with staples like Rock Slide and Knock Off, and combos like Hammer Arm + Gyro Ball under TR. But its impressive Physical learnset is nearly useless due to its low Attack, I'd love to see it gain the option to viably run mixed attacking or even Physical sets.
Here I was expecting my favorite Pokémon to get a pretty mediocre wrap in competitive, since I couldn't remember any instances of it in what little competitive I've seen, and here I find that _the_ WolfeyVGC used one in his debut and got 6th in Worlds with it. :D Edit: AND THEN WOLFE COMES UP WITH A WAY TO SET UP PRIORITY TRICK ROOM IN GEN 8 WITH IT? ABSOLUTE MAD LAD!!!
I've never raised a Reuniclus before, but since I'm about to start a new playthrough of Pokemon White 2 version, I'm gonna catch one for the first time and nickname it "Squish" lol. Espeon will always be my favorite Psychic type Pokemon, but Reuniclus is definitely my No# 2. It's so freaking adorable and based on such an interesting concept. Not to mention that fact that its Abilities are broken. Pop a Life Orb onto that puppy and watch my little green Psychoplasm go to town.
@@jjc4924 They're all below UU in singles and do nothing that something else can't do better. VGC is the same, they all serve no purpose over something else. That's the definition of something bad. Durant got lucky with Dynamax skipping accuracy checks; you could still say it's bad honestly considering it was only good in a single meta, but I'd give him the pass. Madibuzz has weird stats, but an amazing typing/ability/movepool so it does have a niche, so I consider it good too. I think a lot of mons with cool niches get called bad too often but those are all just mons that are fully outclassed. 3 are literally untiered, 1 is a legendary that can't get out of UU and Mienshao has been hardstuck UU or lower since it was added; I like Mienshao too, and have tried to make it work since gen 5 and it's just deadweight.
As an update to those unfamiliar, it was determined that Reuniclus would stay in RU, rather than face the infamous RUBL. It does have decent counters, such as Shell Smash Teacup thing, First Impression Bug Water thing, and most importantly, Incineroar. These pokemon all work fairly well against the Psychic type, especially considering how often it needs upwards of a turn or more to get rolling in the generation. It is still a top tier pokemon, especially when it gets the ball rolling. If you wish to play competitve pokemon, Pokemon Showdown is where these rankings and such are commonly given :)
i just started using it recently on showdown, and its hardly let me down at all. Pretty much can beat most balance teams, unless the opponent brings sabeleye.
I remember when B&W were first getting revealed and scans were coming up on Serebii, I thought it was a ghost toy bear sorta like how Banette is like a ghost toy-turned ghost, and his Japanese name being Rankurusu. I personally like that one better and still very much like the Alakazam counterpart we got in gen 5.
Reuniclus is one of the Pokemon whose all of the abilities were all useful. Magic Guard means no chip damage like Rocks and Toxic Overcoat so that you can't put you to sleep? Of taking weather damage. Regenerator fits a defensive mon like Reuniclus
A specially-bulky but also specially-offensive psychic mon with really good elemental coverage? Reuniclus sounds like a throwback to psychic types in gen 1.
Damn I'm kinda surprised me how well it did, but probably one of the more interesting concepts for a pokemon so I'm glad it did well in competitive too.
I played in the Collinsville regionals, and Wolfe Glick's Copycat strat was absolutely mindblowing to us. People were talking about it via word of mouth, but Wolfe did a really good job of not exposing his strategies in swiss rounds unless absolutely necessary. He didn't truly abuse Reuniclus's power until top cut, where all the matches would be streamed anyway and there wasnt enough time to hard prepare strats against it.
Reuniclus was the first Pokémon I’d ever EV’d properly, and while I owe Garchomp(GTS) for getting me into Pokémon competitively, Reuniclus was my first actually trained one. The Spread was 252 HP/252 SpAtk/ 4 Def, Psyshock, Trick Room, Focus Miss, and Shadow Ball/Energy Ball. I had friends running hyper offense teams that would just fall apart against it. Thank You, Reuniclus.
As usual content at it’s finest thank you Kellen and everyone else who helped. The community is lucky and happy to have you But remember it’s ree-uni-clus
i know this is late but i hope you make a video on Reuniclus' counterpart Gothitelle. I love mine so much i plan on using it in tournaments and id like to know more about it in the competitive scene.
One time I was battling my friend and I was using Reuniclus. He was my last pokemon and he had 4 left. I used trick room and proceeded to one-shot the rest of his team. It was my most glorious battle holy moly
Magic guard is an insane ability when paired with calm mind and recover. Only four fully evolved pokemon have this combination of ability/moves: Alakazam, Sigiliph, Clefable, and Reuniclus. While Alakazam and Sigiliph are just too frail to really make this set work, when you add good bulk to the combination, that's really all you need to get a horrifying unkillable monster that can destroy unprepared teams.
Reuniclus: *rampaging through OU*
Excadrill: Don’t make me come down there!
Lol. Lesson if this? Don't anger exca in BW
I'd be GLAD to see it get beaten up by exca. I HATE IT SO MUCH
@@papermachete8071 As in competitive wise or casual wise?
@@cold-bloodedbeats4139 both
@@papermachete8071 Damn. Reuniclus is great imo. Best Psychic type in gen 5
How good was incineroar actually? Singles: 2 minutes long, VGC: 32 minutes long
Like 78% of usage in USUM.
@@mortomultiverse8778 the height of incin’s usage was 2019 moon, with 90%
@@nibleton_ Where can i find the source?
This just shows that every mon is made for particular play style,tier or doubl-singles
inb4 Kanbei still needs bases.
I'm one minute in and ree-yoo-nee-clus is already driving me insane
I want to rip my ears off, it hurts so much.
It’s really the nee for me, I pronounce it ree yoo nih clus
@@KlldbyCuriosity Same, the ni is short!
There is another Pronounciation? I always say it as Re-you-knee-clus...
What other ones could there be?
@@soapysuds7040 Re-you-neh-clus
I like how they made a cool Pokémon based off frickin mitosis
Smh and people roast 5th gen mons to this day...
Cuz mitosis is cool as hell!
@@brandonlacey8112 the roast only 2 mons trashbag and icecream cone
@@lisabtheplug5630 Don't forget the poor pile of gears.
Always love this pokemon design
If only Reuniclus got Aura Sphere so it didnt rely on Focus Miss
Yeah, I can feel that. Still it’s at least a way to not get fucked by Tar.
It didn't get one in Swsh despite Aura Sphere was a TM in this game?
(I know what's TM and what's TR, don't dare to argue.)
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 Nope, but they gave it to the Hitmons of all things.
@@sayvionwashington1939 that sucks. Aura Sphere should get a widespread as a Special Fighting attack. I mean the only fighting type move that is a special attack, besides the unreliable Focus Miss
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 There's also Keldeo-signature "Fighting Psyshock" in the form of Secret Sword.
The positive is, it's a very good move. The negative is, well, it's Keldeo signature and thus, it's distribution is the ultimate form of "limited".
1:57 Latias: "Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation"
"Well, it all started when I first met this stalker kid..."
Is that movie called “ mega mind” if I recalled it correctly
@@陳嘉宇-y4q Many movies use that concept but MegaMind is one of the best examples, yeah.
@@bridgeseller7004 this is a story all about how my life got flipped upside down. So let me take a minute and sit right there of how I became pursuit fodder
Re-u-knee-clus sounds like you are trying to speak with a mouthful of dice.
I haven’t watched the video but that’s just how you pronounce it right?
Edit: I was wrong
Great, now you butchered it even more (at least for me)
Once i heard this i forgot how its really pronounced. Thanks
Pronouncing it as Ree-u-knee-clus makes sense because it’s a neucleus. Uen is neu backwards.
@@GatorOne-in7hk It’s spelled Nucleus, not Neucleus, so that argument doesn’t hold up
"Oh yeah, that one bulky Psychic from Unova. I wonder how good it actually-"
*31 minutes*
"Excuse me, what?"
VGC, I'm guessing
That's exactly what I thought lmao. I was expecting like 15-20 mins
Reuniclus is actually incredible thanks to having two really good abilities. Magic Guard is just bonkers in singles.
also its because fsg is making really long videos these days compared to 3 years ago
Yeah. I was shocked on how good it was.
False Swipe *pronounces Reuniclus technically correctly*
Me: “Thanks. I hate it.”
nobody liked that
because the "official" pronunciation doesn't conform with how such words are usually pronunced in English - namely, on the second syllable.
It’s honestly great that you are covering the history of the metagames rather than how just how good the mon actually was, cuz you can see just how the mom’s performance fluctuates overtime. It’s honestly surprising to see just how broken Reuniclus was at the time Excadrill was banned.
still getting flashbacks of my 14year old self playing pokemon online getting 6-0d reuniclus. Reuniclus with ferrothorn felt impossible to break before they brought back excadrill
A huge improvement over the earlier videos where it was just, "We only go over it when it's in OU it sucks if it's anything below that."
Kellen changed writers, BKC writes it now and homie drops a thesis on the metagame almost weekly, you should check out his channel if yall wanna know about the old meta under a microscope
Whose mom was performing?
@@PeterGriffin11 he meant mon lol
Crazy to think that this thing gets *Regenerator* and is amazing even without it.
Gotta love it when Reuniclus’ video is longer than Mewtwo’s
That's more because BKC is the writer now than anything else, he could write an hour long video on the competitive history of Sunkern if given the opportunity.
I mean Mewtwo is typically banned in VGC.
@@edmg7 yeah, that's fair too. All the box legs are 20ish minutes as well.
@@edmg7 and if it isn't banned, why would you use mewtwo over Groudon, Kyogre, Xerneas, Rayquaza, Palkia, Dialga, Yveltal, etc.
@@12jswilson Exactly. And even in Smogon, it's great but what else can you say? Meanwhile this video followed a fluctuating career.
Excadrill: "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."
He always comes back, one way or the other
LOL
Thumbs down for dead meme.
@@qwilliams1539 thumbs down for your dead sense of humor.
Isn't it the opposite though? Reuniclus was so good that they had to bring back Excadrill.
You can tell he got tired of the pronunciation too when he started to call it Reun instead.
FSG must be a Togekiss, because I’m flinching every time they say Reuniclus
No
He is TWO Togekiss
@@reebro one is scarfed other is thunder wave
@@reebro twogekiss
@@xx_lunchmeat_xx752 take my like and leave
I thought he was a jirachi throwing out serene grace iron head.......
Update: Reuniclus is in RU again and is the uncontested best Pokémon in the tier, it is currently being suspect tested and will soon likely be banned.
This aged about as well as spoiled milk lol
@@goreangel1258 explain pls I don’t competitive
@@ilikemilk7833 it didn't get banned and now is actally ptetty mediocre in RU
@@Lrizu Not really mediocre but if you just spam it in battle brainlessly you're gonna get crushed
@@axlr8deathpls294 but if you do that then mega rayquaza is also the worst pokemon in zu (a tier for untier pokemon)
I’m really impressed that Reuniclus did so well in gen 5. I thought anything that wasn’t one of the new hyper offense sweepers would be ranked lower, but surprise, I forgot it’s high base hp and average defenses actually made it fairly tanky, especially with calm mind and magic guard helping even more with its bulk. That’s a really pleasant surprise.
Magic Guard is what really pushed it to be legitimate in OU. Without it, it would probably be fairly good in the lower tiers.
@@allenkeettikkal3149
Oh for sure, then it would be taking damage from life orb, hazards, etc, right?
The acid armor+calm mind set is the nightmare
@@allenkeettikkal3149 that's not inaccurate since Musharna resides in NU and is mostly the same mon (minus abilities and recover anyway)
I'm actually shocked it was good from each gen it was on. I'm pretty happy about that. Even if it isn't the best, it still manage to pull it off very well.
Everytime he say reuKNEEcleus I shed a tear :’(
Your pronunciation sounds disgusting to me. I like ReuKNEEclus
It's more effort to say knee than nih, sounds off. But I don't know how it's pronounced in the anime so can't be sure what's right.
RyuKneesCles
Wow, wow ! So you must've done a freakin' tears puddle on your desk/table at this point, 'right ? XD
@@798jeremy Let the man exaggerate in peace lol
If Reunicleus is 30 minutes, and Chansey and Blissey were 1 hour, guess how long Lando-T is gonna be. Oh boy.
Lando T is annoying i prefer gliscor
I know that Lando-T is better but I much prefer Gliscor when I want a Ground/Flying type.
the only metagame it's legal in that landorus t isn't top tier that I can think of is early vgc 2019
I was thinking more Tyranitar than Lando tbh
We say this every week
I never heard the official name before. Gotta admit, pretty annoying.
How do you pronounce it?
@@Azurill_111 Most pronounce it Ryu-ni-clus
@@ZealOnWheels704 most?
So, you guys remember Gen-gar?
@ there you go
I just remember being a kid when gen 5 came out and all my friends thought Reuniclus was weird and wouldn't use it. I destroyed their hopes and dreams.
Good. Good.
Mr. Burns: Excellent!
All hail the telekinetic fetus
Holy shoelaces. Great job!
@@the-hw2um why not both? :)
Don't forget that Reuniclus was in a Pokestar movie where :Reuniclus, Krokorok and the trainer fought against a T posing alien.
Pfft, what!?
@@cintronproductions9430 Invaders 4.
Oh! I love that movie! 😁😂
yeah one of the good things of BW2
@@anuragkat66
I mean seriously, there was SO MUCH NEW CONTENT IN B2/W2.
Wanna be a movie star actor?
Pokèstar Studios
Wanna be a entreprenuer & manager?
Join Avenue
Wanna be a World Champion?
Pokèmon World Tournament
Wanna be a Fashion Designer?
Pokèmon Musical
Wanna find God's remainings?
Abyssal Ruins
Wanna travel to a different world?
Entralink
Wanna go to a challenging building to get a Shiny Pseudo Legendary as a prize?
Battle Tree/Building
God did I love those games.
Reunaclus is like Metagross, it's a fusion of its previous evolutions.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a cell that reforms itself...
I though it was a fetus
@@monkakonga4305 EXCUSE ME-
@@monkakonga4305 same
@@monkakonga4305 I thought it was an homunculus, Munna's line looked like fetusus to me.
FSG: "Re-u-ne-clus"
Me: umm akkchually, you're pronouncing that wrong
FSG: "I'm pronouncing it the official way"
Me: nvm, carry on
Me: how could you pronounce it correctly
I don't care if it's the official name, it still feels like a dagger to the ear every time I hear it.
The apparently "official" pronounciation makes no sense. Reuniclus' name is a combination of reunite and nucleus. And those two combined sound the way most people call Reuniclus...not like fsg does
@@Yominication whenever someone brings this up I always point to blastoise lol. The right pronunciation is just whichever one the most people use
@@tobathetura7482 the correct pronunciation of blastoise is however anonymuz says it in the pokemon cypher
Ah yes, the Psychic Fetus Pokémon finally gets a video
Mew standing here confused do you mean me
It’s based off of cells r word
@@bcrbes mew is based off a embryo/fetus while reuniclus is based off a cells and the cells core.
I'm pretty sure Musharna is the fetus Pokémon
Psychic fetus. The best description 👌🏽😂
Reuniclus is both adorable and cool at the same time. Change my mind.
i feel extreme happiness knowing that the cutest little psychic fetus was a major threat in competitive pokemon
Obligatory "Wow, if *Reuniclus* is this long, Landorus/Ferrothorn/Heatran will take multiple seasons to be covored!"
@The OG Gengar could make Gen 7 and 8 since Gengar isn't OU anymore.
Tyranitar, Heatran, and Landorus would take long cause they have a decent range of movepools.
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 Gengar still did well in UU and was even banned recently
The better Dragapult now outclasses Gengar in most ways
@The OG Tyranitar is a pseudo legendary therefore it has a honkin' wide movepool.
And it has Sand Stream, a very useful ability that makes Tyranitar relevant despite having too much weaknesses.
Special attacker Tyranitar is a pretty dumb set tho
@@bryanc1772 Really. So Gengar doesn't float is still nuts in Singles?
these 2049 references are goated as hell
So happy we are doing more gen 5 mons, so now it’s about time we find out how good the only gen 5 Gigantamax, Garbodor really was
Honestly I hate how Gen 5 was shafted in both Megas and G-max forms by only having one Pokemon each for them.
@@firetools I meen it's not like gen 6-7 had Better luck with the megas
He was trash.
Reun was who beat Garbodor a few months ago. Its time we rise up
@@firetools To give them credit, Garbodor of all things is the only Non Gen 1 or 8 pokemon to get a G-max form.
At first I didn’t know why it was Reuniclus being covered today, but then I realized that Reuniclus is essentially a fetus, and that today is Valentine’s Day… Now I get the joke. If that was the intention.
Ohhhhhh I get it
I uh... doubt that was the intention
@@Christian-rn1ur it could have been but idk
Pro life (Reuniclus)
or
Pro choice (Gastly)
@@matguimond92 arson (Litwick)
I had a big smile to “interlinked within cells” and then I lost it at “Dreadful. Distinct.” Good reminder on why I’ve been a faithful subscriber
...wha?
Pale Fire reference
He talks about Wolfe Glick a couple times throughout this video so it's only natural for him to pronounce Reuniclus's name in a weird way.
except the "weird way" in this case is the official pronunciation for some reason
wait, you mean, Cinderachi _isn't_ the correct pronounciation alongside Wendysaur?
Hard to imagine it's only a matter of time until we start getting into gen 6
We already did :/
Did you forget about the greninja video
Blame the Patrons for being impatient.
Goodra!
Yeah, it's not like if there was a Greninja video before
I always try but can never prepare myself to hear him add 4 more syllables into Reuniclus than I'm used to
I took a shot each time he said "ReUNiclUs" now my body is 80% Alcohol
It was immediately one of my favorites just by design. It's symmetrical and high special attack. One downside is that it doesn't have a big move variety like many psychics that can learn things like flame thrower etc. But its easy to build either special or defense.
not "reeuneeclus", it's called "Squishy Boi"
I prefer Psychic Fetus
@@captainsunshine64 that's Musharna
@@julicanoto15 Nah, Musharna is Psychic Moon Tapir Thing
Squish quish
Brian David Gilbert calls it "the pokémon equivalent of a Tide pod".
“Oh finally a reuniclus vid-“
“Ryu-knee-clus”
*immediately exits video*
Lol same
How GOOD was Braviary ACTUALLY.
I'm not giving up.
You gotta wait now
I'm just surprised it wasn't Alomomola today, but great work FSG Team once again!
Flubber, you finally made it in a video.
What is your pfp?
@@igor-jo8bw don’t do drugs kiddo don’t do drugs
You CAN'T know how much I was waiting for this video, dusion and reuniclus are my two favorite Pokémon, and I'm so glad to know that the First ever Pokémon I used to sweep someone Is really good
Just call him Mitochondria because this ‘mon is the POWERHOUSE of this cell!
All I know is I only can ever see the tiny dude stuck inside the green goop
I mean it IS basiaclly a still forming fetus
one of my first and only forays into competitive pokemon was building a trick room doubles team with reuniclus and conkeldurr. fond memories of this thing
Hahaha, yeah mate, me too. I have only played a couple of Trick Room and Paraflinch teams. Other members apart from Conkeldurr and Reuniclus could be: Porygon 2, Jellicent, Druddigon, Ferrothorn, Chandelure, Slowbro... Fun times indeed.
So, in summation, Reuniclus was pretty good. It started out as an OU mainstay, but eventually fell first to UU in gens 6 and 7 and RU in gen 8...nominally, anyway. As of gen 8, it's still usable in top tier competitive play because of its unique talents.
Never would have guessed this squishy looking blob was so strong
Never would've played with it until I played by competitive rules
The one advantage of running regenerator over Magic Guard is that you don't have to waste a slot on Recover and can focus solely on bulky offense. Really useful for backup trick Room and even Assault Vest from time to time. Pity the gen 8 entry had such an unfortunate typo because the rest of the video is a great example of just how thorough this channel can be
these videos take so much time, i love them
Definitely worth mentioning that Reuniclus was one of, if not the best Assault Vest Pokémon due to Regenerator. 383 SpA stat when maxed out, with obscene health to regenerate and access to Future Sight, Knock Off, Psyshock, Thunder and Focus Blast is absolutely disgusting
I am really loving these in depth videos.
This is definitely one of those "abilities make the mon" Magic Coat and Regenerator are really great abilities. I doubt there's much you can do to improve the Cell Pokemon. Maybe it's cells are similar to Mew and Mewtwo's?? 🤔
Give it a minor stat boost in sp attack and maybe sp def and it would shoot back to OU
@@michaelkeha It doesn't need to. Reuniclus always finds some usage in OU
@@redwarrior118 not right now but that will shoot it back also give it Aura Sphere damn it
*magic guard
This makes me want Regenerator on Mew
28:13 That strategy blew my mind.
Thanks for finally reviewing Gen 5’s squishy boi.
FSG: I better pronounce this the right way
also FSG: rai-koo
The embryo like Pokemon you know what this fits surprisingly well
Can you have a video about how tiering works? It's based on usage but also the power level of the Pokemon to make sure the meta game in their isn't game breaking? The videos that explained why Gen I or other variables of the games were amazing to learn about. Could you also make one explaining the basics of tiering worked?
that max guard copycat strategy is one of the most big brain things I've ever heard of
How GOOD were the Gen 5 fossil mons ACTUALLY?
Attempt number 8
I've been trying for Durant for months dude😑
Dont give up, i am trying to Arbok
I’ve just started trying to get avalugg
Dont worry, soon we will get our pokemon anslysed
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I originally thought Reuniclus looked weird until thanks to the new Scarlet and Violet sprits I saw it was a cute little guy inside (I only saw a head) and it fit my ID team as I wanted a pokemon with Reflect and Light Screen
the pronunciation he uses is just ours slowed down
Watch at 1.25x speed
When he said "ree-yuu-nii-klus"
I felt that
Reuniclus is such as fun Pokemon, it's not everyday where you see a tanky pure psychic type do really well. It's doing well in both nat dex and doubles
This thing is busted in the pokebilities metagame. Having access to both Magic Guard and Regenerator as well as not being effected by powder moves is brilliant. Sure, Galarian Weezing can nullify those abilities because it has Neutralizing Gas (which for some reason doesn't cancel out it's own abilities, but only the opponents abilities), but gets easily dealt with by a Psychic move. No Pursuit in gen 8 makes it even more busted because it abuses Regenerator even better. Your best bet is to paralyze it and have something like a Hex Dragapult, which is already common to deal with the overpowered Conkeldurr and other great Guts pokemon in pokebilities.
Reuniclus. Possibly the most interesting Pokémon design (in my opinion of course!) has the most, dominant and interesting competitive lifespan. I love this funny looking gel baby so much.
I have been wait very patiently for today’s video
Reuniclus has a vast Physical movepool, with staples like Rock Slide and Knock Off, and combos like Hammer Arm + Gyro Ball under TR. But its impressive Physical learnset is nearly useless due to its low Attack, I'd love to see it gain the option to viably run mixed attacking or even Physical sets.
Reuniclus in the game:
Focus no U
Reuniclus in the Manga:
"Is it for me? 👉👈"
-feat: pokemon white
Here I was expecting my favorite Pokémon to get a pretty mediocre wrap in competitive, since I couldn't remember any instances of it in what little competitive I've seen, and here I find that _the_ WolfeyVGC used one in his debut and got 6th in Worlds with it. :D
Edit: AND THEN WOLFE COMES UP WITH A WAY TO SET UP PRIORITY TRICK ROOM IN GEN 8 WITH IT? ABSOLUTE MAD LAD!!!
I've never raised a Reuniclus before, but since I'm about to start a new playthrough of Pokemon White 2 version, I'm gonna catch one for the first time and nickname it "Squish" lol.
Espeon will always be my favorite Psychic type Pokemon, but Reuniclus is definitely my No# 2. It's so freaking adorable and based on such an interesting concept. Not to mention that fact that its Abilities are broken. Pop a Life Orb onto that puppy and watch my little green Psychoplasm go to town.
Gosh, Generation V sure had a lot of powerful Pokémon to debut there, huh?
And we're still missing Conkeldurr, Sesmitoad, Whimsicott, Darmanitan, Scrafty (arguably), Gothitelle (Shadow Tag), Amoonguss, Ferrothorn, Terrakion, Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus
Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Crustle, Durant, Braviary, Mandibuzz, Meinshao, Carracosta.
@@jjc4924 "Kyurem, Crustle, Durant, Braviary, Mandibuzz, Meinshao, Carracosta."
Those are all bad except Mandibuzz and Durant with Dynamax :P
Blaydes. I disagree on those Pokemon you mentioned being bad. Even without Dynamax, they're still pretty excellent Pokemon.
@@jjc4924 They're all below UU in singles and do nothing that something else can't do better. VGC is the same, they all serve no purpose over something else.
That's the definition of something bad.
Durant got lucky with Dynamax skipping accuracy checks; you could still say it's bad honestly considering it was only good in a single meta, but I'd give him the pass.
Madibuzz has weird stats, but an amazing typing/ability/movepool so it does have a niche, so I consider it good too.
I think a lot of mons with cool niches get called bad too often but those are all just mons that are fully outclassed.
3 are literally untiered, 1 is a legendary that can't get out of UU and Mienshao has been hardstuck UU or lower since it was added; I like Mienshao too, and have tried to make it work since gen 5 and it's just deadweight.
Been waiting for this for a while! Really love Reunicles
As an update to those unfamiliar, it was determined that Reuniclus would stay in RU, rather than face the infamous RUBL. It does have decent counters, such as Shell Smash Teacup thing, First Impression Bug Water thing, and most importantly, Incineroar. These pokemon all work fairly well against the Psychic type, especially considering how often it needs upwards of a turn or more to get rolling in the generation. It is still a top tier pokemon, especially when it gets the ball rolling. If you wish to play competitve pokemon, Pokemon Showdown is where these rankings and such are commonly given :)
Anyone that played Gen 5 competitive knows how terrifying Reuniclus was
i just started using it recently on showdown, and its hardly let me down at all. Pretty much can beat most balance teams, unless the opponent brings sabeleye.
"It remains to be seen how Reuniclus will do in RU this time around." *gets suspect tested and is the best pokemon in the tier*
My fav Psychic of all time!
My first "lets get sorta competitive and use a theme strategy" was Trick Room in gen 6 with Reuniclus as a core, loved it!
You know it's gonna be a good video when it's only a gen 5 Pokemon and it's over half an hour
Great analysis! Thanks for uploading!
Can we have a remastered version of the vid with literally no changes, except Reuniclus is pronounced the other way?
What is the other way?
@@garryoak Re-u-neh-clis
@@SentinelHirsc I saw the last part of the video but thanks. Ryu Nicholas sounds better
Why it’s just a word
For the next episode, how about we look at Reuniclus' counterpart from BW, and a pokemon who's history is almost the complete inverse, Gothitelle.
Yeah that would be cool
Shadow Tag Gothitelle ruins the fun for everyone: The Video
I remember when B&W were first getting revealed and scans were coming up on Serebii, I thought it was a ghost toy bear sorta like how Banette is like a ghost toy-turned ghost, and his Japanese name being Rankurusu. I personally like that one better and still very much like the Alakazam counterpart we got in gen 5.
Reuniclus is one of the Pokemon whose all of the abilities were all useful.
Magic Guard means no chip damage like Rocks and Toxic
Overcoat so that you can't put you to sleep? Of taking weather damage.
Regenerator fits a defensive mon like Reuniclus
The fetus brain cell was always the best psychic type in my eyes. Creative stats and moves and a creative design
A specially-bulky but also specially-offensive psychic mon with really good elemental coverage? Reuniclus sounds like a throwback to psychic types in gen 1.
That’s quite the video length, was not expecting that
The fact that this Pokémon’s video is much longer than many older Gen mons you previously covered really shows its viability
Damn I'm kinda surprised me how well it did, but probably one of the more interesting concepts for a pokemon so I'm glad it did well in competitive too.
I played in the Collinsville regionals, and Wolfe Glick's Copycat strat was absolutely mindblowing to us. People were talking about it via word of mouth, but Wolfe did a really good job of not exposing his strategies in swiss rounds unless absolutely necessary. He didn't truly abuse Reuniclus's power until top cut, where all the matches would be streamed anyway and there wasnt enough time to hard prepare strats against it.
Can we cover the Unova Dragon Trio now? I want to see how dangerous Zekrom is
Its happened the prophecy was true
Reuniclus was the first Pokémon I’d ever EV’d properly, and while I owe Garchomp(GTS) for getting me into Pokémon competitively, Reuniclus was my first actually trained one. The Spread was 252 HP/252 SpAtk/ 4 Def, Psyshock, Trick Room, Focus Miss, and Shadow Ball/Energy Ball. I had friends running hyper offense teams that would just fall apart against it. Thank You, Reuniclus.
"So you know Alakazam?"
"Yeah."
"Make it bulky."
And make it slow
This is one of my favorite Pokémon ever. Gen 5 truly had some greats. Great video boys
As usual content at it’s finest thank you Kellen and everyone else who helped. The community is lucky and happy to have you
But remember it’s ree-uni-clus
i know this is late but i hope you make a video on Reuniclus' counterpart Gothitelle. I love mine so much i plan on using it in tournaments and id like to know more about it in the competitive scene.
One time I was battling my friend and I was using Reuniclus. He was my last pokemon and he had 4 left. I used trick room and proceeded to one-shot the rest of his team. It was my most glorious battle holy moly
Dang.
Me: Reuniclus
FSG: "Reuneeclus"
Charles Boyle: "Reuneekolaj"
Magic guard is an insane ability when paired with calm mind and recover. Only four fully evolved pokemon have this combination of ability/moves: Alakazam, Sigiliph, Clefable, and Reuniclus. While Alakazam and Sigiliph are just too frail to really make this set work, when you add good bulk to the combination, that's really all you need to get a horrifying unkillable monster that can destroy unprepared teams.
I love reuniclus. Big loveable psychic blob; I bet it would be super cuddly
After watching this video, Reuniclus is now my favorite Pokemon (In Gen 5)
I have been waiting for todays videos for hours, I knew it was along one.