Imagine being a mono-rock type Pokemon, having rare access to the move "head smash" which is also rock type, being known as the "Head Butt Pokemon", being based off of Pachycephalosaurus who's known for head butting, and NOT having "Rock Head" as an ability. One of the biggest insults in Pokemon.
For me, another large victim is Aerodactyl. It has Rock Head, but cannot learn Head Smash or Brave Bird. Imagine how devastating Aerodactyl would be if it had those moves.
It’s hilarious to me that Rampardos, the Pokemon with 165 base attack, had to run special attacks just to carve a niche in one of the lower tiers. Just goes to show how important speed is I guess
As FSG said in the video, there are plenty of good pokemon that are slow (ttar for example.) Ttar has the bulk to make up for it lacking in speed, which unfortunately rampardos has neither of.
I can imagine it surprise switching on defog zapdos and revenge killing pesky soccer rabbit or every flying type tho I mean dude with that attack, accrock probably do about 40-50% normal damage, or at least 30% as resisted.
@@nerdstop5025 Damn. I thought cranidos would be good but looking back..... yeah mienfoo exists and even tho headbutt flinches from that attack stat is disgusting it's not good
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 It's basically all of the mid-evolutions (that aren't actually viable in tiers above like Porygon2) of three-stage evolution lines. Which to be fair, Rampardos isn't exactly that since it's fully-evolved. Untiered is a different story.
Right? Like every single Pokédex entry talks about how it smashes things with its head, it’s the Skull Fossil, a rock type Pokémon, the Head butt Pokémon, based on a dinosaur known to ram things with its head and the cherry on top is it’s only one of 16 Pokémon to learn Rock Smash which is something 1 of 2 Pokémon learned when introduced Let us also not forget the greatest facepalm is that EVERY SINGLE GENERATION has at least ONE game that mentions how it can withstand smashing into things with its head. You know, using a move and not receiving recoil. What ability do you think that describes the best? Game freak clearly dropped the ball and won’t accept they intentionally screwed this mon over just like they did Archeops. What they did to that one is really just a dick move tho
@@STALKER777LK Seems like a pretty pointless case to worry about balance IMO, it'd still be so easy to beat in a ton of scenarios that having such a niche upside couldn't be that horrible.
First thing I think of is that scene from Austin Powers where Powers slowly drives the steam roller and the dude on the floor keeps yelling instead of trying to escape.
Cause gamefreak doesn't like giving pokemon stuff that makes the most sense for them and instead just give broken signature moves/abilities to newer mons
vasher nightblood Low key that’d be so damn good. It’d potentially bump it up a tier if it had access to that and something like that electric recoil move
@@neelwaghmare8773 It´s still an immoveable piece of broccoli and basically anything that hits it with normal effectivness is a death sentence, if it isn´t a Quick Attack from a Pichu.
New ability idea for Rampardos: Taking recoil damage greatly increases speed. Thematic, and it might help cover it's weakness while not completely making it unstoppable.
@@krallakrulla971 I imagine it could eek out surviving a hit if it had one of those berries that halved the damage it took. So maybe put it in sand and give it a berry to take a least one special move so it can smash the opponent, but it still would probably die the very next turn sadly
Watching this made me realize something: this is another Onix situation, where a cool Pokémon gets neutered stat-wise because it happens to be the first gym leader’s ace, and you can’t have it bowling over everything in the early game. You hate to see it...
Is it really a neutered situation with an Attack stat that massive? I mean, let's be real here. Not a whole lot is surviving that thing's assaults. Onix could make it work since it's Defense was stupid high and Attack was much lower. This is an Inverse effect and harder to argue for.
@@stetsonherrick8090 It's not neutered by it having a high attack stat, far from it. The problem with Rampardos is that it has low defenses, is very slow, and has one of the worst defensive types in the game next to ice. No one is going to argue that it can hit hard, with a base 165 attack stat, STAB head smash, and plenty of usable coverage move options, it has the potential to be an extremely threatening offensive powerhouse, at least on paper. The problem is that it has too many flaws that are too significant to just overlook to be truly very viable; more specifically, being both slow AND frail is a recipe for disaster.
It wrecked me the first time I went against that gym... on a second attempt (when I knew what was coming)I had to use a few Growths on my Budew on his first pokemon to build up enough Sp. Attack to one shot it.
GF totally overpowered gen 3.It's just so fun if you think about it when Sinnoh was introduced all the Gen 3 fans that had been considering Gen 3 the generation with the most powerful pokemon , got their butts kicked by the amazing amount of strong Sinnoh Pokemon.Of course there were exceptions such as Milotic Salamence and Metagross but everyone kept firing malignant comments on GF for overpowering one Generation. Me in 2020 on Gen 3 fans that had been previously complaining about "broken pokemon": You were saying?
@@lorddarkrai5753 Not really much difference between gen 4 and gen 3 both have good and weak mons, the only gen where id think its noticeable to see the power increase in the mons(not mechanics gen 6) is gen 5 where we got such a huge amount of quality mons.
@@itriggerpeople4433 The joke is Headsmash which started as rampardos's signature move but then got given to aggron and the others in the future generations.
Rampardos was one of my most favourite Pokemon as a child. I remember how amazed I was when I evolved Cranidos to Rampardos and saw it's attack stat. Then I quickly realised how slow and easy it was to beat Rampordos. I even used choice scarf to try to improve it's speed and he was able to outspeed a decent amount of Pokemon. I seriously hope GF buff Rampardos. Despite his weaknesses, he's still a very fun Pokemon to use.
@@Unknown-gf1ci Yeah actually. The fossils are found in Sinnoh's underground. Once you've gotten the skull fossil(I think it's Cranidos), take it to the museum in Oreburgh City. There will be a scientist that'll bring the fossil to live.
It’s sad that Rampardos has the 2nd highest Physical Attack stat of every Non-Mega/Non-Legendary Pokemon behind Kartana (Yes, I don’t consider Ultra Beasts as Legendary Pokemon) yet it became Untiered through Gens 5-7. Still a great Pokemon on my Pearl team though
Succ Head unfornuantely Power by itself doesn't always mean everything though and that's basically the Problem with Rampardos. If it was at least Fast or Bulky it be super good. Too bad I wanted to see this guy at least in UU.
@@morphstarchangeling8024 The issue is rock typing makes you die to anything if you don't have 120+ in both defenses. Rampardos only hope is to be fast enough to do something before it dies. So it needs something to patch its speed up like sand rush.
Even if the vids focus on the final evolutions in each line, it's gonna take a few years to finish this series, then there will be another generation to cover. There's also the inevitable generational shifts that can warrant a new video on some of the premier mons.
I love rampardos. It’s got such a beautiful design. But it breaks my heart that you can barely use him. I think he deserves some more defense at least. I mean look at him. He’s rock type and his skin just looks tough. Not to mention he has a built in helmet
So your telling me the "Headbutt pokemon" based on the hardheaded Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus, the pokemon who made head smash rock type doesn't get the rock head ability... Oh but dont worry Aggron and Tyrantrum get it. *sigh*
Sadly, even with Rock Head, Rampardos wouldn't be great since it's too frail to benefit from the lack of recoil. Those other Pokes have the bulk to benefit from not having to deal with recoil
Even in the brand new gen 5 PU tier Rampardos has still yet to establish a solid role. I would make a joke, but I just feel bad for Rampardos at this point.
@@mig5852 trick room isn't seen often due of wasting a turn to insert the room, then switch into rampardos people have either to take the risk that it could get knocked out unless the opponent switches or let the trick room summoner , well DIES yuh not the best gimmick just kinda in NU lol
So youre telling me Relicanth didnt go extinct after all these centuries, but Rampardos did? I don't belie- *Watches FSG video* Yeah I can see that now.
Let Rampardos's history in competitive be a lesson to you: Just because you have one stat that's great doesn't automatically mean you're a force to be reckoned with.
zygarde-50 OU ban intensifies -okay, to be fair, zygarde does have more than one good move but the ban was still caused by the addition of a single move-
Based on its design Rampardos should have the same Stats or distribution like Kartana. Fast, Strong and Physically bulky on the physical side, while being frail on the special side.
Even then it wouldn't be fast enough to justify being a very frail pure rock type sweeper, it would fall even quicker to priority moves and other strong moves that already ruin Ramparados with it's high health.
They should make a Mega Rampardos with Rock Head as its ability, buff both of its defences by 20 points and its speed by 60. Itd become a Uber or atleast an OU
118 speed is ridiculous on a pokemon with a 165 Attack and STAB 150 BP stab with swords dance. It wouldn't be frail either with finish 97-80-70 Defenses are more than enough for it to set up a swords dance or even stealth rock and tear apart the opposing team with head smash. It should not have more than 95 Speed, otherwise anything it would rip through any team. A set of max atk, max speed and 4 hp with jolly nature and - Swords Dance - Head Smash - Earthquake - Fire Punch is utterly unwallable. I will put some calcs.
Reckless sounds better for Rampardos's style of pushing out as much unnecessary power as possible. This isn't the armor-plated Aggron we're talking about here.
I feel like if Rampardos had a rock type version of Gale Wings it could be pretty decent, allows it to at least get one kill of the bat with a head smash and it’s gimmick could be that you try to keep it full health to utilise it
@@tdawgmaster1729 it could work against walls and scarf would make it ok with astronomical attack and a base 150 power stab move with no drawback due to rock head
I remember the time when used head smash against blissey in the battletower. I felt the adrenaline while watching how the HP bar of my rampardos was dropping fortunately survived.
They should have cut its Sp atk to 30 or even less, then given it to speed, or its defenses. Why even have that much sp atk with such a dominant atk stat.
Fun fact, Cranidos is based on smaller Pachicephalosaurus, or maybe a Stigymoloch. Rampardos looks more like a Dracorex, due to the horns, but it still has Pachicephalosaurus head
Tbh I always used him in a trick room setup, or as a sacrificial role with endure and endeavor, and I also used him with Scolipede with the op baton pass.
Can we take a moment to note how massive rampardos’ move set is? Sure it has a lot of strong physical moves like head smash, earthquake, elemental punches and many others. But it also has a large special move pool with the elemental beams and surf. It also has a surprising amount of status moves too, capable of stealth rock, a plethora of boosting moves and is one of very few pokemon to learn three different phasing moves. Shame it can’t use its move pool well.
I love Rampardos, one of my favorite pokemon and definitely my favorite fossil! I hope he gets some buffs in the remakes, and I would lose my mind if he came back in the second wave of dlc
Just to put into perspective how powerful Rampardos is, with max IVs, a neutral nature, and 0 attack EVs it will *tie* with base 117 mons that have max *everything*. Krookodile with max attack EVs, adamant nature, and max IVs comes to 366, exactly the same Rampardos gets just by existing.
Poor Rampardos, I still think the thing that destroyed it the most was the pure rock typing they gave it. Being frail, slow, AND weak to basically every priority move in existence (mach punch, aqua jet, bullet punch) is so painful
This channel is too good at influencing my mind. First im thinking about an unstoppable force with wild attack that could ohko anything and seconds later about a slow and frail pokemon that couldnt get a turn.
Rampardos has one of my favorite designs in the series. As a kid, I always thought he was such a cool Pokemon. His defense and speed stats are so abysmal, it's sad this badass dinosaur sucks
"Slow and frail" (the term you used 95% of the time in this vid) is a much better description of Rampardos' weaknesses than "slow and weak" like you said on the first mention of its difficulties. That boi is many things, and has a lot of short coming but he ain't "weak" (that word implies offensive shortcomings more than it does defensive, a la "shuckle/blissey are tanky but weak") I've seen thus vid a bunch of times and I enjoy it and you a lot thanks for the content!
I used one in Brilliant Diamond, got a TM for Rock Slide early thanks to the Grand Underground, and gave it a Hard Stone. Plus, it had the Sheer Force ability, learned Rock Polish by level up, and I could teach it Swords Dance. It fell off pretty quickly once the battles in the game actually became difficult, but it will always hold a special place in my heart for that.
Rampardos: Is literally the headbutt pokemon. Based on a pachycephalosaurus. All of it's pokedex entries mention it's skull. Resurrected from the skull fossil. Rock type. *Doesn't learn skull bash* *Doesn't have rock head*
Rampardos might have a slight use in gen 8 doubles since trickroom is much better there. With Indeede’s follow me, ally swap, and priority denial in psychic terrain, it might actually be able to do something.
The best memory I have of Rampardos is using it to try and find a battle where I could showcase it to send the replay to a Poketuber here in Brazil.His name is SharkTuxa,and back in Gen 7 he did a series of videos called “Dia D”,in which the subscribers chose a Pokémon from a poll he did with 3 mons of a certain Gen. When it was Rampardos’s time,I made a tr team in RU w mixed rampardos and showcased it. As a matter of fact,the fact that it doesn’t have to run speed makes way for even more powerful mix attacking stats.
Gengarzilla Rampardos has 2 amazing abilities in Mold Breaker and Sheer Force (though Rock Head would’ve been nice on it for Head Smash). What makes Vish better is its better typing, the fact that it can actually take a couple hits, and it’s much faster
Rampardos is a fine example for why only attack stat is not enough. you got to have something to back it up - defense that will allow you to take a hit, or speed that allow you to dish the damage youre capable of. but when you have neither of those, youre basically worthless
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Imagine being a mono-rock type Pokemon, having rare access to the move "head smash" which is also rock type, being known as the "Head Butt Pokemon", being based off of Pachycephalosaurus who's known for head butting, and NOT having "Rock Head" as an ability. One of the biggest insults in Pokemon.
Game freak seems to not like giving out rock head + head smash.
@@fulltimeslackerii8229 Sudowoodo and Aggron hiding in a corner:
@@halitefeonder3848 *tyrantrum has left the chat*
Even Relicanth and Onix get it lol
For me, another large victim is Aerodactyl. It has Rock Head, but cannot learn Head Smash or Brave Bird.
Imagine how devastating Aerodactyl would be if it had those moves.
It’s hilarious to me that Rampardos, the Pokemon with 165 base attack, had to run special attacks just to carve a niche in one of the lower tiers. Just goes to show how important speed is I guess
As FSG said in the video, there are plenty of good pokemon that are slow (ttar for example.)
Ttar has the bulk to make up for it lacking in speed, which unfortunately rampardos has neither of.
trick room my man you forgot trick room
Danny N unfortunately trick room takes setup
@@dannyn6036 Did you comment before watching the video? Kellen said quite a few times that Trick Room isn't an automatic fix for slow Pokemon.
Tbh, it's too fast for Trick Room.
I still like Rampardos and I am going to breed one with Sheer Force in my Gen 5 game.
“Higher Attack stat than Groudon, but just as good as Ledian.”
It has 97 hit points it gets close to decent
😥
F
Being compared to Ledian is such an insult. 😭
@@cintronproductions9430 really? Kallen said its op
Imagine this thing with accelerock... It wouldn't do much, but that would basically turn it into a crawdaunt
Still can't switch on anything tho
So yeah, Crawdaunt
Shoutarou Hirashima crawdaunt isn’t a rock type and also has really good defense
Patrick Burton he means crawdaunt has aqua jet
I can imagine it surprise switching on defog zapdos and revenge killing pesky soccer rabbit or every flying type tho
I mean dude with that attack, accrock probably do about 40-50% normal damage, or at least 30% as resisted.
Definitely the definition of 'It looked so strong in the show' alongside Onyx
onix was more viable I think since Gen 6 because it was a fast sturdy sun setter.
@@M3rtyville and Onix is very good in Little Cup, but Cranidos can't even compare to it
@@nerdstop5025 Damn. I thought cranidos would be good but looking back..... yeah mienfoo exists and even tho headbutt flinches from that attack stat is disgusting it's not good
@@axlr8deathpls294 yeah it's just really unfortunate the cards Cranidos was handed
I mean it's strong
Venomoth: rises from the fires of hell into UU
Rampardos: stews in hatred with NFE’s
I ways wondered what even NFE means tho, it is called untier?
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 It stands for not fully evolved
@@kingdaddy5355 And there's a significant amount of NFE pokemon that blow Fully-Evolved pokemon out of the water.
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 It's basically all of the mid-evolutions (that aren't actually viable in tiers above like Porygon2) of three-stage evolution lines. Which to be fair, Rampardos isn't exactly that since it's fully-evolved. Untiered is a different story.
@@johnsans534 I can only think of Chansey and Galar Corsola. What other NFE mons do that?
Rampardos: I fear no man but that thing
*Moves with at least 60 base power*
Rampardos: it scares me
Is this a Bruce lee reference?
master x Steven stone's Team Fortress 2, search Meet the Pyro
@@masterxstevenstones8526 No. It's a reference from Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Pyro" trailer.
Most priority moves have even less. Poor Rampardos
or literally any priority move ever
The fact that it doesn't have Rock Head baffles me
At least we have Tyrantrum
Same, along with the fact that Sudowoodo only got access to Head Smash in gen 7 or 8.
Balance
Right? Like every single Pokédex entry talks about how it smashes things with its head, it’s the Skull Fossil, a rock type Pokémon, the Head butt Pokémon, based on a dinosaur known to ram things with its head and the cherry on top is it’s only one of 16 Pokémon to learn Rock Smash which is something 1 of 2 Pokémon learned when introduced
Let us also not forget the greatest facepalm is that EVERY SINGLE GENERATION has at least ONE game that mentions how it can withstand smashing into things with its head. You know, using a move and not receiving recoil. What ability do you think that describes the best? Game freak clearly dropped the ball and won’t accept they intentionally screwed this mon over just like they did Archeops. What they did to that one is really just a dick move tho
@@STALKER777LK Seems like a pretty pointless case to worry about balance IMO, it'd still be so easy to beat in a ton of scenarios that having such a niche upside couldn't be that horrible.
Gens 4 & 6: decent in lower tiers
Gens 5 & 7: *EXTINCT*
This thing wasn't a glass cannon.
It was a sledgehammer.
A glass sledgehammer, but a hammer all the same.
A cannon is more powerful than a sledgehammer
@@chuggaa100 but what if its a really big sledgehammer
@@limerumpus3589 now hear me out. an extremely dense glass sledgehammer cannon combo
@@benzadik6187 a cannon that shoots sledgehammers
I'm not sure I understand this analogy
"Gen 7 went right back to kicking it in the Pokeballs" LMAO
Oof
Lmao 😂😂😂
+predator *I see what you did there*
Lol
I felt that comment too.
Drag Let's be honest. Gen 7 kicked a lot of things in the Pokeballs. Rampardos is just one of the many things that got kicked
"To add insult to injury, Ferrothorn.... existed."
Rogal Dorn would be proud.
Indeed he would
Bruh ik
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"This is true"
Now I want an FSG video narrated by Rogal Dorn. Bastiodon would be the the most fitting of course.
Rampardos: *looks like it can charge you really fast*
Also Rampardos: *IS SLOWER THAN WAILORD*
Pokémon logic for ya. Purugly is faster than the Lati twins. XD
First thing I think of is that scene from Austin Powers where Powers slowly drives the steam roller and the dude on the floor keeps yelling instead of trying to escape.
I think it can be fast. But only in a straight line.
@@cintronproductions9430 And conkeldurr is faster than vikavolt
Wailord? Wailord! WAILORD. WAILOOOOORD. WAIIIILOOORD
Gamefreak: Let's give it the second highest attack in the game.
Also gamefreak: _Let's make its other stats as good as Ledian_
It isn’t the second highest through
Monkey.D Luffy well second highest non mega
McSmash Gamers I guess, if only he had like 40 more stats then he prob could of had some defense to helphim out or speed
Just wait for Bastiodon...
doesn't ledian have like 171 base attack
"One move does not make a pokemon great" - DRACOVISH
XD
Hah
Arguably Serperior.
@@krspaceT1 thats move + ability
And then came water absorb arctovish lol
HOW DOES THIS THING NOT HAVE THE ABILITY ROCK HEAD?!?
Cause gamefreak doesn't like giving pokemon stuff that makes the most sense for them and instead just give broken signature moves/abilities to newer mons
on the reverse side why does aerodactyl not get head smash
vasher nightblood Low key that’d be so damn good. It’d potentially bump it up a tier if it had access to that and something like that electric recoil move
@@thedman05 or brave bird but that might make it to good
@@neelwaghmare8773 It´s still an immoveable piece of broccoli and basically anything that hits it with normal effectivness is a death sentence, if it isn´t a Quick Attack from a Pichu.
Gen 6 PU: Here Rampardos, have a home
Gen 7 PU: *Laughs in Aggron and Lycanroc*
Bruh srsly?
A stupid question, but what is PU again standing for?
@@aureliodeprimus8018 It's literally just a pun
Aurelio Deprimus partially used
@@enrage21 Ok, so i remembered it correctly. But isn`t it a little strange that it is the tier below "never used"?
"kicked right in the pokeballs"
thank you now I'm cleaning up my drink
Ye olde spit take.
@@tedscheett9420 ugly pic lmfao
JBGR Network you dare call Teddiursa ugly? Banish him to the Distortion World.
@@succhead6884 nah but the MD pics baffles me the most not teddiursa the pics of the newest MD in general
New ability idea for Rampardos: Taking recoil damage greatly increases speed.
Thematic, and it might help cover it's weakness while not completely making it unstoppable.
that would be a great idea but
Rampardos cant take a single hit to setup so its basically rock polsih
@@krallakrulla971 I imagine it could eek out surviving a hit if it had one of those berries that halved the damage it took. So maybe put it in sand and give it a berry to take a least one special move so it can smash the opponent, but it still would probably die the very next turn sadly
Or just simply give it a buff in speed pushing it up to 95 speed and then give it speed boost as a secondary ability
no.
just give it rock head seriously@@magolor152
Watching this made me realize something: this is another Onix situation, where a cool Pokémon gets neutered stat-wise because it happens to be the first gym leader’s ace, and you can’t have it bowling over everything in the early game.
You hate to see it...
Is it really a neutered situation with an Attack stat that massive?
I mean, let's be real here. Not a whole lot is surviving that thing's assaults. Onix could make it work since it's Defense was stupid high and Attack was much lower.
This is an Inverse effect and harder to argue for.
@@stetsonherrick8090 It's not neutered by it having a high attack stat, far from it. The problem with Rampardos is that it has low defenses, is very slow, and has one of the worst defensive types in the game next to ice. No one is going to argue that it can hit hard, with a base 165 attack stat, STAB head smash, and plenty of usable coverage move options, it has the potential to be an extremely threatening offensive powerhouse, at least on paper. The problem is that it has too many flaws that are too significant to just overlook to be truly very viable; more specifically, being both slow AND frail is a recipe for disaster.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 AND no priority to fix that
It wrecked me the first time I went against that gym... on a second attempt (when I knew what was coming)I had to use a few Growths on my Budew on his first pokemon to build up enough Sp. Attack to one shot it.
How so? You fight Cranidos, not Rampardos, as Roark's ace. While in Onix's case, it does not evolve( in the games its native to, at least)
Today we'll be looking at Sinnoh Pokemon with an awesome design made competitively worthless part 2
*laughs in Roserade but cries in Torterra*
GF totally overpowered gen 3.It's just so fun if you think about it when Sinnoh was introduced all the Gen 3 fans that had been considering Gen 3 the generation with the most powerful pokemon , got their butts kicked by the amazing amount of strong Sinnoh Pokemon.Of course there were exceptions such as Milotic Salamence and Metagross but everyone kept firing malignant comments on GF for overpowering one Generation. Me in 2020 on Gen 3 fans that had been previously complaining about "broken pokemon":
You were saying?
@@lorddarkrai5753 Not really much difference between gen 4 and gen 3 both have good and weak mons, the only gen where id think its noticeable to see the power increase in the mons(not mechanics gen 6) is gen 5 where we got such a huge amount of quality mons.
Chris F.
Should I cry or laugh in Gastrodon?
@@Cinko420 in doubles, you can laugh. but in singles tho?
*The guy that first told the joke:* Rampardos
*The guys that told it again but louder:* Aggron, Tyrantrum, and even freaking Sudowoodo
But Rampardos is gen 4- Oh because it's a fossil, I get it..
M Silvestre That’s the Rock Typing for yah. No wonder they get Sandstorm boost. They need it.
@@itriggerpeople4433 The joke is Headsmash which started as rampardos's signature move but then got given to aggron and the others in the future generations.
@@luminous3558 head smash isn't rampardos's signature my guy
@@wesuckatgames9549 It is in gen 4
Not suprised of the double uploud, just happy.
Me to
Rampardos was one of my most favourite Pokemon as a child. I remember how amazed I was when I evolved Cranidos to Rampardos and saw it's attack stat. Then I quickly realised how slow and easy it was to beat Rampordos. I even used choice scarf to try to improve it's speed and he was able to outspeed a decent amount of Pokemon.
I seriously hope GF buff Rampardos.
Despite his weaknesses, he's still a very fun Pokemon to use.
Is the cranidos line obtainable in platinum without trading?
@@Unknown-gf1ci Yeah actually. The fossils are found in Sinnoh's underground. Once you've gotten the skull fossil(I think it's Cranidos), take it to the museum in Oreburgh City. There will be a scientist that'll bring the fossil to live.
@@Unknown-gf1ci yeah but it’s random if you’ll get cranidos or shieldon cause I’m pretty sure you only get one and it’s based on trainer ID so
@@fusee_gelee oh ok I get it
"It was specially dangerous with Sticky Web support, wich removed most teams' method of dealing with Rampardos, outspeeding it!" maaan...
Oh boy. This one's gonna be depressing
Rampardos is my favorite of the fossil mons, but yeah, it's difficult to ignore how Attack and HP are its only decent stats.
I'm happy I'm more of a Tyrantrum and Aerodactyl person, but I really feel sorry for Rampardos, at least it looks cool though :/
It’s sad that Rampardos has the 2nd highest Physical Attack stat of every Non-Mega/Non-Legendary Pokemon behind Kartana (Yes, I don’t consider Ultra Beasts as Legendary Pokemon) yet it became Untiered through Gens 5-7. Still a great Pokemon on my Pearl team though
All they need to do to make it viable is give it speed boost as it's ability.
It's not like that ability doesn't make sense for the design....
Succ Head unfornuantely Power by itself doesn't always mean everything though and that's basically the Problem with Rampardos.
If it was at least Fast or Bulky it be super good. Too bad I wanted to see this guy at least in UU.
Yikes. Gen 5 Untiered.. that's gotta hurt. honestly they should have switched its hp with speed and or give it rock head
I don't know if it would help but what if we give it 10 in both defenses to make it less frail.
@@morphstarchangeling8024 The issue is rock typing makes you die to anything if you don't have 120+ in both defenses. Rampardos only hope is to be fast enough to do something before it dies. So it needs something to patch its speed up like sand rush.
@Perfect Fresco it would just be a poor mans Excadrill then
@@trent800 Perfect, that could make it viable up to UU then
they should switch its sp. atk and give it Ice Punch to compensate
FSG hit us with the DOUBLE.
*WHAT A RUSH*
Yuh, Lmfao
Even if the vids focus on the final evolutions in each line, it's gonna take a few years to finish this series, then there will be another generation to cover.
There's also the inevitable generational shifts that can warrant a new video on some of the premier mons.
It’s super effective!
Ikr
sans lel
I love rampardos. It’s got such a beautiful design. But it breaks my heart that you can barely use him. I think he deserves some more defense at least. I mean look at him. He’s rock type and his skin just looks tough. Not to mention he has a built in helmet
Most fossile pokemons are really weak (eccept cradily and the galar fossils but we don't talk about that)
@@Ashelybeeaerodactyl
So your telling me the "Headbutt pokemon" based on the hardheaded Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus, the pokemon who made head smash rock type doesn't get the rock head ability... Oh but dont worry Aggron and Tyrantrum get it. *sigh*
Sadly, even with Rock Head, Rampardos wouldn't be great since it's too frail to benefit from the lack of recoil.
Those other Pokes have the bulk to benefit from not having to deal with recoil
It's not a wonder that Rampardos went extinct.
It baffles me that such a creature ever managed to survive at all.
Even in the brand new gen 5 PU tier Rampardos has still yet to establish a solid role.
I would make a joke, but I just feel bad for Rampardos at this point.
I couldn't believe it either... Honestly I feel terrible for it...
There’s no reason why this thing can’t get atleast an 80 speed stat, then it would atleast be a good choice scarf late game sweeper
@@JoeBro915 haha trickroom joins the chat
kartana is KOOLER RAMPARDOS
@@mig5852 trick room isn't seen often due of wasting a turn to insert the room, then switch into rampardos people have either to take the risk that it could get knocked out unless the opponent switches or let the trick room summoner , well DIES yuh not the best gimmick just kinda in NU lol
I'm *loving* these double upload Sundays! :D What did we do to deserve this?
They're backed up on videos
And likely have more time to create because of covid
Waiting i guess?
So youre telling me Relicanth didnt go extinct after all these centuries, but Rampardos did?
I don't belie-
*Watches FSG video*
Yeah I can see that now.
I think relicanth’s survival is more of a biological and survivability thing than a battle thing.
Maybe nature was right
Nish The Great im not an idiot mate, i know this.
Imagine years later that's why ppl say about our extinction
@@keanunmoskaluk3518 Relicanth is good in Gen 5.
Let Rampardos's history in competitive be a lesson to you: Just because you have one stat that's great doesn't automatically mean you're a force to be reckoned with.
This Hits Hard lol
@@keyblade5916 yuh
So Chansey is a joke? Ok....
Chansey has Eviolite to hold. It's no contest.
@@shadshade3878 Has 2 great stats: Special defense and HP.
“One good attack does not a good Pokémon make.”
*dracovish OU ban intensifies*
zygarde-50 OU ban intensifies
-okay, to be fair, zygarde does have more than one good move but the ban was still caused by the addition of a single move-
The Dracovish one was more a move and ability working in tandem.
Similar flawed argument: Cloyster’s Ice Shard, especially since it’s about to be banned
Manaphy with tail glow 🙃
Based on its design Rampardos should have the same Stats or distribution like Kartana. Fast, Strong and Physically bulky on the physical side, while being frail on the special side.
They should give Rampardos an ability that instantly sets up a trick room on switch in just to watch the meta-game burn..
Yeah wouldn’t help much. Ferrothorn outspeeds in trickroom so it would just die to rain teams like usual
honestly i feel like what ever primal equivalent forms dialga and palkia get should have that, like it could be called "demensional warp" or something
@@ultimaterecoil1136 Magnezone could trap and remove Ferrothorn and get it out of the way
@@shady8045 Dialga activates Trick Room and Oalkua activates Wonder Room.
Or you could give it iron ball to make it faster in trickroom
Rampardos is the equivalent of having a Top Tier GPU paired with an Ancient CPU on your rig
So like the SNES?
It wasn't a glass cannon. It was a paper nuke
Rock Head Tyrantrum: *Appears*
Rampardos: Who are you?
Rock Head Tyrantrum: I’m you, but better.
By looking Rampardos stats... Feels Like his HP and Speed should been switch for it to become a lil bit better Dont we all think?
Even then it wouldn't be fast enough to justify being a very frail pure rock type sweeper, it would fall even quicker to priority moves and other strong moves that already ruin Ramparados with it's high health.
they should switch its sp. atk instead
@@Gojira_uz 97 is pretty impressive for the lower tiers, just look at haxorus
@@goGothitaLOL Exactly. I can't understand why Gamefreak put so much effort into its special moveset.
Rampardos still get outclassed by d.dance rock head tyrantrum lol
They should make a Mega Rampardos with Rock Head as its ability, buff both of its defences by 20 points and its speed by 60. Itd become a Uber or atleast an OU
118 speed is ridiculous on a pokemon with a 165 Attack and STAB 150 BP stab with swords dance. It wouldn't be frail either with finish 97-80-70 Defenses are more than enough for it to set up a swords dance or even stealth rock and tear apart the opposing team with head smash. It should not have more than 95 Speed, otherwise anything it would rip through any team. A set of max atk, max speed and 4 hp with jolly nature and
- Swords Dance
- Head Smash
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
is utterly unwallable.
I will put some calcs.
Reckless sounds better for Rampardos's style of pushing out as much unnecessary power as possible. This isn't the armor-plated Aggron we're talking about here.
@@gengarzilla1685 no but this is a pokemon based on a dinosaur built to withstand bone crushing impacts
@@prokemongaming5149 still waiting for those calcs.....
@@exi_dudi2037 the calcs we're the friends we made along the way
I feel like if Rampardos had a rock type version of Gale Wings it could be pretty decent, allows it to at least get one kill of the bat with a head smash and it’s gimmick could be that you try to keep it full health to utilise it
“This huge dinosaur, specifically a pachycephalosaurus”
Stygimoloch: am I a joke to you?
No, you're just one of the pachycephalosaurus's unevolved forms, like dracorex.
@@jaschabull2365 bruh lmao?
that’s a NFE.
"Hopefully they give it something in DP remakes"
"Rampardos now has Rock Head as an additional ability and no other changes."
"Oh, we also forgot to mention, it has 75 base speed now. Have fun!"
I feel like 75 base speed might be enough for it to run a good scarf set
@@tdawgmaster1729 it could work against walls and scarf would make it ok with astronomical attack and a base 150 power stab move with no drawback due to rock head
I feel like he should just get speed boost
Sadly, even with Rock Head, Rampardos wouldn't be great since it's too frail to benefit from the lack of recoil.
I'd rather step on Lego than watch my Pokemon take a Rampardos Head Smash.
Rampardos is always top tier in my heart.
I remember the time when used head smash against blissey in the battletower. I felt the adrenaline while watching how the HP bar of my rampardos was dropping fortunately survived.
They should have cut its Sp atk to 30 or even less, then given it to speed, or its defenses. Why even have that much sp atk with such a dominant atk stat.
Cut it all the way down to 5.
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 Hopefully he gets some Buffs along rock types in general. Its only fair.
@@GoInGcRz Hopefully but Gamefreak is just weird when it comes to this kind of stuff.
SSSNNNAAKKEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Pokémon with a ROCKHEAD
Gamefreak “..so mold breaker”
It doesn’t need any defence it needs speed
That’s my Rampardos GEN 6 OU build
Rampardos @ Assault Vest
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 116 Def / 116 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Crunch
- Earthquake
- Power-Up Punch
Eyy! You called it! Gen 4 remakes are almost here!
Fun fact, Cranidos is based on smaller Pachicephalosaurus, or maybe a Stigymoloch. Rampardos looks more like a Dracorex, due to the horns, but it still has Pachicephalosaurus head
Some researchers think Stigymoloch, Dracorex and Pachycephalosaurus are all the same dino, with Stigy and Draco representing less than mature Pachys.
Gen 4-6: *beating and kicking Rampardos*
Gen 7: ...
Gen 7: *starts kicking and beating Rampardos too*
JOJO. GOLDEN WIND.
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god I hate weeaboos
@@Ozionian op is literally a jojo reference what are you on about
@@Ozionian actually its a reference to this: th-cam.com/video/DMI1dHGOPJo/w-d-xo.html
Being cut out by Gen 8 is practically a mercy kill for Rampardos.
I feel like if they buff his speed stat to 75 or 80 it would make him pretty decent
New Dracovish
yea with scarf for sure
Still weak to most priority. Rock is a terrible defensive typing.
It would need at least base 90 to be a decent scarfer
I would boost it to 68 and reduce his attack to 155, with scarf it could tie fast pokemon such as garchomp and still be a one shot machine
It’s my birthday and this is my absolute favorite fossil Pokémon, so thank you
We need to know how good bisharp was actually. A dark type that murders fairies and defoggers
Now I know why Roark's ace in his rematches in the Battleground in Platinum is not his Rampardos, but Tyranitar.
Byron does something similar, with Bastiodon taking a step back for an Aggron.
I'm going to presume this is why both Rampardos and Bastiodon went extinct 🤔
They did my man so dirty. Such a cool design and great stats.. Stat.
Tbh I always used him in a trick room setup, or as a sacrificial role with endure and endeavor, and I also used him with Scolipede with the op baton pass.
Can we take a moment to note how massive rampardos’ move set is? Sure it has a lot of strong physical moves like head smash, earthquake, elemental punches and many others. But it also has a large special move pool with the elemental beams and surf. It also has a surprising amount of status moves too, capable of stealth rock, a plethora of boosting moves and is one of very few pokemon to learn three different phasing moves. Shame it can’t use its move pool well.
I love Rampardos, one of my favorite pokemon and definitely my favorite fossil! I hope he gets some buffs in the remakes, and I would lose my mind if he came back in the second wave of dlc
This thing was basically dracovish before it was a thing. I used to run choice band head smash for mega sableye in gen 6 ou. Absolute unit.
Anyone else wanna see a "How GOOD was Seismitoad ACTUALLY?" SwSh was a real power trip for him
Wow Venemoth and Rampardos this quickly in one day? You're on top of your Pokemon analysis👍
4:48 I like that spinning Close Combat from Hitmontop!😍🥋
Same here!
I was very excited for rampardos back when gen 4 was coming out, then I saw it’s stats
How good was the barrier wielding mr mime actually I will never give up.
I’m so glad he knows what kind of dinosaur he is
I found your channel today... best thing thats happened to my TH-cam feed in a while
“Our Beloved Gen 4 remakes are on their way” aged like the finest of wine 🍷
Just to put into perspective how powerful Rampardos is, with max IVs, a neutral nature, and 0 attack EVs it will *tie* with base 117 mons that have max *everything*.
Krookodile with max attack EVs, adamant nature, and max IVs comes to 366, exactly the same Rampardos gets just by existing.
Poor Rampardos, I still think the thing that destroyed it the most was the pure rock typing they gave it. Being frail, slow, AND weak to basically every priority move in existence (mach punch, aqua jet, bullet punch) is so painful
0:20 this aged well
yes
Eh
Psychic terrain + trick room for Rampardos sounds like a fun (though ineffective) gimmick team.
This channel is too good at influencing my mind.
First im thinking about an unstoppable force with wild attack that could ohko anything and seconds later about a slow and frail pokemon that couldnt get a turn.
YEAH I LOVE RAMPARDOS! I love Roark’s reaction in the anime “AHHH RAMPARDOS” When he got jacked up by Ash’s Turtwig
Rampardos has one of my favorite designs in the series. As a kid, I always thought he was such a cool Pokemon. His defense and speed stats are so abysmal, it's sad this badass dinosaur sucks
He is also my favorite too, although I dont use him even for the first time.
I'd give it the Ability 'Rock Head', so that it might last a little longer, while being able to use Head Smash.
Sadly, even with Rock Head, Rampardos wouldn't be great since it's too frail to benefit from the lack of recoil.
The Gen 4 remakes are indeed on their way
"Slow and frail" (the term you used 95% of the time in this vid) is a much better description of Rampardos' weaknesses than "slow and weak" like you said on the first mention of its difficulties. That boi is many things, and has a lot of short coming but he ain't "weak" (that word implies offensive shortcomings more than it does defensive, a la "shuckle/blissey are tanky but weak")
I've seen thus vid a bunch of times and I enjoy it and you a lot thanks for the content!
I used one in Brilliant Diamond, got a TM for Rock Slide early thanks to the Grand Underground, and gave it a Hard Stone. Plus, it had the Sheer Force ability, learned Rock Polish by level up, and I could teach it Swords Dance. It fell off pretty quickly once the battles in the game actually became difficult, but it will always hold a special place in my heart for that.
Jirachi: I fear no man, but that thing
*Rampardos*
It scares me.
Remember how hype Rampardos was when the stats for the Gen 4 pokemon were revealed and the fact it can use Rock Polish?
And just like Electivire, the hype was so far misplaced it went into orbit.
@@gengarzilla1685 but electivire at least isn't *completely* terrible. It is just ... overhyped.
I feel like with accelerock this could have been a much different story.
Rampardos:
Is literally the headbutt pokemon.
Based on a pachycephalosaurus.
All of it's pokedex entries mention it's skull.
Resurrected from the skull fossil.
Rock type.
*Doesn't learn skull bash*
*Doesn't have rock head*
meanwhile, dodrio can learn fly, steel wing, sky attack and roost.
If they ever start making power armor for pokemon, then Rampardos should definitely get one.
"But hey at least I got to be with it's Gen 4 buddy Luxray"
Damn shawty ok
Well, this video aged well
"another staple of early-game Diamond and Pearl teams"
Oh, another Pokémon that's not as good as Staraptor? Sounds fun!
Your pronunciation of pachycephalosaurus is better than 90% of every other human being's pronunciation
It's literally Greek for ''Dense-headed lizard''
Rampardos might have a slight use in gen 8 doubles since trickroom is much better there. With Indeede’s follow me, ally swap, and priority denial in psychic terrain, it might actually be able to do something.
I love my adamant Rampardos, I have swept with it many times after one rock polish, But still very gimmicky and stealth rocks destroys my sash.
I used a ramparados in renegade platinum and it was amazing
The best memory I have of Rampardos is using it to try and find a battle where I could showcase it to send the replay to a Poketuber here in Brazil.His name is SharkTuxa,and back in Gen 7 he did a series of videos called “Dia D”,in which the subscribers chose a Pokémon from a poll he did with 3 mons of a certain Gen. When it was Rampardos’s time,I made a tr team in RU w mixed rampardos and showcased it. As a matter of fact,the fact that it doesn’t have to run speed makes way for even more powerful mix attacking stats.
I swear, this thing gets a buff to its speed, nothing will stop it
“As we all know, an insanely strong attack does not a good Pokémon make.”
Dracovish: “Allow me to introduce myself”
Propped up by a great ability and signature move though. Rampardos has neither quality.
Gengarzilla Rampardos has 2 amazing abilities in Mold Breaker and Sheer Force (though Rock Head would’ve been nice on it for Head Smash).
What makes Vish better is its better typing, the fact that it can actually take a couple hits, and it’s much faster
Even Tyrantrum does things better than Rampardo.
I thought Cranidos and Rampardos were Dragon types for the longest time.
It would be so cool with a mega evolution... (please in a remake 😭)
I thought they were rock/steel type based off the gray coloring
This was one of my childhood friends fav mon back in the day :) lol
I though rampardos was a t-rax
@@rondoudoushiney3868 a mega rampardos would be so cool to see
Rampardos is a fine example for why only attack stat is not enough. you got to have something to back it up - defense that will allow you to take a hit, or speed that allow you to dish the damage youre capable of. but when you have neither of those, youre basically worthless
"To add insult to injury, Ferrothorn existed."
LOL
The gen 4 remakes are indeed coming but not the one we were expecting LOL