If they buffed focus punch to be able to do this it would be a viable choice again. Team preview, access to u-turn and volt switch, and power creep ensured focus punch would never remain a viable move option pass Gen IV.
51:42 Iron Hands gets Supercell Slam now, which is a huge power increase for it's STAB but also risky for your bulky fighting type to potentially lose 50% of it's health.
Main reason not to use Hidden Power oN heracross in Gen 2 is because you have to drop your multiple different EV's including your HP EV to below 5, which significantly impacts your bulk. In a bulk scentric meta game this makes it too much of a cost to use
The unique property of threatening normal types is underrated imo. Blissey, Mega Kangaskhan, Snorlax etc... these mons are scary... The fighting type keeps bulky normal types in check.
My favourite fighting type is Jimothy Cool, who fights off people laughing, mocking, and otherwise deriding him for the proper pronunciation of grew-don.
Isn't it weird that other than Keldeo there are no pokemon that you look at their stats and say "This is definitely a special attacker". The only ones that can use special attacks effectively are all mixed attackers.
Fun fact also, Lucario is the only other fighting type Pokemon with a higher special attack than physical attack. Nasty plot also makes it exceptional at wall breaking (but as you said he can also be a mixed attacker)
Fighting type is an interesting offensive typing as it's a bad mono STAB (which is the reason Zamazenta is not banned) but great secondary STAB or non-STAB coverage. The reason that it's great coverage is that it hits both Steel and Dark super effectively which compliments a lot of types very well. Also hits Normal, Rock and Ice but that's less important. However, Fighting is resisted by Flying, Fairy and Poison and Ghosts are immune to it. Psychic and Bug are some less important defensive typings that resist it too. This makes Fighting a bad mono STAB despite the high base power of fighting moves. TLDR; Fighting hits some key types super effectively making it useful coverage but is also resisted by many key types making it not so spammable.
I will always be miffed they basically squandered Lucario's abilities as a Special Attacker. Nerfing Aura Sphere and generally no good ability to synergize with Aura/Wave based moves. Always makes me sad to them just be another physical beat stick. 😢
Fighting type is my favourite because all of its moves are so high risk high reward. High jump kick, super power, close combat, focus blast, no retreat, focus punch, dynamic punch, counter, cross chop etc On top of that, it is super effective against 5 types (most), and resisted/immune by 5 types (3rd most) It’s by far the most exciting type in the game and has some of the most iconic designs
Quaquaval is way too slept on. Max Hp evs and assault vest. Then substitute swords dances with triple axel and you got a late monster in singles. Not so much in doubles.
kommobros........ we won i don't think there's a single mon in the past few gens that can run as many *types* of sets as him. access to damn near every boosting move, three equally viable abilities, synergy with at least a dozen held items, what a guy
I like the idea of fighting types being weak to psychic, because i always thought it was like their brains would just explode from being too dumb to handle them.
My favourite would definitely be Mienshao ^^ I really like their Chinese-style fighter flavour, they're pretty and elegant. Gameplay-wise, their combination of physical and special prowess with decent speed, regenerator, fake out... Makes it interesting, both for Smogon lower tiers and VGC I guess. But they're starting to age! I really hope they can get a mega evolution next year :P I also like Gallade, and specially Mega Gallade a lot! He's so elegant and gallant. It'd be nice if they changed his mega evolution ability to be Sharpness, maybe that'd make him viable again for both OU and VGC... Maybe not in OU as long as Iron Valiant is there, though :/ Anyway! I've got to thank you for this very enteresting and entertaining series of videos :D It's been me go to to watch during breakfast, dinner or lunchtime ^^ I've not been really playing competitively for a lot of years, but I always like to follow how things are going. Now only flying type left! Which I know it's already uploaded. PD: Yeaah I know I'm not a subscriber of yours, my bad :P I'm just very selective about the channels I want to receive notifications about. I'll still click the like button though.
i think you undersold gen 3 blaziken a bit. it's not the greatest wallbreaker of all time, it's slow and frail and theres mons that hit way harder like medi, marowak and slaking, but that typing is unbelievable. arguably the two best attacking types in the metagame are fire and fighting, since they're pretty hard to resist and the mons that do resist them are scared of your other coverage or get chunked by the resisted hit, which is why fire blast + brick break is pretty much universal on mixed attackers regardless of typing. when you add stab onto both along with high attack and special attack, then add on blaziken's solid mixed coverage (it can use thunder punch, hp ice/grass/ghost, rock slide, etc) it's literally impossible to safely switch into it. blissey, snorlax and celebi are the 3 main special walls and you 1-2 shot all of them with stab moves (the other good special wall is regice which i don't think i need to explain the matchup for lol), and enemy fire types either die to 4x effective rock slide or don't resist fighting, and mence dies to hp ice so it's not safe either unless you risk your defensive mons to scout the set. if you get a good lead matchup, use the right team or play to its strengths then blaziken is up there with the scariest mons in the tier, it's just very hard to make it work
Can you make a video on strong type combinations that got powecrept? For example water fighting is great... Why not poliwrath at all when Keldeo existsM
Infernape is my favorite fighting type 🔥 👊 Would love to see him get a Mega Evolution where he gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang 🪄 and Kintoun ☁️ to go full Sun Wukong/Son Goku!
I admittedly felt cheated by the rocket wing media cancelling the horse councel since macargo, our lord and savior, took over. Manipulative media and i cant believe jimothy is collaborating with them.
The history of fighting types is simple. Most people will agree Lucario is the real sweeper but i think Primeape and Heracross will usually stand as the best of all gens.
I also didn't understand the legendary/mythical distinction until I realised mythicals are only given away at Nintendo events So if it's Legendary, I have one of it per save file If it's mythical, I don't bloody have it, nor will I ever
I forgot Scraggy’s Gen 5 sprite has him pulling his weird skin pants up to his chest like some old timey boxer and now I hate Post-3D with a burning passion.
No. It will count as a neutral hit. Against an Aegislash, a normal move off scrappy will be resisted, because ghost is neutral to a scrappy normal move, but steel resists it.
Zamazenta is the worst box legendary in singles, but the best box legendary in doubles (at least right now). This thing is insane. PS: I just want to add that these are the most balanced 680 stats I've ever withnessed. 138 speed, 120 Attack being the best stats is quite, special. It seems that GF wanted that thing to be a presence in ou all along. And its even a bit min maxed, because the useless special attack is the worst one too! Wierd one here, for sure, hopefully it will never fall to UU.
Ah yes Gen 1 Fighting types, the wannabe flinch hack noob trap, the guy who wishes he wasnt a fighting type 70% of the time, the guy whos getting outclassed by Clefairy in 7U, the glass cannon whos not cannon enough to kill, and primeape
Steel Types in Competitive Pokemon:
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Scraggy slander is a crime punishable by watching a gen 4 Blissey's hp slowly decrease
Blissey HP draining to 0 is always satisfying to watch
@Blanktester685 Fine. ALMOST draining to 0 and then softboiling
@@D461Sageyou can put a kid through college with that amount of time
babe wake up new horse council drama with 50+ min of fillers just dropped
We love Jimothy Cool dont we folks?
If he was a pokemon I’d have an entire PC full of shiny hims
This is very sane
@@cabrondemente1 complicatedly rageous
I love the jimpanzee
❤
Whenever jim says "what a concept" it comes off as "I hate this broken shit"
Strength not being a fighting type move always felt like an oversight that was never fixed
Same thing with karate chop at gen 1
@@erdemuykan9219 that got fixed didn't it?
When I was a kid I thought having Inner Focus meant you could use Focus Punch without charging
they should make this a mechanic
No.@@victorydarts1899
If they buffed focus punch to be able to do this it would be a viable choice again. Team preview, access to u-turn and volt switch, and power creep ensured focus punch would never remain a viable move option pass Gen IV.
Fighting type is one of the most solid types in competitive pokemon
known for having fantastic attacking options
@@SuperSonic3557and being among the best offensive types in the game.
@@morganbush7775Fighting type attacks are widely threatening
Super effective against 5 other types
Normal, ice rock dark and most crucially of all steel.
Hitmonlee? More like, -High Jump Kick-, -misses-, Hitmyknee.
Now wait you little hitmonshit
Detractors of Scraggy shall be subject to cruel and unusual punishment
21:49 "Grand beings of another magnitude" my friends describing my mom in middle school recess
My favorite TH-camr to watch while eating spaghetti in my bed
This treatment of Scraggy is completely unwarranted and unfair. The Jimothy Non-Subscribers will pay dearly for their cruel abuse of this sweet boy.
It's Submission Friday, folks.
We're punchin folks
Scrafty is my favourite pokémon, I'm glad to see his funny little pre-evolution mentioned.
I love the silly face.
51:42 Iron Hands gets Supercell Slam now, which is a huge power increase for it's STAB but also risky for your bulky fighting type to potentially lose 50% of it's health.
Fighting types are the best. They're the only ones who understand what battle even means, it's in the name.
My favorite fighting type was the one my dad showed me every time he drank. I also like Breloom because hes a silly little guy.
And while you may wish your father put you to bed sometimes, Breloom consistently does!
@@imfiguringitout_ holy shit the jam after the lob
That's disgusting. Are you or anyone in danger?
I was just adding all of these videos into a playlist yesterday and was surprised to see that fighting types hadn’t been done yet
Main reason not to use Hidden Power oN heracross in Gen 2 is because you have to drop your multiple different EV's including your HP EV to below 5, which significantly impacts your bulk. In a bulk scentric meta game this makes it too much of a cost to use
Fighting is super effective against Magcargo
big if true
The unique property of threatening normal types is underrated imo.
Blissey, Mega Kangaskhan, Snorlax etc... these mons are scary...
The fighting type keeps bulky normal types in check.
I need a 4 hour lore and storyline video on the Jimothy Cool intros. Thanks
Get yourself a Chople berry, folks
My favourite fighting type is Jimothy Cool, who fights off people laughing, mocking, and otherwise deriding him for the proper pronunciation of grew-don.
47:57 someone said that Dire Claw is an attack that's straight out of the TCG, and I've never forgotten that
Fighting going from a joke in gen 1 to a decent all rounder to meta threat is quite the journey.
Isn't it weird that other than Keldeo there are no pokemon that you look at their stats and say "This is definitely a special attacker".
The only ones that can use special attacks effectively are all mixed attackers.
Fun fact also, Lucario is the only other fighting type Pokemon with a higher special attack than physical attack. Nasty plot also makes it exceptional at wall breaking (but as you said he can also be a mixed attacker)
You mean fighting types specifically?
i think flutter mane is pretty special attack
@@canblockbaguettesFlutter Mane is a fighting type now?
@@Mr.Sax. wait thats your point??? shit let me check shit rq
Rip to Pawmot not getting a mention! I think its pretty useful
And Chestnaught but after using it in my playthrough now i see why it might not have
@@Taexer chesnaught is pretty solid as a lower tier tank imo
Can't believe he forgot the absolute Metagame staple that is Meloetta-Pirouette forme
Fighting type is an interesting offensive typing as it's a bad mono STAB (which is the reason Zamazenta is not banned) but great secondary STAB or non-STAB coverage.
The reason that it's great coverage is that it hits both Steel and Dark super effectively which compliments a lot of types very well. Also hits Normal, Rock and Ice but that's less important.
However, Fighting is resisted by Flying, Fairy and Poison and Ghosts are immune to it. Psychic and Bug are some less important defensive typings that resist it too. This makes Fighting a bad mono STAB despite the high base power of fighting moves.
TLDR; Fighting hits some key types super effectively making it useful coverage but is also resisted by many key types making it not so spammable.
Thank you for this enlightening video Jimothy, I am excited to utilize these strategies to dominate RBY OU with my Machamp
I just gotta say that i really enjoy your thumbnails.
Toxicroak was my jam in gen 5. Life orb, Sub, sucker punch, drain punch, swords dance on a rain team carried me
Fighting types and Psychic types switched places since gen 1
Now Psychic is bad and Fighting is great
i hope breloom gets a mega form one day
I will always be miffed they basically squandered Lucario's abilities as a Special Attacker. Nerfing Aura Sphere and generally no good ability to synergize with Aura/Wave based moves. Always makes me sad to them just be another physical beat stick. 😢
Fighting type is my favourite because all of its moves are so high risk high reward. High jump kick, super power, close combat, focus blast, no retreat, focus punch, dynamic punch, counter, cross chop etc
On top of that, it is super effective against 5 types (most), and resisted/immune by 5 types (3rd most)
It’s by far the most exciting type in the game and has some of the most iconic designs
Quaquaval is way too slept on. Max Hp evs and assault vest. Then substitute swords dances with triple axel and you got a late monster in singles. Not so much in doubles.
Sub+ SD on AV quaquaval?
I had to fight to get this comment out early...
kommobros........ we won
i don't think there's a single mon in the past few gens that can run as many *types* of sets as him. access to damn near every boosting move, three equally viable abilities, synergy with at least a dozen held items, what a guy
I like the idea of fighting types being weak to psychic, because i always thought it was like their brains would just explode from being too dumb to handle them.
The classic brains vs. brawn.
My favourite would definitely be Mienshao ^^ I really like their Chinese-style fighter flavour, they're pretty and elegant. Gameplay-wise, their combination of physical and special prowess with decent speed, regenerator, fake out... Makes it interesting, both for Smogon lower tiers and VGC I guess. But they're starting to age! I really hope they can get a mega evolution next year :P
I also like Gallade, and specially Mega Gallade a lot! He's so elegant and gallant. It'd be nice if they changed his mega evolution ability to be Sharpness, maybe that'd make him viable again for both OU and VGC... Maybe not in OU as long as Iron Valiant is there, though :/
Anyway! I've got to thank you for this very enteresting and entertaining series of videos :D It's been me go to to watch during breakfast, dinner or lunchtime ^^ I've not been really playing competitively for a lot of years, but I always like to follow how things are going. Now only flying type left! Which I know it's already uploaded.
PD: Yeaah I know I'm not a subscriber of yours, my bad :P I'm just very selective about the channels I want to receive notifications about. I'll still click the like button though.
Reverend enjoyers know that Machamp's true power in OU is being the best at Countering your own explosion damage
I love clicking choice band close combat with my fighting types
i think you undersold gen 3 blaziken a bit. it's not the greatest wallbreaker of all time, it's slow and frail and theres mons that hit way harder like medi, marowak and slaking, but that typing is unbelievable. arguably the two best attacking types in the metagame are fire and fighting, since they're pretty hard to resist and the mons that do resist them are scared of your other coverage or get chunked by the resisted hit, which is why fire blast + brick break is pretty much universal on mixed attackers regardless of typing. when you add stab onto both along with high attack and special attack, then add on blaziken's solid mixed coverage (it can use thunder punch, hp ice/grass/ghost, rock slide, etc) it's literally impossible to safely switch into it. blissey, snorlax and celebi are the 3 main special walls and you 1-2 shot all of them with stab moves (the other good special wall is regice which i don't think i need to explain the matchup for lol), and enemy fire types either die to 4x effective rock slide or don't resist fighting, and mence dies to hp ice so it's not safe either unless you risk your defensive mons to scout the set. if you get a good lead matchup, use the right team or play to its strengths then blaziken is up there with the scariest mons in the tier, it's just very hard to make it work
My iron mugulis arrived while watching this video, that REALLY makes me want to like the video, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment.
Scraggy deserves everything he's got. He was a monster back in '89
I cant wait for the Stellar type video!
First. This is insane
You were.
Loving the SMT3 music. Demon rankings when?
Can you make a video on strong type combinations that got powecrept? For example water fighting is great... Why not poliwrath at all when Keldeo existsM
KAPUNCH
FOCUSSS BLAST
Scraggy and Scrafty slander will NOT be tolerated
Infernape is my favorite fighting type 🔥 👊
Would love to see him get a Mega Evolution where he gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang 🪄 and Kintoun ☁️ to go full Sun Wukong/Son Goku!
Can never go one video without hearing gruudon
Slander of Scraggy will be punished with watching a blissey's health go to 1 and than it softboiling
When you're done with all the types, it would be cool if you made a tier list like recap video
@43:00 i still wish you (and zeraora) had been electric fighting
I came hear for horse council,and macargo news but the video Seems good
I admittedly felt cheated by the rocket wing media cancelling the horse councel since macargo, our lord and savior, took over. Manipulative media and i cant believe jimothy is collaborating with them.
Fun Fact: Beedrill can learn Brick Break as a TM in gen 3.
Can you do a ranking of the different Ubers meta games from least favorite to favorite?
I was confused why DD Groundium was first until I saw that it’s the first analysis set fsr LMAO I fixed it now
The history of fighting types is simple.
Most people will agree Lucario is the real sweeper but i think Primeape and Heracross will usually stand as the best of all gens.
Days since Groodon: 0.
I also didn't understand the legendary/mythical distinction until I realised mythicals are only given away at Nintendo events
So if it's Legendary, I have one of it per save file
If it's mythical, I don't bloody have it, nor will I ever
The fighting type was the best addition gen 4 gave us
Scraggy went to worlds, these posers are just jealous
You always start woth saying how amazing the topic is. Even for ice types. It's kinda refreshing even if it is somewhat inflated.
Where is Terrakion's iconic Double Kick set?
I forgot Scraggy’s Gen 5 sprite has him pulling his weird skin pants up to his chest like some old timey boxer and now I hate Post-3D with a burning passion.
The Pokémon muk counters the fighting type making it in one of the weakest types
What about fairy
#RunAMuk
This is also why Swalot is a top-tier threat.
Competitive solid is one of the most fighting pokemon types
When a Pokémon with scrappy hits a ghost type with a normal or fighting move is it still resisted?
No. It will count as a neutral hit. Against an Aegislash, a normal move off scrappy will be resisted, because ghost is neutral to a scrappy normal move, but steel resists it.
Iron hands has supercell slam as well tho
Zamazenta is the worst box legendary in singles, but the best box legendary in doubles (at least right now). This thing is insane.
PS: I just want to add that these are the most balanced 680 stats I've ever withnessed. 138 speed, 120 Attack being the best stats is quite, special. It seems that GF wanted that thing to be a presence in ou all along. And its even a bit min maxed, because the useless special attack is the worst one too! Wierd one here, for sure, hopefully it will never fall to UU.
Hawlucha is the coolest looking pokemon of all time
Me, an RBY player: The ~what~ type?
Ah yes Gen 1 Fighting types, the wannabe flinch hack noob trap, the guy who wishes he wasnt a fighting type 70% of the time, the guy whos getting outclassed by Clefairy in 7U, the glass cannon whos not cannon enough to kill, and primeape
Fighting types are their greatest enemy?
8:02 I wish this was the case , but it's ok in adv. Fighting/bug both get resisted by flying ,ghost ,poison and fairy later on.
Why did he pronounce Medikam like that?
What about Ken and Ryu
what if scraggys mega was that he got a belt so he can use his hands 😮
Can we have an ice/fighting type with good speed one day?
I guess there’s Crabominable in trick room lol
@@UnchainedPandoran Its a fantastic offensive combo, would be nice to have it on something with 110 speed or something, no need for set up.
its what sneasler should have been
Wow
Terra Fighting Incineroar ofc
i love scraggy :(
I will #FightForScraggy
fighting types best types
Poor Chesnaught, doesn’t even get a mention in Gen 6 because Breloom is better 😔
Scraggy is not the problem.
im all about Lee
Scraggy deserves better
As a jimothy nonsubscriber, all my homies hate scraggy
I wish Bewear was meta.
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Show me where these non-subs are. How dare they attack Scraggy unprovoked
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