Thanks for letting me get this fury off my chest; tomorrow we return to your regularly scheduled programming (with semicolons). Also, watch Antichrist (2009)
As much as I sympathize with your frustration over some of the braindead commenters that relentlessly stalk your comment section and enjoy watching you indulge in your sadistic side at their expense, I hope whatever you're going through in real life works out
Scald (Japanese: ねっとう Boiling Water) is a damage-dealing Water-type move introduced in Generation V. It was TM55 from Generation V to Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, TM29 in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, TR84 in Pokémon Sword and Shield, and TM49 in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. In Generation IX, it is one of the signature moves of Volcanion.
i think my favorite dumb pokemon take was this guy on reddit who compared evasion clause to feminists not caring about male abuse victims i wish i was making this up but no i saw this with my own two eyes
That's not a good argument. Your ending was rude, so i'll be concise. 1. Set up sweepers can sweep an entire team. And it's easier to set up sweep than it is to set up 6 double teams. 2. Sleep, paralysis, attraction, confusion, critical hits, moves that arent 100% accurate, etc are ALL coin flips. Theyre based on luck. I can find multiple poke.on youtube videos of playthroughs and matches where they only lose because they were infatuated 4 times in a row or paralyzed 6 turns in a row, or stone edge missed 5 times or a critical hit ran through all the defensive set up they accumulated. Luck is an integral part of the game. 3. Minimize doesnt let you evade all attacks that come your way. Plenty of attacks get through. But this ignores my argument (which suggests you didnt read it) about the tons of moves of doverse type, power, and movepool that hit past accuracy checks. Also...of you think double iron bash is the only viable move that hits past accuracy, youre clearly not in a place to criticze. Aura sphere is right there. Popular, and on pokemon known for set up potential. 4. I never mentioned hazards. You made up a stance for me and the spoke condescendingly about it. 5. Good thing you mentioned defog, because if you dont have one of the very few moves that removes hazards, it becomes a huge hinderance. Sticky web alone can destroy a team's viability. Speedy Glass cannons are insanely popular. And without one of the few pokemon that can learn one of the few moves to counter it, it could cost you the game. 6. So anyway, the negatives of evasion you criticize are present in many popular mechanics of pokemon. Evasion has a number of counters in moves, abilities, items, etc. The main issue is that it's unpopular. Like talking about lack of support for male abuse victims on a conversation about gender equality. It's not wrong. You just arent ready to hear it.
I think what bothers me the most about Scald is that conceptually I really like the idea of the move. It makes a lot of sense to me that hitting an opponent with boiling hot water would hurt really bad and would possibly leave the burn status. However, I think Game Freak failed to realize just how powerful a move like that really was, and so basically every water type in the game got access to the move. A classic example of the rich getting richer. I'm very happy that Scald is no longer a TM and is way more exclusive.
@@mandalorianhunter1 I agree. It only being on Volcanion (and I think one other I can't remember atm) is definitely an overcorrection. I still think it's better than every water type ever having it but I wouldn't mind if it was learned by some less than stellar water types, or maybe even a few fire types (like Camerupt or something) if it makes sense.
@@TectonicImprov no it's only on Volcanion and it was on Raikou, who definitely needed it to fight ground and rocks types. Looking it up, it was on some poison, bug/fire and ground types as well so it wasn't just exclusive to fire. I understand it was over centralizing to the meta, that's why they added covert cloak to gen 9. Funny enough we have salt Cure, yeah it's on one mon but it's still annoying to deal with.
Nothing better than a BKC upload on a nice tuesday evening. Edit: ok this is not what I expected but I'm having a nice tuesday evening nonetheless lmao
Okay real comment BKC I love many things about you 1) you know your shit but you're not a dickhead. Humble master :) 2) you aren't afraid to speak your mind and call out bullshit, from an informed perspective 3) mature and nuanced opinions, and not the shitty tiktok over-energized bullshit 4) chill and long videos, perfect for me to just listen to I don't think I speak just for myself when I say I honestly only watch for you. Comp pokemon is just a nice bonus. You could make videos on basically anything and I'd be here. Movies, music, other games, whatever dude. Keep on keeping on!
"When someone is getting under your skin and you want to yell at them, scream into a microphone! ...and upload it to TH-cam, of course." - Random girl on pier of Castelia City
30% effect for something as strong as burn is just mathematically funky. If you click Scald twice, you _are_ more likely than not to burn the target. This wouldn't be the case if it was 20% Of course, the problem with Scald is more the distribution more than anything, "dude let's just give a bulky water a move with 30% burn", but it is very notable that on average it will be worth to click Scald twice against a phys. attacker, regardless of damage
Whoever at GF designed an unkillable moose whose MO would be to spam Fissure followed by double power Stomping Tantrums after every miss is literally a professional Pokémon troll trolling the player base.
I laughed so hard at the intro, i love your rambles. Especially the part where you implied we don't have much better to do bc i was literally just doomscrolling twitter all day before this
Hey BKC, you're one of my favorite creators on YT right now, and just about the only channel where I reliably click on every video I see. Something about the way you explain concepts just really resonates with me. Hope you feel better, and never stop rambling
it actually was therapeutic hearing a person gradually calm down through venting. i may not have the motivation to actually play competitive pokemon but i DO know about arguing with what i would swear are literal toddlers (they're like 30 every time) thanks dude
Can someone talk about the state of Smogon's OU analyses for SS Crown Tundra on their main page? It's just 1 or 2 sets with no details for pretty much every mon. The generation is over, and it still looks as underdeveloped as it was at the start.
The thing with scald is that it's more like a fissure for physical attackers + good damage on stuff that isn't specially bulky or at least some chip than like a sludge bomb that serves as stab and maybe you can deal 1/8 more with a poison on something
also w/r/t (yeah i read a lot of david foster wallace in high school) the subject of people bringing cheese against “better” players in tournaments, i agree with you but i’m also sympathetic to an extent. i try to put myself in the shoes of a player who aspires to be great, puts in the work, reads metagame analyses, studies replays, hones their skills on the ladder and in roomtours before finally starting to join and play in individual tours, gradually starts achieving some impressive results and getting noticed while being a common and positive presence on the forums, finally getting drafted to spl or whatever prestigious team tournament, and finding out their first game is against, like, abr or someone. in that situation you’re the “new guy” surrounded by people who have more social capital than you in a hobby you care deeply about, staring down a player far better than anyone you’ve ever played before, and it’s very easy to feel like you’re letting your team down if you don’t try to maximize your odds of winning by any means. again, i’m not a tournament player so idk if it would ever happen like that but it’s just something ive been thinking about
ね っ と う Boiling Water) هي حركة من النوع المائي تسبب الضرر تم تقديمها في Generation V. لقد كانت TM55 من Generation V إلى Pokémon Ultra Sun و Ultra Moon ، TM29 في Pokémon: Let's Go ، Pikachu! و Let's Go ، Eevee !، TR84 في Pokémon Sword and Shield ، و TM49 في Pokémon Brilliant Diamond و Shining Pearl. في الجيل التاسع ، إنها إحدى الحركات المميزة لبركان.
My 2 cents: - In the ladder you have to gain knowledge. LEARNING is the main goal - In a tournament you need to use your knowledge to maximize your odds of getting a favourable situation in every game. WINNING is the main goal. Lets assume that a player didnt follow step 1, or that you he is just inexperienced or new. Then this player wouldnt be able to say 'yeah, im running 216 defense IVs on my Politoed instead of 240 because it is more optimal'. Thus, this player would stick to a very standard set that doesnt have huge optimizations, and as a result, a more experienced player will get a big edge because he knows how to optimize standard teams. If he, instead, goes way over the tangent and plays something unorthodox, then his chances of getting the more experienced opponent off guard is higher, so the chance of winning the game is higher, and that is all that matters for that player in the tournament. It can infuriate the opponent or the spectators, but that is his best play (unless he is overestimating the difference in skill). But I think the problem is that: 1) Players dont practice in ladder enough using different playstyles, some of them cheesy and some others not so much. As a result, they dont get the knowledge they need to perform in tournaments 2) Smogon cant ban every type of cheese: You can ban stuff like evasion, baton pass or even stuff like gen 5 clorophyl, but then someone like me can show up with a Nasty Plot Technician Alola persian and OHKO Landorus and Ferrothorn for a cheap win (this was a gen 7 OU ladder game, but still). 3) Tournaments arent designed to be cheese robust: If matches are best of 7 for example, then a cheesy player can get 2 or 3 wins by matchup fishing, but the odds of advancing a round would be way smaller than a single game or a best of 3. I think a better tournament format is the main solution to the problem. That would greatly encourage players to get more knowledge of each gen instead of thinking of which cheese they should apply next.
Meh, if people want edited content they'll go somewhere else. The rambling stream of consciousness thing you've got going is basically your brand at this point. It is a shame that complaining about these people complaining has to be a part of all the videos now, but that's just kinda how these things go.
when you started talking about engaging with your sadistic side i knew we were in for a great rant, love your tongue in cheek comment about being at the whim of outside forces lmao really building up the self awareness of the bkc audience
As the Gen 5 expert that you are, have you considered doing a video on what if, Pelipper, Torkoal, Vanilluxe, and Gigalith all had their weather setting abilities in gen 5?
Love the spicy energy in the introduction! As a fellow circuitous speaker, I understand the urge to eye roll at those who dislike it. Also I sympathize with those who enjoy youtube content in time constrained environments - namely the lunch break warriors. It's critical to budget those precious minutes, so succinct delivery can improve the scope of videos one gets to indulge.
Not super relevant BKC but I would really love to see a video about what the Snorlax-less Gen 2 metagame looks like and how it changes. You mentioned having seen tournaments without Lax and I would love to learn more! (Also, great video!)
If you were supreme overlord, what would Gen 1 look like? (Tradebacks? Stadium? Freeze Clause? Sleep Ban? Banning any normals/Psychics? Banning Reflect? etc.)
I managed to get a win in a team tour against the man who taught me everything about mons: Blazing Kicking Chicken. I immediately touched grass and my only involvement in mons is watching you and the agency
It wasn't until you talked about how bad and unhealthy scald was that I realised. I fucking hate that move. You revealed a quiet hatred I had buried deep inside. Thank you
Hot take: i feel like hax is semi controllable if your team force switches you'll attack more and more attack=more crits faster team gives you more chance to flinch/secondary status from move etc
I do get the impression that without the rain boost, scald is really not that big a deal. Pelliper's hurricane is feared more in later gens' rain teams, wouldn't you agree? Yes that leaves us with BW OU but it's worth considering when you dunk on the move. I am really curious if BKC thinks the feared complex bans (or stated in a less polarizing manner: ability bans) would be good for a meta game despite the weird consequences.
My take on cheese is if you want to bring it on ladder, friendlies or even individual tours then you do you. I agree it should be avoided in team tours because you aren't just effecting yourself it doesn't work out but an entire team.
I know people don't complain about BKC rambling anymore, but it seems really important to him that someone does, some here's my contribution: You ramble
I think move distribution in general, but especially for moves like scald, is too wide in general. It especially saddens me cos I mostly play natdex formats where there's no going back. I think individual Pokémon would be more interesting if they were more unique by reducing mobepools; like Toxic was an asset instead of a given to a Pokémon's movepool. I think scald is one of the worst offenders (until gen 9), giving every water the ability to omegacripple half of all mons was not a smart. I'd be cool with like mons where you can sorta argue it makes sense lore wise kinda like what they did with Volcanion but give it to a few more waters (Gyarados would make sense, probably Kingdra too, etc)
my favorite dumb take: we should unban OHKO moves. so many games have been lost by a miss that i doubt anyone would use these moves my other take that i refuse to believe is dumb: smogon banning flinch cheese on everything but rachi/kiss is beyond dumb. oh i can’t use kings rock maushold? which btw, only has 66% chance to hit 10 times and only 66% chance to flinch if you hit 10 times, effectively a 44% chance MAX and gen 8 cloyster. oh yeah but scarf rachi and togekiss just getting 60% flinch chance is totally not stupid especially with para on top.
As someone who isn't great/not very knowledgable, why is scald so critically different than moves like discharge, etc, or rather, where can I find your thoughts on this so you don't have to repeat yourself?
It is a widely spread move that deals decent damage, with a good chance to half the target's physical attack with no complete resistances whatsoever. And the type that is not affected by the attack reduction takes 2x damage from it. A case of damned if you do and damned if you don't
Where is the line drawn between player specific prep and MU fishing? If you notice that a player you're scheduled to play favors a certain archetype or pokemon, and you bring a team meant to exploit that at the cost of weaker MUs elsewhere, would that be considered cheese?
Thanks for letting me get this fury off my chest; tomorrow we return to your regularly scheduled programming (with semicolons). Also, watch Antichrist (2009)
As much as I sympathize with your frustration over some of the braindead commenters that relentlessly stalk your comment section and enjoy watching you indulge in your sadistic side at their expense, I hope whatever you're going through in real life works out
As someone who actively enjoys the unscriptedness and organic feeling of your videos I loved the raw emotion this one has. Keep up the good work(:
Now TH-cam is going to demonetize you for swearing a lot.
Bkc is mad, and I'm all in for it. Its like a pro player slowly breaking down and just not giving a shit and then just exploding.
@@howlhades0001 Reminds me of Boston Rob, Russel, and Ozzy from Survivor.
there's nothing I love more than bkc rambling about why he's rambling
Scald (Japanese: ねっとう Boiling Water) is a damage-dealing Water-type move introduced in Generation V. It was TM55 from Generation V to Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, TM29 in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, TR84 in Pokémon Sword and Shield, and TM49 in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. In Generation IX, it is one of the signature moves of Volcanion.
Such are the words of our Lord God RNGesus, as told through the prophet bulbapedia in the book of bulky water, chapter 5, verses 1 through 7. Amen.
Amen.
@@someonesgenericfish0Awomen
@@enoyna1001and the achildren too
Scald deez nuts
i think my favorite dumb pokemon take was this guy on reddit who compared evasion clause to feminists not caring about male abuse victims
i wish i was making this up but no i saw this with my own two eyes
My favorite dumb take is when some dude on Twitter compared slavery with smogon bans lmao
hold on i think i copypasta’d his comment lmafo
That's not a good argument. Your ending was rude, so i'll be concise.
1. Set up sweepers can sweep an entire team. And it's easier to set up sweep than it is to set up 6 double teams.
2. Sleep, paralysis, attraction, confusion, critical hits, moves that arent 100% accurate, etc are ALL coin flips. Theyre based on luck. I can find multiple poke.on youtube videos of playthroughs and matches where they only lose because they were infatuated 4 times in a row or paralyzed 6 turns in a row, or stone edge missed 5 times or a critical hit ran through all the defensive set up they accumulated. Luck is an integral part of the game.
3. Minimize doesnt let you evade all attacks that come your way. Plenty of attacks get through. But this ignores my argument (which suggests you didnt read it) about the tons of moves of doverse type, power, and movepool that hit past accuracy checks. Also...of you think double iron bash is the only viable move that hits past accuracy, youre clearly not in a place to criticze. Aura sphere is right there. Popular, and on pokemon known for set up potential.
4. I never mentioned hazards. You made up a stance for me and the spoke condescendingly about it.
5. Good thing you mentioned defog, because if you dont have one of the very few moves that removes hazards, it becomes a huge hinderance. Sticky web alone can destroy a team's viability. Speedy Glass cannons are insanely popular. And without one of the few pokemon that can learn one of the few moves to counter it, it could cost you the game.
6. So anyway, the negatives of evasion you criticize are present in many popular mechanics of pokemon. Evasion has a number of counters in moves, abilities, items, etc. The main issue is that it's unpopular. Like talking about lack of support for male abuse victims on a conversation about gender equality. It's not wrong. You just arent ready to hear it.
@familyguyfreemoviedownload8314 this is the most certified reddit moment ive ever seen
what the fuck did I just read
I think what bothers me the most about Scald is that conceptually I really like the idea of the move. It makes a lot of sense to me that hitting an opponent with boiling hot water would hurt really bad and would possibly leave the burn status. However, I think Game Freak failed to realize just how powerful a move like that really was, and so basically every water type in the game got access to the move. A classic example of the rich getting richer. I'm very happy that Scald is no longer a TM and is way more exclusive.
It's way to exclusive, I think it should still be on certain Pokemon instead of just one like what happened with knockoff.
Game Frick is fine adding a ton of broken shit to their games.
@@mandalorianhunter1 I agree. It only being on Volcanion (and I think one other I can't remember atm) is definitely an overcorrection. I still think it's better than every water type ever having it but I wouldn't mind if it was learned by some less than stellar water types, or maybe even a few fire types (like Camerupt or something) if it makes sense.
@@TectonicImprov no it's only on Volcanion and it was on Raikou, who definitely needed it to fight ground and rocks types. Looking it up, it was on some poison, bug/fire and ground types as well so it wasn't just exclusive to fire.
I understand it was over centralizing to the meta, that's why they added covert cloak to gen 9.
Funny enough we have salt Cure, yeah it's on one mon but it's still annoying to deal with.
they could easily fix scald by removing the damage nerf of burn
I've been watching your old laddering videos lately. You really have mellowed out over the last couple years lol
I saw the title and I thought it was going to be all about Scald
ok it is partially about Scald
4:00, 5:00, 5:10 Hearing BKC swear feels like the gentle, kind Aunty/uncle ‘scolding’ you for the first time
You know this is a BKC video when there's a Gen 5 OU replay and when he says that he could make more videos from his tangents.
I have to admit I did smile a bit hearing BKC rant for 5 minutes about how much he wanted us to suffer 😅
watching bkc have a malding session was something i didn't know i needed
scalding session
Nothing better than a BKC upload on a nice tuesday evening.
Edit: ok this is not what I expected but I'm having a nice tuesday evening nonetheless lmao
Okay real comment
BKC I love many things about you
1) you know your shit but you're not a dickhead. Humble master :)
2) you aren't afraid to speak your mind and call out bullshit, from an informed perspective
3) mature and nuanced opinions, and not the shitty tiktok over-energized bullshit
4) chill and long videos, perfect for me to just listen to
I don't think I speak just for myself when I say I honestly only watch for you. Comp pokemon is just a nice bonus. You could make videos on basically anything and I'd be here. Movies, music, other games, whatever dude. Keep on keeping on!
I don't even play competitive nowadays and BKC is easily one of my favourite youtubers
@@DronesDeAltura Same
"When someone is getting under your skin and you want to yell at them, scream into a microphone!
...and upload it to TH-cam, of course." - Random girl on pier of Castelia City
30% effect for something as strong as burn is just mathematically funky.
If you click Scald twice, you _are_ more likely than not to burn the target. This wouldn't be the case if it was 20%
Of course, the problem with Scald is more the distribution more than anything, "dude let's just give a bulky water a move with 30% burn", but it is very notable that on average it will be worth to click Scald twice against a phys. attacker, regardless of damage
Why does almost every Pokémon from gen 1-7 get Toxic?
@@ShinyTillDawn because gf lazy (setting tm learnsets takes a horrendously long time, t. fangame dev)
I’m so glad BKC is not a VGC player and so is not forced to comment on the new format: Fissure Ting-Lu, the meta.
Whoever at GF designed an unkillable moose whose MO would be to spam Fissure followed by double power Stomping Tantrums after every miss is literally a professional Pokémon troll trolling the player base.
I love your videos because they’re unscripted. It’s a lot more human and like we’re having a conversation
I laughed so hard at the intro, i love your rambles. Especially the part where you implied we don't have much better to do bc i was literally just doomscrolling twitter all day before this
Hey BKC, you're one of my favorite creators on YT right now, and just about the only channel where I reliably click on every video I see. Something about the way you explain concepts just really resonates with me. Hope you feel better, and never stop rambling
"5 UU mons and a BL"
Did you really need to expose my gen 8 teams like that?
4:00 that had some OOMPH behind it and I love it. More, MORE
I hope we get a more dedicated scald video at some point. It feels like an ohko move for physical attackers.
it actually was therapeutic hearing a person gradually calm down through venting. i may not have the motivation to actually play competitive pokemon but i DO know about arguing with what i would swear are literal toddlers (they're like 30 every time)
thanks dude
This was very cathartic to watch thank you bkc
Off topic but how long it took you to write script for lando movie in FSG?
I will still never accept the pokemon community for accepting Keldeo and for some reason I still watch these type of videos 10 years later
Can someone talk about the state of Smogon's OU analyses for SS Crown Tundra on their main page? It's just 1 or 2 sets with no details for pretty much every mon. The generation is over, and it still looks as underdeveloped as it was at the start.
Just like SS themselves. 😋
The thing with scald is that it's more like a fissure for physical attackers + good damage on stuff that isn't specially bulky or at least some chip than like a sludge bomb that serves as stab and maybe you can deal 1/8 more with a poison on something
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm so ready to see your sadistic side
also w/r/t (yeah i read a lot of david foster wallace in high school) the subject of people bringing cheese against “better” players in tournaments, i agree with you but i’m also sympathetic to an extent. i try to put myself in the shoes of a player who aspires to be great, puts in the work, reads metagame analyses, studies replays, hones their skills on the ladder and in roomtours before finally starting to join and play in individual tours, gradually starts achieving some impressive results and getting noticed while being a common and positive presence on the forums, finally getting drafted to spl or whatever prestigious team tournament, and finding out their first game is against, like, abr or someone. in that situation you’re the “new guy” surrounded by people who have more social capital than you in a hobby you care deeply about, staring down a player far better than anyone you’ve ever played before, and it’s very easy to feel like you’re letting your team down if you don’t try to maximize your odds of winning by any means. again, i’m not a tournament player so idk if it would ever happen like that but it’s just something ive been thinking about
This might be the most I've heard bkc swear
The first 10 minutes were perfect, I've never felt so happy being made fun off. Then the hot takes came in and it got, possibly, better.
Hey BKC! I hope your week gets better, I love your content, thanks a lot for the time you put into this videos. Best wishes
I love the way you talk BKC :3
this is the healthiest video i have ever had the pleasure of watching
ね っ と う Boiling Water) هي حركة من النوع المائي تسبب الضرر تم تقديمها في Generation V. لقد كانت TM55 من Generation V إلى Pokémon Ultra Sun و Ultra Moon ، TM29 في Pokémon: Let's Go ، Pikachu! و Let's Go ، Eevee !، TR84 في Pokémon Sword and Shield ، و TM49 في Pokémon Brilliant Diamond و Shining Pearl. في الجيل التاسع ، إنها إحدى الحركات المميزة لبركان.
Man unhappy with 9-to-5 job yells at his subscribers about pokemon; alternate title
My 2 cents:
- In the ladder you have to gain knowledge. LEARNING is the main goal
- In a tournament you need to use your knowledge to maximize your odds of getting a favourable situation in every game. WINNING is the main goal.
Lets assume that a player didnt follow step 1, or that you he is just inexperienced or new. Then this player wouldnt be able to say 'yeah, im running 216 defense IVs on my Politoed instead of 240 because it is more optimal'.
Thus, this player would stick to a very standard set that doesnt have huge optimizations, and as a result, a more experienced player will get a big edge because he knows how to optimize standard teams.
If he, instead, goes way over the tangent and plays something unorthodox, then his chances of getting the more experienced opponent off guard is higher, so the chance of winning the game is higher, and that is all that matters for that player in the tournament. It can infuriate the opponent or the spectators, but that is his best play (unless he is overestimating the difference in skill).
But I think the problem is that:
1) Players dont practice in ladder enough using different playstyles, some of them cheesy and some others not so much. As a result, they dont get the knowledge they need to perform in tournaments
2) Smogon cant ban every type of cheese: You can ban stuff like evasion, baton pass or even stuff like gen 5 clorophyl, but then someone like me can show up with a Nasty Plot Technician Alola persian and OHKO Landorus and Ferrothorn for a cheap win (this was a gen 7 OU ladder game, but still).
3) Tournaments arent designed to be cheese robust: If matches are best of 7 for example, then a cheesy player can get 2 or 3 wins by matchup fishing, but the odds of advancing a round would be way smaller than a single game or a best of 3.
I think a better tournament format is the main solution to the problem. That would greatly encourage players to get more knowledge of each gen instead of thinking of which cheese they should apply next.
Meh, if people want edited content they'll go somewhere else. The rambling stream of consciousness thing you've got going is basically your brand at this point. It is a shame that complaining about these people complaining has to be a part of all the videos now, but that's just kinda how these things go.
You should make an updated Gen 5 OU teambuilder video after the ban of gems. I would love to see it.
when you started talking about engaging with your sadistic side i knew we were in for a great rant, love your tongue in cheek comment about being at the whim of outside forces lmao really building up the self awareness of the bkc audience
I could watch 5 hours of this, BKC ranting gotta be peak TH-cam
As the Gen 5 expert that you are, have you considered doing a video on what if, Pelipper, Torkoal, Vanilluxe, and Gigalith all had their weather setting abilities in gen 5?
I know this video is 4 months old but your rambling is 99% why I watch your videos
Love the spicy energy in the introduction! As a fellow circuitous speaker, I understand the urge to eye roll at those who dislike it. Also I sympathize with those who enjoy youtube content in time constrained environments - namely the lunch break warriors. It's critical to budget those precious minutes, so succinct delivery can improve the scope of videos one gets to indulge.
Not super relevant BKC but I would really love to see a video about what the Snorlax-less Gen 2 metagame looks like and how it changes. You mentioned having seen tournaments without Lax and I would love to learn more! (Also, great video!)
It would be more boring than the SAT
Kevin went off in this vid holy shit i love it,never seen you like this bro,hope whatever situation made you mad ends up resolving itself
Bkc u inspired me to learn to play dpp ubers and adv ou. Gotta say thanks for all the knowledge you've dropped on me
I think I watched every single one of your old laddering videos and they were always mellow to me 😂 I used to go sleep to them!
For the next one of these, you should work your way through like 6-9 beers as you go, to keep the vitriol flowing
I don't even play competitive pokemon, I just find it fascinating how much this game from my childhood has evolved over time.
the beginning is concerning. I really hope it all gets better king.
the battle wasn't painfully slow enough
I share your joy in making people uncomfortable or even miserable
This video reminded me on when bkc used to curse in every video
Gen 5 rain teams are so aesthetically pleasing
History absolved the ORIGINAL Scald hater
Please could you do what if Taunt was in Gen 2.
BKC cursing and being petty is the content I never thought I needed but now I can’t let it go
long form content with tons of tangents and rambling > generic soulless information
also using the slow speed replay is hilarious
Whatever going on in life man I hope things turn out good. Thanks for all the great videos!
He was real as fuck for this one
you invested in 252 ATK 252 SPEED today my fren
If you were supreme overlord, what would Gen 1 look like?
(Tradebacks? Stadium? Freeze Clause? Sleep Ban? Banning any normals/Psychics? Banning Reflect? etc.)
ubers
@@BKCplaysPokemon You are a madman.
What's your favorite burger (like toppings, cheese, bun, etc.?
Archetypal example of cheese is cosmic power, psycho shift, stored power, flame orb Sigilyph
I enjoy a lot of your videos and thought this one was kinda funny, I hope things work out for you!
Your watch the fucking replay section definitely put me in a better mood😂
Scalding hot: competitive pokemon takes (unscripted)!
I managed to get a win in a team tour against the man who taught me everything about mons: Blazing Kicking Chicken. I immediately touched grass and my only involvement in mons is watching you and the agency
I hope your day gets better bro
I fell asleep after 6 seconds because the audio wasn't "Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no"
*gives virtual hug
legendary rant at 4:50 lololol
Was expecting a 20 minute video on how scald is bad but this is good too
old man yells at cloud (steam is water vapor aka clouds)
It wasn't until you talked about how bad and unhealthy scald was that I realised. I fucking hate that move. You revealed a quiet hatred I had buried deep inside. Thank you
Hot take: i feel like hax is semi controllable if your team force switches you'll attack more and more attack=more crits faster team gives you more chance to flinch/secondary status from move etc
I feel like BKC manufactures the hate he receives for ‘unscripted videos’. I love these types of vids you post!
I do get the impression that without the rain boost, scald is really not that big a deal. Pelliper's hurricane is feared more in later gens' rain teams, wouldn't you agree? Yes that leaves us with BW OU but it's worth considering when you dunk on the move.
I am really curious if BKC thinks the feared complex bans (or stated in a less polarizing manner: ability bans) would be good for a meta game despite the weird consequences.
Coming to the Barbie premiere bro?
dressed as ken, even
@@BKCplaysPokemon GOATED.
Melmetal and mew should NOT be OU in let’s go.
I did not get riled up by anything in this video but I will still leave a comment anyways. >:]
I think this is the first time I ever heard BKC curse. He is really upset
i dont know man, i dont really want the absurd fairy steel types to get 2 more resists. they're already broken enough
Hope you’re doing ok irl thanks for the upload!
for people refusing to ban something because it makes it easy for them to win with it, that's basically why there is still tera in national dex
My take on cheese is if you want to bring it on ladder, friendlies or even individual tours then you do you. I agree it should be avoided in team tours because you aren't just effecting yourself it doesn't work out but an entire team.
how is scald different from body slam? Both are very spammable moves with secondary effects that have nothing to do with their typing
I know people don't complain about BKC rambling anymore, but it seems really important to him that someone does, some here's my contribution:
You ramble
So do you like Brandon Sanderson's books or nah?
RAMBLE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT MA MAN WE ARE HERE FOR THAT🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
I think move distribution in general, but especially for moves like scald, is too wide in general. It especially saddens me cos I mostly play natdex formats where there's no going back. I think individual Pokémon would be more interesting if they were more unique by reducing mobepools; like Toxic was an asset instead of a given to a Pokémon's movepool. I think scald is one of the worst offenders (until gen 9), giving every water the ability to omegacripple half of all mons was not a smart. I'd be cool with like mons where you can sorta argue it makes sense lore wise kinda like what they did with Volcanion but give it to a few more waters (Gyarados would make sense, probably Kingdra too, etc)
my favorite dumb take: we should unban OHKO moves. so many games have been lost by a miss that i doubt anyone would use these moves
my other take that i refuse to believe is dumb: smogon banning flinch cheese on everything but rachi/kiss is beyond dumb. oh i can’t use kings rock maushold? which btw, only has 66% chance to hit 10 times and only 66% chance to flinch if you hit 10 times, effectively a 44% chance MAX and gen 8 cloyster. oh yeah but scarf rachi and togekiss just getting 60% flinch chance is totally not stupid especially with para on top.
As someone who isn't great/not very knowledgable, why is scald so critically different than moves like discharge, etc, or rather, where can I find your thoughts on this so you don't have to repeat yourself?
It is a widely spread move that deals decent damage, with a good chance to half the target's physical attack with no complete resistances whatsoever.
And the type that is not affected by the attack reduction takes 2x damage from it.
A case of damned if you do and damned if you don't
Christ mate you sure you're alright?
Where is the line drawn between player specific prep and MU fishing? If you notice that a player you're scheduled to play favors a certain archetype or pokemon, and you bring a team meant to exploit that at the cost of weaker MUs elsewhere, would that be considered cheese?
keep the videos long for the sake of my desk job and my evening walks
You gotta fix the volume on these videos, bro
Thank You