Ranking EVERY Pokemon Ability in Gen 3.
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- Pokemon Competitive Singles in Gen 3 is where Abilities were first introduced. As requested by famous patron Brian, I'll be ranking all the abilities in Gen 3 in the context of Competitive Singles.
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Metagross facing a minor inconvenience (a bulky water) and immediately killing himself is real asf
until it faces a major inconvenience (water type with damp)
@@PorkpieJohnnybulky water type who looked at the back of their student ID
I relate to Metagross
It’s strange that you put oblivious and own tempo into the not relevant tier. Lickitung gets both of these abilities and is a top tier mon.
Lickitung is so good it didnt need an ability
Mr Jimothy doesn't want others to steal his secret Balance Lickitung Tropius strats
Slowbro is lowey an S tier mon
Magma Armor prevents Freeze, not crits. Genuinely a nice feature for a Pokemon like Camerupt who takes neutral from Ice.
My mistake. That's pretty good actually
Would have been S tier in gen 1
Makes it a good switch in to Ice/electric Superachi, immune to the electric move and you don’t risk a 20% freeze chance from ice punch, plus it doesn’t risk ice beam freezes from Blissey’s that love spamming ice beam for that 10% chance.
A few romhacks have changed magma armor to prevent crits. It’s pretty relevant for Nuzlockers. They love their battle armor.
Idk if Jim was watching some Nuzlocke channels some day and got his wires crossed there.
Freeze immunity much better for competitive. Actually good for blissey stuff
@@deeznoots6241I wouldn't be shocked if bolt beam superrachi does 50%+
The Droot ability is really critical for Groodon.
Grewdon
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Lightning Rod in Gen 3 is actually useless. All it does is draw in Electric-type attacks in a Double Battle and that's it. No Sp. Atk raise, no Electric immunity, those only became a thing in Gen 5 (same with Storm Drain)
Its a big surprise in the FRLG battle tower lol.
Its useful in doubles because ground types get it.
@@beam5655yeah that’s the thing, this video was ranking these abilities’ viability in Singles
Didnt know
Hmm that’s interesting. I guess I only thought about it from how I see it in Mystery Dungeon, if yall ever played with that series. It’s crazy how abilities can change to fit in different games, mechanic wise
I honestly did not realize there were this many abilities in the gen 3 games. Also being the debut generation for abilities makes it seem even more impressive. This is insane.
Interestingly there’s a lot of redundancy like shell armor vs battle armor, but yes it is amusing how much they cooked up
@@centurionpanocculus those are mainly for lore reason, which ability's name suits the said pokemon more
@@mkmkotohow on earth does that make sense? You can put battle armor on any pokemon with shell armor and it would make perfect sense lore wise.
Battle armour is called Kabuto Armour in Japan and that way I believe it makes lots of sense who does and does not have it compared to shell armour.@@Farrise
Arguing for the sake of argument 🤣 It's a japanese double meaning sure, that doesn't mean they can't make a more generic name for all the pokemon that have an ability that prevents crits 🤣 @@Manivilization
Magma Armor doesn't make you immune to crits, it makes you immune to freeze.
Swarm has to be my favorite ability here. Yes, Heracross is insane and one of my favorites, but I think it's funny how starter types get these pinch abilities and for reasons bug gets it, but no other type. Gen 3 always felt like the most quirky gen to me, and I mean that lovingly lol
Imagine if Inner Focus allowed not flinching during Focus Punch.
rough skin in UU makes Sharpedo the best offensive check to endure reversal/flail sweepers, in combination with endure by yourself, you can finish off these threats without dying by yourself and if the enemy reads that play they need a non contact move to continue the sweep, which hitmonlee and sycther surely will not have in their moveset. extremely funny it gets when sharpedo uses their own +SpA/Spe berry because they can morph themselves into a endure sweeper too.
Effect spore has the potential to be detrimental, as it could trigger poison on a turn where you go for spore, making it a wasted turn and leaving a far weaker status on the opponent, which in the worst case could trigger guts on a pokemon you would've otherwise neutralized.
But also that means it's a pokemon who'd outspeed Breloom, which means Breloom probably shouldn't stay in cuz it's pretty frail. Absolutely a concern for Parascect
@@TheWizardMus while that is true, there are scenarios where breloom could've survived and gotten off a spore, but was stopped by effect spore.
For example, the opponent has just killed your swampert with a jolly choice band aerodactyl using double edge. Knowing that it's locked into double edge, you switch in your breloom, as breloom survives 1 double edge without hazards, and has a 25 percent chance to survive with 1 layer of spikes. Hopping to cripple the opponents cleaner with spore, you click it, as the aero goes for double edge - and unfortunately, it triggers poison. Now, your spore goes to waste, and you can no longer paralyze it to slow it down either.
Obviously, this situation is specific and rare, and there's also the chance that effect spore triggers paralysis or sleep instead. However, I only know it's a possibility because I've seen it happen.
@@isuckatgaming1873 honestly valid, the only situation I could think of off the top of my head is Dugtrio using aerial ace in which case the 10% of a status would be pretty good
@@TheWizardMusCan confirm that exact scenario happened to me recently. Couldn't even KO it Aerial Ace. Then again, it put me to sleep on a turn where it was planning to use Spore, so it wasn't very effective.
Has happened to me before
it’s interesting to see so many staple abilities from later generations that are bad or mediocre by virtue of just having no good users in gen 3-speed boost, rough skin, static, and flame body all come to mind. nice informative video jimothy, very cool
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Ps this is insane.
Gen 3 OU has an interesting balance of things that trap and eliminate one another, but without it becoming a rock-paper-scissors meta. Probably, due to the lower overall power level, not resulting in an unfavorable matchup or early play being a guaranteed loss.
definitely helps that half the Pokemon in the tier don't have a BST of 550+ lmao.
Early Bird cuts the sleep turns from Rest down to 1, which is handy for something like Kangaskhan. Most everything else that gets the ability is too frail to make use of the quick Rest.
Yes! It’s actually so solid on Kang.
I'm pretty sure Gen 3 Lightningrod is useless outside of doubles, it doesn't provide an immunity to Electric attacks it just redirects them away from your partner
Really enjoy and appreciate you somehow managing to pump out a daily video for us viewers! I hope you don't feel too obligated to do so. I admire your passion for the gen 3 meta, and your videos exploring all the other gen metas. Keep it up!
Always enjoy tier list videos, was a fun to listen to
I think you can argue that Drought and Drizzle go in banworthy if you're looking it from an OU perspective, as if a non uber had them it would change the entire metagame and warp it around those weathers (especially rain). Similarly shadow tag isn't banned in ubers but is in OU
I think the point is that he's only considering these abilities in the context of which Pokémon actually get them and not theorizing how they would affect Pokémon who don't. Drizzle and Drought would for sure warp ADV OU if they were available, but they're only available in Ubers where they're healthy
@@kadabraguy9846 true!
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Literally googled this two days ago, and here you are posting a video about it. Love all the content, I think it would be cool to see a held item or attacking/status move tier list
held items -
S-Leftovers, Choice Band
A- Lum, Salac
B- Petaya, Liechi, Magnet
C- Starf
i think that's literally everything really. you can throw brightpowder in D.
Great vid. Respect the choices and now I gotta try a P2 team
Nice video jimbo
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An interesting thought about Gengar's levitate, its so useful for Gengar that I would rather have a levitate Gengar over a theoretical wonderguard Gengar. So many mons pack earthquake and with Gengar's lackluster defense, ground immunity is crucial. Also, without levitate, dug could trap and check Gengar.
The amount of random youtubers I stumble across using Maplestory BGM makes my heart smile 🧡
I've run Butterfree for the hell of it on the ladder today. It is pretty fun to use and Compound Eyes is pretty great on it.
Pretty good at spreading status, you can expect him to sleep something and maybe paralyze another pokémon, and probably solid at confusing people/doing shenanigans (Skill Swap, Thief, Swagger, etc.)
Just... don't expect to live more than two rounds.
This tier list Illuminated my day
This tier list was a lot to Water Absorb
like the ability ?
So fun to hear how different people pronounce pokemon names. "Medi-Cam" and "Groodon" stuck out to me for example
1:40 POLIWRATH MENTIONED 🫡🥹🗿
7:47 - 8:07: glad to hear Medicham get praise.
I don’t hear that enough nowadays, don’t think I heard it enough back in the day either.
Maddy Cam
I think the fact that you didnt select speed boost as amon defying ability is insane
The way the tierlist was structured meant that it not only had to be a mon defying ability, it had to be very impactful. It would be cool if there was a way to separate each tier by mons that can't survive without their ability though
That was insane.
No way you mentioned Kecleon in Gen3 1v1 LOL
jimmy dropping Gen 3 knowledge bombs
I think it would make more sense to compare the abilities in a vacuum. Otherwise we are kind of comparing pokemon as much as abilities.
do you think youd ever do a video where a hypothetical change was made? like what would happen if tyranitar was banned from gen 3 ou? snorlax ban? the rise in none leftovers items? etc
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Rough skin is actualy a big deal in the lower tiers since Endure or sub + salac + flail/reversal sweepers are far more relevant without sandstorm to aautomatically KO 90% of them, so havin an ability that KOs 1hp pokemon for making contact is already a pretty interesting tradoff, but sharpedo sometimes combines it with endure to also survive the hit, giving it very useful defensive utility for defensive teams (that cant always be replicated with priority, since that will get foiled by substitute)
Water absorb is a tier when you run into suicune
@Jimothy Cool where do you go for the pastebins of Gen 3 teams?
The way you say Groudon makes me want to eat a bob-omb
sick idea!
gen 4 ou tier list?
This is insane
My fave is Rock Head, Aerodactyl is my boy and in gen 3 it helps him be a top threat with a fun idea
Could you please do this on current gen. As a new player I have no clue what anything does and it would be nice to know the meta. Not to do better but to understand what is going on. I'm so lost and haven't found anything to help brand new players. I played during gen 3 but was younger and either I can't remember what things are or I just don't know what is happening and you get DQd on time if you look up too much during the fight. I just need to know, what I need to know.
when i started learning about adv i was like “wtf why doesnt skarm run sturdy” but then i realised that sturdy does not work like a focus sash in gen 3
could you imagine if sturdy worked like it did in current gen in adv? skarm could always get a free spike, even against something like moltres or zapdos lol
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ninjask ban when?
Truant is so bad that it turns to be good. Entrainment truant Durant can shut anything off
For a turn lol, forces both people to switch
Don’t get me wrong I spammed entrainment Durant in gen 5 but it is impossible to use consistently, it’s literally just to force a switch
Only if durant existed in gen 3...
@@centurionpanocculus and sometimes thats enough to get your main pokemon in for free, or something to set up
@@noysam3570 it does if you look hard enough
more importantly, regarding Inner Focus, the majority of the relevant Pokemon who get it are also just naturally fast and will be outrunning most opponents, meaning getting flinched isn't something they worry about often, if ever.
Pokémon fraudster “Jimothy cool” has been caught misidentifying the function of magma armor, an ability for one of his supposed favorite Pokémon “camerupt”. you just can’t trust anyone these days.
the fact that Damp prevents explosion from doing anything rather than just negating damage makes sense. You can't ignite a dampened fuse of course.
Probably not the video for it but I feel Exeggutor should be a slow bulky offense that can boom, recover and maybe stun spore?
Huge power in the same tier as keen eye is crazy
I am noticing that this ability tier list looks very similar to the pokemon ranking of the best pokemon with the ability.
What did the Heracross say when it got hit by a Flamethrower?
's warm in here
Trace is peak gaming, there’s no other Pokemon/ability that allows the same level of versatility and on the fly playmaking AND it’s on the goat porygon2
Jim: "Don't use this pokemon. It's bad, it doesn't do anything, the use case is so specific that you might as well use something else that does that thing even better while also doing other things. It isn't even a pokemon."
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my favourite ability would have to be guts. I love Heracross and Hariyama, they’re some of my fave pokemon outside of comp and in adv ou
In Gen 3, Lightning Rod's actually completely useless outside of Doubles (and maybe sometimes detrimental in Doubles?) because it doesn't provide an immunity, it just redirects Electric attacks to the target. Not that it would've mattered anyway, but still.
i remember the FRLG battle tower has a duo of lightningrod rhydon and gyarados; im guesing gen 3 lightningrod is most used by rhydon or even marowak
The return of legendary Groodon 🎉
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Music name at 17:00 ?
Slim Jim Gang
I can’t believe you didn’t mention meganium when discussing overgrow smh
Hyper cutter is relevant. Intimidate is so common.
Love how the power level in gen 3 is just low enough that weak Pokémon with strong abilities like golduck and butterfree can carve out small niches for themselves on teams that benefit from those traits.
come on man, you forgot remoraid gets hustle! that surely puts it in the amazing tier
Why was this in alphabetical order excerpt for Color Change and Compound eyes just randomly at the end
15:25 I think you confused magma armor with shell armor and battle armor, magma armor prevents freeze while the other two prevent crits.
i've had synchronize backfire on me multiple times while trying to toxic something with umbreon, so it CAN be harmful to you
what? if umbreon toxic a mon without synch it just gets toxiced, umbreon is fine
what i meant by this was, for example trying to toxic a zapdos and they thunder wave the umbreon, umbreon's synchronize procs and paralyses the zapdos, thus making toxic not work
This is elaborate.
sturdy in gen 3:
Doesn’t magma armor prevent freezing, not provide Crit immunity?
As someone who doesn't know anything, the biggest surprise to me is that Pressure, the placeholder ability for legendaries without any unique ability, is not only useful but in the top tiers.
It's pretty difficult to KO something without PP on the move meant to take something out.
If ou had a drizzle and or drought mon, would ttar and sand stream be the anchor of the meta still?
Depends on the Pokemon and how they'd match up against Ttar. Not saying they wouldn't be banworthy though. Ttar is stopped hard by Kyogre and Groudon in Ubers. Kyogre drowns it and Groudon walls and smashes it. If it was on a Pokemon that would lose the ability upon evolution or if they were on something absolutely trash, who knows.
How's sound proof more banworthy than shadowtag?
Mr. Mime is an international criminal
All because of Baton Pass's interaction with Roar
both are, its more a issue of soundproof blocking roar which enables goofy chains. people say exploud should be unbanned but no one really cares cuz its exploud
@@funkymachine what if I do a little bit of whirlwinding
@@stupidpros forcing skarm to use whirlwind is stupid and nothing else in ou gets whirlwind
Imported Cheese type beat.
Butterfree is the best Pokemon in gen 3.
Hope to see a video soon.
Hyper cutter is mon defining as it is what lets Gligar have any literally any usage in OU (please ignore that it is because without hyper cutter Gligar would only have a banned ability.)
just use umbreon as a wish passer wall with pursuit on a team that has another heal bell wall. its unbreakable no matter if physical or special and just continues giving value while also destroying gengars.
Hustle is also on Corsola and the Togepi line. The former just isn't a great Pokémon in general and the latter with Togetic is much more suitable as a defensive Pokémon using Serene Grace Body Slam.
Funny enough, the best use for Serene Grace Togetic is to you used Ancient Power, hope you get a boost, and then Baton Pass. It’s a cheesy gimmick but that’s all that Togetic can really do
Nah its all about that Hustle Aerial Ace and Swift, Focus Punch and Fire Blast lol
Lightning rod is 100% useless in Gen 3 singles. In later generations it gives you electric immunity and a SpAtk boost on hit, but in Gen 3 literally the only thing it does is redirect attacks in doubles. Rhydon and Marowak are already immune, and Manectric just takes resisted damage from electric attacks as usual.
Camerupt fans burning up right now after legendary Gen 3 gamer Jimothy Cool reveals he does not know the actual effect of Magma Armor
can someone please tell me a source for his outro song im begging
Outro source is in the description.
Surprised you didn't mention Fake Out with Inner Focus, is it really that uncommon in Gen 3?
ive never seen anyone use fake out in gen 3 like ever lol.
it has a niche on lead cb medicham. thats it
@@echogaia1708 wasn't e-speed also just +1 in gen 3?
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Maddy Cam and Groodon
Thanks for the video Jim this is fun to watch! But I kinda wish you ranked the abilities without considering what Pokémon have the ability and just ranked the ability by itself but I guess that’s not the idea of this tier list
Same here, should just be ranking the abilities in a vacuum. What if only caterpie got huge power would it be a bad ability all of a sudden? It would just suck that it's only avaliable on that mon, the ability itself would still be amazing
Was going to say the same thing
@@scoutbane1651nature abhors a vacuum
If this ability [Huge Power] is Skill Swapped, copied with Role Play or Traced, the effect is halved, boosting the Attack stat only by a 1.5x multiplier and not doubling.*
Huge power therefore is objectively the better ability out of Huge power vs Pure Power.
imagine if Slaking learned skill swap, that would be insta uber
12:40 shhhhh, don't let game freak hear you
Wait a second...
Also Sharpedo's rough skin is pretty useful in UU because of all the endure salac reversal spam, it's pretty "common" there
Sharpedo can endure down to 1 hp to kill salac Berry sweepers and activate its own Berry.
Sandstorm
It is such a shame. A good deal of the abilities in the OK tier would have been higher ranked if they were on different Pokémon.