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6:30 After the Chatot segment I think you should do a video about “Sound type” and “Light type”. Why were they never made and maybe never will despite a large array of moves and abilities based on them. When Yveltal and Xerneas were first revealed we thought Sound and Light types were debuting.
What's the name of the song that plays at the beginning of your videos, it's so good
I actually believe the Sceptile thing. If Leaf Blade was a physical attack, it would be a physical attacker. It has never felt right to me that Sceptile had a higher special attack.
If I had a nickel for every sword related starter with higher special attacker than physical, I’d have two nickels.
@@Rarest26At least Keldeo got a signature move to take advantage of that.
@@Rarest26What's the other one? I'm guessing Samurott?
I've always hated that they didn't fix Sceptile's stats in Gen 4 onwards. I'll always go for the nature that increases attack while lowering special attack and use it as a physical attacker.
@@TheFirstCurse1 ye
Poor Appletun is completely eclipsed in usefulness by Dipplin on defense and Hydrapple on offense
But was Appletun ever very useful to begin with?
You’d be surprised how stacked Appletun’s kit is. Thick fat for an ability, access to leech seed and recover, good move options like body press and a signature attack in apple acid. Appletun was really held back by the low overall stat total, which Dipplin mitigates with eviolite and better stat distribution.
Terrakion in PU was equivalent to Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby
*Cough* Regigigas In UnTiered.
@@ethantreadway9478 gigas is a North Korean h bomb if it can go off it’s devastating but it will likely never go off because it’s was made horribly.
@@ethantreadway9478 functionally having 80 base attack is not that insane
One of Gamefreak's biggest mistakes was not fixing Sceptile's stats in Gen 4 onwards. I'll always get one with the nature that raises attack while lowering special attack, max his attack EVs, and use him as a physical sweeper.
1:48 Just a reminder that any pokemon from lower tiers than OU (UU, RU, NU, ect) can be used in OU. Basically the pokemon legal in OU are OU and lower, same for UU, where the pokemon you can use are UU and pokemon in tiers below, ect.
Right. I wish people knew that and the fact that it's usage-based. People are always acting like it's some illuminati council out there choosing tier placement specifically to ruin their favorite Pokemon.
It seems someone at GameFreak HATES Flygon for no good reason. First, they introduce another Ground/Dragon-type with higher stats in every field, then they oh-so-conveniently forget to give it a Mega like every other fully evolved Hoenn dragon, then they haven’t given it anything special, not even a regional form, in like, forever.
I heard Flygon was supposed to get a Mega but the GF couldn't make a design they were satisfied with.
Dont know why Flygon is always mentionwd when talking about pokemon that do not get a new form, many pokemon who need it even more also didnt get one.
@@guus5504 Flygon remains a popular Pokemon even to this day. You're right that other Pokemon need a boost more than Flygon.
i know flygon is many fan favourite but god damn with how much it gets mentioned its starting to make me hate the pokemon
This is the thumbnail of all time
I like the Toy Story reference terrakeon being replaced by iron bolder
ONE OF THE thumbnail of all time
Poor Sceptile will probably never get actual buffs or anything because it's stuck in the area of being just good enough to not require buffs but not nearly good enough to compete in anything
I think you misinterpreted how smogon's tiering system works. Terrakion CAN be used in OU, its just not advisable. Lower tier pokemon can be used in higher tiers, they're just not ideal for it usually (though exceptions exist)
Poor Politoed couldn't escape the "carried by ability" allegations when a Pokemon who can cover it up better showed up.
Imagine being outclassed by a flying toilet 💀 💀 💀
@@brain_tonic 😂
@@brain_tonic Don't call it that. Pelipper looks cool
@@vittoriopugliese3352 Indeed the surface of a toilet is cool to the touch.
Best thumbnail to explain the fall of Terrakion
Terrakion is probably still better than Boulder in VGC because of its pairing with Whimsicott and not having a weakness to the five best Pokémon in the meta. Instead, it’s only bad against 4 of the best Pokémon in the meta.
Boulder can bypass protect, doesn't matter that Terrakion can do, protect in doubles is as big as rocks/spikes are in singles
Ah yes, my favorite Pokemon: "Boulder"
@@uribevaldezargenis8862 Yeah, but this thing isn’t threatening enough to need protect. Intimidate, or just hitting it hard is usually enough. Imagine if Smoochum had a move that set stealth rocks and spikes at the same time. It still wouldn’t be used over Gliscor because it doesn’t have enough utility outside that one cool thing to justify using it. Obviously; that’s an exaggeration, but when the single most popular core in the game, Balance + Flutter Mane, sends you packing, it might as well be Smoochum. Terrakion I believe made day 2 in Charlotte, but I cant find a single Iron Boulder in day 1 or 2 of any regional.
LeafyIsHere... now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Darkrai dropping to OU in Indigo Disk after being too scary for the tier in Gen 5 is hilarious
6:42 "Bababooey" 🤣🤣🤣 IYKYK
_(bitcrushed Bababooey)_
Terrakion being ranked relatively high in RU is still a commemoration. So many other Legendary Pokémon are NU or below.
Is John Gamefreak related to Uncle Jimtendo
I think that's top 3 best thumbnails I've ever seen in a video
THAT THUMBNAIL! 🤣
There should be Stealth Rock alts that replaces Stealth Rocks I.E. only 1 of these can be active at once I would suggest Grass (Hidden Thorns) and Bug (Hive Trap) because Rock, Grass, and Bug create a rock, paper, scissors triangle and there is no overlapping weaknesses
man I LOVE your thumbnails!
all the credit goes to my buddy Sergi, but thank you!
I've waited for this every other JPR Friday
The really sad thing about Sceptile is even its mega form failed to fix it. Not only were its stats still geared toward special attack, but its new ability Lightning Rod also only boosts special attack, making any attempt to run it as a physical sweeper for the wider move pool options even more incongruous.
Whoever does these thumbnails deserves a raise
I love this thumbnail
What's crazy is as much favoritism Zard gets, GF has still never given it a legit buff. They just give it a temporary form change and call it a day. A lot of the early gen starters can use a buff.
Stopping children from saying first
Thank you for your service
First
Sorry but you failed
First
This is arguably more annoying
Well losing leaf blade isn’t that bad because energy ball was introduced the same generation of the physical special split and has the same power and can lower special defense
True but Leaf Blade is stronger and overall the better move. It doesn’t help that Sceptile’s Physical movepool is significantly better.
@@nintendolife25 Leaf blade isn’t stronger both energy ball and leaf blade are 90 base power
@@Yoshigamingchannel Oh, I thought Energy Ball does 80 damage. My bad…
@@nintendolife25 yeah some moves switched up base power but sceptile did fall off just not in the way he explained it the physical move pool is a lot better though
I remember seeing you back from Pokémon black. 11 years ago. Good to see you're smiling still!
I think you should’ve used a different Pokémon in the thumbnail lol. Terrakion is still somewhat relevant in my eyes; it’s a pretty decent mon when combined with Whimsicott in Doubles
Usually I just listen to these videos on my drive to work, but this time I gotta say...nice Xenoblade poster
Tiers only exist in the world of smogon but yeah, robots indeed be taking over alongside the ancients. Why play with Mismagius and Misdreavus when we have Flutter Mane.
Chatot is super underated i won a random mon tournament almost with it alone. I was so disappointed when i saw it was on my team because of its reputation of being mostly just there
6:39 *”Mom, can I get a DS for christmas?”* (Idk, im tired)
Shoutouts to Metagross and Bronzong who used to make only have 2 weaknesses (or 1 in Levitate Bronzong), but then the moment Steel lost it’s resistances to Ghost and Dark (to make space for the Fairy resistance) combined with a hugely buffed Knock Off, they went downhill from there. Both of these Pokémon have been a shell of their former selves ever since.
You did mention how Terrakion got outclassed by Iron Boulder but the same could apply to any Pokémon with a Paradox counterpart. Unless their name is Amoonguss, Hydreigon, Tyranitar, or Volcarona, odds are that Pokémon would be made completely irrelevant. Even the legendaries with a Paradox counterpart are doomed to being stuck in RU, or in Virizion’s case, PU.
Iron Leaves itself is a pretty bad Pokémon, but most of the paradoxes that aren't a straight downgrade are either of weaker/not fully evolved Pokémon (Bundle, Scream Tail, Mane... kinda) or fill a completely different role (Wake, Bolt, even Mence has utility over Moon w/ intimidate), and most of the remainder are of Pokémon that have been power crept a long time ago (Hands, Tusk/Treads, Valiant) while others outperform their paradox form in vgc (Entei, Terrakion, and even Gallade in some formats)
@@aronspiker72 Wait Gallade is viable in VGC? What kind of niche does that Pokémon fulfill?
@@clothieredward5248 mainly a Dondozo counter from what I've heard
I’m using a terakion and whimsicott beat-up/justified team in the global challenge cup and it’s working just fine thank you very much.
I guess one could say that Politoed did like frogs irl & only come out for the rain. Referring back to the vid you did on gifting +25 on bst to those who lost mega-evos, I think Sceptile would heavily benefit from most or all of it going to its physical Attack stat (or maybe the last +5 going perhaps to other stats) stat alongside Technician since the mixed or even physical offense sets could become actually viable instead of just gimmicky from the attacking stats possibly becoming equal
Say what you want about gen 5 pokemon. But the bug types are still the best in the series. And I don't think that will ever change
Really the loss of all of Sceptiles coverage moves is the biggest loss in the Gen 3-4 transitionz Going from _excellent_ Grass, Electric in thunder punch, Dark in Crunch, and dragon coverage with Dragon claw, and that’s before factoring Hidden power, is amazing. But those moves are all now physical attacks, leaving it with grass, Dragon pulse, Focus Miss and hidden power, which is gone in Gen 8 leaving it with near nothing otherwise. Like it’s best set is often Subseed sets, which sucks because it’s a glass cannon Like, at least they could have given it Earth power, Dark Pulse or even Tbolt.
Wow, I didn't know Sceptile could get Crunch in Gen 3.
I’m so early that the internet is still talking about Mudkip
The thumbnail crazy.💀
RIP Terrakion's competitive viability
Chatot's Chatter old gimmick can be brought back if it now only says whatever nickname the user has & with the nickname censors, this move's rework shouldn't cr8 much problems.
I wish Sceptile's stats would be changed to fit it's physical moveset.
Even though Sawsbuck has never been really relevant competitively, I liked what little it did bring to the table. And then Gen 6 dropped and brought Gogoat, who is literally just Sawsbuck but better. It makes me sad for one of my favorite Grass-types
Great video
Well terrakion got outclassed by its future self
Stop adults from saying Patrick’s iron bubble
Troll willy
The thumbnail 😭😭
JOHN GAMEFREAK lmfao
You take that back!
Latias is mentionable as she really got nerfed from the soul dew nerf and from her mega being removed. She now can only hope to be as good as her brother being in PU.
You right it hasn't happened yet because January is jover! :D
Liking the video for the thumbnail alone
kind of surprised tallonflame isn't on this list.
Good old Chatot!
Love your videos
Epic thumbnail 😂
Toxapex. Actually, I don't feel bad for it, lmao. RIP BOZO
Wait, for realskies? That might be the thing that gets me to care about comp. singles again
@bvd_vlvd Pex dropped to UU yesterday
8:08 Scizor and Heracross:👁👄👁
Sailor wasn't that good until HGSS.
@otakusign6896 I'm assuming you mean Scizor, but still, that's before Gen 5
@@the1oneyeetus415 how did autocorrect turn Scizor into Sailor.
Roserade is another example of a pokémon that becomes irrevelant. In gen 4, she was a special pokémon at the time, used by a champion, also, Roserade is also great in Gen 4 OU. But unfortunaly, more the time passes, Roserade becomes worse in the competitive. We don't talk about after gen 4, Game Freak wants to replace Roserade with new pokémon with the same idea, Lilligant, Tsareena and Arboliva replace Roserade's unique feminine grass type and Meowscarada replace Roserade's unique grass type masked hero. I don't know why Game Freak hates Roserade so much 😞
Wait... Politoed is a fraud? Pelipper: Always has been.
I wish they brought back mega evolution sigh
GF cares enough about balanced to not give iron boulder rock slide (which imo makes it worse then terrackion in VGC), but not enough to give (insert physical water type) anything over urshifu
The thumb nail 😂
I wish Gamefreak remembers to rebalance older pokemon on their remakes.
It's not just Alakazam; sadly, Psychic-types in general dropped off, mostly due to the physical-special split, then the nerfing of Steel-types in Gen 6. Even with Fairies around, to the best of my (HIGHLY LIMITED) knowledge Dragons still continue to be dangerous, whereas Game Freak has never let Psychic live down Gen 1. Still my favourite type though.
Furret was OU tho, if only for a blink of an eye ❤
When it has Frisk.
Lol the thumbnail Oh o forgot your not paradox i dont want to play with you anymore. Gooooodddbyyyee terrakian. Ah toy story 2 lol
I was never Relevant :(
Parasect was never that good, but it was the only Pokémon that could learn Spore in the first two generations until Breloom and Amoonguss took that away.
Politoed :(
I liked Deerling
yo did you graduate from atkins? there’s a pic of someone here that looks a lot like you edit: yeah that’s def you. i’ve been watching you for a while and it’s really crazy to think we were both from the same place this whole time😭
Elgyem
You will never be irrelevant in my eyes :)
Wait... *YOU HAVE A FACE?* 👁️👄👁️
Wait JPR still uploads???
Terrakion's design REALLY bugs the hell out of me so the less I have to see of it the better. That said...doesn't help they made a robot one.
yo
Poor Terrakion lmao 💀
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When Pokémon stopped using anime sex dimorphic character designs, kids pretty much quit. Kids would rather play video games that have attractive characters and go on adventures than be at school.
@@enoyna1001 This guy is wrong on purpose. He knows he's lying, but he just keeps doing it. SV has both adventures and attractive characters, the school part is minor.
Lmfao this reeks of right winger stink
@@miikaroos3809 Then how come Mario is not doing it? There are no schools in those games, and they managed to sell.
@@enoyna1001Video games are about fantasy, not school nor reality.
Talonflame lost Gale Wings. Mawille, Sableye, Lucario, and Gengar lost their Megas. Metagross, Jirachi, and Bronzang became weak to Dark and Ghost. Sracefty and Hydragon became 4x Weak to Fairy. Octlerila, Semeragle, Galile, Bidoof, and Biberal lost Moody. Dodtrio and Loupany could lose Run Away. I could lose a Ball Race.
Ah yes, Bronzang, Sracefty, Hydragon, Octlerila, Semeragle, Galile, Biberal, Dodtrio, and Loupany.
Gen5 = overrated 😴
Not as much as lame gen5
As if that Pokemon wasn't always overrated from the get-go.
Haha! First! That makes me cool, right?
It sure does
I mean you got the reply.
You fell off :^)
Palworld is better
🤥
You fell off
You’re still so bad