Pokémon that get WORSE when they Evolve

2022 ж. 28 Қаз.
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If you evolve these Pokemon, ur dumb
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  • Number 1-Humans

    @blob4477@blob4477 Жыл бұрын
    • And that includes you

      @lunatic557@lunatic557 Жыл бұрын
    • B

      @cyndaquil0155@cyndaquil0155 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lunatic557 we are talking about the average human, not the top 0.0000000001% humans like Blob.

      @tuukkalaine@tuukkalaine Жыл бұрын
    • Let’s be honest all of humans are the earths acne and one of the most homicidal things second to meerkats

      @Masashi125@Masashi125 Жыл бұрын
    • Gen Z*

      @manticfello3261@manticfello3261 Жыл бұрын
  • Serperior does have arms though, they're those leaves at its sides. They're basicslly the same shape as Servine's. It just usually holds them behind its back. The legs did get amputated, though

    @mcknightmareb4u494@mcknightmareb4u494 Жыл бұрын
    • And according to Ken Sugimori, it folding its hands back make it look regal, which is a nice design touch considering it's inspired from French royality.

      @IgnitedQuils@IgnitedQuils Жыл бұрын
    • I like serperior because of its regal appearance and its hidden ability contrary

      @xdsmile5359@xdsmile5359 Жыл бұрын
    • Also the legs did look weird to start so it was an overall upgrade

      @ThisAintGood.@ThisAintGood. Жыл бұрын
    • You just blew my mind.

      @kyltredragmire4939@kyltredragmire4939 Жыл бұрын
    • I will always defend my favorite starter. Cute little leave hands

      @DaGrubb97@DaGrubb97 Жыл бұрын
  • I dont understand what the Pokemon creators thought by making so many shineys green, and mostly an ugly green

    @xBiGGYBGx@xBiGGYBGx3 ай бұрын
    • Most of them were created formulaically, so every brown became that colour. I guess they didn't have to use that one, though.

      @GeorgeDCowley@GeorgeDCowleyАй бұрын
    • Most shinies are made automatically via an algorithm. There's very few exceptions, like Charizard, which they changed to be black and red.

      @davidstinger1134@davidstinger1134Ай бұрын
    • Espeon is a cute green tho

      @martalualdi191@martalualdi19128 күн бұрын
    • ​@@martalualdi191aaa nyet. I guess shiny espeon should've been white. Shiny Umbreon should've been golden with black rings.

      @chong_murdereronthemic@chong_murdereronthemic11 күн бұрын
    • ​@@martalualdi191That's because espeon is always cute. 💖

      @Eragarev@Eragarev7 күн бұрын
  • Funny Slaking story; When me and my old best friend battled Pokemon a lot in the old days, my Slaking was kind of a weird secret weapon. I outfitted it with Giga Impact, a Choice Band, and gave it Attack and Speed EVs, because my friend liked using one particular Mewtwo called "PsychoShocker". This was a scary Mewtwo that just seemed to cover every single type possible. It was kind of his ace - so, as soon as that one showed up, I'd bring in Slaking, who'd just launch the strongest Giga Impact possible. Whatever happened to Slaking afterwards, it didn't really matter. He'd more than done his part.

    @DAsrada@DAsrada Жыл бұрын
    • The question is, how many turns does slaking have to wait to attack again? If the recharge and the ability don't overlap, then he would have to wait 3 turns before attacking again

      @Noctis-fr3uc@Noctis-fr3uc Жыл бұрын
    • @@Noctis-fr3uc I saw at least then that the Truant turn and the recharge overlap.

      @DAsrada@DAsrada Жыл бұрын
    • @@Noctis-fr3uc truant and giga impact recharge overlap. So, you only cant do anything for one turn.

      @gigadrill1835@gigadrill1835 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Noctis-fr3uc recharge turn counts as loafing turn 😂

      @MostMajecticWaffle@MostMajecticWaffle Жыл бұрын
    • Man turned his slaking into a suicide bomber

      @dude99844@dude99844 Жыл бұрын
  • I don’t understand why some people dislike Chandelure’s design. I think it looks cool and spooky! Plus, it’s an interesting concept for the first ever Ghost/Fire type.

    @Sherneo_Blightshade@Sherneo_Blightshade Жыл бұрын
    • I don't think they hate it for the design, I think it's because it's an object mon and people aren't usually fans of those.

      @THGMR-ox7sd@THGMR-ox7sd Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@THGMR-ox7sd Ironic, considering that objects brought to life is a part of japanese folklore.

      @SteelTiamat@SteelTiamat Жыл бұрын
    • @@THGMR-ox7sd I think it's one of the better object Pokemon. It looks spectral looking, imposing, and doesn't just look like a chandelier with a face on it.

      @IgnitedQuils@IgnitedQuils Жыл бұрын
    • I really don't understand why people even say that Chandelure is UnDErRaTeD or HaTeD, because it is LITERALLY The Most Popular Gen 5 Pokémon.

      @kirillalexandrov6764@kirillalexandrov6764 Жыл бұрын
    • @@kirillalexandrov6764 No it's not?

      @flunashiee@flunashiee Жыл бұрын
  • "Except for Mega Rayquaza, but he's cheating" You could apply that to a _lot_ of things tbh

    @ThePipofDespair@ThePipofDespair Жыл бұрын
    • Oh hey, you watch Alex?

      @Enbypotat53@Enbypotat53 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Enbypotat53 Yeah :D

      @ThePipofDespair@ThePipofDespair Жыл бұрын
    • Mega rayquaza was so busted that the "busted" tier of competitive play couldnt even keep up with it

      @fgvcosmic6752@fgvcosmic6752 Жыл бұрын
    • @@fgvcosmic6752 And then along came Zacian and had to be banned from Ubers _twice._ Oh and I guess Gen 4 Arceus is there too.

      @robertlupa8273@robertlupa8273 Жыл бұрын
    • @@robertlupa8273 Gen 1 Mewtwo. Enough said.

      @carnage0685@carnage0685 Жыл бұрын
  • Raichu is only disadvantaged because the anime led to promoting Pikuchu as the mascot, which led to a lot of power buffs for it to make up for it being inferior. Slaking pretty much gets shutdown by abilities like Protect, which is staggeringly bad. The rat one is funny because the very first time I saw that strategy, I untentionally destroyed it by happening to have one of the many counters for it out the gate and killed it before I even knew what it was supposed to do.

    @InfernosReaper@InfernosReaper11 ай бұрын
    • I wish we got Gorochu rather than pichu

      @TylerjWebb@TylerjWebb6 ай бұрын
    • Slaking is still better than Vigoroth because One big hit on the opponent is generally a lot better than attempting to chip away the health. Sure Slaking gets walled by Protect (which is the most toxic BS move why can every pokemon learn it) but Slaking atleast can do some serious damage against the competition when it lands a hit where Vigoroth can hit but still accomplish nothing. Besides if you really want to maybe you can pull of the Mummy strat and override truant. Just give Slaking Pursuit so the opponent can't back out.

      @rayzuke1232@rayzuke12326 ай бұрын
    • @@rayzuke1232Protect, protect variants, fly, and dig; when those downtimes aren't used to just setup more of course. Hell, one round of setup might make the difference in the match As for the mummy strat, lotta work just to make something actually be viable.

      @InfernosReaper@InfernosReaper6 ай бұрын
    • @@InfernosReaper Still better than Vigoroth and thats all that matters.

      @rayzuke1232@rayzuke12326 ай бұрын
    • @@rayzuke1232 But is it *really* though? Most players seem to disagree... We need a careful analysis by one of those meticulous poketubers

      @InfernosReaper@InfernosReaper6 ай бұрын
  • Murkrow is a great example of this in gen 9. It's all over competetive because of prankster but Honchkrow is nowhere to be seen

    @TETGFF@TETGFF Жыл бұрын
    • That’s just prankster being prankster.

      @GM.Nobody@GM.Nobody Жыл бұрын
    • @@GM.Nobody Nah, there were other Prankster mon, like Grimmsnarl. Murkrow was so dominant because it also has Tailwind

      @wren5413@wren541311 ай бұрын
    • ​@@wren5413 if he only had tailwind it would still be useless, prankster will always be the reason, and grimmsnarl is pretty used aswell.

      @Nobody-su9km@Nobody-su9km11 ай бұрын
    • @@Nobody-su9km Hence why I said “also had”. The reason why Murkrow was THE most used pokemon of Series 1 while every other prankster user didnt really find their place in the meta is because Murkrow was the only one with Tailwind. The dynamic speed update from Gen 8 makes Tailwind far and away the best thing you could be doing with Prankster

      @wren5413@wren541311 ай бұрын
    • I like Murkrow because I caught one and I named him Mark :D

      @Toadey2012@Toadey20128 ай бұрын
  • Mega Charizard X had the easy task of just letting the shiny be it’s original coloration but noooooooo, had to go and be different.

    @PragMagik@PragMagik Жыл бұрын
    • Good. It's a great shiny.

      @rjs4176@rjs4176 Жыл бұрын
    • I always imagined mega charizard x being white and red instead of the teal it got

      @-Skemor-@-Skemor- Жыл бұрын
    • I love the Teal color of its shiny with blue flames.

      @speedyav46@speedyav46 Жыл бұрын
    • well it is good

      @pkmnlover3812@pkmnlover3812 Жыл бұрын
    • @@pkmnlover3812 not really

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul7467 Жыл бұрын
  • To this day, I still think not releasing AZ's Floette is the BIGGEST missed opportunity Gamefreak has made. It has a fantastic design, an incredible signature move (both in name and effect), and is literally the cornerstone to Kalos' lore. Being able to use it would've been the equivalent to being able to use the original dragon in Unova; a Pokemon only spoken of in legend, unseen by human eyes for centuries. With the strength to back it up too, THAT sounds like a legendary to me.

    @CosmicNebula444@CosmicNebula444 Жыл бұрын
    • Agreed! I love X and Y and Floette is one of my favorite Pokemon. The AZ Floette would have been amazing. And it would have been so easy to give to the player in the story too. It comes back at the end. Have AZ give it to you as thanks or something like that. Or just do a special event. Either works.

      @Shiny_Plume@Shiny_Plume Жыл бұрын
    • I haven't watched this video yet but it's so weird. They even gave it a Pokédex entry in Pokémon SuMo and then made transferable to Pokémon Home (it doesn't have an icon though)... So they clearly still want to add the poor thing

      @user-jl7cz2pe6d@user-jl7cz2pe6d Жыл бұрын
    • Why haven't they released it?

      @SingTingz31@SingTingz31 Жыл бұрын
    • @@SingTingz31 Wish we knew 😭

      @CosmicNebula444@CosmicNebula444 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah it was too much, i agree with you man, not every pokemon should be that broken. Everything is not about how strong a pokemon is but also a big bounch of normal pokemons should exist even as legendary pokemon

      @neehime6@neehime6 Жыл бұрын
  • My issue with eviolite mons aside from dedicated walls is that Knock Off is ubiquitous, and losing your eviolite just leaves you with dead weight. On the topic of Rhyperior, I love slappin' him with a Weakness Policy, clicking Rock Polish, and just turning him loose.

    @downeastbeast6448@downeastbeast6448 Жыл бұрын
    • Yess! Used it in gen 6 OU with a max def max hp build with rock polish, eq, stone edge and fire punch. Amazing mon!

      @andrevanderlinden8722@andrevanderlinden8722 Жыл бұрын
    • Plus he gets solid rock as an ability which lowers his weakness multipliers from 2x to 1.5x and 4x to 3x, on top of slightly better bulk than Rhydon

      @jrlaps521@jrlaps521 Жыл бұрын
    • In Gen 6 OU, I made an Explosion team that had an Onix in the back. It was basically the same strategy, except with significantly worse damage potential. I did actually manage to get it off with a Haxorus EQ, where my own EQ did 100%, and I exploded on the Umbreon the next turn. Most work Onixpected ever put in 😅

      @amberhernandez@amberhernandez11 ай бұрын
    • Rhyperior is just objectively way better yeah.

      @elliot157@elliot15711 ай бұрын
    • @@okayegg4597 The main thing is that Viggo doesn't insta-lose to Protect or _Fly_ lol. Slaking is a gimmick mon that's relegated to hitting hard as possible one turn, then giving the opponent time to either recover the damage, set up on him, or KO him back. Sure, he's got options like Taunt, Slack Off, etc., but none of that matters if the opponent can deal 50% in a single turn. Truant is genuinely just THAT bad an ability; losing half your turns is an _immense_ handicap, on par with Regigigas's Slow Start making it unable to deal damage. Viggo may be a wet noodle by comparison, but it can still move every turn, respond, and _do_ things to prolong itself. 80/80 isn't a terrible physical defense baseline, just mediocre, and Bulk Up + Slack Off + Eviolite help make that something decent. In addition, that Normal typing means only one type is hitting you super-effectively, which shouldn't be discounted as a defensive option (you can also Tera if it helps!). The base 55 SpDef is embarrassing, though, so maybe avoid special attackers like your life depends on it (because it does!). Base 80 Attack is pretty terrible on its own, but again, Bulk Up can help patch that into a workable state, and Return/Drain Punch + Knock Off is an okay attacking combination. With the proper opponent on the other side of the field, a Bulk Up + Slack Off set can put in work, even if it's middling at best. At the end of the day, both of these Pokémon are in the lowest of the low competitive tiers. They've got very few redeeming qualities, and that's important to keep in mind when thinking, "how can [X] be worse than [Y]?" Nobody uses them for a reason, and it becomes clear why when you try to do so.

      @amberhernandez@amberhernandez10 ай бұрын
  • Chansey also has a huge downgrade in its shiny when evolving. It is usually changed to make some parts green, but blissey shiny is just a slightly different pink that you barely notice

    @n7x@n7x Жыл бұрын
    • chansey is yellow and green, which looks like a banana

      @theodeleon@theodeleon11 ай бұрын
  • Raichu is a pokemon you respect in vgc, compared to Pikachu it is faster, bulkier and it doesn't need to sacrifice its items slot to be useful. Overall a consistently reliable support with decent damage

    @DanielPereira-ey9nt@DanielPereira-ey9nt Жыл бұрын
    • nah, raichu is too weak. it dies quickly

      @xKamiiii@xKamiiii Жыл бұрын
    • Except while you sacrifice a slot, Pikachu’s attack stats surpass Raichu’s max stats. Bulk doesn’t matter as one earthquake is going to one shot both of then.

      @DarkEclipse23@DarkEclipse23 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@Ʀ Thats why you ran focus sash and endeavor. Fast enough to threaten non scarf pokemon, quick attack to finish off 1hp targets, and also can slot in electric coverage. It's main purpose is to take out those major bulky threats and let your own take over the game

      @jumpinjeff1709@jumpinjeff170911 ай бұрын
    • ​@@xKamiiii it's better then it's pre Evo plus mine doesn't maybe you are just bad

      @fismail4330@fismail433011 ай бұрын
    • ​@@jumpinjeff1709 most people have noivern to do that

      @fismail4330@fismail433011 ай бұрын
  • As one of the few who prefers Raichu to Pikachu, it deeply annoys me how the games incentivize you to NOT evolve Pikachu just because he’s the mascot. Yes, that’s THE reason. Gotta make sure they keep the face of Pokémon on their teams!

    @JustAnArrogantAlien@JustAnArrogantAlien Жыл бұрын
    • Same here. The fact that all the Pikachu clones don’t evolve really tells me they regret Raichu and wish Pikachu didn’t evolve.

      @ninja_boy@ninja_boy Жыл бұрын
    • Raichu also has an alolan form and a free item slot so if you use the correct item it will be way stronger than a puny Pikachu

      @Skill_issue_fc@Skill_issue_fc Жыл бұрын
    • And the thing is that there was even a scrapped Raichu evolution in the old games, and we probably would’ve gotten it at some point by now if Gamefreak didn’t hate raichu so much.

      @Woopor@Woopor Жыл бұрын
    • @@Woopor They don't hate Raichu, they love money.

      @youtubeneedstochange4414@youtubeneedstochange4414 Жыл бұрын
    • Honestly,pikachu being the mascot and them plastering its face everywhere is part of the reason why i dislike it so much,even if it can be a decent choice for battle,i'm still going to refuse to use it

      @sanslol1234@sanslol1234 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm so glad you mentioned Grovyle's role in Mystery Dungeon, he's the whole reason Grovyle became my favourite Pokemon until Gen 7 with Type: Null and Silvally

    @KnucklesxShadefan98@KnucklesxShadefan9810 ай бұрын
  • Well, in this case, many of the pokemon you listed aren't actually worse, as they play differently. Porygon Z, for example, plays as a nuke, while Porygon 2 plays as a tank. Chansey plays as an eviolite wall, Blissey plays as a leftovers or heavy duty boots wall. Dusknoir plays as a tank, dusclops plays as a wall. The only exception is Blaziken and Garchomp, but even they have different play styles to their mega evolutions.

    @_RedRightHand_@_RedRightHand_ Жыл бұрын
    • @@user-xr7pe9qn5m Different types of walls. The former uses eviolite but is countered by hazards, the latter uses boots and ignores hazards. Are you a competitive player? Because you should know that hazards are a huge part of a pokemon's viability if you are.

      @_RedRightHand_@_RedRightHand_ Жыл бұрын
    • Honestly the bigger issue with chansey is with how rampant knock off is in comp scene. Without eviolite, chanseys become half the wall it is whereas with blissey it can still compensate with its higher stat base

      @guy-rk1jj@guy-rk1jj6 ай бұрын
    • @@guy-rk1jj That, too, is correct.

      @_RedRightHand_@_RedRightHand_6 ай бұрын
    • Yeah even tho I rarely run knock off(because usually my teams are kinda meh tbh) I rarely see mons with eviolite, if anything I see Chanseys using leftovers. That being said I usually go for the second best option I had, obviosly when see something like Chansey/Blissey, Ho-oh, Giratina I know this mfs have toxic and want to stall you out so what I do is to switch to Lucario to take the toxic and depending who was the mon he was facing I switch to either Milotic for sacred flare if it was a Ho-oh, Mismagius against Giratina (very risky one) or stay use sword dance or just try to predict and switch and use any other of the moves I have with Lucario.

      @enrithomas7194@enrithomas71945 ай бұрын
  • 7:06 I used this Aron strategy a lot back in the day. People eventually caught on and made the strategy useless, but it was still a good time while it lasted

    @JMarcosArt@JMarcosArt Жыл бұрын
    • Got me through the battle maisons triple battles.

      @sleepy9102@sleepy9102 Жыл бұрын
    • Terrible for cheesing

      @PBLightning145@PBLightning145 Жыл бұрын
  • Dragonite honestly has nice design, but it's kind of sad that there's no version of it keeping the kind of elegant beauty dragonair had going, which would have been nice to see.

    @moronribbons5774@moronribbons5774 Жыл бұрын
    • Fingers crossed for an eventual regional variant... Dragonair is the most elegant and arguably best looking looking gen 1 pokemon... The disapointing i had as a kid when seeing it turn into Dragonite still resonates with me to this day.

      @MaMastoast@MaMastoast Жыл бұрын
    • D-nite is cute af what are you guys talking about

      @nift36@nift369 ай бұрын
    • i think milotic should be phase 3 dratini evolution, it"s a like

      @andihalim9289@andihalim92898 ай бұрын
    • @@nift36i feel like it took you longer to think and type d-nite than dragonite

      @tray84@tray848 ай бұрын
    • I like Dragonite but my only gripe with it is the shiny turning from pink to green... whyyyy

      @nyancat8828@nyancat88287 ай бұрын
  • Dragonair is gorgeous, but I can understand the direction GF went with Dragonite. There was a metamorphosis theme going on with the earliest gen reptilian pseudo-legendaries (Dragonite, Tyranitar and Salamence). In lots of gens, there's an early bug type with a middle stage that's wildly different from the other stages (or only the third stage). These bug types teach the player the concept of evolution, and it's repeated all over with the pseudo-legendary. Dusknoir and Electivire started out as worse than their pre-evolutions, but later the low stats of their pre-evolutions caught up with them. It's more like the second stages got worse than the third stages got better, though Dusknoir got Poltergeist. Honchkrow is also strictly worse than Murkrow in doubles, because it loses Prankster and a bit of speed.

    @handanyldzhan9232@handanyldzhan9232 Жыл бұрын
    • Dragonair has such a beautiful design for me, some games I will not let it evolve, especially if I have a dragonite in another game I can easily trade in

      @aceclover758@aceclover75810 ай бұрын
    • Except those others still track. I love tyranitar for instance because it's what you expected from larvitar coming out of a cocoon. Its just a bigger larvitar. At most you might have expected a butterfly situation. The problem with dragonite is that it comes out of nowhere. 2 evolutions leading to a water serpent design and bam, chubby Charizard. It's not even blue! You can do a big change with something like magicarp because the goal is to see if it becomes something better and it does with one evolution. Just like feebas later. They work because of that. All the bug types follow known styles of evolution too. Going dratini into dragonite woulda been less confusing than going dratini dragonair and then changing it up entirely.

      @Merilirem@Merilirem5 ай бұрын
    • I just hate that shiny Dratini and Dragonair both have a pretty pink shiny, which I like, and then not only does Dragonite look completely different, it also has a really ugly dark green and purple. I'll never evolve my shiny Dragonair

      @isabellanardulli7175@isabellanardulli71754 ай бұрын
    • Dragonair's line is actually based off of this one myth; it's from somewhere in Asia, where exactly escapes me, but it goes something like this: there are both sea dragons and true dragons. If a sea dragon catches a dragon orb, it becomes a true dragon and gains the power of flight and all the typical dragony stuff. Dratini's line is based off of this; Dratini is a sea dragon (typically represented as more serpentine) then Dragonair is a sea dragon catching a pearl, then dragonite has a big design shift towards being more of a middle eastern dragon, thus becoming a "true" dragon. Now, True dragons actually look like what most people think of when they hear "Chinese dragon". I don't know why they went with shifting over to a middle eastern dragon, but they did.

      @meeb_consumer@meeb_consumer4 ай бұрын
    • Never thought of it like that. But as a Dragonair fan, I'm still upset what it turns into. The only Dragonite I would want is the Kaiju sized one from the Bill's Lighthouse in the anime.

      @nemesisofeden@nemesisofedenАй бұрын
  • I actually use Yamask over Cofagrigus because you can do a different sort of FEAR strat that can't be countered by Mega Rayquaza's Extreme Speed. That is, to use focus sash with Trick Room and Destiny Bond.

    @indumatipngtuber2790@indumatipngtuber2790 Жыл бұрын
  • In fairness to Raichu though, you'd definitely want to use it in Alola over Pikachu fairly often because of its additional Psychic typing. Also, I've never seen Shell Bell Aron before, but I have seen Berry Juice Recycle Aron, which is its own form of annoying. One more thing: to this day, I still think Florges' line should've been dual type Fairy/Grass. They learn a bunch of grass type moves and they have flowers as major parts of their designs. My first thought when I saw Flabebe was, "Oh, you must be grass/fairy, this will be good to add to my team to cover for my Fennekin since its final form is Fire/Psychic". I catch it, look at its dex entry and see it's mono fairy type and think "What the hell Gamefreak?"

    @supremeking1730@supremeking1730 Жыл бұрын
    • I never understood why they made Florges a pure fairy type, makes no sense.

      @shanemccormick5347@shanemccormick5347 Жыл бұрын
    • @@shanemccormick5347 Half of it's name comes from flower ffs

      @Darkko88@Darkko88 Жыл бұрын
    • I consider the Alolan Raichu to be a downgrade from Raichu. First off it's ability is Surge Surfer, which relies entirely on Electric Terrain. This comes at the loss of the Static or Lightning Rod, both of which are solid and will see way more use than Surge Surfer. Second, you gain two resistances against Fighting and Psychic at the cost of three weaknesses; Bug, Ghost, and Dark, and a possible loss of immunity against Electric.

      @EbuCallinav@EbuCallinav Жыл бұрын
    • @@EbuCallinav Regular Raichu is much better than Alolan version.

      @LegitSav@LegitSav Жыл бұрын
    • Alolan Raichu is more powerful, since it gets electric and psychic STAB, but I absolutely hate its design.

      @camthesaxman3387@camthesaxman3387 Жыл бұрын
  • I actually really like Raichu in Double Battles/VGC. It's a nice support Pokémon, Fake Out, Encore maybe Helping Hand or Nuzzle. Fast Enough with maxed Speed, strong enough to do their thing. And honestly I like Raichu more design wise. It just looks so speedy and jumpy.

    @tobigrantlbart@tobigrantlbart Жыл бұрын
    • I'm one of the weirdos who likes Raichu's design far better than pikachu, as well, so it has that going for me.

      @DramaticBloodyBirds@DramaticBloodyBirds Жыл бұрын
    • I like Raichu with lighting rod in a rain dance team (in double battles). It helps cover the electric weakness especially if you have a dual water/flying type like Pelliper

      @blayruniverse4682@blayruniverse4682 Жыл бұрын
    • 100% raichu >>> pikachu

      @michelangelo8011@michelangelo8011 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@DramaticBloodyBirds your not alone

      @imackiemsamich@imackiemsamich Жыл бұрын
    • I do really like Raichu but it bothers me to no end that, unlike Pikachu and even Pichu, Raichu has no digits on its hands. Just useless nubs. I have similar beef with Ampharos despite it having a special place in my heart.

      @adamhersi1175@adamhersi1175 Жыл бұрын
  • enjoyed this video, the calm voice and random wtf moments really made it stand out lol

    @user-oy2mw9ni6f@user-oy2mw9ni6f6 ай бұрын
  • Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

    @sagacious03@sagacious03 Жыл бұрын
  • Its always a treat when Alex uploads.

    @resaldom@resaldom Жыл бұрын
    • Fr

      @cinimodx1525@cinimodx1525 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes it really is

      @PikachuGamerSMT@PikachuGamerSMT Жыл бұрын
    • When it's not a stupid joke video.

      @alphadog647@alphadog647 Жыл бұрын
    • you sound like a bot

      @cade.is.cringe@cade.is.cringe Жыл бұрын
    • @@alphadog647 the stupid joke videos are funny though

      @Chirrie@Chirrie Жыл бұрын
  • With Pikachu, you forgot to mention Raichu's superior defenses - Pikachu may have a higher attack stat, however it dies quickly to things like aqua jet, and Light Ball Pikachu can't also hold a focus sash, so…

    @benjystrauss2524@benjystrauss2524 Жыл бұрын
    • This is using your head pretty much anything faster than that Pikachu that's actually competitive would murk Pikachu in one shot not enough spd or def and special def. Glad someone said this

      @seanmontgomery4330@seanmontgomery4330 Жыл бұрын
    • Exactlyyyy

      @octothulhu@octothulhu Жыл бұрын
    • Tbf Pikachu does get extreme speed which is priority 2. The real hard part is switching Pikachu in. Think it is better in doubles though(edit me being an idiot). Edit Wait raichu won world's wtf am I talking about. Well I don't really know doubles very well.

      @_Sinduss@_Sinduss Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@_Sinduss Extremespeed is a gen5 event only move, at least according to Serebii. Maybe that could sweep with a baton passed boost or something - but you still have ghosts to block you.

      @benjystrauss2524@benjystrauss2524 Жыл бұрын
    • @@benjystrauss2524 singles tends to be played on a battle simulator (gen 8 time limit made 6v6 singles almost unplayable) so extreme speed would be available. I never said Pikachu was good it's just raichu is not good either. Now alolan raichu I would say is better due to being dual type. In the lower tiers light ball Pikachu should not need boosts to secure a faint and would function as a revenge killer. In gen 8 gmax could give Pikachu the bulk to withstand a hit and strike back for massive damage. Now gmax is gone in gen 9 raichu is probably better. Raichu is now apparently uu now so it is much better.

      @_Sinduss@_Sinduss Жыл бұрын
  • I actually never thought about the mega evolution point like that before. Great job!

    @progskep@progskep2 ай бұрын
  • Speed is actually big in competitive, Raichu can use nasty plot and has access to focus blast for better coverage. I wish he got more buffs because I still have memories of evolving him and beating the champion with Thunder ⚡

    @chipe123o4@chipe123o46 ай бұрын
    • Focus miss doesn’t get used a whole lot cause of accuracy, same thing for thunder except at least you can use it in rain with 100%

      @Beefcream@Beefcream4 ай бұрын
    • I always evolve pikachu. Raichu‘s my boy! Using pikachu late game is like not evolving charmeleon. Just doesn’t feel right!

      @PhoenixDawn93@PhoenixDawn933 ай бұрын
  • Dragonair and Dragonite were made by two separate people, hence why they look so different. In Red & Green, the sprites were made before any artwork and people were just making sprites, then other devs and Ken Sugimori (the lead pokemon artist) tried to flesh them out. Same reason why Charmander lost its back spikes and Mew lost its head tube bump (similar to mewtwo's neck tube).

    @Kmn483@Kmn483 Жыл бұрын
    • But they are also based on a folk Lore where a sea serpent finds an orb and turn into a dragon. Hence why dragonair has an orb on its neck and tail

      @bluebird4614@bluebird4614 Жыл бұрын
    • @@bluebird4614 seriously, i thought i was one of the only to know this.

      @untrollquifaitdesblaguessa6922@untrollquifaitdesblaguessa6922 Жыл бұрын
    • Wait... Charmander had spikes. I can't believe I never even notice it had spikes in Red/Blue. God those original gen 1 sprites were so weird

      @mori6434@mori6434 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mori6434 on a lot of the early art and even some of the original toys charmander has a body shaped very similarly to cubone but with no mask and flames on the tail. This thing about Dragonite line having more than one artist I did not know though so that’s super interesting and explains a lot. I like Dragonite but I wish it’s design wasn’t getting goofier and goofier with each season. I liked it when it was more draconic in design and nature.

      @Poket_gmr@Poket_gmr Жыл бұрын
    • Dratini is dragon type. Dragonair is dragon type. Not all dragons have 2 legs and stand vertically. Dratini and Dragonair deserved a better third evolution. We need a coherent third evolution. We need a beautiful elegant dragon (blue, white or white-blue) as third evolution. Dragonite doesn't make sense on that line. Dragonite is a childrish version of Charizard, it should be a regional version of Charizard.

      @enibeni2071@enibeni2071 Жыл бұрын
  • The raichu speed buff is needed. It outspeeds landorous with 15 to spare. The speed is basically the thing you need.

    @florantlover5554@florantlover5554 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm reminded of the good old missingno glitch from gen 1. I had the good fortune of being able to catch level 165 Squirtles. Then when they gained EXP, they would go to level 100 and evolve into Wartortle. Some of the Missingno-ish Pokemon would have their levels fly all over the place, or evolve into Kangashkahn. Fun times.

    @plentyofpaper@plentyofpaper Жыл бұрын
  • Another one you don't need to evolve is scyther, it has the same amount of stats (both scizor and scyther have 500 total) it really depends if Flying type is better for your team or steel type is in terms of type coverage.

    @S3cr3t_Qw1rtz@S3cr3t_Qw1rtz8 ай бұрын
    • boolet punch

      @Deadgye@Deadgye6 ай бұрын
  • I don't think the Light Ball justifies Pikachu being better because Pikachu will be locked into holding 1 item, the Lightball. Having a Raichu that can hold any competitive item has way more value than a Pikachu w/Lighball who would get massacred if out sped by an opponent or hit by a priority move and die. Raichu also has an Alolan variant version with 2 excellent special stab in Electric/Psychic.

    @TheOmegaDragon@TheOmegaDragon Жыл бұрын
    • Yes thank you...pikachu is no offense to the fans but it's trash.

      @Aliyah_666@Aliyah_666 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Aliyah_666 At least Partner Pikachu is better than regular Pikachu.

      @CMizzo2000@CMizzo2000 Жыл бұрын
    • one fake out and it's the end

      @Rapthan76@Rapthan76 Жыл бұрын
    • Alolan is better but base Raichu is not a Mon I'd consider on my team, not above lightball Pikachu anyway. That attack stat is too Stronk and it has p good speed as well. Combine with a powerful signature move like volt tackle, and then volt switch, iron tail. It's a powerful and versatile Mon that's gonna do something at the very least.

      @CleopatraKing@CleopatraKing Жыл бұрын
    • pikachu lives literally every priority move in the game aside STAB sucker punch and dnite and mega lucario espeed are rolls in pikachus favor. also pikachu and raichu are both terrible.

      @tilmania361@tilmania361 Жыл бұрын
  • serperior actually has arms it’s behind its back like a king

    @bleachcandy@bleachcandy Жыл бұрын
  • Spitting straight facts for over 11 minutes, great video!

    @handouras1930@handouras1930 Жыл бұрын
  • A strategy I really like using with Eviolite is Magneton, double team, sturdy, some move that can inflict a status condition like toxic or tri attack

    @gingerkays7362@gingerkays736210 ай бұрын
  • As a fan of snakes i actually prefer Serperior over Servine, also Serperior does have arms they're just held to the back in a regal pose since Serperior has that regal look to it.

    @unlimitedduckgamer@unlimitedduckgamer Жыл бұрын
    • servine is better really

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul7467 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mihaimercenarul7467 no

      @connortindale962@connortindale962 Жыл бұрын
    • @@connortindale962 yes

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul7467 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mihaimercenarul7467 no

      @connortindale962@connortindale962 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mihaimercenarul7467 servine is barf. Snivy and serperior have good designs but servine is awkward.

      @Linktober04@Linktober04 Жыл бұрын
  • It's useful actually seeing the base stat increase for item buffs.

    @davontayleon1667@davontayleon1667 Жыл бұрын
  • "Look at that little cutie" Next evolution: "NOW WTF?!"

    @greekteafors3862@greekteafors38628 ай бұрын
  • Pikachu may be a powerhouse with the Light Ball but that Light Ball is also its biggest weakness cause it can't hold anything else - still giving Raichu more of a pratical use. If Pikachu was abit faster though, it could abuse Encore Shenanigans and roast people. I wish it had just abit more speed honestly so it had more use in an OU battle with its impressive moveset.

    @makisbizarreadventure4669@makisbizarreadventure4669 Жыл бұрын
  • About FEAR strats: back in the day in gen5 net battle I used the evolved forms of those pokemon. fo the simple fact that if one knows the FEAR strat and sees a rattata, aron or magnemite on the team preview he/she can choose best suited lead to counter it. BUT NO ONE EXPECTED THE FEAR STRAT BY SEEING A RATICATE, AGGRON OR MAGNETON/MAGNEZONE!!!

    @AzoiatheCobra@AzoiatheCobra Жыл бұрын
    • How would you do that strat with evolved pokes?

      @JulianCaesaro@JulianCaesaro Жыл бұрын
    • @@JulianCaesaro in NET battle, where everyone used level 100 you could set the level to 1, even the evolved forms. I dont know how it is now, but vs a LVL 100 a LVL 20 (or whatever the level it evolves) raticate works just as fine

      @AzoiatheCobra@AzoiatheCobra Жыл бұрын
    • @@JulianCaesaro raticate evolves early and there was a time mons werent just auto leveled to 50 or even 100. gen 5 also saw some competent raticates that were potential sweepers so it isnt weird to see it in that time.

      @damienmitchell3104@damienmitchell3104 Жыл бұрын
    • I remember a while back when someone tried using a FEAR Rattata against me on Showdown... It didn't work against my level 100 Metagross holding Leftovers! Lol

      @BaronSengir1008@BaronSengir100810 ай бұрын
    • Apparently, Raichu has its days with it.

      @GeorgeDCowley@GeorgeDCowleyАй бұрын
  • I personally don't mind the way Venusaur looks but I know a lot of people who refuse to evolve their ivysaurs because they think it's ugly

    @vossboss220@vossboss220 Жыл бұрын
    • Lol, I was one of those people. I really like Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, but I'm not a fan of Venusaur unfortunately.

      @blueflare3848@blueflare3848 Жыл бұрын
    • I don’t think Venusaur is ugly, but I definitely do prefer Ivysaur. Not enough to keep me from evolving it, but still

      @howlinghellgar2214@howlinghellgar2214 Жыл бұрын
    • I guess this is why the Pokemon Trainer in Smash has Ivysaur

      @danielmaynard239@danielmaynard239 Жыл бұрын
    • Venusaur is cool in my books. Hes basically a grass lizard dinosaur thing.

      @RandomWatcherofVideos@RandomWatcherofVideos Жыл бұрын
    • I have always agreed that Venusaur is much uglier lol. But that's a big contributing part to his aesthetic that makes him massive and intimidating. Sure Ivysaur is much cuter and I do happen to personally prefer his look, but that's not what necessarily goes into a good final evolution design.

      @nigelnigel1688@nigelnigel1688 Жыл бұрын
  • Sableye and Mega Sableye are interesting, because your opponent could not know which it was going to be. The strategy to beat Sableye backfires against Mega Sableye, and the strategy to beat Mega Sableye. And once people get complacent and think that okay, they're dealing with normal Sableye.. that's when you evolve it.

    @etherraichu@etherraichu4 ай бұрын
  • As someone who picked both Tepig and Chespin I agree with your assessment on them

    @antadhg@antadhg8 ай бұрын
  • I disagree with Mega Blaziken. I think the extra bulk on the mega makes it better in a lot of scenarios plus the extra speed helps it outspeed mons turn one that outspeed regular Blaziken. The issue is the opportunity cost. I would rather use another mega instead like Lucario.

    @Magic_Ice@Magic_Ice Жыл бұрын
    • Indeed, this is why it was banned from smogon gen 8 nat dex and blaziken was not

      @terratius@terratius Жыл бұрын
    • Yep.Mega Blaziken either outspeeds turn 1, or outspeeds turn 2.Blaziken is slower turn one and can STILL be outsped turn 2, so I'd say mega is the better option.

      @FrostyArrow110@FrostyArrow110 Жыл бұрын
    • You can just set up screens ,use life orb ,sword and boom v: Oh yeah, not forget spikes/rock The Life orb blaziken is alredy more useful than the mega

      @Candyy248@Candyy248 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Candyy248 no, if blaziken can already get OHKOed turn one then there's no point in having a mon. But for Mega-Blaziken, you can easily live two neutral hits and get a swords dance off and not get killed. Mega-Ken is broken, Blaziken is balanced. One strong hit won't take mega-blaziken out unless it's super effective.

      @hmm5176@hmm5176 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Candyy248 that’s a lot of extra set up instead of instantly pulling out Mega Blaziken.

      @Magic_Ice@Magic_Ice Жыл бұрын
  • Serperior actually does have arms though they are just really hard to notice, I didn't notice either at first too.

    @Novaurawr@Novaurawr Жыл бұрын
  • 10:40 they missed the oportunity of making golduck... you know, actually golden...

    @igorgiuseppe1862@igorgiuseppe18628 ай бұрын
    • True :/

      @GameFreakSucks@GameFreakSucks2 ай бұрын
  • I liked using Pory-Z in my playthrough and it was shiny, but it had trace, so I figured it would be better to evolve and get adaptability and ran silk scarf adaptability tri-attack and rolled over my rivals and wild fights lmao Also, hyper beam, with STAB making it 2x, and silk scarf boosting by 1.2x, it had a base power of 360, kinda broken (This was gen 5 when silk scarf was 20% more)

    @Cavereous@Cavereous10 ай бұрын
  • Eviolite Gurdurr with Bulk Up, Drain Punch, and Guts has gotten me several sweeps. And I remember only sticking with him because I didn't have anyone to trade for Conkeldurr

    @RioluLucario1994@RioluLucario1994 Жыл бұрын
    • I did similarly with Doublade only because I couldn’t find the dusk stone and had to look it up 😂 but it’s a fantastic item!

      @Poket_gmr@Poket_gmr Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@Poket_gmr The best part is when my opponent underestimates me because Gurdurr isn't a 'high tier' pokemon...but then Gurdurr sets up and proceeds to sweep their team

      @RioluLucario1994@RioluLucario1994 Жыл бұрын
    • @@0matic Great minds think alike. Gurdurr with Eviolite is one of PvP's best kept secrets

      @RioluLucario1994@RioluLucario1994 Жыл бұрын
    • low tier goat gurdurr

      @nt_-dg4rw@nt_-dg4rw Жыл бұрын
  • I have to disagree with Delphox, I'm probably one of the few people who like all the Kalos starters, wether design or performance, I really like the Fennekin line, Delphox has a witch-like yet elegant design and the pre-evos are really cute 🥰 Without counting the Mega stones, of all the fire starters Delphox hits the hardest on the special side 🦊🔥

    @bladewingmcowl5842@bladewingmcowl5842 Жыл бұрын
    • cringe

      @mihaimercenarul7467@mihaimercenarul7467 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mihaimercenarul7467 you are 😡

      @bladewingmcowl5842@bladewingmcowl5842 Жыл бұрын
    • @@bladewingmcowl5842 cringe

      @nokiagt@nokiagt Жыл бұрын
    • @@nokiagt why

      @bladewingmcowl5842@bladewingmcowl5842 Жыл бұрын
    • I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves the entire Fennekin line. Plus, they all have great shines :)

      @shayminskyforce4533@shayminskyforce4533 Жыл бұрын
  • This is a well researched video for competitive battling, i learned a lot!! also i'm bleeding, but thats probably unrelated ❤❤❤

    @mayswillie@mayswillie6 ай бұрын
  • Braxian is adorable, but Delphox is so cool. It baffles me that anyone has a problem with it beyond people not liking their expectations subverted.

    @KiraSlith@KiraSlith Жыл бұрын
  • Honestly I’ve been having fun with a Klang evolvite set- Grind gear, gear shift, wild charge and charge with Max HP Split Def and spdef, granted it’s not perfect and there might be better ways to use it but when I set it up right its a beauty

    @Poke-ladd@Poke-ladd Жыл бұрын
    • I see you're a Ben 10 fan. Same here.

      @christianparrish3292@christianparrish3292 Жыл бұрын
  • 9:14 Servine doesn't lose its arms. Serperior has arms, they're just folded being it's back. You can see them just above the first yellow stripe on its body

    @Blue_Anzu@Blue_Anzu Жыл бұрын
  • I would Also Like to Bring up Mega Audino Vs Audino in Competitive While gaining the fair typing is great, having access to regenerator, Leftovers, and Pure Normal are arguably decent on their own.

    @LocalFurDerg@LocalFurDerg Жыл бұрын
  • I can't believe you didn't mention shiny Blissey! I just caught a shiny Chansey during the Pokemon Go February event, and I was pissed after I evolved it and saw what it looked like!

    @paultack5893@paultack5893 Жыл бұрын
  • Do a "50 new moves for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet"

    @NikoBellic04@NikoBellic04 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @christianparrish3292@christianparrish3292 Жыл бұрын
    • Just no jumpscares, please.

      @robertlupa8273@robertlupa8273 Жыл бұрын
  • Shiny rapidash is another one they kinda dropped the ball on. I think they were going for hazy smoke with it instead but it didn't really work.

    @alexcunningham2037@alexcunningham2037 Жыл бұрын
    • Nah, looks more like the wanted to make Rapidash a demonic horse.

      @toumabyakuya@toumabyakuya Жыл бұрын
  • I'd like to point out that, while not to the level of the Evolite Pokemon you mentioned, Munchlax also gets Tank status (Snorlax def and sp def being 65 and 110 compared to munchlax with 40 and 85, respectively ) with Evolite, which works nicely with slack off and curse for a bulky (and slow) sweep or for Baton pass setups.

    @TheDarkJester420@TheDarkJester4208 ай бұрын
    • Snorlax doesn't have Slack Off tho...? You'd be forced to run a Regen Berry+Recycle, so no Eviolite 4 u

      @r0w5tortion84@r0w5tortion846 ай бұрын
    • @@r0w5tortion84 you're right, dunno why I thought slack off was Munchlax, it's been a good while since I last played. It could still work with rest instead, or even forgo healing and go stockpile to go for 3.5x the normal defensive stats of Munchlax

      @TheDarkJester420@TheDarkJester4206 ай бұрын
  • Serperior doesn’t lose their arms They just hold them behind its back looking down on you like a monarch

    @CrasherX2000@CrasherX20004 күн бұрын
  • Your videos cure my depression keep up the good work

    @Goodmegamind@Goodmegamind Жыл бұрын
    • Defo "Funny Memer" you defo have depression

      @kaianhardman2869@kaianhardman2869 Жыл бұрын
    • Auraguardian is a very funny man

      @Goodmegamind@Goodmegamind Жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact: Serperior doesn’t actually lose it’s arms, it just keeps them behind him for a more regal stance.

    @keiviroque5666@keiviroque5666 Жыл бұрын
    • I thought "giveaways" were only on Facebook.

      @seank.cunningham3841@seank.cunningham3841 Жыл бұрын
    • Funfact.....fun fact

      @blackomega2526@blackomega2526 Жыл бұрын
  • Even if porygon 2 sees more competitive play, Z as a special glass cannon will always have a place in my heart.

    @PorygonFTW@PorygonFTW9 ай бұрын
  • I actually quite like how Skwovet evolves into Greedent. While he may be ugly, it makes sense the one that loves eating became a chonky boi! I imagine if Munchlax was introduced at the same time as Snorlax, and Snorlax wasn't such a good Pokémon stat-wise, people would say Snorlax would be a downgrade for cute little Munchlax

    @BenjiThomaz@BenjiThomaz Жыл бұрын
  • Tbh I never really got the dislike for Serperior's design. Its the snake pokemon throughout, its second stage has smaller limbs preportional to its first stage, the arms are still there as well just smaller, etc. Like its all changes that make sense. Maybe its wierd as a kid but as an adult it makes more sense why the progression went like this

    @MineNAdventurer@MineNAdventurer Жыл бұрын
    • surperior hands are the same size he's just putting them behind his back as a royal thing or something like that

      @godkiller_seriously@godkiller_seriously11 ай бұрын
    • I think that’s the point though, it’s literally just a snake every time it evolves. Other starters go from cute to god killers and this boys just a snek.

      @billqiu4692@billqiu469211 ай бұрын
    • ​@@billqiu4692and that's why serperior it's dope, he's simple and cool, just perfect

      @HAROINOIR@HAROINOIR9 ай бұрын
    • I wish they wouldve done more for Serperior, the collars are just lazy. Wouldve been cool if it had the skin-flaps of a Cobra (I mean there is literally a King Cobra animal) but sadly those flaps went to Arbok first. Alright then, why not turn it into a hydra and getting more heads with each evolution? They couldve done better, the current form looks like a grass banana.

      @xxMpEGxx@xxMpEGxx9 ай бұрын
    • ​@@xxMpEGxx hydreigon already serves as the hydra

      @SansBadTime@SansBadTime8 ай бұрын
  • I prefer Haunter to Gangar. I like how Gastly and Haunter float in the air, and Haunter having detached hands is really cool. So Gangar not only having attached limbs, but he also no longer floating is a huge down grade.

    @33pandagamer@33pandagamer Жыл бұрын
    • I was about to post about Haunter as well. Also I adore Murkrow; but I don't care for the evolution they gave him.

      @RipVanWinkleXX@RipVanWinkleXX Жыл бұрын
    • thank you

      @alphacommander428@alphacommander428 Жыл бұрын
    • Absolutely. Gengar is alright.. I like the design.. but Gastly Haunter are among the best gen 1 designs.

      @MaMastoast@MaMastoast Жыл бұрын
    • And the fact gengar gets the ability levitate despite clearly having feet on the ground annoys me to no end

      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Жыл бұрын
    • I was always reluctant to evolve Haunter growing up. I liked the design much better.

      @shooby9496@shooby9496 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow very nice list, man! I love how you cover all aspect. I didn't even think about the shiny aspect. And I agree with most of your points... Except one. I guess we can agree to disagree. IMO Serperior is better-looking than servine. Plus, it didn't lose arms. It just tends to fold them back like some royalty would. Although, yeah servine's are longer and more practical lol

    @chalidaulia9933@chalidaulia993311 ай бұрын
  • For the most part, Pokemon that evolve with a stone lose out on their learnset by leveling up. (At least earlier on, I only played through gen 5.) There are some Pokemon that still learn moves as they level, and some Pokemon were changed so that moves are treated as learned at level 1 so they can be taught by the move rememberer. At least in gen 5 (and presumably after) TMs are no longer consumables like they were in gens 1-4

    @cardsfanbj@cardsfanbj3 ай бұрын
  • I use to absolutely despise rhyperior. rhydon I still feel is better looking overall, but I grew to like rhyperior better because it was that pokemon that I finally caught in Sword on Isle of Armor that allowed me to help beat zeraora when the raid challenges were happening.

    @xBloodxFangx@xBloodxFangx Жыл бұрын
    • I love Rhyperior but do believe Rhydon can outdo him in battle. I ran Solid Rock Rhyperior with an Assault Vest and special defense investment in Sand to take water and grass attacks better. For me it can take at least three before going down which was insane for being 4x weak to those moves. He was fun to battle with and took many by surprise.

      @speedyav46@speedyav46 Жыл бұрын
    • Eviolite Rhydon > Rhyperior

      @NotBlackWolf@NotBlackWolf Жыл бұрын
    • @@NotBlackWolf @speedyav46 even with eviolite, rhyperior is just overall the better option. The only prevos that were ever genuinely better than their evos were chansey and dusclops, and both fell off hard with the knock off boost gen 5-gen 6. Even then Chansey was arguably better but that completely went away with Heavy Duty Boots. Rhyperior/Rhydon is nothing like that, Solid Rock + leftovers alone make Rhyperior last far longer in a match, not to mention it has more options with its ability to change items, such as a wallbreaker with a band. Not to mention Weakness Policy which is far more common in monotype. As someone who's played competitive since gen 5, Rhyperior is defs better, and even Gen 5 when eviolite mons were at their peak with Dusclops quite literally being in a hier tier than Dusknoir, Rhydon was still way outclassed by Rhyperior

      @nighttimeasbestos5958@nighttimeasbestos5958 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nighttimeasbestos5958 Try eviolite Rhydon with lighting rod in doubles as a support and get back to me. More viable than Rhyperior in singles. Great bulk, damage, and is nasty on the switch in. I run it with a moxie Gyarados.

      @NotBlackWolf@NotBlackWolf Жыл бұрын
    • @@NotBlackWolf Oh not a doubles player, can't speak for that, in singles Rhyperior just flatout outclasses it though, even when NFE mons were at its peak in gen 5 Rhyperior was a better mon, and is currently still a solid pick for Ru/UU/is a higher tier mon for Mono Rock builds. The only poke that currently outclasses it's evo is gcorsola

      @nighttimeasbestos5958@nighttimeasbestos5958 Жыл бұрын
  • I liked Grovyle's design so much as a kid I would even evolve it. Great analysis

    @watsonwrote@watsonwrote Жыл бұрын
  • I watched this with undivided attention, was really focused and taking in everything you were saying, until you got to the part with the monkey trio same i just lost it 😂😂😂 you're so right, wtf did they do to those Pokemon 😂

    @ryancooper780@ryancooper7802 ай бұрын
  • Duraludon’s about to go crazy with the eviolite

    @SauteedJosh@SauteedJosh9 ай бұрын
  • The Serperior evolutionary line is actually super cool design wise if you think about it. It’s based on a snake or serpent and in evolutionary biology, it is thought that snakes used to have limbs (through fossil records and their vestigial legs seen today from their bone structure). So as it evolves, it’s legs becomes more and more reduced until they’re gone.

    @MrMoose-mf1oy@MrMoose-mf1oy Жыл бұрын
  • The Raichu buff is easy to fix just allow the light ball when held by Raichu it doubles only it's speed and special stats

    @GreyLeo@GreyLeo Жыл бұрын
    • I think boosting defense and special defense would be better since that's specifically the reason why I evolved my Pikachu. I cannot name all the times that my Raichu survived on one HP and swept the opponent.

      @yellowkiwi5773@yellowkiwi5773 Жыл бұрын
    • Light ball has no effect on Raichu, so its attack stats are sadly, unchanged.

      @songerkids690@songerkids690 Жыл бұрын
    • @@yellowkiwi5773 competitively that would suck. Just make sure that the light ball works with all pilachu line

      @aaryavaze1496@aaryavaze1496 Жыл бұрын
    • Not entirely. If the light ball were to function as to double the defenses then it would be more viable and leave Raichu as a more bulky option. It's be like a sort of balanced pokemon like Mew and would leave Nintendo's pokemon mascot alone. They will never give the light ball's attacks boost to Raichu, let's faces that.

      @yellowkiwi5773@yellowkiwi5773 Жыл бұрын
    • I think if the Light Ball was to work on Raichu then it should work the same, since it'd be weird for an item to do different things depending on what Pokemon held it; outside of things like Black Sludge. Still, it'd give Raichu more variety since he can already be a bulky support, and that there are better offensive electric types to use competitively, so it'd make Raichu more meta.

      @Fang1st@Fang1st Жыл бұрын
  • I love that I can’t tell if your videos are from 2016 or from this year

    @VictorianSnailGod@VictorianSnailGod11 ай бұрын
  • I used a technician eviolite scyther in Scarlett. I loved it.

    @joewheeler5146@joewheeler51469 ай бұрын
  • I actually love the designs of Delphox and Rhyperior. Rhyperior being also one of my favorite rock types ever created (after Tyranitar)

    @doragonsureia7288@doragonsureia7288 Жыл бұрын
    • Tyranitar solos

      @ohmeohmicah@ohmeohmicah Жыл бұрын
    • I really like Rhydon’s design and it does look complete. I didn’t hate the idea of it evolving though. When I saw Rhyoerior I was sadly disappointed. It loses so much of what made it a good design in exchange for being an overweight (American) football player who should probably be a linemen but instead wants to be QB launching Geodude across the field (which admittedly is hilarious 🤣). The stats are much better though and I’ve enjoyed using it recently so I can’t complain TOO much haha.

      @Poket_gmr@Poket_gmr Жыл бұрын
    • Can you explain why you like Rhyperior? I genuinely want to know. I look at this boi and I can't find positives. A lot of Pokemon I used to hate I've gotten over. But I can't get past Rhyperior. In general making a mon fatter makes it look worse. And they added all those plates that could have looked cool if they went for an armor style or sum, but instead gave him a safety vest and helmet that almost make him look like bad portrayals of special ed kids. Like.... Please, help me see the light. I don't wanna see him this way, it's so bad.

      @MissOnana@MissOnana Жыл бұрын
    • @@MissOnana Warning: long answer from a Rhyperior lover lmao. (TL:DR Rhyperior is bulky, menacing, has a magma aesthetic and can shoot them molten rocks from his arm-cannons, which is really heckin cool :D). Rhyperior has always been in my top of favourites mon designs. His color scheme is amazing, the grey and orange mix very well together, and gives off this magma/molten rock vibes. Design wise. To me it seems like Rhyperior is shaped like a mole, that uses its horn to help him excavate through the ground. These light design inspirations help to settle in his overall "molten magma slinger" aesthetic, since moles are underground just like magma lol. Then we have the cannons on its hands. They clearly are there to imply that the mon can shoot out magma and what not out of his body (which is really heckin cool :D). Also, the plaques on his body seems to have a "security vest" type of vibe, which makes me believe that they choose this pattern since it looks like a demolitions expert, which fits the whole aesthetic of "magma slinging pokemon". Even his helmet thingy, to me, looks more like a pair of noise cancellation headphones that are used by demolitions experts. Last but not least, his bulky size combined with his molten magma aesthetic and menacing look (which is enhanced by that horn) makes him look so terrifying (which is really heckin cool :D). I also might be biased since it looked so menacing and cool in the anime lol.

      @jackk.4670@jackk.4670 Жыл бұрын
    • @@jackk.4670 Thank you so much! I think I can kinda see some of those points. It's probably never gonna be a winner in my books, but it's nice to be able to see some of it's better qualities like this.

      @MissOnana@MissOnana Жыл бұрын
  • Agree with the Shiny Tyrogue. Also one that fits in here what I found when doing a Cute Charm run in Platinum: Snorunt. Snorunt's Shiny is beautiful, while Glalie and Froslass don't have that much going on

    @theduskullsociety8095@theduskullsociety8095 Жыл бұрын
  • Always wished we could have had vigoroth have a split evolution line. One that went more energy, while of course we have the slow slaking. Maybe in the future?

    @OneNutReactions@OneNutReactions Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah I hope so

      @GameFreakSucks@GameFreakSucks2 ай бұрын
  • I specifically use slacking for my false swipe pokémon for the truant ability

    @sampeachey2758@sampeachey27588 ай бұрын
  • 11:07 it doesn't get worse as it evolves it only goes down hill at garchomp. I wouldn't mind if they made the orange/red on gabite yellow like what they did with gable but I like gabite's shiny a lot (and of course gible's shiny)

    @THGMR-ox7sd@THGMR-ox7sd Жыл бұрын
    • I unironcally like Garchomp's shiny.

      @primrosevale1995@primrosevale1995 Жыл бұрын
    • True

      @GameFreakSucks@GameFreakSucks2 ай бұрын
  • My favored FEAR strat is Aron, holding a Shell Bell since it gets Sturdy and with Sandstorm. Doesn't work on rock, ground, or steel types, but it also probably won't work on a prepared opponent, so.

    @cadencenavigator958@cadencenavigator958 Жыл бұрын
  • Rhydon himself looks like he could be a final evolution 😭

    @reggie9010@reggie9010 Жыл бұрын
    • almost like it was fully evolved for the first 3 gens 🤯

      @iIikepenguins@iIikepenguins Жыл бұрын
    • @@iIikepenguins bro i dont play pokemon i didnt know 💀

      @reggie9010@reggie9010 Жыл бұрын
  • Serperior does have arms, it just folds them behind its back

    @Mantelsch@Mantelsch8 ай бұрын
  • I’ve been sick all day but your videos are getting me through it. Love the work keep it up!

    @zack54236@zack54236 Жыл бұрын
  • 9:40 Yeah, I'm sure that Delphox having a worse design is why Braixen is more popular. No other reason. No sirree.

    @pef_v6107@pef_v6107 Жыл бұрын
  • Good to see some respect to Tepig! Seriously one of my favorite starter's and than it just turns into a circle..

    @wileycorgi4138@wileycorgi413811 ай бұрын
  • The first half was great with the straight up facts, but the back half of the video was perfect. Heck evolving Rhydon.

    @SIDEWAYS255@SIDEWAYS25510 ай бұрын
  • Another important factor into not evolving in addition to Eviolite is the move foul play, where you intentionally want to tank its attack stat so it takes less damage when the move is used on you. Since you don't really care if you are attacking with it and just using the pokemon with support moves.

    @Xhadp@Xhadp Жыл бұрын
  • I would have included Fidough too, we all knew his design was too cute to be improved on.

    @Inkydex@Inkydex Жыл бұрын
  • gengar is my favorite pokemon, and the shiny version really broke my heart upon seeing it

    @zaxluvsbands@zaxluvsbands8 ай бұрын
  • Came here for the Dragonair recognition. Wasn't disappointed.

    @Teslabluewolf@Teslabluewolf9 ай бұрын
  • Personally I like how bulky Rhyperior is but I have 3 issues: 1) the holes on it 2) its colors compared to Rhydon 3) it looks bald compared to Rhydon

    @HateshWarkio@HateshWarkio Жыл бұрын
    • The holes are there because it launches rocks out of them.

      @Secret_sympathy@Secret_sympathy2 ай бұрын
    • And where are the ears?

      @GameFreakSucks@GameFreakSucks2 ай бұрын
  • "Raichu has actually been on a world champion winning team" Verlisify: wOlFeY cHeAtEd!

    @Wildcatt1999@Wildcatt1999 Жыл бұрын
    • Why would he be triggered

      @luciodigregorio7811@luciodigregorio7811 Жыл бұрын
    • @@luciodigregorio7811 beacuse the raichu is hacked and he's always talking about it

      @BasicaIIyMyseIf@BasicaIIyMyseIf Жыл бұрын
    • @@luciodigregorio7811 Because he claims the Raichu was hacked, when it wasn't.

      @Wildcatt1999@Wildcatt1999 Жыл бұрын
  • I’ll defend shiny Magcargo, cause it tells a neat story. Slugma’s shiny looks like cooling magma, like it’s dying. While not as hot as blue fire, pink/purple flames are still hotter than red/orange. I see shiny Magcargo as a Slugma whose body is cooling and dying, evolving and using all of its energy as a last ditch effort to stay alive and become even hotter to keep itself alive. But that’s me though. Magcargo’s shiny just makes sense to me in that way.

    @kmjl93@kmjl9311 ай бұрын
  • Question about shiny charizard Would you prefer it pull a gengarchomp and pretty much stay the same?

    @ScrewArceus@ScrewArceus Жыл бұрын
  • I actually like rhyperior's design just think it looks like a giant bulky monster like Tyranitar or aggron

    @Soupurman@Soupurman Жыл бұрын
    • Was looking for this comment. Rhyperior enthusiast unite

      @joshdoe7288@joshdoe7288 Жыл бұрын
    • honestly he looks like a fat guy. and what about the holes on his hands? looks like someone crucified him, lol

      @gundamdetractor337@gundamdetractor337 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @typrogod6games@typrogod6games8 ай бұрын
    • I may not love Rhyperior, but Rhydon is lame. I don't get why people like it.

      @cookiesontoast9981@cookiesontoast99818 ай бұрын
    • And it has a good ability too that weakens super effective attacks

      @KillrMonkey19@KillrMonkey196 ай бұрын
  • Read the title. Immediately thought of dewott to Samurot

    @blindtreeman8052@blindtreeman8052 Жыл бұрын
  • Serperior still has arms! They are just folded behind his back in his pose. Check his animations if you don’t believe me

    @punkrockhawk19@punkrockhawk198 ай бұрын
  • Another fun Evolite Pokemon is Scyther. With fantastic attack, speed and a decent health pool, coupled with access to Roost and Swords Dance. It can do some damage once setup. Just don't throw rocks at it. Also get Technician, so has a decent attack pool as well.

    @e8ios@e8ios6 ай бұрын
    • Arguably the steel type does way more for Scizor though, not only defensively, but the STAB bullet punch.

      @bigfudge2031@bigfudge20314 ай бұрын
    • @@bigfudge2031yeah but it has paper thin spdef so it gets annihilated

      @Alastordadeer@Alastordadeer13 күн бұрын
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