@@sarasaland4709 Cradily is a cool Pokemon, it's just a damn shame how Gastrodon outclasses it in every concieveable way and how weak it is to Steel and Fighting types, which have only gotten BETTER over time.
Let's be honest, I would absolutely take Cradily over Gastrodon if my dedicated sandstorm team needed Water redirection and a rain countermeasure. Gastrodon doesn't exactly gain anything from this weather since it's not a Rock type, nor does it have super effective moves against Water. Outside of sandstorms though, yeah I'd probably go Gastrodon.
Armaldo Cradily Team hoenn fossils gonna extinxt you Now run or taste or rock slides Relicanth cough thats cough cough thats right COUGH Armaldo:what on fossil realm an old relicanth doing here Cradily:dude we need some meowth replacement so here is a relicanth who is a rock type Armaldo:more like reliCOUGH
It's funny how Rock and Grass are bad defensive types individually, but if you combine them they kind of cancel each other out to make a situationally good defensive typing.
Lol i remember my friend's playthrough of Omega Ruby had Steven's Cradily shrug off his Primal Groudon's precipice blades then Giga Drain it to death. He was so pissed, while i sat by laughing, especially since we became friends by having a pokemon match where i used a Barrier+Amnesia+Infestation+Recover stall set to beat him, turning Cradily into a bit of an inside joke between us. Would have never imagined Cradily of all pokemon to be the bane of my friend's pokemon experience.
Love using it in todays format. Meteor Beam Cradily mawled through Calyrex-Ice, Incineroar and really help a ton against Rain. And in my opinion, Cradily is now the better Storm Drain user than Gastrodon because of the abundance of Grass types running around in todays meta.
When I was a dumb kid, I always thought the yellow things in the dark opening were its' two teeth and the markings on the head were the eyes. When you look at it that way it looks kinda funny, but I eventually learned that that's not what the eyes were.
Cradilly's typing is one of its biggest benefits. I love this thing in NU, and so many people cant remember its resistances. I have trouble with it sometimes lol.
really true, that typing is so uncommon that knowing it weakness will have to search on Google first and it's really bucky too so even super effective move can't ko it
Cradily is weird, but in the right situation, it is extremely hard to kill. Grass and Rock both have a lot of weaknesses and a lot of resistances, leading to a really unique defensive typing for our plant. Rock and grass cancel out six of each others weaknesses, which means despite both having 5 weaknesses and 4 resistances individually, Cradily itself only has 4 weaknesses and 2 resistances total. Even better for it, it has rock type moves to threaten bug and ice type pokemon, and grass type moves to threaten water pokemon with ice coverage. Steel is a relatively weak offensive typing which is rarely used as coverage, so it really just needs team support with fighting and steel types. Electric and normal resists with a water immunity is pretty nice too. Sure, its slow, but its bulky and has recover, which makes it pretty decent. Its not unkillable, but a surprising amount of pokemon just have absolutely no way to deal with this thing, and standard coverage options often don't work against it. Cradily can stonewall your standard fire/water/grass core, or your rock/ground coverage, or your electric pokemon with overheat for grass types, and its complete uniqueness is what can make it effective. EDIT: Good point about rock having 5 weaknesses, I misread the type chart at first. Edited :)
I love the almost perfect defensive core it forms with Ferrothorn and Mega Venusaur in Monotype: Grass. I've definitely grown to appreciate Cradily more over the years. It's unconventional, even for a fossil Pokémon, but it works and even works well when played to its strengths by a responsible player. Perhaps one of my favorite things about it is how it takes two of the absolute weakest defensive types and combines them to make a solid dual type which, as you said, is very difficult to deal with for a surprising amount of Pokémon. Also, Rock has five weaknesses, not four. It ties with Grass as having the most weaknesses out of any single type.
@@floofzykitty5072 You're right, just edited my comment. Thanks also reddragonair. And yeah, if you don't like stall, Cradily isn't going to be your choice. Cradily definitely doesn't have the power or speed to really sweep teams very easily, its much more home in stall than in offense.
Yes! Cradily has been my favorite fossil! I used a Cradily back in HGSS and my love for it never faded away. Trying to shiny hunt a Dream Ball HA Lileep in USUM for Sword and Shield
DashingSceptile but the sinnoh ones kinda sad and not sad for me since i never cared that much about them since they’re not good bastiodon has huge defenses but poor attack rampardos has like how can you say that attack isn’t high it even has swords dance and mold breaker but it’s defenses are terrible and so is its speed which is weird since whenever i think of a pachycephalosaurs i think its really fast but its sad since i like both of them especially bastiodon
My wife's birthday is coming up and her favorite Pokémon is beautifly. I've tried to convince her it's not competitively viable but she doesn't care. Maybe you can do that for her.
www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/beautifly/ Show her this entry for it. :p Seriously though, if she wants to use it, then she should use it, games are fun after all. Just as long as she doesn't expect too many wins with it.
@@redwings13400 There's also the ye olde adage: Everything works for in-game. No, seriously, trying to make a comp team for in game use somewhere between hilariously unnecessary and outright self-sabotage.
@@webbowser8834 If you're playing in game, Beautifly can be legit. I recently nuzlocked Alpha Sapphire and Beautifly helped take my team completely deathless until it perished to a critical hit ice beam to Wallace's Milotic as I was attempting a quiver dance sweep. I tried to be fancy with the butterfly instead of just sending out ludicolo and paid the price. Competitively its not great, but in game, you can make anything work. Honestly its pretty good in game, early evolution means it can be really strong for the first bit of the game, and even after it falls off, it can still use quiver dance and morning sun for shenanigans. PS: Also, if you're wondering, I ended up losing 5 pokemon in total on that run, it was probably the most successful nuzlocke I've ever done. I lost 1 more on victory road, then 3 to Steven's freaking insane mega-metagross. :p
Cradily is such a fun bulky Pokemon to play around with, until this video I never knew what it's hidden ability was and now I know it's storm drain that makes me love it so much more 😱👍 gen 3 has the coolest fossil Pokemon, armaldo being my favourite and cradily a close second 👍
Bug and Ice from the Grass half Fighting and Steel from the Rock half *Together, it's weak to Fighting, Ice, Steel and Bug* At least there's no 4x weakness unlike most other Grass and Rocks (especially the latter) It's resistances are Electric, Normal (1 from each) and that's it, but that's what happens when you combine the types that tie with the most weaknesses in 5 Grass' resistances are Grass, Water, Electric and Ground whiling Rock's resistances are Normal, Fire, Flying and Poison Grass' weaknesses are Fire, Flying, Bug, Poison and Ice whiling Rock's weaknesses are Grass, Water, Ground, Fighting and Steel
@@kriblar98 Fairy resists Bug because fairies and bugs live alongside each other in most fairy tales, but as for why Rock doesn't resist Bug, I have no idea.
Cradily actually isn't a plant; it's based on a sea lily and a predatory tunicate (both of which are animals). Just making this comment because I think more people need to know predatory tunicates exist.
It shouldn't be a Fossil Pokémon either, because sea lilies, while an ancient species, are still alive. It's funny how Cradily is a Fossil Mon even tho its basis still exists, but Mamoswine is based on an extinct mammal and it's not a Fossil. XD
It’s pretty amazing that grass and rock have the most weaknesses of any types when separate but when they combine, they cover each other’s offensive and defensive weaknesses very well! It gains great neutrality on a lot of types! Cradily has a truly awesome type combo!
On my way though, I took the Root Fossil. I know that if I didn't say what I took you'd all ask. Actually, now that I think about it everyone ask anyway, comments are good for the algorithm.
I remember young me finally discovering what synergy was when I first put T-tar and Cradily on the same team. With recover, toxic and rock slide the battle frontier suddenly got a little bit easier
I still remember using her in my first competitive team back in generation 4. It was an horrible set, with stockpile, but it was so fun when it worked, seeing my opponent struggling to break an unbreakable wall, while falling to passive damage.
No joke, Cradily can be a power trip. Very few teams before gen 8 can reliably pressure a team built around storm drain Cradily. I’ve had Cradily at +4 SpA by turn two while it’s spamming ancient powers. Very very very scary.
I was playing Emerald on my GBA and in the Battle Tower, a Cradily completely wrecked my Metagross, Tyranitar, and Latias, so yeah, it is strong... and lucky and gimmicky. Swaggered my Metagross to death, ingrained with leftovers, Giga Drained my Tyranitar to death, then Rock Slided my Latias to death.
@@Cold-Blooded-Jay In that case, I take it you've seen your fair share of 1HKO and Double Team abuse in there. Also Brightpowder, Lax Incense, King's Rock, Focus Band, and all those fun items that only CPU fighters can take advantage of. Fun stuff to deal with.
Before Tyrantrum and its Rock Head + STAB Head Smash, Cradily was my favorite fossil. It's just so sturdy, and unlike Bastiodon, has some offense and isn't 4x weak to Fighting and Ground. Once it got Storm Drain, this fossil wall was my favorite counter against Rain teams, absorbing powerful Rain-boosted STAB Hydro Pumps and Waterfalls, boosting itself in the process, then smacking back with a suddenly devastating Giga Drain.
Would make sense to ask of that. Carnivine is a flying Venus Flytrap, Cradily is like the Sea Anemone the looks like a Venus Flytrap. I forgot what that Sea Anemone is called.
@@HatKidTime Exactly and that's why Carnivine is bad, in every gen but gen 4 Leafeon was in the same tier as Carnivine and so completely outclassed it.
Weird fact about Cradily: Cradily is the longest Pokemon name that ciphers with Caesar Cipher, Atbash Cipher, or a mixture of the two called "Atbash plus Caesar" Cipher into a word. No Pokemon names encipher into another Pokemon name though. Cradily ciphers into "julidan" with applied Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher shift of 12. The only other 5-letter and longer ones that do are Golem which becomes "murks" with a Caesar cipher of 6, Hoopa which become "leeds" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 19, Luxio which becomes "Durga" (the name of an Indian god) with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 15, Ditto which becomes "jetty" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 13, Regice which becomes "recage" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 9, and Wooloo which becomes "gooroo" with a Atbash cipher than a Caesar cipher of 3.
Meteor Beam literally gave Cradily a huge boost in power in Gen 8. It's still niche in VGC, but now Cradily have a fighting chance against Gastrodon because of Meteor Beam and the Meta favoring Cradily than Gastro. Cradily best Fossil.
It's by no means the best at anything it can do, but it's a surprisingly effective bulky toolbox that can fill a good dozen or so stall and/or support functions. There's most likely something better for whatever you have in mind, but it's extremely unpredictable and - especially if you're running a mono-Grass or mono-Rock team, it can be an invaluable member of the team within the right team comp. It also has like 10 ways of recovering health. If one wanted to torture their opponent, a bulky Cradily with Pain Split, Giga Drain, Ingrain/Rest, and Toxic/Stockpile/Barrier/Curse/Sandstorm/Gastro Acid/Recover (to name just a few options) with Leftovers is entirely possible and pretty easy to make.
try a max hp max sp def set with leftovers and suction cups moveset: curse, amnesia, rest, rock tomb i had teams centered around cradily for both gen7 OU and monotype and this thing is great once you remove fighting, ground, and steel types with teammates
Back in its debut, I remember people having trouble figuring out its weaknesses. But starting in Gen 4, Ice and Fighting became very common offensive types. And Bug types getting stronger in Gen 5 didn’t help it either.
I remember the good old times playing XY RU. This fellow here was one of my defensive backbones, alongside Rotom. Storm Drain and a surprise Earth Power did wonders when the goal was to open holes for the rest of the team! My absolute favorite fossil to this day :)
Out of curiosity, let’s say you hypothetically do a video on all fully evolved Pokemon at some point and a new generation isn’t coming out in a year or two from the release date of that video. Would you just take a break, start doing some Little Cup vids, do some untiered vids? 🤔
He sti hasnt finished the typing analysis videos (only ice so far) or in depth looks into each gens meta. But your right little cup would be uber interesting
They've already done remakes of Scizor and one other mon, can't remember who, so this will probably never end. But I've always had a massive interest on LC, it's a crazy offensive meta.
“But wait there’s more” is the best way to introduce this vid tbh
Going to throw me off when I watch it again in a year
Double episode!!!
@@captainsunshine64 As someone back here after nearly a year, I can vouch.
Interesting how both Hoenn fossils had niches in Gen 3 OU and we're eventually outclassed by Alolan Sandslash.
I seriously think Cradily is severely underappreciated.
@@sarasaland4709 Cradily is a cool Pokemon, it's just a damn shame how Gastrodon outclasses it in every concieveable way and how weak it is to Steel and Fighting types, which have only gotten BETTER over time.
@@toadallynoodle5414 Cradley is good
Let's be honest, I would absolutely take Cradily over Gastrodon if my dedicated sandstorm team needed Water redirection and a rain countermeasure. Gastrodon doesn't exactly gain anything from this weather since it's not a Rock type, nor does it have super effective moves against Water.
Outside of sandstorms though, yeah I'd probably go Gastrodon.
Cradily does a little dance in it's gen 5 sprite. Therefore making it the best fossil.
*DO THE CRADILY DANCE*
GIVE ONE TO MIRROR B
Omastar and Cradily for a dancing duet, please.
How GOOD were the dance moves of Gen 5 sprites ACTUALLY?
@@M3rtyville They were banned to Ubers for being to good.
@@3.2187_Kilometres (T▽ T)
Armaldo: Here comes trouble
Cradily: And make it double!
To save the world from fossil extinction
@@rajt9996 To unite all fossils through generations.
Wait what the shi.....
@@openinginawe5518
To extend our remains to the world above!
Armaldo
Cradily
Team hoenn fossils gonna extinxt you
Now run or taste or rock slides
Relicanth cough thats cough cough thats right COUGH
Armaldo:what on fossil realm an old relicanth doing here
Cradily:dude we need some meowth replacement so here is a relicanth who is a rock type
Armaldo:more like reliCOUGH
It's funny how Rock and Grass are bad defensive types individually, but if you combine them they kind of cancel each other out to make a situationally good defensive typing.
I mean, almost exclusively worse than grass/steel, but whatever
@@jacksonsmith2955 4x weak to fire is not good in any way
@@microwave8931 You know what is good? Resistances to dragon, fairy, grass, psychic, rock, steel, and water, and neutrality to bug and ice.
Well cradily also has incredibly high defenses and one of the best abilities in the game
@@jacksonsmith2955 ok you're right
I used to think cradily's eyes were those yellow things on its head and hated it's design for that. But now I love it.
I thought that for a bit but I can't unsee it no matter how hard I try which sucks cause now I can't like the design :(
I was the same also I thought wailmers eyes were its spout holes
I mean, even if that was the intentional design, its actually not bad
Lol
Same, but I loved it for that and now I think it's boring lol
I like how cradily actually looks like a monster. A POCKET Monster if you will.
kenny lauderdale ...
The most monsterest pocket monster however is... Whitney’s miltank
Groudon looks like a fluffy doll
Twinkle Cradily Rock Me
Roll credits?
I remember one time in Omega Ruby, Steven's Cradily got two boosts in a row from Ancient Power. I rage quit afterwards
That’s a 10% chance EACH! :O
NPC trainers are hackers, pass it on.
@@cintronproductions9430 Ace trainer liam?!, Is that you!?
Lol i remember my friend's playthrough of Omega Ruby had Steven's Cradily shrug off his Primal Groudon's precipice blades then Giga Drain it to death. He was so pissed, while i sat by laughing, especially since we became friends by having a pokemon match where i used a Barrier+Amnesia+Infestation+Recover stall set to beat him, turning Cradily into a bit of an inside joke between us.
Would have never imagined Cradily of all pokemon to be the bane of my friend's pokemon experience.
He got mega-haxxed on the console series omg what a bad day you had lol
Fun Fact: Cradily and Talonflame have the same attack stat
Talonflame had really good stab moves like Brave Bird tho
It's funny how one of the most dangerous offensive threats in gen 6 has less attack than amoongus
@@yesminsalima4924 let's face it talonflame would suck if it had no swords dance, choice band is too risky
🤯
Fun fact: Onix has less base attack than Oddish.
I’m glad to see that Cradily had at least one notable VGC finish. Storm Drain was like the main thing that made it viable
Plus, with the Crown Tundra DLC apparently having Hidden Ability capsules, we can see this rise again
That makes me wonder. How would Cradily match up against Dracovish? Not specifically in doubles, I mean. Can Cradily take its Ice Fang?
Love using it in todays format. Meteor Beam Cradily mawled through Calyrex-Ice, Incineroar and really help a ton against Rain. And in my opinion, Cradily is now the better Storm Drain user than Gastrodon because of the abundance of Grass types running around in todays meta.
Everyone: Cradily will be next week.
Kellen: Psyche!
Psyche! You thought!
Me: *SHATTERED PSYCHE!*
@@theoneandmanyanonymous lol
I am still confused why there hasn't been a Gastrodon episode yet. Wasn't that what we voted on?
Jesus Christ, this guy comments on every single video
I had a lot of success in doubles using a lead of Storm Drain Cradily with Competitive Milotic + Surf.
I appreciate that combo.
I enjoyed using Cradily on Sand teams in gen 6, it was nice to beat opposing rain using it
Thought i was the only one
That sounds like a devastating combo.
When I was a dumb kid, I always thought the yellow things in the dark opening were its' two teeth and the markings on the head were the eyes. When you look at it that way it looks kinda funny, but I eventually learned that that's not what the eyes were.
I actually thought it had no eyes and that the dark spot is just it's mouth
Poor Lileep. If everyone that didn't know where Cradily's eyes are would just look at Lileep for one second, it would be even more obvious 😔
Cradilly's typing is one of its biggest benefits.
I love this thing in NU, and so many people cant remember its resistances.
I have trouble with it sometimes lol.
really true, that typing is so uncommon that knowing it weakness will have to search on Google first and it's really bucky too so even super effective move can't ko it
How come people had it easily? I always matched up with my cradily, and always got wear down by toxic and SR chip...
Am i the bad one?
How good was an unexpected double fossil upload ACTUALLY?
Bruh -.-
Very much so.
@@ammendum9044 yup
Awesome/10
It’s a shame we don’t have more rock/grass types, they cover their weakness perfectly.
Just until we get mega Sudowoodo
But also lose their resists like fire flying and water, which is arguably worse
Cradily is weird, but in the right situation, it is extremely hard to kill. Grass and Rock both have a lot of weaknesses and a lot of resistances, leading to a really unique defensive typing for our plant. Rock and grass cancel out six of each others weaknesses, which means despite both having 5 weaknesses and 4 resistances individually, Cradily itself only has 4 weaknesses and 2 resistances total. Even better for it, it has rock type moves to threaten bug and ice type pokemon, and grass type moves to threaten water pokemon with ice coverage. Steel is a relatively weak offensive typing which is rarely used as coverage, so it really just needs team support with fighting and steel types. Electric and normal resists with a water immunity is pretty nice too.
Sure, its slow, but its bulky and has recover, which makes it pretty decent. Its not unkillable, but a surprising amount of pokemon just have absolutely no way to deal with this thing, and standard coverage options often don't work against it. Cradily can stonewall your standard fire/water/grass core, or your rock/ground coverage, or your electric pokemon with overheat for grass types, and its complete uniqueness is what can make it effective.
EDIT: Good point about rock having 5 weaknesses, I misread the type chart at first. Edited :)
I love the almost perfect defensive core it forms with Ferrothorn and Mega Venusaur in Monotype: Grass. I've definitely grown to appreciate Cradily more over the years. It's unconventional, even for a fossil Pokémon, but it works and even works well when played to its strengths by a responsible player. Perhaps one of my favorite things about it is how it takes two of the absolute weakest defensive types and combines them to make a solid dual type which, as you said, is very difficult to deal with for a surprising amount of Pokémon.
Also, Rock has five weaknesses, not four. It ties with Grass as having the most weaknesses out of any single type.
Good comment but rock has 5 weaknesses (grass, fighting, water, ground, steel) like grass does
@@floofzykitty5072 You're right, just edited my comment. Thanks also reddragonair.
And yeah, if you don't like stall, Cradily isn't going to be your choice. Cradily definitely doesn't have the power or speed to really sweep teams very easily, its much more home in stall than in offense.
Yes! Cradily has been my favorite fossil! I used a Cradily back in HGSS and my love for it never faded away. Trying to shiny hunt a Dream Ball HA Lileep in USUM for Sword and Shield
Lmfao
Bádog Ember The Crown Tundra Pokedex was Leaked. All fossils are returning in tundra
DashingSceptile but the sinnoh ones kinda sad and not sad for me since i never cared that much about them since they’re not good bastiodon has huge defenses but poor attack rampardos has like how can you say that attack isn’t high it even has swords dance and mold breaker but it’s defenses are terrible and so is its speed which is weird since whenever i think of a pachycephalosaurs i think its really fast but its sad since i like both of them especially bastiodon
@@ROYEWITHNOE if you fuse bastiodon and rampardos, you'll have one of the best trick room Pokémon
Raj T good one..............wait no
0:32 Hey that's my cousin Cradily! He hangs out with Snorlax a lot.
I knew I'd find you here. Hello.
Big noob
My wife's birthday is coming up and her favorite Pokémon is beautifly. I've tried to convince her it's not competitively viable but she doesn't care. Maybe you can do that for her.
Let’s hope that the physical special split meant something good for it
I think in gen 5 it was used as an NU quiver dancer?
www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/beautifly/
Show her this entry for it. :p Seriously though, if she wants to use it, then she should use it, games are fun after all. Just as long as she doesn't expect too many wins with it.
@@redwings13400 There's also the ye olde adage: Everything works for in-game.
No, seriously, trying to make a comp team for in game use somewhere between hilariously unnecessary and outright self-sabotage.
@@webbowser8834 If you're playing in game, Beautifly can be legit. I recently nuzlocked Alpha Sapphire and Beautifly helped take my team completely deathless until it perished to a critical hit ice beam to Wallace's Milotic as I was attempting a quiver dance sweep. I tried to be fancy with the butterfly instead of just sending out ludicolo and paid the price.
Competitively its not great, but in game, you can make anything work. Honestly its pretty good in game, early evolution means it can be really strong for the first bit of the game, and even after it falls off, it can still use quiver dance and morning sun for shenanigans.
PS: Also, if you're wondering, I ended up losing 5 pokemon in total on that run, it was probably the most successful nuzlocke I've ever done. I lost 1 more on victory road, then 3 to Steven's freaking insane mega-metagross. :p
I have been waiting for this. Cradily will forever be my favorite fossil and one of my fav Pokémon
Cradily is such a fun bulky Pokemon to play around with, until this video I never knew what it's hidden ability was and now I know it's storm drain that makes me love it so much more 😱👍 gen 3 has the coolest fossil Pokemon, armaldo being my favourite and cradily a close second 👍
Also known as: wtf is his type weaknesses
Bug and Ice from the Grass half
Fighting and Steel from the Rock half
*Together, it's weak to Fighting, Ice, Steel and Bug*
At least there's no 4x weakness unlike most other Grass and Rocks (especially the latter)
It's resistances are Electric, Normal (1 from each) and that's it, but that's what happens when you combine the types that tie with the most weaknesses in 5
Grass' resistances are Grass, Water, Electric and Ground
whiling Rock's resistances are Normal, Fire, Flying and Poison
Grass' weaknesses are Fire, Flying, Bug, Poison and Ice
whiling Rock's weaknesses are Grass, Water, Ground, Fighting and Steel
Jigglypuff Im surprised rock dosnt resist bug but fairy dose
@@kriblar98 Fairy resists Bug because fairies and bugs live alongside each other in most fairy tales, but as for why Rock doesn't resist Bug, I have no idea.
For as far as we know its the only grass/rock type, makes sense. Even in its debute game
Yea cradily needs filter ability to tank hits better
@@cintronproductions9430 bugs live under rocks
Cradily actually isn't a plant; it's based on a sea lily and a predatory tunicate (both of which are animals).
Just making this comment because I think more people need to know predatory tunicates exist.
That's cool
It shouldn't be a Fossil Pokémon either, because sea lilies, while an ancient species, are still alive. It's funny how Cradily is a Fossil Mon even tho its basis still exists, but Mamoswine is based on an extinct mammal and it's not a Fossil. XD
@@cintronproductions9430 also Tropius.
@@cintronproductions9430 Horseshoe crabs aren't extinct either, but Kabuto is a fossil Pokémon.
@@reddragonair3147 Kabuto is more like a trilobite with horshoe crab elements, I guess.
It’s pretty amazing that grass and rock have the most weaknesses of any types when separate but when they combine, they cover each other’s offensive and defensive weaknesses very well! It gains great neutrality on a lot of types! Cradily has a truly awesome type combo!
I think cradily is one of the most underrated pokemon.
Last time I was this early, Cradily could be caught in the wild.
This should be top comment.
@@3.2187_Kilometres lmfao
So in pal park?
Uuhhhh
Who would have known that Nintendo was going to make fossil pokemon appear in the wild?
Cradily’s video is about 5 minutes longer than Armaldo’s.
Still waiting on Bastiodon.
don't think most who watch this channel know this joke:
"leech seed cradily"
Cradily:I don't get it
@@jacksbrow182 *exactly*
@@jacksbrow182 it does now XD
What is it with the Hoenn fossils and having spots that are often confused for eyes? XD
*cintron was the impostor, 0 impostors remain*
Hoenn designs can be truly weird.
It's pretty useful if a predator tries to go for the head, but fails. Just ask a butterflyfish.
4 real man when i was a kid i used to think Armaldo's red nose holes were his eyes 😂
WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED THIS DAY
Dancing cradily doesn't exist it can't hurt you
Dancing cradily:
Cradily is my 2nd favorite Fossil, wasn't expecting a double upload though
Lel
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 leL
@@reddragonair3147 :T
Twice in one day! Thanks for the great videos, Kellen and Team!
Two for the price of one, Grandma!
Okay, Emile
Cringe -.-
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 no
@@toooydoeur yep
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 no, it's a chuggaaconroy reference so it's not
On my way though, I took the Root Fossil. I know that if I didn't say what I took you'd all ask. Actually, now that I think about it everyone ask anyway, comments are good for the algorithm.
That is from mah-dry-bread lol.
I literally just watched an Emerald one today before FSG. Cool beans.
Cant deny that Cradily looks freaking awesome and the typing fits it incredibly well
I remember young me finally discovering what synergy was when I first put T-tar and Cradily on the same team. With recover, toxic and rock slide the battle frontier suddenly got a little bit easier
Those first few times my teams started to synergize was like drugs
Top requests:
Primeape
Hypno
Gen 1 starter remakes
Swords of Justice
Just want to say that I really have enjoyed these weekly videos. One of the things I look forward to every Sunday! Keep up the great work FSG.
I always thought Cradily had a really good design.
Lmfao
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 haha cool
Same!
Daaaamn, False Swipe! Back at it again with the Double-Upload!
Armaldo: Prepare for trouble!
Cradily:
I hope no one responds
And make it double !
@@jacksbrow182 damn
David Jean i had to do it, sorry xD
Dis is sum gen 3 fossils inquisition right here
Cradily is my favorite fossil mon so seeing it actually do good makes me happy
I still remember using her in my first competitive team back in generation 4. It was an horrible set, with stockpile, but it was so fun when it worked, seeing my opponent struggling to break an unbreakable wall, while falling to passive damage.
No joke, Cradily can be a power trip. Very few teams before gen 8 can reliably pressure a team built around storm drain Cradily. I’ve had Cradily at +4 SpA by turn two while it’s spamming ancient powers. Very very very scary.
The Double Upload Is Absolute Love My Guy!!!
I was playing Emerald on my GBA and in the Battle Tower, a Cradily completely wrecked my Metagross, Tyranitar, and Latias, so yeah, it is strong... and lucky and gimmicky.
Swaggered my Metagross to death, ingrained with leftovers, Giga Drained my Tyranitar to death, then Rock Slided my Latias to death.
If that's the worst thing that happens to you in the Battle Frontier, consider yourself lucky.
@@2goodsharks It isn't...
@@Cold-Blooded-Jay In that case, I take it you've seen your fair share of 1HKO and Double Team abuse in there.
Also Brightpowder, Lax Incense, King's Rock, Focus Band, and all those fun items that only CPU fighters can take advantage of. Fun stuff to deal with.
@@2goodsharks I have seen it all. The Double Team rubbish is why I put Aerial Ace on my Choice Band Metagross.
Before Tyrantrum and its Rock Head + STAB Head Smash, Cradily was my favorite fossil. It's just so sturdy, and unlike Bastiodon, has some offense and isn't 4x weak to Fighting and Ground. Once it got Storm Drain, this fossil wall was my favorite counter against Rain teams, absorbing powerful Rain-boosted STAB Hydro Pumps and Waterfalls, boosting itself in the process, then smacking back with a suddenly devastating Giga Drain.
That do be a Rocky plant
Very true
@@chopskie117 lmfao
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 haha yeah good one getem
*cries in sudowoodo*
@@reddragonair3147 ..
Two videos in a day? Full restore is a Distortion of a drug.
Double upload?! Nani?!
Double upload, nice.
Also I hope next week we either do butterfree, arbok or fartfetch
Cradily be like : MY EYES ARE DOWN THERE
Yes GODDAMMIT, thank you so much for doing this pokemon!!! Keep these old ones coming baby!!!!
Okay, now do Carnivine, everyone’s favorite plant.
Cause it's a venus flytrap that's badass
It would make for a great filler video, nice and short
You know things are bad when your outclassed by Leafeon.
Would make sense to ask of that. Carnivine is a flying Venus Flytrap, Cradily is like the Sea Anemone the looks like a Venus Flytrap.
I forgot what that Sea Anemone is called.
@@HatKidTime Exactly and that's why Carnivine is bad, in every gen but gen 4 Leafeon was in the same tier as Carnivine and so completely outclassed it.
Yo two uploads? Hype
Cradily is literally half my team on my grass monotype, bc it does such good special fire tanking and has rocks
Grass type thats not weak to fire blast? And can return hit fire mons? Lemme in~
That same thing applies to Flying too.
Nice to see the pair covered back to back
mAh pre-historic plant fossil, CRADILY! I had so much fun with stall sets back in gen 3. XD
Weird fact about Cradily: Cradily is the longest Pokemon name that ciphers with Caesar Cipher, Atbash Cipher, or a mixture of the two called "Atbash plus Caesar" Cipher into a word.
No Pokemon names encipher into another Pokemon name though.
Cradily ciphers into "julidan" with applied Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher shift of 12.
The only other 5-letter and longer ones that do are Golem which becomes "murks" with a Caesar cipher of 6, Hoopa which become "leeds" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 19, Luxio which becomes "Durga" (the name of an Indian god) with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 15, Ditto which becomes "jetty" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 13, Regice which becomes "recage" with an Atbash cipher then a Caesar cipher of 9, and Wooloo which becomes "gooroo" with a Atbash cipher than a Caesar cipher of 3.
Meteor Beam literally gave Cradily a huge boost in power in Gen 8. It's still niche in VGC, but now Cradily have a fighting chance against Gastrodon because of Meteor Beam and the Meta favoring Cradily than Gastro. Cradily best Fossil.
WHOA 2 VIDS?!
PSA: GF has finally blessed Cradily with Leech Seed with The Crown Tundra.
This is just like the time Pete ness was in competitive pokemon
I ought to reconsider Cradily with what it can do, because for a long time, I didn't pay too much attention to it.
It's by no means the best at anything it can do, but it's a surprisingly effective bulky toolbox that can fill a good dozen or so stall and/or support functions. There's most likely something better for whatever you have in mind, but it's extremely unpredictable and - especially if you're running a mono-Grass or mono-Rock team, it can be an invaluable member of the team within the right team comp.
It also has like 10 ways of recovering health. If one wanted to torture their opponent, a bulky Cradily with Pain Split, Giga Drain, Ingrain/Rest, and Toxic/Stockpile/Barrier/Curse/Sandstorm/Gastro Acid/Recover (to name just a few options) with Leftovers is entirely possible and pretty easy to make.
try a max hp max sp def set with leftovers and suction cups
moveset: curse, amnesia, rest, rock tomb
i had teams centered around cradily for both gen7 OU and monotype and this thing is great once you remove fighting, ground, and steel types with teammates
We : steven are you rock or steel type trainer?
Steven : YES
Back in its debut, I remember people having trouble figuring out its weaknesses. But starting in Gen 4, Ice and Fighting became very common offensive types. And Bug types getting stronger in Gen 5 didn’t help it either.
I remember the good old times playing XY RU. This fellow here was one of my defensive backbones, alongside Rotom. Storm Drain and a surprise Earth Power did wonders when the goal was to open holes for the rest of the team! My absolute favorite fossil to this day :)
Now imagine: Mega Cradily with regenerator.
do NOT
YES PLEASE!
^^Lmao there are two kinds of people in the world^^
LOL
With leech seed
I’ve been waiting for this episode for so long, love cradily so much💖
last time i was this early, cradily were still around
Bruh that pfp, cringy meme xP
Yee.
Yee
X-Tray Unleashed yee
Cintrón Productions yee
Love this thing with block + Perish Song liquid voice primarina so much fun
For a long time I thought his actual eyes below were his teeth and the dark space his mouth
YES A DOUBLE UPLOAD
I've always thought the dots in the dark spot were teeth... especially while I was playing Pokemon Platinum.
Yeah, it's cuter than I thought.
It's always satisfying to see how they use a video where the featured pokémon one-shots the enemy
Out of curiosity, let’s say you hypothetically do a video on all fully evolved Pokemon at some point and a new generation isn’t coming out in a year or two from the release date of that video. Would you just take a break, start doing some Little Cup vids, do some untiered vids? 🤔
He sti hasnt finished the typing analysis videos (only ice so far) or in depth looks into each gens meta. But your right little cup would be uber interesting
ルベンパウル Oh true! I completely forgot about that series tbh. That’d be a nice way to hold things over 👍
They've already done remakes of Scizor and one other mon, can't remember who, so this will probably never end.
But I've always had a massive interest on LC, it's a crazy offensive meta.
I still using stokpile cradily in 2021, since gen 4. Amazing. Cradily and shuckle are two impredictable pokemon I use in OU, and works.
Maybe that's a hot take, but I think Cradily could really flourish in a Dynamax meta!
You're just biased because you're also a large plant-looking creature that eats stuff. Don't think I can't tell.
Reddragonair 3 it has huge special defense good typing and dynamax makes you even better as a tank
Both STAB Max Moves really mesh with Cradily's style. Setting up Grassy Terrain and Sandstorm are both quite beneficial.
For some reason gliscor actually dying to a toxic orb is strangely hilarious
Unironically one of my favorite fossils. I just love little alien looking pokemon.
(If you couldn't tell from my profile pic lol)
imagine saying it in a chat separated from a reply area
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 ?
@@Ockto_ here we go to the incognita:V
@@yourdailysadisticfolkfromi6619 what? I genuinely dont understand what your saying.
@@Ockto_ you tube can be so stupidly confusing, lol
The Gen 3 Fossils are here in this double episode!
i wish in Crowned Tundra it will be an good counter for ScarfSpout Kyogre and Dracovish thanks to Storm Drain
I, for one, certainly thought that the dots in that black space on Cradily’s face were teeth.. not eyes. Bro looks so much more intimidating now lmao
Two mons, both fossils, same region, same day.
Wow.
And purpplet?
7:37 “stealth rocking rock type” I found that funny
Heatran next plz
It might be in like a year because thats how much the video length is.
True
I love this barnacle so much in Monotype.
Cradily's typing is amazing and so unique!
Two uploads, thanks FSG :D
*HOW GOOD WAS EELEKTROSS ACTUALLY?*
it has no fkin type weaknesses
Yes. But despite that, it was sadly never OU. Check it on the smogon website and you'lle see. Although It's my favorite Electric type.
Wow double upload pog
next, u should do braviary or archeops
As well as their counterparts Mandibuzz and Carracosta respectively
6:28 Kellen says Unfortunately. He said the thing.
Sadly cradily went extinct in the higher tiers.
I wanted this vid so much
Still can’t wait to find out exactly how GOOD DEOXYS is ACTUALLY 🧬
Didn't Realized Until NOW some parts of the video's voice clips are slightly acoustic
Cradily? More like eight D-
Eight different sets you can run on it? Indeed, well said
Eight divided by two weaknesses? Definitely!
More like 8 hands for a certain something😏
This thing is genuinely my favourite fossil Pokémon. I dunno, there's just something about Cradily that really appeals to me.