Its funny, a long time ago I thought the best definition of a wallbreaker was Infernape since it was one of the few pokemon at the time that could stop SkarmBliss singlehandedly without really understanding the term, it was more intuitive. Wonder if anyone can relate haha. Not quite sure when the paradigm shift happened but along the way I started to think of breakers exactly the way you described, as making progress because of their raw strength. Most defensive pokemon have recovery moves that basically negate progress made, so having enough power to break through that "wall" of recovery move+defensive bulk definitely captures the idea of wallbreaking perfectly.
A stallbreaker is so termed in the context of a role on a team dedicated to overcoming the stall matchup---insofar as it being unable to really be defensively checked (by conventional means, i.e. without an anti-stallbreaker mon on the team) and also being overwhelmingly powerful---with the assumption that the rest of the team struggles to do so in a way that this member does not. An example, Crawdaunt in BDSP OU. A wallbreaker is meant to refer to a mon which in general is capable of defeating walls and otherwise bulky mons particularly due to its sheer singular damage output. Such as Choice Band Metagross in Gen 3 OU. For my own part, I conceptualize the abbreviation 'breaker' as a further generalization of the core concept just as "stallbreaker" is just a subset of "wallbreakers". It further decontextualizes by emphasizing the mon's advantage in a vacuum, regardless of what the opponent could potentially bring. A breaker is however defined against the other offensive roles. A sweeper is a mon that is capable of solo'ing a team---ideally any team---with the right setup. A cleaner is a mon that works best at finishing off a weakened team; without getting into any of these roles' disadvantages, it can be thought of as a more situational sweeper. The breaker on the other hand can be thought of as a mon which excels at either selective removal or general weakening, where there's no expectation of it being able to go on a KO streak, but rather KO particular targets or diminish roughly the whole team. I think Mixed Salamence in Gen 3 OU exemplifies the latter portion of this conception, but also demonstrates how murky these lines can get here and there with how it *could* be thought of as a cleaner at the same time as it is a "breaker". But perhaps considering with this set it lacks in the raw power associated with a breaker---which its Choice Band set better aligns with---that maybe it is *not* a breaker and instead some other term I'm not familiar with. A breaker has the pressure to pick up KOs or near-KOs within single turns, but when it comes to mons which can only get you halfway there *but* against almost the entire team, there doesn't seem to be room in that connotation to fit them. It raises the question of what to call them then.
Would it be possible to have this video ran through a VCR and make a 5th generation copy of the tape? I wanna see if trick room Hoopa-U is scarier when the contrast goes to shit and the tape tracking is barely holding on
Thumbnail master BKC strikes again
Bro giving himself a medal
Absolutely ate with this one
Breakers is short for Wallbreaker. He was using slang chat
Where’s orb chomp
Your mom
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Its funny, a long time ago I thought the best definition of a wallbreaker was Infernape since it was one of the few pokemon at the time that could stop SkarmBliss singlehandedly without really understanding the term, it was more intuitive. Wonder if anyone can relate haha. Not quite sure when the paradigm shift happened but along the way I started to think of breakers exactly the way you described, as making progress because of their raw strength. Most defensive pokemon have recovery moves that basically negate progress made, so having enough power to break through that "wall" of recovery move+defensive bulk definitely captures the idea of wallbreaking perfectly.
has bkc broken the news to the lady? finally stopped recording outside
me, clicking on the video: surely he means wall-breakers
That thumbnail is too beautiful for words
A stallbreaker is so termed in the context of a role on a team dedicated to overcoming the stall matchup---insofar as it being unable to really be defensively checked (by conventional means, i.e. without an anti-stallbreaker mon on the team) and also being overwhelmingly powerful---with the assumption that the rest of the team struggles to do so in a way that this member does not. An example, Crawdaunt in BDSP OU.
A wallbreaker is meant to refer to a mon which in general is capable of defeating walls and otherwise bulky mons particularly due to its sheer singular damage output. Such as Choice Band Metagross in Gen 3 OU.
For my own part, I conceptualize the abbreviation 'breaker' as a further generalization of the core concept just as "stallbreaker" is just a subset of "wallbreakers". It further decontextualizes by emphasizing the mon's advantage in a vacuum, regardless of what the opponent could potentially bring.
A breaker is however defined against the other offensive roles. A sweeper is a mon that is capable of solo'ing a team---ideally any team---with the right setup. A cleaner is a mon that works best at finishing off a weakened team; without getting into any of these roles' disadvantages, it can be thought of as a more situational sweeper. The breaker on the other hand can be thought of as a mon which excels at either selective removal or general weakening, where there's no expectation of it being able to go on a KO streak, but rather KO particular targets or diminish roughly the whole team.
I think Mixed Salamence in Gen 3 OU exemplifies the latter portion of this conception, but also demonstrates how murky these lines can get here and there with how it *could* be thought of as a cleaner at the same time as it is a "breaker". But perhaps considering with this set it lacks in the raw power associated with a breaker---which its Choice Band set better aligns with---that maybe it is *not* a breaker and instead some other term I'm not familiar with.
A breaker has the pressure to pick up KOs or near-KOs within single turns, but when it comes to mons which can only get you halfway there *but* against almost the entire team, there doesn't seem to be room in that connotation to fit them. It raises the question of what to call them then.
So basically
Breaker = Coverage
Stallbreaker = Disruption
Wallbreaker = Power
The Kanto Clefsaw Massacre.
Despite the title, the thumbnail has informed me that Hoopa will not in fact overcome Clefable.
if breloom isn’t in this video i will riot
i have good news and bad news
Can't believe BKC was the bay harbor wallbreaker
bkc ur the goat pls dont die 🙏
still cant believe the 2024 cypher reaction video
Latios breaks my neck
Go see a doctor
8:20 the stooges reference
I go away for a year and return to see 10 minute BKC videos.
Did someone kill him and take over the channel or something??
Breakers video and it's one of BKC's shortest
I use banded slaking in ADV, if I can keep spikes off and ideally reset sand then pretty much nothing can safely switch into eq/return/shadow ball
when the YN (young nuzlockers) are on their Breakouts
Would it be possible to have this video ran through a VCR and make a 5th generation copy of the tape? I wanna see if trick room Hoopa-U is scarier when the contrast goes to shit and the tape tracking is barely holding on
Break me BKC daddy
banger vid (i havent watched, i simply know)
same
The true breaker is Gen 2 lax
bust it down metagross
How old is BKC? Something tells me he's at least 6 years younger than me but considers himself old. (I'm 36)
Exactly 😂
April 1996
Good video